Labour shortages lead to rising wages: no need for campaigns to make this happen at all.
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This week's bias was prompted in part by worries about the inflationary effect of looming labour shortages.
More generally, the authors predict a future of labour shortages in rich countries which only migration can solve.
With the economy close to full capacity and frequent reports of labour shortages, the risk of higher inflation remains real.
All the evidence points to overheating: an overvalued stockmarket, as well as the consumer-spending spree, borrowing binge and incipient labour shortages.
America's labour market looks dangerously tight, with increasing reports of labour shortages.
Disappeared entirely: the major manufacturing areas on the coast are reporting, as they have been for a couple of years now, labour shortages.
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National pay scales with limited regional variation mean that teachers and nurses are under-paid in London and the south-east, leading to severe labour shortages.
Inflation, running at an annual rate of 2.8% in October, is not yet a worry, though labour shortages may yet make wages take off.
Employers in China's coastal factories have suffered labour shortages and strikes.
To make up for the labour shortages in Italy's north, many thousand of immigrants from Central Europe and the Balkans are flowing in, legally and illegally.
In France, the introduction of a 35-hour working week means that more workers are needed to produce the same economic output, which is aggravating labour shortages.
Susan Martin of Georgetown University says they are either much less skilled, or much more, than the average American, and can solve labour shortages in specific industries.
Yet despite an unemployment rate that has been below 5% for 30 months, and widespread reports of labour shortages, American wage growth remains low, at around 3.5%.
Her calculations also imply that the economy can continue to grow apace for some time before the Fed needs to worry about labour shortages, wage hikes and inflationary pressure.
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Well-educated and highly qualified Austrians are in favour because they see lots of business opportunities in the new member countries and welcome foreign workers in Austria to ease labour shortages.
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The whole process, a symbol of the conformity prized by Japanese society, is a relic from the balmy days of the 1960s, when profits were growing and labour shortages were common.
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Mr Clappison said suggestions that immigration had been "carefully planned" to fill labour shortages were contradicted by the fact that "significantly more" EU migrants had arrived than the 13, 000 a year the government had predicted.
On May 18th, the Senate voted to let 30, 000 more foreign computer programmers, health professionals and other skilled workers into the United States to relieve local labour-market shortages.
Other bright ideas include getting local firms to pool information on new markets and to work more actively on fixing problems such as shortages of skilled labour.
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Labour markets are tight: the unemployment rate fell to 6.4% in the three months to February, and manufacturers and service companies continue to report shortages of skilled labour.
Prodded by the gas shortages, fearful of a power crunch and constrained by its own carbon targets, Labour has abandoned its previous policy of benign neglect.
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