Sentence examples for falling labor costs from inspiring English sources

Treasuries Rise Sharply (By Bloomberg News) -- Treasury bond prices rose yesterday as a government report suggested productivity gains and falling labor costs are helping hold back inflation, even with unemployment at a three-decade low.

What's more, energy costs here are falling, and labor costs abroad are rising.

But productivity starts to fall as labor costs jump.

Because our revenue keeps falling, it's labor costs that we have to reduce.

For the fourth quarter alone, productivity fell 0.6% and labor costs rose 2.4%.

The Labor Department reported that nonfarm productivity increased at an annual rate of 2.9 percent in the third quarter, a faster clip than initially expected, as businesses held the line on hiring even as output surged, with unit labor costs falling at their fastest pace in almost a year.

The design of Perl can be understood as a response to three broad trends in the computer industry: falling hardware costs, rising labor costs, and improvements in compiler technology.

The 1.6 percent fall in unit labor costs followed declines of 5.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009 and 7.6 percent in the third quarter.

Labor costs fell 0.5percentthethe department said.

The government also said unit labor costs fell 0.1percentt.

Unit labor costs fell at a 5.2percentt rate.