Sentence examples for increases in labour from inspiring English sources
"Despite strong job creation, including among poorer households, falling real wages limited the increases in labour incomes," it added.
Improvements may be due to technological innovation, which led to big increases in labour productivity and hence higher wages.
In countries for which data from broad sectors and many individual industries are available, there is a rough correlation between growth in the quantity of capital per worker and increases in labour productivity.
Often wage increases that are made in the normal collective bargaining process are greater than the increases in labour productivity (or output per man-hour); such wage increases tend to increase the cost of production and to force prices upward.
Increases in labour productivity may have driven the bulk of Indonesia's economic growth in the past 20 years (GDP is expected to rise by 6% this year), but low inflation rates, strong investment and rising purchasing power have helped maintain it.
The latest industrial output figures show annual growth not far above where it was during the GFC: The sense is that China's ability to grow off the back of its cheap exports is diminished, given increases in labour and production costs.
The increase in labour required for dairy cows is met primarily by hired labourers; this is reflected in time spent by hired labourers in cattle-related tasks.
Meanwhile, an increase in labour inspectors has led to existing laws prohibiting the confiscation of passports being better enforced.
The increase in labour mobility following the end of apartheid in South Africa has doubtless contributed to the rapid spread of HIV.
Today's lifecycle of new and emerging products, increase in labour costs in developed countries and user's expectations or behaviours including frequently upgrading items with latest features, influence the growth rate of product disposal to landfill.
According to an April 2012 OECD report, "Germany is the only [EU] country that has seen an increase in labour earnings inequality from the mid 1990s to the end 2000s driven by increasing inequality in the bottom half of the distribution".
