Sentence examples for scarce labor from inspiring English sources

It would also be a huge waste of scarce labor.

Consumer prices are starting to rise noticeably, and competition for scarce labor is finally starting to push up wages.

Conventions are crumbling as old-economy companies find themselves competing for scarce labor against new-media enterprises run by people who take their fashion cues from Silicon Valley, not Saville Row.

Countries with scarce labor but abundant land and capital tend to adopt labor-saving technologies such as tractors and machinery.

Along with additional storage, removal of constraints on weak transportation capacity, limited production scale, poor information access, weak risk-bearing capacity, limited management skills, scarce labor supply, low food processing capacity, and absolute scale constraints, all can raise the economic value of additional irrigation capacity development.

Calories were scarce, physical labor was hard, and most people were as lean as greyhounds.

The importance of (increasingly inefficient) capital investment and exports buttressed by (increasingly scarce) cheap labor must decline relative to the contribution of consumer spending and the service sector.

Particular attention is paid to shortage of information and to strategies for gaining control of scarce supplies of labor (through obtaining 'rights in people').

Simon, Nobel-laureate economist, predicted that in the information economy, attention span would be the scarce resource, as labor had been in an agricultural economy, capital in an industrial economy.

Solitude was scarce, and I labored to find it.

By offering higher wages, it makes labor scarcer and pricier for others; farmers fear that new mines will pollute sources of water and destroy agricultural land.