Sentence examples for smaller labour force from inspiring English sources

Thus agriculture must not only supply a surplus of food for the towns, but it must also be able to produce the increased amount of food with a relatively smaller labour force.

It allows firms to do things such as speed up development cycles or explore alternative approaches that would not be possible with a smaller labour force.In short, China and India are not simply taking over western IT jobs, they are changing the very process of IT development.

The three estates included in the study were selected because they had available census data, included at least a small female labour force, and had a community leadership (camp administrators and residents' representatives) that expressed support for HIV research activities.

The service sector contributes a relatively small amount to the country's GDP and employs only a small proportion of the labour force.

Manufacturing, together with mining, now generates only about one-tenth of national income and employs only a small percentage of the labour force.

Maricopa county was one of the top urban agricultural producers in the country in 1980, but farming has since steadily lost ground to urban growth; now only a small portion of the labour force is engaged in food production.

The petroleum industry (including the manufacture of liquefied natural gas [LNG]) generates more than half of Brunei's GDP, although it employs a very small portion of the labour force.

Until or unless unemployment hits very high levels, most of the population will prefer the low-inflation dynamic, as most of the population is employed, even though that implies a prolonged period of high unemployment for a small subset of the labour force.

Europe's safety nets, or at least the pension systems, may contain the seeds of their own destruction.Large welfare states keep the labour force small in another way:  they make societies more reluctant to admit immigrants, who tend to be a net drain on the government, at least during the early years of their stay.

The problem, however, is not as bad as it seems because it can be assumed that literacy skills are higher among employed migrants compared to unemployed migrants, and the size of the group of employed migrants with insufficient literacy skills is relatively small compared to the labour force as a whole.

Private accounts complement smaller firms and a mobile labour force.