This measures the cost to produce one unit of output.
Unit labor costs measure how much companies pay workers for every unit of output they produce.
Secondly, mass production means production at a very narrow margin of profit per unit of output.
Meanwhile, Greece's unit labor cost (the average cost of labor per unit of output) has increased by roughly 40 percent.
Switching to drip-feed irrigation means that watering becomes more precise, cutting consumption per unit of output.
They represent the amount of money needed to pay your staff to make one unit of output, one widget.
Developing countries, he said, consume four to five times more raw materials per unit of output than rich ones do.
Over the past few years the volume of raw materials it consumes per unit of output has risen sharply.
In the jargon of economics, the marginal costs per unit of output tend towards zero and the returns to scale are high.
Yet rather than build new gas-fired stations, half as polluting as coal, Britain is spending 14 times more per unit of output on a French nuclear reactor.
According to official estimates, which in China are often overly generous, the country saved only 1.23percentt of energy per unit of output last year.
