Compared with neighbouring countries, labour in Syria is cheap.

It was such a high labor component to it that it made a lot of sense to go after that labor market.

So, they stopped having inexpensive labor.

Brazil and China, the main exporters of poultry meat, benefit from cheap feed prices and low labour costs.

In the new global economy, which is awash with cheap labor, Western economies will not be able to compete in a race to the bottom, with firms seeking ever cheaper labor, land, and capital, and governments seeking to attract them by deregulating and shrinking social benefits.

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Reliance on cheap labour was not an option for sustainable development because this violated labour rights of the citizens.

That the essence of what you're doing is you need ever cheaper labor, and ever faster machines.

Wages should be no lower than the minimum wage.

Furthermore, the inflow of immigrant workers providing cheap labour to estate plantations was tolerated.

Relatively low labour costs have also contributed to this success.

quot Around the world, countries have been fighting each other to see which can offer the international corporations the cheapest labour and the lowest social and environmental costs.

A total of 41 per cent of independent workers and 51 per cent of informal own account workers have incomes below the minimum monthly wage.

(a) Facilitating the personal mobility of persons with disabilities in the manner and at the time of their choice, and at affordable cost

(iii) Establishing different minimum norms for physical activity for women and for men

Recently the issue of trafficking in women and girls for prostitution and cheap labour had been brought into sharp focus.

As the modern sector of the economy cannot absorb much manpower, there has been a significant increase in employment in the informal, non traditional sector.

At the same time, manual workers apos wages in the private sector are much lower than in the public sector.

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There was is broad participation of women in the workforce at the middle and lower levels.

It should be emphasized that the phenomenon of lower wages in the private sector than in the public sector only concerns manual workers apos wages, for non manual workers being higher in the private sector.

As seen from table 7, the lower labour costs in developing countries and countries in transition more than offset lower labour productivity, resulting in production costs that are significantly lower in these countries than in developed countries.

Minimal harmonization of tax laws (such as a common basis for assessing corporate taxation) and social policy (such as further liberalization of national labor markets to encourage labor mobility)

According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), female workers are often preferred in labour intensive service industries because they are considered cheap and flexible labour.

The proportion of women in the labour force is always lower than that of men, in any age group (table 11.2).

57. Although trafficking of children is most commonly associated with prostitution, many children are in fact recruited as a cheap source of labour.

A number of factors may be responsible for the relatively low female labour force participation rate.

The supply cannot absorb the labour available in the market.

The competitive edge of the poorest countries in terms of cheap labour was being subverted by moralistic approaches to labour conditions.

China s success has been driven by cheap exports based on cheap labor, infrastructure built by state enterprises with low cost bank funding, and government budgets funded by land sales. But labor is no longer cheap, road construction to connect major cities has given way to building large shopping malls in small towns, and land sales based on rezoning are reaching both economic limits and the limits of villagers tolerance.

The workforce

Now, the social difference among farmers is getting more acute, because the most powerful families are taking advantage of the more vulnerable ones, usually the returnees, whose labor power is rather cheap.

The number of women in the labour force had increased considerably even if their total numbers remained low.

In 2003, the Israeli civil workforce totaled 1.4 million men and 1.2 million women.

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The highly competitive global economic environment, with an increased emphasis on labour intensive export oriented production including the area of services, has intensified efforts to utilize least cost labour.

This would point to their recent entry into the waged labour force in low skill jobs.

While the participation rate for indigenous women has risen in recent years, it remains significantly below that of non indigenous women (55.8 per cent in 2001).

Ms. Yesildaglar (Turkey) acknowledged that the current rate of female participation in the labour force, 26.6 per cent, was very low.

11.1 Size of the Labour Force

The total share of female participation in the labour force in 2004 was 52 per cent, with 73 per cent working in agriculture.

The total share of female participation in the labour force in 2004 was 47 per cent, with 53 per cent working in agriculture.

The total share of female participation in the labour force in 2000 was 48 per cent, of which 54 per cent were working in agriculture.

It also established basic methodology for assessing intellectual and physical work.