Tag Archives: wages

Global hourly manufacturing labor rate trend comparison

In the United States, hourly compensation costs for production workers in manufacturing were virtually …

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China’s risk: Bubbles burst, that’s what they do

Combined, all of these issues, and many others are becoming fault lines in the foundation that has allowed China to recover from the economic …

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Lou Dobbs is a protectionist: Consumer electronics association (CEA) and CNN spar on anti-trade, protectionism

When Dobbs belittled the jobs that have been created by the consumer electronics industry, he belittled the hard-working men and women who work for companies here in the United States that help spur the engine of the American economy – the very people he claims to be fighting for.
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Technology and electronics workers voice concerns in Silicon Valley

High-tech workers in San Jose, California on federal permits are speaking out – many for the first time – over rules that leave them …
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Daniel Pink on remote work, right-brain thinking and outsourced economics

Read what this former White House chief speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore and one-time Botswana latrine builder has to say about Asia, ways to think about remote workforces, job skills you need in the future, our changing world, his new book and more…
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Rising ruppee mean opportunity for Indian IT companies

In terms of productivity, a large proportion of work carried out from India tends to be on a Time & Material (T & M) basis. In general, there are few incentives in T & M contracts to raise productivity. With rising costs and shrinking margins…
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Manufacturing labor wage rates released 2006

Relative levels and changes in manufacturing labor wage rates can be used to help managers and executives to partially assess international competitiveness.
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