But it was very labor intensive.

It's a big labor intensive effort.

It matters because the health care industry is the second most energy intensive industry in the United States.

Source Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor, 2004

Here's something that's far more labor intensive, which is the making of shoes.

The Department of Supervision of Labor Laws in the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor

The Department of Supervision of Labor Laws of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor supervises the enforcement of a number of labor laws, including the Employment of Women Law.

Many might doubt the view that China is exporting more labor intensive goods, rather than upgrading its exports on the capital and skill intensity ladder. But trade data suggest the opposite, perhaps because China s accession to the WTO led to tariff reductions that released more labor intensive production.

As a result, these labor intensive sectors must release a lot of labor and capital, which push into the capital intensive export sectors that are better able to cope with high wages. But, while these sectors therefore grow especially fast, their high capital intensity means that they cannot fully employ the released labor, with the result that some of the unemployed workers have nowhere to turn but the welfare state.

Identification of labour intensive products that can participate in intra industry trade is critical, and analyses of value chain potentials are equally important.

When costs for labor intensive goods and services became too high in these countries, production was shifted elsewhere. This relocation of manufacturing has since been accompanied by the off shoring of services whose information intensive components have become tradable.

When costs for labor intensive goods and services became too high in these countries, production was shifted elsewhere. This relocation of manufacturing has since been accompanied by the off shoring of services whose information intensive components have become tradable.

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It's extremely time consuming, labor intensive and it is something that is going to involve a lot more people, to begin to piece together our past.

However, obtaining the complete information set, even at the industry or sector level, is likely to be difficult and would require intensive and extensive data collection work.

Many countries are trying to emulate this growth model, but rarely as successfully because the domestic preconditions often remain unfulfilled. Turn to world markets without pro active policies to ensure competence in some modern manufacturing or service industry, and you are likely to remain an impoverished exporter of natural resources and labor intensive products such as garments.

These figures are only the early warnings of an emerging trend. In the long run, as labor shortages become acute, China will need to relinquish some low end, labor intensive manufacturing activities, which will translate into decelerating export performance and lower economic growth.

For example Gender, Society and Law and Trafficking in Women Conferences held by the Ministry of Justice and Women in The Labor Force Challenges and Opportunities , held by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor.

Looking back, it is ironic that the Chinese government s draconian one child policy, imposed in 1979, was implemented at the same time as the open door policy, aimed at capturing labor intensive foreign manufacturing investment. While both policies must be regarded as successes, over the years the family planning program has contributed to an aging population that may diminish China s attractiveness as a low cost, labor intensive manufacturing hub.

Over the next decade, for example, China will replace much of its labor intensive assembly employment with higher value added employment in manufacturing and services, not only in the tradable sector, but also even more noticeably in the rapidly growing non tradable part of its economy. The expanding scope and diminishing costs of automation and additive manufacturing may affect labor intensive functions globally, including in earlier stage developing countries.

These adverse conditions have inadvertently propelled a long delayed restructuring of China s labor intensive industries. As costs surge, Chinese producers are seeking higher value, new niches, and more influence over policymaking.

The Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor indicted the company on grounds of discrimination (pregnancy, parenthood and gender) based on the Equal Employment Opportunities Law.

But manufacturing today is not what it used to be. It has become much more capital and skill intensive, with greatly diminished potential to absorb large amounts of labor from the countryside.

Reconstruction constitutes a special kind of public works project. The disposal of rubble, given its labor intensive character, has a particularly marked effect on job creation, at least in the short term.

The Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor initiated a special program to integrate single parents into the labor market, specifically those receiving income guarantees and alimony payments, with the intention of increasing single parents' earning capabilities, while raising their employment qualifications.

Although the Government has recently reduced some of the privileges given to single parent families, the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor initiated a special program to integrate them into the labor market, specifically those receiving income guarantees and alimony payments.

These countries had already lost export market shares to China and other low value added and labor intensive Asian economies. Then a decade of nominal wage growth that out paced productivity gains led to a rise in unit labor costs, real exchange rate appreciation, and large current account deficits.

The number of men applying to the Center for Fostering Entrepreneurship in the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor is double the number of women applicants.

Developing countries in the early stages of growth need to understand these trends. Labor, no matter how inexpensive, will become a less important asset for growth and employment expansion, with labor intensive, process oriented manufacturing becoming a less effective way for early stage developing countries to enter the global economy.

According to the 12th Five Year Plan, the minimum wage should grow by 13 per year. Together with real appreciation, the increase in labor costs is bound to weaken the competitiveness of China s labor intensive export sector, which will be reflected in the trade balance more clearly in the coming years.

These are economies that, even a decade ago, were losing market share to China and Asia, owing to their labor intensive and low value added exports. After a decade that saw wages grow faster than productivity, unit labor costs (and the real exchange rate based on those costs) appreciated sharply.

Production will not vanish it will just be less labor intensive. All countries will eventually need to rebuild their growth models around digital technologies and the human capital that supports their deployment and expansion.

Alongside those centers, which are supervised by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor, there are also private child care centers as well as home care through nursemaids.

German firms reacted by outsourcing the labor intensive parts of their production chains and curtailing their investment in Germany. The share of net investment in GNP is now the second lowest in all OECD countries.

Services are in many respects the infrastructure of a consumer society in China s case, providing the basic utilities, communications, retail outlets, health care, and finance that its emerging middle class is increasingly demanding. They are also labor intensive in China, services require about 30 more jobs per unit of output than do capital intensive manufacturing and construction.

Labor productivity is also quite low For most economies in the region, service sector productivity is less than 20 of the OECD average. Even in South Korea, labor productivity in industry is 118 of the OECD figure, but only 43 of the average for services.

In December 2004, the Gender Equality Department at the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy participated in the campaign for improvement of working conditions for women in the textile industry and their introduction to the labor rights and their encouragement to publicly speak about their problems.

China itself has benefited from today s open international trade and investment regime, which allows firms to locate production where it is most beneficial for their international competitiveness and is now beginning to shed labor intensive industries itself.

China itself has benefited from today s open international trade and investment regime, which allows firms to locate production where it is most beneficial for their international competitiveness and is now beginning to shed labor intensive industries itself.

As mentioned in our previous report, the Division for Training and Development in the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor organizes vocational courses for all sections of the Israeli population.

Water is energy intensive.

For several years, Greece drew on the EU s aptly named structural funds and on loans from German and French banks to finance a wide array of highly labor intensive projects. Employment and incomes soared, and savings piled up.

A rebalanced China can grow more slowly for one simple reason By drawing increased support from services led consumer demand, China s new model will embrace a more labor intensive growth recipe. The numbers seem to bear that out.

For example, the lack of adequate labor law protection in Japan has proliferated the trafficking of Thai, Filipino, Korean, Eastern European, and South American women and children into Japan's sex industry.

Services led growth is, in many ways, the antidote to the unstable, unbalanced, uncoordinated, and ultimately unsustainable growth model that former Premier Wen Jiabao s famously criticized in 2007. Yet services offer more than just a labor intensive growth path.