Weighing up the advantages of immigrant labour against the cost of supplying services to migrants is not easy.
When domestic labour processing medical-insurance claims, for instance is replaced by Caribbean or Indian labour at a fraction of the cost, the hours of domestic labour are written off but the hours of foreign labour are not added back.
Suddenly the president is talking of the high cost of French labour as a major problem, of the 57% of GDP spent by the state as excessive and wasteful, and of of the loss of sovereignty caused by hyper-debt.
Steel contractor Hollandia, was called in to replace CBUK, but no agreement was reached on the upper limit of the cost of steel and labour to Multiplex.
Wages paid are simply not the same as cost of labour to the employer.
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Conservative and Liberal Democrat councillors had called for a referendum which the Labour group rejected on grounds of cost.
The biggest cost councils can control is the cost of labour.
The wedge between an employer's cost of labour and a worker's net pay is a relatively modest 79% in America and 47% in Switzerland, compared with 200% in Italy.
Most businessmen were at first strongly opposed to the measure, saying that it would put up the cost of labour by 11% to make up for the four hours lost each week, squeeze productivity, prompt lay-offs and spread poverty.
You can debate the cost of Labour's "five point plan for growth", but given that a good part of it is funded through higher taxes on banks, the net impact is unlikely to be more than 1% of GDP.
One side-effect of the cost-cutting was a labour dispute in the summer of 1997, when short-haul cabin crews went on strike to protest against changes in their working patterns.
The way would have been at least semi-clear for the sweeping reform of taxation, welfare and the labour market that high-cost Germany, with its unemployment rate of over 10%, badly needs.
At the same time, it has a big agricultural potential as well as the availability of low-cost labour.
He finds it hard to differentiate between the two countries, either in the quality or the cost of their labour.
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It should be able to prune vines at about half the cost of manual labour, says Derek Morikawa, the chief executive of Vision Robotics.
It takes six times as long to obtain construction permits in Russia as in Sweden and, despite cheaper labour and land, the cost of building a distribution centre is a third more expensive than in London, according to McKinsey.
Mr Skaf and others argue that the real's strength underlines the case for structural reforms of taxes, pension, labour laws and infrastructure in order to cut the cost of doing business.
But the realisation that the cost of east German labour and production had priced itself out of the market quickened the spiral of joblessness and emigration.
Undeterred, in Magdalena Mr Cavallo said that he could slash Argentina's 14.5% unemployment rate through tax and labour reforms, and cut the cost of public services by competition in their provision.
During a Westminster Hall debate, Labour claimed families were suffering a "cost of living crisis".
Now, after its investigation, the Commerce Department has decided that handouts of shares should count as a labour cost.
But this is really an argument for labour-market reform to minimise the cost of recessions, not one for measures to prevent them altogether.
Questions were also put on the rising cost of energy, with Labour MP Barry Sheerman saying that people wanted a "more visible, muscular effort to take on the energy companies".
Labour regulations are too rigid, raising the cost of doing business.
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Rather, it is the cost to the manufacturer of the labour.
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Like other manufacturers in China, Hon Hai faces rising labour costs, though it is better placed than most. (Mr Yang reckons that labour accounts for only 4.5% of the cost of goods sold.) A move up the value chain may help.
The study takes into account all NHS costs associated with the birth itself - such as midwifery care during labour and immediately after the birth, the cost of pain relief in hospital, and the cost of any stay in hospital or neonatal unit immediately after the birth, either by the mother or the baby.
The DfE said that free schools would cost a fraction of schools built under Labour's Building Schools for the Future programme.
We don't know the cost of the abortive trip yet but Labour MP Chris Bryant has said the decision to recall Mr Jones was a waste of money.
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Labour has focused on promoting policies to reduce the cost of living without making new spending commitments, with leader Ed Miliband arguing the party is "on your side".
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