The proportion is expected to rise as demography a western labour shortage becomes more pressing than protectionism.
The eventual result was a growing labour shortage, which was not resolved until the arrival of Turkey and Ukraine as full members in 2025.
Greek-Cypriot hoteliers and builders are looking to Turkish-Cypriots to fill a worsening labour shortage in the faster-growing and by now very much richer south.
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But proximity and cultural and linguistic links make Indonesians the best solution to Malaysia's labour shortage, and Malaysia the best solution to Indonesia's job shortage.
In the long run, the country cannot rely on engineers from Lisbon to make up its labour shortage, it will have to develop them at home.
According to the Immigration Advisory Service, restrictions on lower-skilled workers from outside the EU are causing a labour shortage so severe it could cause "irreparable damage" to the curry industry.
But such is the labour shortage caused by the oil industry, that about 2, 000 processing jobs are vacant and firms are resorting to importing labour from Portugal and Baltic countries to fill them.
The world's most populous country has vast reserves of labour and no shortage of capital.
Mr Bevin, the then minister for Labour and National Service, introduced the scheme in response to an increasing shortage of labour in the coal mining industry.
For several years now there has been a rising shortage of labour in China.
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The shortage of labour and equipment that is feeding this inflation is also causing delays to new projects.
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The second implication is that the future increasing shortage of labour will lead to wages and working conditions improving again: whether unions exist or not.
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One of those implications is that the increasing shortage of labour over the past few years has led to very quickly rising wages and better working conditions.
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But it gets poor marks for the rigidity of its labour market, its shortage of skills and, above all, for the perception that corruption is sharply rising.
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If this persists and there is every reason to think it will, especially as telecommunications and information technology become the twin pillars of this economy a shortage of labour may soon strangle growth.
But the deeper reason for America's logistics problems is a mounting shortage of skilled labour.
But good intentions are frustrated by erratic official policy, a severe cash shortage and strict labour laws.
It means Bulgarian and Romanian nationals remain restricted to jobs that are either skilled or in sectors where there is a shortage of UK labour.
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The restrictions mean Bulgarian and Romanian nationals remain restricted to jobs that are either skilled or in sectors where there is a shortage of UK labour.
"Farmers have indicated to us that there is a shortage of farm labour, especially for seasonal work, " the ministry said in a statement, quoted by the AFP news agency.
Proceso Social is also trying to teach families skills that might give them a better chance of finding work in an environment where there is a shortage of skilled labour and a surplus of non-skilled workers.
Now that New Orleans has a shortage of homes and labour, fair-housing advocates say there is no good reason to keep salvageable public housing closed.
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Nor is there a shortage of serial rebels on the Labour benches.
This received a frosty response from many Labour MPs, who said the solution to the shortage was to build more.
Labour MSPs on the committee had questioned why there would be a shortage of bidders for the bridge, given its description by SNP ministers as Scotland's biggest infrastructure project in a generation.
The then Conservative and Liberal Democrat opposition parties helped to highlight the emerging fissures between the military and their political masters under the previous Labour government, such as the row over whether there was a shortage of helicopters in Helmand.
It matters, therefore, whether this is a short-term blip - due to labour-hoarding by employers, for example, coupled with a shortage of demand - or whether something more fundamental has been happening to the "supply side" of our economy, which is systematically preventing us from growing out of the crisis as quickly as we had hoped.
And in fact some Labour ministers have indicated that with unemployment down there's a skill shortage and in fact some of the people we're talking about are going to be very, very much needed in this country?
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