Keyword: Mexico

Global Labor Market (9/5/2005)

Labor is increasingly globally sourced due to aging populations and lagging labor productivity in developed countries.

Keywords: arbitrage, contract workers, Filipino, immigration, Japan, labor costs, labor market, maids, Mexican, Mexico, nannies, nurses, offshoring, outsourcing, Philippines, productivity, Scotland, wages

Happy Returns (3/7/2002)

Returned merchandise that would have been scrapped or sold at big discounts are given a second life after being refurbished with cheap Mexican labor.

Keywords: consumer electronics goods, end-of-life cycle, labor cost, material flow, Mexico, NAFTA, no-questions-asked, phones, refurbishing, refurbishment, restocking fee, return policy, Super Bowl problem

Underground Homes (2/27/2007)

Influx of illegal immigrant workers to the U.S. homebuilding industry has made new homes more affordable but kept the home construction business labor intensive.

Keywords: construction, homebuilding, illegal immigrants, labor cost, Mexico, prefabrication, productivity, subcontractors, undocumented immigrants, wages