Examples of labor-intensive

• A switch to an outward-oriented strategy, based upon the export of labor-intensive manufactured goods, would have required devaluations so extreme as to be politically impossible.

• On the supply side, rising opportunity costs of family labor lead to declining returns to labor-intensive subsistence production systems.

• Our approach, therefore, may have to be balanced against a more labor-intensive consensus approach.

• Along the way, however, a good portion of the considerable labor-intensive resources devoted to collection of the necessary field data will probably have been wasted.

• They face competitive prices in both output and factor markets, so they have to maximize their benefits subject to a labor-intensive technology.

• It is more favorable for the most labor-intensive sectors and for those where social security contributions are highest.

• Compared with typical crosssectional studies examining families at one point in time, repeated family observations and examination of within-family covariation is a labor-intensive research strategy.

• In contrast to large-scale commercial fisheries, artisanal fisheries are owner-operated and labor-intensive, employing rudimentary technologies.