BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Direct Labor
- personnel directly involved in the manufacturing of products or the provision of services. Direct labor includes blue-collar workers.
Additional Resources
- Annual Direct Labor Analysis
- This template helps you analyze the annual cost of labor by comparing labor costs to standard labor. Standard labor is an expected labor cost based on estimated capacities of output costed at an estimated hourly rate plus benefits. This type of analysis is critical to keeping costs under control.
- Tools & templates 2007-09-01
- Direct labor costs track upward.
- A tightening market for skilled labor may take center stage in supplier negotiations this year. "Pockets of serious wage escalation are emerging in the manufacturing sector and some regions of the country," notes Elizabeth Baatz, manufac A tightening market for skilled labor may...
- Research articles 1997-03-20
- CACI International Inc. F2Q09 (Qtr End 12/31/08) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Bill Loomis – Stifel Nicolaus Bill Loomis – Stifel Nicolaus On the gross margin I know you had higher ODC’s but you’ve had them for a while. Why does the gross margin hit an all time low in the quarter,...
- Earnings calls 2009-01-29
- Racing To The Bottom Or Climbing To The Top?: Foreign Direct Investment And Labor Rights Violations
- This paper addresses a key issue in debates regarding economic globalization: to what extent does the internationalization of production, via foreign direct investment, lead to increased abuses of workers in developing countries? Using a new dataset on collective labor rights violations, the relationship between foreign direct investment and labor rights...
- White papers 2004-05-31
- Trade Openness, Foreign Direct Investment And Child Labor
- The skeptics of globalization argue that increased trade openness and foreign direct investment induce developing countries to keep labor costs low, for example, by letting children work. This paper argues that there are good theoretical reasons why globalization might actually have the opposite effect. This is tested with various measures...
- White papers 2004-12-21
- Calculating the Cost of Goods Sold
- For manufacturers, "cost of goods sold" COGS is the cost of buying raw materials and manufacturing finished products. For retailers, it's the cost of obtaining or buying the products sold to customers. If the company is in a service industry, COGS is the cost of the service it offers.COGS can...
- Articles 2007-03-15
- Foreign Direct Investment, Wage Inequality, And Skilled Labor Demand In EU Accession Countries
- During the 1990s Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic have experienced rapid increases in wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers and received the largest FDI Foreign Direct Investment inflow in Central and Eastern Europe. This paper analyzes whether FDI has contributed to the raise in earning inequality via a...
- White papers 2004-08-12
- SRA International F2Q08 (Qtr End 12/31/07) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions. And our first question is from the line of Bill Loomis with Stifel Nicolaus. Please go ahead. Bill Loomis - Stifel Nicolaus Hi, thank you. Good quarter. Can you just talk about the seasonality in the business? Usually I would expect more than $5 million...
- Earnings calls 2008-02-05
- CACI International F2Q08 (Quarter End 12/31/07) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions We do have a couple of questions in the queue. We’ll here from Brian Gesuale with Raymond James. Brian Gesuale – Raymond James Wanted to dig into some of this pipeline of business and look at re-competes,...
- Earnings calls 2008-02-04
- TCS adds distribution to its stable of industry cost indexes. (Thinking Cap Solutions)
- Researching supplier cost structures can be like putting together a jigsaw puzzle with no edge pieces and no picture. Each industry has a basic structure of costs for raw materials, electricity, direct labor, indirect,labor, inbound freight, Researching...
- Research articles 1997-10-09
- USEC Inc. Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions We will go first to Gabby Kalinsky - Goldman Sachs. Gabby Kalinsky - Goldman Sachs This is Gabby filling in for Albert Kabili. Just had a couple of quick questions. First you mentioned in the call that in September you...
- Earnings calls 2008-03-05
- Foreign Direct Investment And Labor-Market Outcomes
- The multinationalization of production is perhaps the most striking and distinguishing characteristic of the process of globalization over the last two decades. The share of cross-border capital flows accounted for by the Foreign Direct Investment FDI of multinationals has been rising in last few years. This paper examines the relationship...
- White papers 2003-02-01
- Foreign Direct Investment And Central Europe's Reintegration Into Global Economy
- FDI Foreign Direct Investment have dramatically impacted trade patterns of Central Europe and mode of integrating into global markets. Thanks to FDI, CEEC-10 have moved from inter-industry trade, characteristic of their central planning era, to intra-industry or intra-product trade, as network trade is often referred to. FDI have helped close...
- White papers 2006-02-20
- JetBlue's "Refresh and Rejuvenate" Program Shows Commitment to Labor
- I remember hearing former JetBlue CEO David Neeleman say early on that if his employees felt the need to unionize, then he had failed as a boss. On JetBlue's third quarter earnings call, CEO Dave Barger spoke about the Refresh and Rejuvenate RNR program that really shows the commitment...
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- Population Aging, Foreign Direct Investment, And Tax Competition
- This paper studies the role of population aging for Foreign Direct Investment FDI and the strategic taxation of capital. Importantly, this theoretical model suggests that the labor market implications of aging differ from the financial market aspects. While population aging may be associated with a lower capital stock in the...
- White papers 2006-05-25
- CACI International Inc. FY10 Guidance Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of Jason Kupferberg – UBS Jason Kupferberg – UBS So congrats on the guidance increase here on the earnings side in particular, nice to see. Had a couple of questions around fiscal 2010, first off...
- Earnings calls 2009-06-26
- The International Organization and Enforcement of Labor Standards
- What action should be taken by international community with regard to labor standards, how should this action be organized, and by what means should it be enforced? The purpose of this paper is to provide answers to these three questions. Taking the perspective of economic theory, the paper describes here...
- White papers 2001-05-01
- Labor Standards and Trade Agreements
- There is a wide disparity of views on issues of international labor standards. Labor and social activists are concerned about the increased imports from countries in which labor standards are ostensibly not enforced at a sufficiently high level. This paper explores these different views and the available options for addressing...
- White papers 2003-08-18
- Manpower Inc. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator [Operator Instructions]. Our first question comes from Chris Gutek, Morgan Stanley. Your line is open. Christopher Gutek – Morgan Stanley Thanks. Good morning, guys. Mike Van Handel – Executive Vice President, and Chief Financial Officer Hi, Chris. ...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-17
- AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT: Labor condemns ABC to digital backwater.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-11 February 1999-AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT: Labor condemns ABC to digital backwater C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:110299 'Labor cannot be allowed to condemn the ABC to a digital backwater. Labor's knee-jerk ranting about the ABC is a direct attack on its future...
- Research articles 1999-02-11
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