11.   Skilled manual labour has largely disappeared, jobs are temporary and badly paid, and unemployment has rapidly increased as capital has removed elsewhere.

12.   The shortage of skilled labour will often occur when there are competitive local labour markets.

13.   Most problems arise from neglect and, since repairs involve skilled labour, righting a wrong can be expensive.

14.   A supply of skilled labour with established expertise in bond markets is readily available to newcomers.

15.   CROATIA has a lot to offer Malaysian investors in terms of infrastructure and skilled labour, said its ambassador Damir Perincic yesterday.

16.   Fischer said the shortage of skilled labour would also offer Australia access to vocational training markets.

17.   He also explained that the plant is more capital intensive than labour intensive and will have qualified skilled labour and engineers as well.

18.   He said the country was not yet ready to establish an electronics industry since it still lacked raw materials, skilled labour and infrastructure.

19.   However, TA Securities said the shortage of skilled labour in the moulds and dies industry will continue to be a major problem.

20.   Infortech Software Japan Inc then had a subsidiary in Malaysia for this very purpose as the cost of skilled labour in Japan was seen as being too high.