Labor Intensive Task

A Labor Intensive Task is a task where much of the cost is attributable to people.

• See: Data Curation Task, Knowledge Engineering Task, Low-Skill Task, High-Skill Task, Capital Intensive Task.

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References

2009

• http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/labor-intensive
  • — adj: of or denoting a task, organization, industry, etc, in which a high proportion of the costs are due to wages, salaries, etc
• http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/labour-intensive
  • adjective: requiring or using a large supply of labor, relative to capital.

2006

• (2006_TradingTasks) ⇒ Gene M. Grossman, and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg. (2006). “Trading Tasks: a simple theory of offshoring.” In: National Bureau of Economic Research Cambridge, 95(8).

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