labor shortage

基本解释

All but closed to immigration, Japan faces an acute labor shortage, especially for jobs at the country’s hardscrabble farms or small family-run factories.
除了移民问题，日本面临着尖锐的劳工短缺为题，尤其是正对该国贫瘠的农场和小型的家庭经营的工厂而言。
U.S. land and few people, do not face in the early industrialization of rural labor surplus, but industrialization and urbanization are facing a serious labor shortage.
美国地多人少，在工业化初期并未面临农村劳动力剩余问题，但工业化和城镇化却面临劳动力的严重不足。
Within a decade, its rapidly aging population will suffer a severe labor shortage, and China will have millions of elderly people with few kids, and a Dickensian social system, to care for them.
在十年内，它迅速老化的人口将面临严重的劳动力短缺，而且中国将有大量老人，却没有多少孩子照顾他们，一个狄更斯式的社会体系。
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They have to move up the value chain or they will face a labor shortage.
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民工荒
The government should continue to implement the policy which has positive effect with the rural labor force shift,add more investment in rural education and transfer its duty,for the purpose of solving the problem of "skilled worker shortage" and "labor shortage".
政府应继续推出有利于促进农村劳动力转移的政策,加大对农村教育的投入力度,转变职能,从根本上解决我国的"技工荒"、"民工荒"问题。
用工荒
Ever since 2004, the negative influence of labor shortage on the development of national economy cannot be neglected.
自从2004年至今,用工荒对我国经济发展所带来的负面影响不容忽视。
招工难
At present, Labor Shortage affects not only HS Company but also many other manufacturing enterprises, it has become a social concern to solve this problem in a high efficient way.
目前,招工难已成为很多制造企业共同面临的困境,尽快解决招工难问题已成为全社会关心的问题。
法学
民工荒