Sentences with phrase «employment levels are at»

In an encouraging sign, employment levels are at or above normal activity in 128 markets — an 8.5 % rise over last quarter.

Employment levels are at a point normally regarded as full employment.

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Several Fed committee members suggested that the economy is at or near full employment, or the level of unemployment below which inflation becomes a concern.

New residential construction is at half of 2005 levels, undercutting employment, and home prices are down about 25 per cent.

Unemployment is at unacceptably high levels, partly due to the strict employment rules that make it difficult for businesses to shed staff.

Maximum employment does not mean zero unemployment, as at any given time people there is a certain level of volatility as people vacate and start new jobs.

Economic growth has been falling since 2010 and the economy has been operating below its potential since then; employment growth, particularly full time employment growth has struggled; in 2014 only 121,000 jobs were created; employment growth has not kept up with population growth; labor force participation has declined to its lowest level since 2000; long - term unemployment has increased; the unemployment rate remains stuck at just under 7 per cent, and youth unemployment is at 14 per cent; business investment has stagnated; and Canadians are losing confidence in their economic future.

American manufacturing output is at the highest level in history and employment has fallen because of large gains in efficiency, a trend that is unlikely to reverse.

Part of this growth is temporary, related to the measures in the Economic Action Plan, with the result that the employment levels should decline once the stimulus measures terminate at the end of 2011 - 12.

A transfer of domestic demand from investment to consumption implies, in other words, that employment growth can be maintained at much lower levels of GDP growth.

At that level, joblessness is nearing the threshold that economists and the Fed consider close to full employment; inflation foes worry that allowing the unemployment rate to fall significantly below 5 percent runs the risk of leading to an overheated economy.

During his speech Friday, Powell said with unemployment at 4.1 percent — the lowest level in nearly two decades — the labor market was «in the neighborhood of maximum employment.»

All the growth has been in services and in the government sector, mainly at the state and local level in the case of public employment.

At the same time, most surveys find that businesses are intending to increase their employment further, and that some businesses are already reporting increased difficulty finding suitable labour, although this does not appear to have been reflected in wage expectations at an aggregate leveAt the same time, most surveys find that businesses are intending to increase their employment further, and that some businesses are already reporting increased difficulty finding suitable labour, although this does not appear to have been reflected in wage expectations at an aggregate leveat an aggregate level.

Furthermore, underlying demand is at a relatively high level and employment conditions remain favourable.

According to the NAB survey, businesses» employment intentions are at their highest level for more than four years.

For example, weekly initial jobless claims are currently running at around the 345,000 level, which in the past has been consistent with monthly employment gains of around 150,000; the manufacturing ISM employment index is at a 20 - year high; and growth in temporary - help services employment (which tends to lead overall employment) has picked up.

Skilled vacancies, according to the survey conducted by the Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business, are at historically high levels.

We haven't seen levels this high since 2004 when we were at the peak of the housing bubble, the construction sector was booming, and we had high employment.

That initiative provides funds to train unemployed workers not eligible for employment insurance and is aimed at aboriginals, immigrants, women, youth, older workers, people with disabilities and those with low literacy levels.

European consumer confidence has held steady at high levels and retail sales growth has been solid, underpinned by improving employment and total income growth that reached a 3.7 % annual pace last month.

Among the evidence that would shift our expectations in this regard would be: material equity market deterioration, further weakness in regional Fed and purchasing managers indices, a slowing in real personal income, a spike in new claims for unemployment toward the 340,000 level, an abrupt drop in consumer confidence about 10 - 20 points below its 12 - month average, and at least some amount of slowing in employment growth and aggregate hours worked.

Actual employment growth is stable at a sluggish level but the unemployment rate is dropping like a rock.

A strong increase in the December quarter was only partly reversed in the March quarter, and vacancies remain at a level which in the past has been consistent with solid employment growth.

The NAB survey of employment intentions for the quarter ahead is at its highest level in almost a decade, while the ACCI - Westpac survey is also near a decade high.

Hiring was consistently solid in 2016, and the unemployment rate ended the year at 4.7 percent, just below the 4.8 percent level the Fed has identified as representing full employment.

The combined company will also establish its headquarters in Oakville, Ont., where Tim Hortons is currently based, and «maintain significant employment levels» at the office.

Nonpoor Americans, who are working at the highest levels in history, realize the rewards of employment.

Christophe Aguiton: «My name is Christophe Aguiton, I am French, a trade unionist, but I am currently particularly active in movements against unemployment in France, with «Agir Contre le Chômage» and, at the European level, with the network of European Walks against Unemployment, Employment Instability and Exclusion.

Strangely, just as welfare states are drowning in a sea of debt whilst also increasingly being seen as at least partly responsible for lower levels of family formation and employment, the Church has started to question welfare states rather less.

They open up the possibility for God to be related to the creation, and in this instance at the level of human existence, in the light of the new occasion, by the responsiveness of God to that event and by his employment of that event to bestow upon his human children still further «graces and mercies».

How do you prepare, both mentally and physically to perform at your highest level when the pressure is at its greatest — when you are performing in front of one or a handful of individuals who hold your future employment in their hands?

The sportspersons category of Tier 2 of the points - based system is for elite sports people and coaches who are internationally established at the highest level, whose employment will make a significant contribution to the development of their sport at the highest level in the UK and who intend to base themselves in the UK.

Research funded by the ESRC and conducted at the University of Bristol has looked at the impact of fatherhood on men's employment and found that although overall fatherhood status is largely irrelevant for men's level of engagement with the labour market, there is some accommodation in work hours in the first year of a child's life.

Estimates are adjusted for child age, sex, fetal growth, gestational age, race / ethnicity, and primary language and for maternal age, parity, smoking status, IQ, depression, employment, and child care at 6 months» post partum, as well as for parental education level, annual household income, and Home Observation Measurement of the Environment short form score.

The Employment Related Services Association made clear in evidence to MPs that «fraud at any level is completely unacceptable», but said it was impossible to «design or manage out all risk of individual instances of fraud».

In the non-manufacturing sub-sectors the report turns largely positive as business activity and new orders are shown growing at faster rate, level of employment unchanged and raw materials inventories growing from contraction.

CBN Manufacturing PMI Index for the month of December 2015 shows production level and new orders are growing at a slower rate, raw material inventories (unused raw materials) increasing at a faster rate, supplier delivery time declining at a faster rate, and employment level decreasing at a slower rate.

Even the recession hit younger people hardest - the employment rate of those aged over 50 continues to be at record levels, despite the downturn in the labour market.

The issues that matter to most voters — employment, social security, education, health, taxes — are handled at national level.

During his time at the Pride Agenda he has been actively involved with the passage of dozens of laws, ordinances, regulations and Executive Orders on the state and local level affecting New York's LGBT community, including statewide measures like: the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act; the Hate Crimes Act of 2000; making the state's 9/11 relief inclusive of same - sex couples; guaranteeing domestic partners hospital visitation, legal authority over a loved one's bodily remains, access to Family Court and medical decision making authority; prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression in state employment; and securing over $ 50 million of funding for LGBT health and human services.

Overall employment in Pennsylvania's Bradford and Susquehanna counties is down less than two percent since June of 2008, and actually peaked in the summer of 2012 before leveling off at 51,400, data show.

He is fighting an election with soaring employment, falling crime, a renaissance in schools, zero inflation and satisfaction with the NHS at the second - highest level ever.

LASUCO is targeting the production of two million tonnes of sugar cane annually and this segment alone can produce over 4,000 jobs, while thousands of employment ýwill be generated at the plant and at an indirect level.

IDS needs the money because he now knows about social security's «iron triangle» — that it is impossible to do all the things he wants at once: raise the poor's incomes, raise their employment levels (assuming the jobs are there) and cut welfare spending.

Since April 2014, CNRS has been collaborating with the French employment agency and the ABG - L'intelli» agence, which promotes the recruitment of Ph.D. - holders in industry, to monitor the situations of short - term employees and support them at a national level, a CNRS spokesperson wrote in an e-mail to Science Careers.

«At the level of individuals trying to maintain their intrinsic motivation and creativity in the face of strong employment pressure — it's very tough,» Amabile continues.

Evidence - based employment services are not widely available to individuals with severe mental illness at a national level.

As difficult as the current situation appears, lead researcher Dr. Lee - Ann Fenge believes that it does not need to remain this way: «At a national level, more needs to be done to value those who work in the care sector by highlighting the benefits and rewards of care sector employment and not just the negative aspects of this type of work.

By using a franchise model, Sherpa Kids not only benefits from the local knowledge of the provider, it also contributes to the economic and employment prospects of local communities since all decision - making is done at local level by owners and franchisees are encouraged to source products locally.