Sentences with phrase «u.s. labor participation»

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Most of the homebuilders are U.S. - based, meaning they benefited from the tax cuts, are shielded from tariffs and could be helped by rising wages and higher labor participation, a largely overlooked data point in the Bureau of Labor Statistics» relabor participation, a largely overlooked data point in the Bureau of Labor Statistics» reLabor Statistics» report.

A change that would make Buffett hopeful for women in the workforce took place soon after: Following World War II, women's participation in the U.S. labor force rose from 32.7 percent in 1948 to 56.8 percent in 2016, according to the U.S. Department of Llabor force rose from 32.7 percent in 1948 to 56.8 percent in 2016, according to the U.S. Department of LaborLabor.

If growing unemployment was not enough, a decline in labor market participation was also on the rise, the ILO said, a warning borne out by the latest U.S. jobs data from December which showed that the labor force participation rate tumbled to 62.8 percent, its worst level since January 1978.

According to U.S. Department of Labor statistics, female participation in the workforce was less than 40 percent in 1960 but is predicted to reach 62 percent by the year 2015.

While it's too soon to know what economic effect the strike might have, significant participation could make an impact — after all, women make up nearly half of the U.S. labor force and influence about 73 % of all household spending.

As of 2016, the U.S. was close to the last place, ranking 20th out of the 22 countries for prime - age female labor force participation, the S&P report noted.

Low workforce participation and slow wage growth are structural issues that the strengthening U.S. labor market must overcome...

Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States Stephen Jones, McMaster University Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia Jones and Riddell build on two previous papers: one by David Card and Riddell (originally published in Small Differences that Matter) that studies the reasons for higher rates of unemployment in Canada than the U.S. in the 1980s, the other by Jones and Riddell which uses data from the U.S. Labor Force Survey to study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor fLabor Force Participation in Canada and the United States Stephen Jones, McMaster University Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia Jones and Riddell build on two previous papers: one by David Card and Riddell (originally published in Small Differences that Matter) that studies the reasons for higher rates of unemployment in Canada than the U.S. in the 1980s, the other by Jones and Riddell which uses data from the U.S. Labor Force Survey to study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor fLabor Force Survey to study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor flabor force.

The researchers update the Card and Riddel analysis, drawing attention to the growing divergence in labor force participation rates between Canada and the U.S..

Yellen noted that U.S. unemployment fell to 4.1 percent in October, and labor force participation has remained steady in recent years.

The labor force participation rate, the number of people working or actively looking for work, has fallen since the Great Recession and has stagnated near 63 percent for the last four years, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statislabor force participation rate, the number of people working or actively looking for work, has fallen since the Great Recession and has stagnated near 63 percent for the last four years, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisLabor Statistics.

Labor force participation, at 68 percent, continues to exceed the Capital Region (64 percent), New York state (63 percent), and the U.S. (64 percent).

Participation in the labor force, at 68 percent, outpaces the Capital Region, New York state, and the U.S.

And while refugees ultimately — after a period of six to ten years — have higher labor force participation and employment rates, and have similar welfare participation rates, relative to U.S. - born residents, they often enter the U.S. with low human capital and language skills and have initially poor labor market outcomes and high rates of welfare usage.

In this paper, we seek to provide a fairly comprehensive and up - to - date snapshot of the most important postsecondary education and labor market outcomes in the U.S. using two nationally representative sources of data: The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and The National Educational Longitudinal Survey (NELS).

The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) and the U.S. Department of Defense Office of Diversity Management & Equal Opportunity (ODMEO) manage the program, which continues to be successful with the participation of many other federal agencies and sub-agencies.

Using local estimates of labor force participation by gender and parental status from the U.S. Census Bureau, and weighting the estimates by the population of parents in each census tract, this analysis compares parental labor force participation between child care deserts and nondeserts.