Sentences with phrase «us labor market recovery»

The labor market recovery so far has made up less than half of the prime - age employment lost in the recession.

«With the US labor market recovery gaining momentum, the hope for stronger global growth in 2014 is motivating investors to take on risk,» said Kathy Lien, managing director of FX Strategy at BK Asset Management.

Indeed, there are some signs that meaningful wage growth, one of the factors that had been missing from this labor market recovery, may be on the horizon.

Although a simple comparison of the unemployment rate in both countries would clearly highlight the faster pace of US labor market recovery, our view is that this fails to consider how significantly more volatile the US labor market has been.

To be sure, stronger average earnings growth is still a missing component of the U.S. labor market recovery.

This labor market recovery appears all the more impressive when it's considered in the context of structurally lower economic growth due to population aging trends, as well as the technological disruptions being experienced by many industries.

«It is very clear that those states with higher levels of payroll employment or labor market recovery are associated with healthier housing markets.»

The causes of this shift include the foreclosure crisis, a slow labor market recovery from the Great Recession, tighter mortgage credit, limited supply of entry - level homes and long - term social changes such as delayed marriage and childbearing.

Although certainly an improvement from the depressed levels of 2009, until 1) the labor market recovery gains any serious traction, 2) lending standards are less stringent and 3) the glut of distressed properties is worked off, gains in homebuilding activity will remain modest.

Not exact matches

The number of job openings in the U.S. hit a seven - year high in April, reflecting a labor market drawing strength from the nation's economic recovery.

He identified three obstacles that could affect any possible recovery in the global employment rate: «Over the fore ¬ seeable future, the world economy will probably grow less than was the case before the global crisis,» complicating «the task of generating the over 42 million jobs that are needed every year in order to meet the growing number of new entrants in the labor market.»

«True, there are encouraging signs of economic recovery in those advanced economies most affected by the global financial crisis which erupted in 2008... [but] the report finds that those economic improvements will not be sufficient to absorb the major labor market imbalances that built up in recent years.»

The report said that to ensure a lasting job recovery, strategies were needed that combined short - term measures (job - friendly macroeconomic and labor market policies) with «further action» to tackle long - standing imbalances.

A tight labor market due to the shrinking population and the ongoing economic recovery are also factors, flattening Japan's M - shaped curve, a graph showing that female participation in the workforce dips when women marry and have children.

«Some of the regulatory issues that have been put in by state and local governments, some of the capital constraints that the independent builders are facing, the labor shortages in a lot of markets, have all conspired to make this a very difficult recovery for new - home builders,» said Rick Sharga, chief marketing officer at Ten - X, a real estate auction company.

«The recovery in the labor market is probably going to be more sluggish than the Fed recognizes,» Michael Hanson, senior U.S. economist at Bank of America in New York and a former Fed economist, told the news service.

Japan's inflation has been slow to respond to the country's sustained economic recovery and the increasing tightness of labor market conditions.

Moreover, to support a stronger economic recovery, the FOMC is purchasing long - term Treasury securities at a rate of $ 45 billion per month and agency mortgage - backed securities (MBS) at a rate of $ 40 billion per month, and will continue purchasing assets until it sees substantial improvement in the outlook for the labor market, conditional on ongoing assessment of benefits and costs.

Contingent workers are key to increasing productivity, extending recovery Government policies threaten to ossify labor markets and stunt growthThe often - maligned phenomenon of contingent workers could play a key role improving workers» lives and productivity but so much depends on government policy, writes Peter Morici.

Unemployment data underlined the extent of the recovery in labor markets, with the ratio of jobless workers falling to its lowest level since 2009, although around a tenth of the workforce still remained out of work.

In other words, for two years of economic recovery, the labor market in the U.S. has been doing only slightly better than treading water, and much of the improvement in the unemployment rate can be attributed to people dropping out of the labor force either because they've given up looking for work or because they've retired.

«Taking due account of the uncertainties and limits of its policy tools, the Federal Reserve will provide additional policy accommodation as needed to promote a stronger economic recovery and sustained improvement in labor market conditions in a context of price stability.»

Five years into the recovery, the unemployment rate for the least - skilled American workers is still 8.5 percent and many workers who left the labor market during the Great Recession have been having trouble finding work even with an improving economy.

Instead, NIH and NSF recovery dollars will go overwhelmingly for 2 - year extramural research grants, mostly for proposals already submitted by people «established enough to already be in the [funding agency] pipeline,» says labor market economist Paula Stephan of Georgia State University in Atlanta.

The Committee is prepared to take further action as appropriate to promote a stronger economic recovery and sustained improvement in labor market conditions in a context of price stability.

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For Trump to call the latest jobs report «terrible» and «anemic» is to overstate the facts, but he is trying to appeal to one of his core constituencies, those who feel left out of the economic recovery and unable to adapt to the changing demands and circumstances of the labor market, such as the decline in manufacturing jobs.

According to a recent report from Bloomberg News, «the number of Americans saying the U.S. economy is getting better rose in March to the highest level since 2004 as a decline in claims for unemployment benefits offered more evidence of a labor - market recovery.»

Despite these negative indicators, we now see early signs of recovery in the labor market.

The sharp drop in unemployment insurance claims is in line with a steady recovery in the U.S. labor market and augurs well for continued increased consumer spending.

Fannie economists point to several positives in the housing recovery's favor: Low gasoline prices, stronger labor market conditions, rising household net worth, improving consumer and business confidence, and reduced fiscal headwinds.

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However, conditions remain uneven, with strengthening labor markets supporting solid price gains in some member countries, notably Ireland, Spain and Germany, while other markets, including France and Italy, continue to languish alongside a weaker economic recovery.

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Recent data indicate that the housing recovery has transitioned to a faster upward track, boosted by an improving labor market and low mortgage rates.

A strengthening labor market, low interest rates, improving mortgage availability and growing pent - up demand will help to significantly boost single - family housing production in the year ahead and move the housing recovery to higher ground.

While there is no new construction in the mall sub-sector save expansions of existing malls, demand for space should increase along with the recovery in the economy and labor markets in 2015, even while owners deal with the fallout from ongoing store closures.

Now, Principal is pouring money into the beleaguered office sector of all places, betting on a recovery in the labor market in the near term.