Sentences with phrase «gap in the labour»

After a survey of 2,000 businesses identified gaps in the labour market, Wales reinforced its training initiatives to improve the workforce.

«Migrants are filling gaps in the labour market left wide open,» he will say, «by a welfare system that for years has paid British people not to work».

Temporary foreign workers come to work in Canada to fill temporary gaps in the labour market.

Not exact matches

It's necessary that an «informed national discussion» take place about the condition of Canada's labour market, in order to address future skills gaps, Kenney said.

U.S. talks this year closed the gap between Canadian and U.S. workers, raising wages south of the border while the Canadian dollar lowered labour costs in Canada.

For example, to calculate what portion of the Canada-U.S. gap in income per capita is due to Canada's lower labour productivity, we substitute U.S. labour productivity into the equation but keep Canadian data for the other four components (hours worked, unemployment, labour force participation, and demographic structure).

In fact Stephen Beer claimed Labour needed to respond to the tough decisions it faced on the economy, outline an economic plan for the future rather than a retrospective attack on Coalition policy and most importantly close the economic credibility gap that was first conceived and then grew during Labour's last years in officIn fact Stephen Beer claimed Labour needed to respond to the tough decisions it faced on the economy, outline an economic plan for the future rather than a retrospective attack on Coalition policy and most importantly close the economic credibility gap that was first conceived and then grew during Labour's last years in officin office.

The gap Labour must fill in its view of political economy is two-fold.

In 2001 that gap was larger, again not in Labour's favouIn 2001 that gap was larger, again not in Labour's favouin Labour's favour.

The Health Foundation said that Labour's manifesto commitment to invest # 30bn in the NHS over five years would deliver an upfront cash boost to the health service, but that a funding gap would open up over time.

As the creator of what has come to be known as Corbynomics, my ideas on what is now known as People's Quantitative Easing, progressive taxation, tackling the tax gap and other matters caused quite a stir in the Labour leadership race.

If the gap in seats between Labour and the Tories is less than that, we shall wake up post-election to a hung parliament.

And let me pay particular tribute to those parliamentary colleagues who stepped forward in the summer to fill the gaps in the shadow cabinet and ensure that Labour could function as an effective opposition in parliament.

· We should be closing the gap between the public and our Party by experimenting with open primaries, so carrying a Labour membership card in your wallet isn't the be all and end of all of whether you can take part.

Conference, it is nothing short of a scandal that as the schools performance gap continues to grow, Labour still spends # 600 less a year educating Welsh children than those living in England.

Neither Labour nor the Conservatives emerge from this week's party funding revelations looking very pretty - but a gap is emerging in how much cash they'll reap from their questionable fundraising.

Elsewhere in England & Wales where the Leave vote was strong, the Conservatives are either extending their lead over Labour or closing the gap on Labour.

In London (which voted Remain) and the South (which narrowly voted Leave), Labour is closing the CON - LAB gap.

There are clear systematic differences with Labour doing much better in the polls than in the PNS (with very big gaps during Blair's leadership up to the Iraq war: 1994 - 2003).

Seeing the opposing army marching away from the centre - ground, the Tories can now revel in the genuine gap beginning to develop with Labour.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats Housing Spokesperson, Peter Black, has called on the Welsh Labour Government to use the last week of the Assembly term to focus on tackling the growing gap between England and Wales in terms of help offered to first time buyers to get onto the housing ladder.

The Labour deputy leader will use a roundtable event in parliament to call for more steps to even up the gender gap between men and women on our television screens.

Plug the gaps: The growing deficit of skilled labour needed to fill in - demand jobs has caused growing pressure on employers across the globe.

While Ed Balls has edged ahead of George Osborne in terms of being seen as the most capable Chancellor, and Labour have closed the gap to the Conservatives on being seen as the most effective in getting good value for public money, David Cameron still leads Ed Miliband on being the leader most trusted on the economy.

In other words over the course of the campaign Corbyn increasingly appealed to voters who had previously been unimpressed, helping them win new support for Labour, dramatically narrowing the gap to the Conservatives.

The French Huguenots who built the London silk market from scratch in the eighteenth century, the likes of Mary Seacole who nursed our troops in the Crimean War, the Afro - Caribbeans who came in the First World War to work in the munitions factories of the North West, or as part of the Windrush Generation to fill gaps in the post-war Labour market, the Poles or the Indians who fought with us in the forties, the Italians who came to work in our mines in the nineteenth century, the Indians who work today in our burgeoning IT and gaming industries, the eastern Europeans who have picked our crops or kept our hotels running, have all played a part in building modern Britain.

It has the Tories on 40 percent, Labour on 39 and the Lib Dems on 12 — the smallest gap between the two main parties since the election - that - never - was in October 2007.

In the current situation both Labour and the Coalition would cut deeply and dramatically, the gap between them at around 1 per cent of public expenditure per year is smaller than either would like to acknowledge and since Labour privately admit they would have needed to increase the rate of cutback originally envisaged by Alistair Darling in pre-election phase, it is probably smaller yeIn the current situation both Labour and the Coalition would cut deeply and dramatically, the gap between them at around 1 per cent of public expenditure per year is smaller than either would like to acknowledge and since Labour privately admit they would have needed to increase the rate of cutback originally envisaged by Alistair Darling in pre-election phase, it is probably smaller yein pre-election phase, it is probably smaller yet.

Whether Britain votes In or Out, the gap between the Labour leadership and the party's traditional, working class base is only getting bigger.

Mr Farnell, who regained the position of Labour council leader in 2014 after a gap of 22 years, told the inquiry he was never informed of the scandal during his first stint in office between 1986 and 1992.

Boris was four points ahead of Ken in the first round of the mayoral vote, but Labour were nine points ahead of the Conservatives in the simultaeneous vote for the London Assembly — a gap of 13 points between their performance in the mayoral vote and the assembly vote.

In the same BES data the Conservative lead over Labour among men was 2 points while that among women was -6, a gender gap of 8 points.

And yet, if you look at the opinion polls over this period almost all of them show Conservative support in the low thirties and Labour support in the high thirties — a sufficient gap to put Miliband into Downing Street.

Concrete commitments to end child poverty and narrow the gap in schools should be Labour's central pitch to black and Asian voters.

He argued that only the Labour Party could fight the gender pay gap, or deal with the tax rises and benefits cuts which hit the poorest in society.

Labour MPs who want the Cabinet to oust Mr Brown had been hoping that polls would show that a change of leader would close the gap with the Tories — in the hope of creating a bandwagon effect for Mr Miliband, the front - runner to succeed him.

The organisation is unlikely to resolve the Labour Party's dilemmas over Brexit, but as the need for an anti-Brexit initiative in line with Party policy becomes clearer, if Open Labour can fill the gap left by the disappearance of the LCC and Compass from the Labour scene then there is much to play for.

The latest tally of votes in the London mayoral election still shows Boris Johnson ahead of his Labour candidate - but the gap has narrowed.

The gap between the two parties has also narrowed in the constituency vote, with Labour's lead slipping from nine points to just four.

The rolling average in the previous two weeks showed a pretty steep increase in the Tories» vote share, and while Labour saw its grow slightly, it wasn't enough to stop the gap widening.

So in all those years of plenty, when Labour claimed it was closing the gap between rich and poor, as well as pouring money into public services, the underlying rate of poverty and its causes were actually growing.

Based on the results, the gap in predicted national vote share between the Conservatives and Labour has closed since the council elections last year.

I would like to see the income gap narrowed further; to this end I would like to see Labour propose a permanent reduction in VAT to 15 % for most household goods and further reductions in VAT for building materials.

There is greater popular unease about the gap between rich and poor than when Clinton's husband was in the White House providing a blueprint for Tony Blair's Labour.

That certainly would explain the gap between Labour and SNP voting shares in Westminster and Holyrood elections.

Recent polls suggested Boris could close the gap in the polls with Labour and save the seats of dozens of Tory MPs in marginal constituencies.

The convergence between men's and women's wages over the last three decades — what economists call the narrowing of the «gender wage gap» — has increased the probability that married women work in the labour market, decreased the amount of time they devote to household chores and increased their husbands» share of household work.

These findings suggest that eliminating the gender gap entirely would cause women to become 18 percentage points more likely to work full - time in the labour market and even out the time spent on housework by reducing it (mostly for women) by as much as seven hours per week.

His study finds that as the gender gap has narrowed, it has increased the probability that married women work in the labour market.

In his research Dr van Rens used data on job finding rates, earnings and profits across states, industries and occupations to measure the extent of skills mismatch or gap on the US labour market, and the underlying frictions that gave rise to it.