Sentences with phrase «high labour force»

There is a limit to how many hours there are in a day that employees can work, how low the unemployment rate can go on a sustained basis, how high the labour force participation rate can rise, and how large the proportion of working - age people within the total population can be.

Canada's higher ratio of employment to its labour force, higher labour force participation rate, and higher proportion of working age people all helped to push up Canada's income per capita relative to that of the United States.

Not exact matches

A recent study by the Brookfield Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship found that up to 42 % of the Canadian labour force is at high risk of being affected by automation in the next 10 - 20 years.

Labour force participation rates (the proportion already working or actively looking for work) for young Canadians have fallen since the recession, and unemployment rates are higher for youth than for older workers.

She believes the current high unemployment levels are an effect of the recession, rather than of structural shifts in the economy, and that the Fed must fight joblessness before dislocated workers become permanently detached from the labour force.

Canada received high marks for its high - quality labour force and its immigration system that has historically attracted skilled and industrious workers.»

The comparative advantage sweet - spot for Canada's rust belt is the combination of a high - skilled labour force, significant quality controls and a low cost of living.

Overall we found that nearly 42 percent of the Canadian labour force is at a high risk of being affected by automation in the next decade or two.

Staying on hold would also signal that the Bank trusts the Labour Force Survey more than most people, and puts a higher weighting on labour market than productionLabour Force Survey more than most people, and puts a higher weighting on labour market than productionlabour market than production data.

Surveys of businesses» hiring intentions are at high levels, and print - based vacancy measures have been growing in line with the above - average growth in the labour force.

In the long run both types of investment create capital that can yield substantial positive rates of return (above the current 30 and 50 year real bond rate) and result in both higher productivity and stronger labour force growth.

Some Asian countries may not be able to sustain the very high rates they recorded last decade, partly because their labour forces are forecast to grow less rapidly.

«Small - scale mining is the second biggest global employer, and many of those mines force their workers to labour long hours in dirty and dangerous conditions for a pittance, whilst we enjoy the high value, glittering jewellery made using their gold.»

The high cost of transport is an issue if they're to manufacture them here and export; however, Ashley says the posts can be manufactured in any country, using the country's recycled plastic, its timber and labour force.

Mr Hague has been critical of the Labour government's stance on collusion since the high court upheld claims by Binyam Mohamed, a former Guantanamo detainee who was tortured by US forces in Pakistan and Morocco.

Jeremy Corbyn will be on the ballot paper for the Labour leadership contest after a legal challenge to force him to collect the backing of MPs was rejected by a High Court judge.

They also address the regular complaint that the funding of higher education through taxation is unfair because it forces those doing unskilled, low - paid labour to subsidise those studying to enter the professions.

Ed Miliband is promising a «reckoning» with the banks if Labour wins power, with the big five High Street giants forced to give up «significant» numbers of branches to make the industry more competitive.

In Japan for example, by 2030 the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research estimates the labour force will have contracted by over 15 percentvi, threatening GDP growth and placing a high burden on those in work to provide benefits for a growing number of retirees.

Extract E (lines 11 — 12) states that «the unemployment rate as measured by the Labour Force Survey remains stubbornly high at 7.7 %.»

In the mid-Nineteenth Century the Ketchi Maya Indians of Guatemala started moving into the country to escape the forced labour and high taxes of Guatemala.

Investors are obliged to weigh any number of unknowns: will Venezuela increase production and keep heavy oil differentials high; will the price of natural gas rapidly rise; will climate change suddenly force governments to introduce carbon taxes; can the companies control their labour and construction costs; will global demand continue to rise?

While the question process can first appear to be quite simple, the expert system tool shows a high degree of autonomy and will steer a client through certain bespoke branches of questions until it has got all the answers it needs to provide the client with a provisional statement in relation to the Modern Slavery Act, which the British Government made law in part to prevent companies exploiting forced labour, often via foreign suppliers.

Statistics indicate that persons with disabilities, in comparison to non-disabled persons, have less education, are more likely to be outside the labour force, face much higher unemployment rates, and are concentrated at the lower end of the pay scale when employed; see Minister of Human Resources Development, Persons with Disabilities: A Supplementary Paper (1994), at pp. 3 - 4, and Statistics Canada, A Portrait of Persons with Disabilities (1995), at pp. 46 - 49.

There is strong evidence that shows that universal community - based systems of high quality early childhood education and care are part of the backbone of strong economies: ECEC has short - term, medium - term and long - term economic and social impacts on children, their parents, the labour force, local economies and the larger economy.

Leaves have a positive effect in that they stimulate higher rates of female labour force participation.

With ownership of 20 % of the landmass, knowledge of country and environment and a growing labour force, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have a high stake in economic development.