Sentences with phrase «improvement in the labour»

Another good sign noted by Dawn Desjardins, assistant chief economist at RBC, is an improvement in labour market conditions in the U.S.

Officials said they would raise the benchmark when they have seen «some» further improvement in the labour market.

While there have been improvements in some labour market indicators, the number of people who have been unemployed for over a year has remained frustratingly high since the end of the recession, as shown in the graph below.

There have been clear signs of improvement in the labour market over the past six months or so.

Conditions in the household sector are also looking a little brighter, with signs of improvement in the labour market and rosier consumer sentiment supporting a revival in consumer spending.

The strength of resource production of late partly reflects an improvement in labour productivity in the mining sector, which is to be expected as new productive capacity comes on line.

But Office for National Statistics (ONS) data also out today showed a modest improvement in the labour market.

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We then use that to build out two additional scenarios: one assuming a doubling of the current minimum wage plus factoring in the cost of fire and building safety improvements based on data from the Worker Rights Consortium; and another using a «living wage» figure from the East Asia labour organization Asia Floor Wage, which is considered at the high end of labour reform demands.

The recent improvement in start - up activity despite a relatively healthy labour market indicates that a significant number of new entrepreneurs chose self - employment as a career rather than being forced to open a business due to a lack of other employment opportunities.

For wage growth, the bank said despite recent improvements it remains below what would be expected if the economy no longer had slack in its labour force.

In its statement, the Fed said the rise in mortgage and some other loan rates in recent months «could slow the pace of improvement in the economy and labour market» if they're sustaineIn its statement, the Fed said the rise in mortgage and some other loan rates in recent months «could slow the pace of improvement in the economy and labour market» if they're sustainein mortgage and some other loan rates in recent months «could slow the pace of improvement in the economy and labour market» if they're sustainein recent months «could slow the pace of improvement in the economy and labour market» if they're sustainein the economy and labour market» if they're sustained.

These improvements were reflected in the rise in the participation rate to 63 %, up 0.6 % since September, confirming there is greater slack in the labour force than conveyed by the headline unemployment rate, and suggesting that longer term unemployed or discouraged workers who have hitherto remained on the sidelines are being pulled back into the labour market by the growth in employment opportunities.

The Summit will focus on economic development and trade through improvements and innovations in infrastructure and supply chain management, labour mobility and workforce development, and enhanced investment.

Economic data in the United States have been a little more positive, showing, among other things, stronger - than - expected GDP growth in the second quarter, improvements in business sentiment, a rise in capital goods orders and a small pick - up in industrial production in the past couple of months, though the performance of the labour market has so far remained disappointing.

It appears that the extensive changes in the economy over the past decade — including a structural fall in the inflation rate, productivity - enhancing changes in the labour market, corporatisation and privatisation of public - sector enterprises and substantial falls in the barriers to international trade — have led to an improvement in Australia's underlying rate of productivity growth.

The labour market has been disappointing to date, but there have been some tentative signs of improvement recently, with a gradual decline in new jobless claims and an increase in non-farm employment in September.

Twelve critical success factors, including «the right attitude, focus, leadership, teamwork, support, and a personal and financial commitment to best practice and continuous quality improvement,» were identified, based on practices at four Ontario hospitals with comparatively low caesarean rates.19 The «right attitude» included taking pride in a low caesarean rate, developing a culture of birth as a normal physiological process, and having a commitment to one to one supportive care during active labour.

Comments about the hostile response to any request for home birth confirm the anecdotal reports of consumer groups such as the Association for the Improvement in Maternity Services and the National Childbirth Trust and evidence to the Expert Maternity Group.1 In addition, many women who had booked a home birth were later transferred to hospital for delivery, both before and after the onset of labouin Maternity Services and the National Childbirth Trust and evidence to the Expert Maternity Group.1 In addition, many women who had booked a home birth were later transferred to hospital for delivery, both before and after the onset of labouIn addition, many women who had booked a home birth were later transferred to hospital for delivery, both before and after the onset of labour.

Former Labour chief adviser and economist John McLaren recently published research showing Scotland had a lower rate of improvement in education, health and economic performance than the rest of the UK.

Thus, the most pressing and overwhelming challenge facing the next Labour leader and shadow chancellor will be in devising a compelling economic narrative of progressive fiscal responsibility, whilst resolutely holding on to our core principles of self - improvement, fairness and equality of opportunity.

I think that the polls may continue to swing wildly around for a few months, as we see how the economic situation pans out, I certainly get the impression in Chesterfield that an unusually high number of people are undecided at the moment, though there has certainly been an improvement in the likelihood to vote of Labour supporters in the last two or three months.

Testament to its failure to deliver prosperity or improvements in vital public services, is Labour's management of the NHS, which remains the poor man of the United Kingdom.

Many worlds might have been botched and bungled throughout an eternity, ere this system was struck out: much labour lost: many fruitless trials made: and a slow, but continued improvement carried on during infinite ages in the art of world - making.

He's cynical about Plaid's attempt to pin the economic woes on Labour, when Wyn Jones is the one in charge of the country's economy, and instead puts the emphasis on the improvements which have been made under Labour.

After big improvements in the NHS with Labour, people are starting to find waiting times rise, operations postponed, services cutback and frontline posts frozen or cut.

The Conservatives have a one point lead on the economy, an improvement from the last couple of months when Labour had regained their lead... but on the same question the Tories had a 3 point lead in March 2007.

The data shows that there has been an improvement in the figures for both Theresa May and the Conservatives, while Labour and Jeremy Corbyn's numbers have dipped slightly.

There have been improvements for the Conservatives in nearly all the important measures, including leadership, competence, having clear ideas and being a united party, while Labour have fallen back.

According to the General Secretary, Nigeria Labour Congress, Dr. Peter Ozo - Eson, despite the exit of the country from recession, there has been no visible improvement in the standard of living, salaries, rate of employment and quality of life of Nigerian workers.

Victory for Rahman, in the face of Labour improvements across London, would result in some difficult questions for the campaign team.

The hatred leads them to neglect alternative strategies, such as working with Rahman to implement the Labour Party manifesto (on which Labour and Rahman both stood for election) or influence his policies — although in other parts of the country Labour co-operates with other political parties to secure improvements, even from Tory administrations.

Research suggests that under Labour, there was a large improvement in the first 100 or so schools to become «city academies» within four years of their conversion.

This 37 % was a huge improvement on the 22 % Labour received in 2009, the previous set of local elections where no general election was held.

The government blames improvements in the economy, a shrinking graduate pool and greater competition in the labour market for making it «more difficult for the education system to meet the demand for additional teachers domestically», and says overseas recruitment will be pursued as a «supplementary avenue of teacher supply».

While improvements in access to education has meant young people in Kenya are better educated than ever before, 67 % of young Kenyans between the ages of 15 and 24 are thought to be out of work and millions more enter unstable employment each year.i The mismatch between what is learnt at school and the skills required in the 21st century labour market, along with a lack of access to information about jobsii, are among the most frequently cited causes of youth unemployment.

The Manchester Central MP said Labour's sponsored academy programme did «a huge amount to transform a small number of failing schools in disadvantaged areas», but warned there was «no evidence» that the process of changing schools into academies «in and of itself» led to school improvement.

That is why Labour will re-establish a school support staff negotiating body to deliver continued improvement in our schools and ensure a fair deal for support staff.»

Academy status, introduced by a Labour government, was originally reserved for schools in urgent need of improvement, but since 2010 schools have been encouraged to convert and have been given extra funding for doing so.

Labour MPs will hold an inquiry into school improvement and accountability in an attempt to «flesh out» the party's education policies, Schools Week can exclusively reveal.

Productivity gains lead to improvements in the standard of living, because as labour, capital, etc. produce more, they generate greater income.

Once (or should I say if) this pension / labour dispute is put to rest, I'd actually expect a rapid & substantial improvement in shareholder value — this might be a substantial return of capital or a tender offer (to distribute surplus cash), and / or a potential new partnership or even a takeover offer..?!

Humanitarian cases that had me in tears, family reunifications that saw me laughing and hugging newly reunited families, and business deals that through my hard work and the companies» tenacity have seen massive labour market improvements in Canada.

«At Integreon we worked together to build the category leader in «version 1.0» alternative legal services, primarily around labour arbitrage and process improvement.

Considering HTC's dramatic improvement in battery efficiency in the One M8 I was hoping to see some of the fruits of that labour passed down.

Notably though, the real GDP has experienced slight improvement, growing 1.7 % in the first quarter and the labour costs per unit of production, for Canadian businesses, rose by 0.8 % (in Canadian dollars).