Sentences with phrase «in headline unemployment rate»

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The right panel shows that the gap between the American and Canadian unemployment rates is much bigger when a comparable Canadian statistic is used in place of the headline measure regularly reported by Statistics Canada.

In part, the headline unemployment rate may be understating the underlying slack.

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.

WASHINGTON (MNI)- Gearing up for Friday's U.S. employment report, analysts expect the April report to bounce back after the relatively disappointing March report, expecting a gain of 185,000 for headline payrolls, a 195,000 increase in private payrolls, a 0.1 pp tickdown in the unemployment rate to 4.0 %, a softening in in average hourly earnings (AHE) to a 0.2 % gain, and average weekly hours to remain at 34.5.

The headline unemployment rate of 5.8 per cent stayed the same, mainly because of a slight fall in the participation rate.

You mention youth unemployment: The Tories made a dodgy headline claim before xmas that we had the worst youth unemployment in Europe, when fact is we are 13th / 24 on the youth unemployment rate.

The US, he writes, «continues to operate with generally tepid economic growth, headline unemployment rates well in excess of 9 %, and a budget deficit well in excess of a trillion dollars,» yet the S&P 500 has more than doubled since 2009.

I remember in 2009 - 2011, we were all reading headlines about high unemployment and vacancy rates in Phoenix and Las Vegas.