Sentences with phrase «in labor force participation»

A large portion of the improvement can be attributed to a decline in the labor force participation rate, which is at close to a 40 - year low.

Perhaps the recent gain in labor force participation has reduced the pressure to raise compensation a bit as hiring became somewhat easier.

Likewise, interventions during adolescence may reap benefits in labor force participation only in young adulthood.

The unemployment rate dipped a tenth to 4.7 %, despite a similar - sized increase in the labor force participation rate, which moved up to 63.0 %.

«The unexpectedly swift decline in the unemployment rate in recent years has in large part been attributed to a drop in the labor force participation rate.

Then... this is the best part... he made it clear that a 6.5 percent unemployment rate would not necessarily be the threshold for raising rates, then went on a long discussion of the conditions under which he would NOT raise rates, including if the unemployment rate dropped mostly due to cyclical declines in the labor force participation rate rather than gains in unemployment, as well as persistently low inflation.

«It doesn't really appear that [the rise in the labor force participation rate] is due to workers on the sidelines coming back,» Dutta says.

Though these monthly data are notoriously jumpy, the out - sized job gains were accompanied by a nice pop in labor force participation rate — up 0.3 percent to... Read more

The unemployment rate inched up to 5.0 %, but the 0.1 % rise from the prior month was due to a positive move in the labor force participation rate, which rose to a six - month high of 62.9 %.

In a new Education Next article «A Bad Bargain: How teacher collective bargaining affects students» employment and earnings later in life,» Michael Lovenheim and Alexander Willén of Cornell University present the first evidence that students» exposure to a duty - to - bargain law while in elementary and secondary school lowers future earnings and leads to fewer hours worked, reductions in employment, and decreases in labor force participation.

Black and Hispanic boys whose full academic careers are spent in these union - dominated schools lose $ 3,650 per year in income and suffer almost an 8 percent drop in labor force participation compared to their peers in states without collective bargaining.

«On the one hand, the associated tightness in the labor market might help speed the return of inflation to the committee's 2 percent goal and induce a further increase in labor force participation,» the minutes said.

Decline in labor force participation rate worst among the young.

The drop in the unemployment rate was primarily due to a drop in the labor force participation rate, which fell to a 2016 low of 62.6 percent, a level near a four - decade low.

The increase in labor force participation rates of older workers would almost certainly be larger if the increase in the normal retirement age were combined with an increase in the early eligibility age for pensions (currently age 62)» (Burtless 1998).

US central bankers saw costs and benefits to an economy operating «well above potential», ranging from a faster return of inflation to target and an increase in labor force participation.

U.S. central bankers saw costs and benefits to an economy operating «well above potential,» ranging from a faster return of inflation to target and an increase in labor force participation.

The unemployment rate continued to fall in April, reaching another post-financial crisis low of 4.4 %, although this was partly offset by a marginal decline in the labor force participation rate.

The unemployment rate fell to 5.9 %, its lowest point since July 2008, but much of the drop in unemployment stemmed from a continuing decline in the labor force participation rate.

That jobless rate drop will reflect more of a pickup in employment than further declines in the labor force participation rate.