Sentences with phrase «increase in labour»

These wage changes suggest an increase in labour market pressures, driven by hiring and subsequent demand for skills.

«This will lead to a significant increase in labour costs and a major administrative headache for companies which engage contractors working through their own companies (Personal Service Companies), exactly as witnessed in the public sector since April this year.

«For many, these changes are hitting hard, and the businesses may not be able to raise prices or otherwise absorb the dramatic increase in labour costs.

Won't Miss Ruddock's resignation reduce any increase in Labour vote share - that's why I gave them a slight decrease?

I suspect this slight increase in Labour support (if existent) may be due to an increase in Labour voters who say they will actually turn up and vote rather than a switch between parties.

Overall, increase in Labour vote almost identical to fall in the LibDem vote.

Even with a fairly modest increase in Labour's vote from 29 per cent, Ed Miliband has every chance of drawing the next election by default.

Importantly for the party this means that GB vote intention polls are understating the increase in Labour support in England and so their potential to take seats from the Conservatives.

As in the rest of the country there is a clear increase in Labour support following conference season and the government's handling of the credit crunch.

The fall in the Tory support in the opinion polls since the autumn has seen no corresponding increase in Labour's support.

If labour does win Councillors in outer London next year it won't be an increase in the labour vote but.

By using the known rates of increase in the money supply and the population and a «guesstimate» of the rate of increase in labour productivity we can arrive at a theoretical rate of change for the purchasing power of money.

I don't know what was happening to Canadian productivity before 1973, but even if there was no growth in output per worker, the increase in our labour terms of trade would have induced significant gains in real wages.

«That's equal to a permanent increase in output of almost $ 1,000 per Canadian every year, and that's even before you factor in the possible investment and productivity gains that would come with such an increase in labour supply,» he said.

And while the downward drift in Japan's unemployment rate partly reflects the reduced participation of an aging population, at 4.5 per cent in March, the unemployment rate was at its lowest level in the past six years, consistent with increases in labour demand.

The share of non-standard employment and self - employment is increasing in the labour market, especially among young people.

In New Zealand, overall labour market participation rates are expected to rise by three percentage points, while Hong Kong and Japan are expected to experience one percentage point increases in their labour market participation rates.22 In Japan this will help to offset a falling working age population.

Not exact matches

The net effect of the Ontario government's new policy is to subsidize jobs in an already strong labour market, increase the wages of already high - income workers and give hundreds of millions of dollars in corporate welfare to one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world.

In turn, the competitive pressures generated by the increased demand for labour will bid up wages, to the point where the extra revenues generated by hiring an additional worker are completely offset by the higher wages that this worker can command.

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The comments from Defense Minister Michael Fallon in an interview with the Daily Telegraph suggested that the ruling Conservative Party would not increase the top rate of income tax, striking a contrast with main opposition Labour Party.

(Note: multifactor productivity, or MFP, is commonly seen as measure of technical progress — the increase in output that can not be explained by the accumulation of labour and capital inputs.

According to Statistics Canada, the employment services industry grew from $ 8.3 billion in 2009 to $ 11.5 billion in 2012; and while this category includes everything from executive headhunters to day labour, other data suggests it's temp work driving the increase.

Any increase in TFWs in Southwestern Ontario should be seen as a surprise, as the labour market has been in decline in the region over the last decade, with London, Windsor and Hamilton experiencing significant declines in their full - time employment rates:

He'd like to increase military spending, sign free trade deals with other Asian countries, make it easier for companies to hire and fire workers, change immigration laws, get more women in the labour force and much more.

«We find that industrial robots increase labour productivity, total factor productivity, and wages,» write lead researchers Georg Graetz, an assistant professor in the department of economics at Uppsala, and Guy Michaels, an associate professor in the department of economics at LSE.

The most common solution given for increasing labour demand is ensuring that our graduates have the type of skills that are currently in demand by employers.

Erin Weir, a labour economist running for the NDP in Saskatchewan, has estimated that each percentage point increase in the corporate tax rate would generate about $ 1.5 billion in revenue each year.

Food is a restaurant's most expensive cost after labour, said Rilett, who anticipates another bump in prices when the minimum wage impact ripples into the price of food as farmers, processors and others also face increased costs.

The B.C. Federation of Labour said there's been a dramatic increase in the number of temporary foreign workers filling entry - level jobs in recent years in the westernmost province.

The estimated four - per - cent increase in the province's female labour force gave the provincial economy a 1.7 per cent boost.

It also notes that according to a Statistics Canada Labour Force Survey, from July 2008 to July 2013, the net increase in new jobs for university graduates was 810,000, while the available jobs for those with no post-secondary education decreased by 540,000 during the same period.

Tal believes that improving participation rates in high - demand fields will likely require finding a way to identify emerging trends in labour market needs, as well as improved quality and equity of learning opportunities and increased resources.

We do not know the increase in the growth of federally regulated workers that make less than $ 15, but given what we know from the Labour Force Survey, federally regulated workplace study and employment equity survey data, estimates of 0.25 - 0.75 % annual growth appear reasonable.

I'm not sure if I've got it right, but I think that what Jack Mintz has done is equivalent to taking a GE model, imposing a horizontal labour supply curve, then asking how much employment would increase in that hypothetical scenario.

The fiscal plan tabled Tuesday in the House of Commons was packed with billions of dollars worth of new investments, including measures to increase the labour - force participation of women.

The Fed left its key short - term rate at 1.5 per cent to 1.75 per cent — the level it set in March after its sixth increase since December 2015 — as it gradually tightens credit to control inflation against the backdrop of a tight labour market and a pickup in consumer prices.

Before March, the London area had been showing a steady increase in both its labour force and the number of people employed for five months.

The financial sector wins at the point where you don't see that the prices that the banks are inflating are asset prices — real estate prices, bond and stock prices — and that the role of commercial banks is to increase the power of wealth over the rest of society, over labour, over industry, to create a new ruling - class of bankers that are even more heavy than the landlords that were criticised in the last part of the 19th century.

And while GWNFA has complained that head office is not allowing franchisees to raise their price points in response to the minimum wage increase in Ontario, their biggest operating region, head office might fear that «if customer counts are down and franchisees raise their prices to cover the labour cost increase, that will drive more customers away,» Fisher said.

The immediate effect of the increase in the demand for labour in the resources sector is to produce upward pressure on wages in the resource sector.

The Labour Force Survey for August showed that average hourly wages were up by just 1.4 % from a year earlier, the same low level of increase as was registered in July. Consumer price inflation was 2.7 % in July, a bit down from 3.1 % in June and 3.7 % in May, but it seems that we have -LSB-...]

The essayists» discussion of labour law is particularly timely given the increasing political and policy interest in Canada's labour law.

One area of uncertainty relates to wages growth, where there is a risk that current labour market tightness will result in higher - than - expected wage increases.

The economy is operating at a high level of capacity utilisation, the labour market is relatively tight, and there have been some large increases in raw materials costs.

Core inflation has been lower than expected in recent months... Core inflation is expected to increase gradually over coming quarters, reaching 2 per cent by the middle of 2013 as the economy gradually absorbs the current small degree of slack, the growth of labour compensation remains moderate and inflation expectations stay well anchored.

This, in turn, led to increased labour demand, which put downward pressure on the unemployment rate and upward pressure on wages, resulting in higher inflationary pressures.

In their 2015 election platform, the Trudeau Liberals identified a number of items related to Employment Insurance (EI) that they would change: reversing the Harper EI reforms defining «suitable work»; reducing the waiting period for EI benefits; reducing EI premiums; introducing more flexible parental leave; providing better access to compassionate care; and increasing funding for employment and training programs managed by provinces, territories and Aboriginal labour market organizations.

There was no discussion of the need to lower income taxes to increase savings and labour force attachment, and how this could be achieved through tax simplification and an increase in the GST.

Shorter - term yields in Canada are also forecast to increase in 2014 as a strengthening in economic growth, tightening labour market conditions and accelerating wage growth fuel a steady, albeit slow, increase in inflation.