Sentences with phrase «labor force participation rate of»

The labor force participation rate of people with disabilities decreased slightly from 30.8 percent in January 2015 to 30.3 percent in January 2016 (down 1.6 percent; 0.5 percentage points).

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Sure, the unemployment rate has declined significantly since the recovery began, but much of that is due to the falling labor - force participation rate.

«We offer new analyses in this working paper of the impact of changes in the US labor force participation rate (LFPR).

The labor force participation rate has fallen due to cyclical factors such as workers temporarily dropping out of the workforce because of discouragement over job prospects, but also due to structural forces such as the Baby Boomers reaching retirement age and younger workers staying in school longer.

As a result, the labor force participation rate, which measures the percentage of Americans who are working or looking for work, fell to 62.8 % — the lowest level since 1978.

The labor force participation rate, or the share of working - age Americans who are employed or at least looking for a job, was steady at 62.8 percent.

They broke the adult US population up into 13 different age groups, and then projected what the overall labor force participation rate would have been if each of those age groups had the same participation rates that they did in December 2007, right before the start of the recession.

The labor force participation rate, which is the percentage of people 16 and older who are part of the labor force, has been trending down for nearly twenty years:

The labor force participation rate is the percentage of Americans over the age of 16 that are either working or looking for work.

The conventional wisdom in the economics community is that the labor force participation rate would have continued to decline even if the great recession never occurred, because as the nation ages the share of retired workers would grow.

In a separate report released yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected that the labor force participation rate would decline from 62.9 % in the fourth quarter of 2013 to 60.8 % by 2024.

This data shouldn't change the Fed's interest - rate strategy, as a rising labor force participation rate will put a lid on inflation regardless of how it's done, but it should lower our confidence that the Fed can solve the problem of a bifurcated workforce, in which a large chunk of workers are getting left behind, simply through interest rate policy.

One reason the Federal Reserve Chair has used to justify keeping interest rates barely above zero is the fact that the labor force participation rate — or the share of Americans over 16 who are in the labor force — has risen over the past year.

He explained that, while the economy is currently growing at a rate of around 1.5 to 2 percent, without the improvement in women's participation in the labor force, Japan would've grown at around 1 to 1.5 percent.

The availability of qualified workers will undoubtedly moderate actual job growth, even if the labor force participation rate picks up again.

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.

FYI, the steady unemployment rate was not a function of either higher labor participation (steady at 62.7 percent) or a big gain to the Labor Force (up labor participation (steady at 62.7 percent) or a big gain to the Labor Force (up Labor Force (up 64K).

For this reason, economists prefer to rely on the participation rate of the labor force, measuring the percentage of the population that's either working or actively looking for a job.

-- In one of the indicators I'm watching most closely, the labor force participation rate has ticked up slightly over the past couple of months.

True, our unemployment rate is biased down due to the weak performance of labor force participation and still - elevated underemployment, but as I've extensively documented, the US job market has been tightening up for awhile, driven by solid employment growth, now averaging around 200,000 / month.

The labor force participation rate (the number of people employed and unemployment as a percentage of the population) and the employment rate (the ratio of persons 15 and older working to the population 15 and older) are both below their 2001 and 2008 levels.

The labor force participation rate is another important place to look in this regard, but it is a) a very noisy monthly indicator, and b) the overall rate is down in part due to retirement of aging boomers.

The unemployment rate fell to 4.3 percent, its lowest level since 2001, but for the wrong reason: labor force participation fell by two - tenths of a percent.

During the 2014 - 24 period, the growth of the labor force will be due entirely to population growth, as the overall labor force participation rate is expected to decrease even further by 2024.»

Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States Stephen Jones, McMaster University Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia Jones and Riddell build on two previous papers: one by David Card and Riddell (originally published in Small Differences that Matter) that studies the reasons for higher rates of unemployment in Canada than the U.S. in the 1980s, the other by Jones and Riddell which uses data from the U.S. Labor Force Survey to study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor fLabor Force Participation in Canada and the United States Stephen Jones, McMaster University Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia Jones and Riddell build on two previous papers: one by David Card and Riddell (originally published in Small Differences that Matter) that studies the reasons for higher rates of unemployment in Canada than the U.S. in the 1980s, the other by Jones and Riddell which uses data from the U.S. Labor Force Survey to study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor fForce Participation in Canada and the United States Stephen Jones, McMaster University Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia Jones and Riddell build on two previous papers: one by David Card and Riddell (originally published in Small Differences that Matter) that studies the reasons for higher rates of unemployment in Canada than the U.S. in the 1980s, the other by Jones and Riddell which uses data from the U.S. Labor Force Survey to study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor fLabor Force Survey to study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor fForce Survey to study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor flabor forceforce.

Productivity gains have been weak, the participation rate (meaning the percentage of the labor force in employment) declined to 62.6 % in June — the lowest level since 1977 — and hourly wage growth was flat in the same month.

The labor force participation rate, the number of people working or actively looking for work, has fallen since the Great Recession and has stagnated near 63 percent for the last four years, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statislabor force participation rate, the number of people working or actively looking for work, has fallen since the Great Recession and has stagnated near 63 percent for the last four years, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisLabor Statistics.

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.

The US has an extremely low rate of labor force participation, because there are no jobs to be had, and discouraged workers who can not find jobs are not measured in the unemployment rate.

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.

But as Bernanke noted: «Despite this improvement, the job market remains weak overall: The unemployment rate is still well above its longer - run normal level, rates of long - term unemployment are historically high, and the labor force participation rate has continued to move down.

I would also argue that the labor force participation rate is not picking up data about the «gig economy» — Uber drivers, Airbnb renters, etc — which now make up a substantial number of people.

That's good news to economists, who want to see the labor force participation rate return to pre-recession levels of about 66 percent.

The pace of wage growth has been restrained amid excess slack in the labor markets, but the labor force participation rate has recently stabilized and labor markets are currently nearing full employment, supporting core inflation.

There are those who look at the high unemployment rates and low labor force participation of low - skill American workers and current residents and see a labor shortage.

And while refugees ultimately — after a period of six to ten years — have higher labor force participation and employment rates, and have similar welfare participation rates, relative to U.S. - born residents, they often enter the U.S. with low human capital and language skills and have initially poor labor market outcomes and high rates of welfare usage.

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.

At least those that cite the labor force participation rate $ $ RT @TheStalwart: U-6ers are the truthers of the economics profession.

Admittedly, however, the fall in number of unemployed was partially due to the labor force participation rate ticking lower from 65.2 % to 65.1 %.

Labor Participation Rate: The number of Americans in the labor force, plus those actively looking for work, has remained reasonably constant at 62Labor Participation Rate: The number of Americans in the labor force, plus those actively looking for work, has remained reasonably constant at 62labor force, plus those actively looking for work, has remained reasonably constant at 62.7 %.

The labor force participation rate is a measure that describes the proportion of adults who are either currently employed or actively looking for work.

Secondly, unlike the traditional role specialization of domestic and agricultural work between the two sexes in rural China as the popular saying «nan geng nv zhi» (men till the land and women weave cloth), it is quite common that both men and women work outside home in urban China, and the labor force participation rates for fathers and mothers with children aged 0 — 6 in 2004 were 90.6 and 71.3 % respectively (Du and Dong 2008).

The subpar growth reflects weak productivity growth, which has averaged less than 1 % over the past five years, and a low rate of labor force participation that remains at levels last seen in the 1970s.

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