Sentences with phrase «labour force ages»

Given current demographic trends, Canada like many developed economies, is facing the challenge of ensuring future economic growth while its domestic labour force ages and its...

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The Great Stagnation: In «Why the global economy may be doomed to lower growth — maybe forever,» Simone Foxman gives four reasons why economic growth may be much slower in the future: scarce resources, an aging labour force, stagnant technology growth and externalities from climate change.

The percentage of women between the ages of 25 and 54 with full - time jobs rose from 58 % in 2000 to 63 % in 2007, as women entered the labour force as never before, causing family incomes to rise.

Employment rates ages 15 - 65 % of unemployed in civilian labour force (figures for Iceland, Mexico, Sweden and Turkey were taken from the CIA World Factbook, 2005 data) % of unemployed in long - term unemployed category

It turns out that this may be one of those rare cases where Canadian data are richer than American data: the Labour Force Survey has been asking about job tenure since 1976, and we can focus on more tightly - defined age groups.

There was no discussion of how an ageing population will affect labour force growth, or productivity growth.

Most economists expect potential economic growth to decline from about 3 per cent annually to about 2 per cent over the next ten years, as a result of continued poor productivity growth and a slowing labour force growth as the population ages.

The government's election commitment to allow families with children under age 18 to split income would actually encourage a reduction in labour force participation.

For these reasons the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Statistics Canada base their calculations on surveys: the Current Population Survey in the United States and its Canadian counterpart, The Labour Force Survey, are conducted monthly and use a sample of between 50,000 and 60,000 households to represent the working age population in each country, those 15 years of age and older.

Canada faces a deep long - term fiscal challenge, as its population ages and its labour force growth slows, states a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute.

In turn, this decline is being driven primarily by the aging of our population, which is slowing the rate of growth of the labour force.

There is a limit to how many hours there are in a day that employees can work, how low the unemployment rate can go on a sustained basis, how high the labour force participation rate can rise, and how large the proportion of working - age people within the total population can be.

Canada's higher ratio of employment to its labour force, higher labour force participation rate, and higher proportion of working age people all helped to push up Canada's income per capita relative to that of the United States.

Population aging under way across most advanced economies has led to a marked slowdown in labour force growth, and this has been a strong headwind to investment.

This partly reflects a shrinking labour force owing to the ageing of the population, but it is consistent with the payrolls survey, which reports that employment has grown by around 1/2 per cent over the year.

And the ratio of seniors to labour - force - aged population will increase from 25 per cent in 2010 to 50 per cent in 2035.

The ECB monetary policy is currently providing the German economy with enough funds, but the country is experiencing a catastrophic lack of youth, and its ageing labour force is not being replaced as a result of which workforce is already in short supply.

New figures show that Labour is considerably further behind the SNP with an age - group that is planning to turn out in force on May 7.

Speaking on the eve of Labour's Autumn conference the East Renfrewshire MP, heralded by many in Labour as one of Ed Miliband's most reliable sentinels, said: «This Government has not prioritised armed forces education, particularly in the army where 50 per cent of recruits have a reading age 7 — 11.»

Only 50 per cent of working age women are represented in the labour force globally, compared to 76 per cent of men.

Including all age cohorts, about 95 % of the increase in the population not in the labour force reflected an increase in the population who report not wanting a job.

Most of the increase in the population «not in the labour force» since October 2008 has been concentrated those aged 65 years of age and over.

Thus, flight attendants» union officials successfully used this Act to challenge the airline's age and marriage rules in labour relations and in the courts, and eventually forced airlines to drop age and marriage restrictions entirely by the end of the 1960s.

The main findings of the study, based on the 2006 Census, are that the number and average age of justice workers has grown in parallel with the labour force as a whole; the median age is now 41.

The various reasons were because casual jobs from the retail sector were lost, and workers from 15 -24-year-old age group exited the labour force, perhaps to work part - time (or study / travel?)

Mexican businesses wanting to expand their headcount in the future are likely to benefit from the country's increasing working age population, although an ongoing challenge is that Mexico has the third lowest female labour force participation rate (49 per cent) among the 33 countries featured in the Hays Global Skills Index.

A growing working age population — forecast to increase by nearly 5 per cent between 2015 and 2020 — coupled with rising labour force participation rates means employers will have a growing pool of labour to choose from.

Labour force participation for Indigenous people in 2001 was 50.4 per cent of the population aged 15 years and over, compared to 62.6 per cent for non-Indigenous people.

Labour force participation rates for working - age Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, 2006 - 2016, by remoteness.

Policies covering about one year of fully job ‑ protected leave and targeting parents with strong prior labour force attachment with benefits covering close to full wage replacement, and with a guaranteed place for a child from the age of one, in a good quality, affordable, out - of - home care facility appear to be garnering support.

The monthly labour force statistics are Australia's official measure of unemployment, with data collected by interview over an eight month period from a sample of the civilian population aged 15 years and over.

The 2011 Census collected labour force information from all persons in Australia aged 15 years and over who were counted on Census night.

In the US and Canada, most men and women are in the labour force when their first child is born, and about 60 % of women who have a child under three years of age are employed.5 Concerns about parental stress (caused by the difficulties of balancing work and family responsibilities) and about children's well - being (in their earliest years of life) have prompted further consideration regarding how parental leave and benefit policies might be improved, and which complementary policies, programs, and services will best promote child and family well - being.

Nationally, 46 % of all Indigenous peoples aged 15 - 64 years were not in the labour force in 2001.

When adjusted to include only people aged 15 - 64 years, the disparity in labour force participation widens further.

In 2001 there were 54 % of Indigenous peoples in this age group in the labour force compared with 73 % of the non-Indigenous population.

In 2006, 57 % of the Indigenous population in this age group was participating in the labour force compared with 76 % of the non-Indigenous population.