Sentences with phrase «labour force participation»

[87] Labour force participation rates for Indigenous peoples declines with remoteness, with a 57 % participation rate in major cities compared with 46 % in very remote areas.

The labour force participation rate for the non-Indigenous population was 63 % in 2001 compared with 65 % in 2006.

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

The recommendations will not only improve NDIS plan outcomes for people with progressive neurological conditions but will also result in improved outcomes, including increased labour force participation of primary carers of people with disability; and social participation of people with disability.

Labour force participation rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people declines with remoteness, with a 57 % participation rate in major cities compared with 46 % in very remote areas.

Leaves have a positive effect in that they stimulate higher rates of female labour force participation.

With the dramatic rise in female labour force participation rates since the 1960s (especially among married women with young children), these policies have become increasingly important.

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

Longitudinal associations of experiences of adversity and socioeconomic disadvantage during childhood with labour force participation and exit in later adulthood.

SLA - level predictor variables will include: accessibility (ARIA +), 33 socioeconomic status (using Socio Economic Status for Areas (SEIFA) indexes, four indexes that summarise different aspects of the socioeconomic conditions of people living in an area based upon sets of social and economic information from the Australian Census35); full - time equivalent GPs; medical workers, nurses, pharmacists, Aboriginal health workers and community services workers per 10 000 population; rates of unemployment and labour force participation.

In contrast, the Report found that Indigenous Australians ranked below non-Indigenous Australians on socioeconomic indicators including labour force participation, 29 home ownership, 30 and household and individual income.31

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.

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.

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.

The labour force participation rate of women is still below that of men, mostly due to women's childrearing responsibilities.

«In this respect, capital investment, firm creation, labour force participation, and hours worked are all showing promising signs,» the bank said.

The Dual - earner model (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) encourages women's continuous labour force participation and attempts to redistribute caring work within the family.

Mohn has studied labour force participation and income among all immigrant men in Norway between 1993 and 2010, before and after their marriages.

Jim «I'm not entirely certain I'd agree that the single male profile is indicative of what would have happened if women had not upped their labour force participation since the 70's.»

So basically the increase in female labour force participation (and female rates relative to male wages) is what's driving a good chunk of that increase in incomes of married couples / two parent families.

In the Council's pre-budget submission to this committee we urged the government to boost Canadian productivity by increasing female labour force participation, supporting women in STEM, enabling seniors to work for longer and helping Canadians navigate the changing job market.

Unemployment has edged up over the recent period, reaching a rate of 8.7 per cent in March, and labour force participation has come off the peaks recorded two years ago.

The unemployment rate in non-metropolitan areas has fallen more modestly, to 8.1 per cent, associated with a larger rise in labour force participation in non-metropolitan areas.

Labour force participation rates have risen in recent months.

For example, to calculate what portion of the Canada-U.S. gap in income per capita is due to Canada's lower labour productivity, we substitute U.S. labour productivity into the equation but keep Canadian data for the other four components (hours worked, unemployment, labour force participation, and demographic structure).

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.

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.

The headline measure is of most value in charting the direction of change, but even with this objective it is important to understand whether employment or labour force participation decisions are the drivers.

This is one of the factors we all need to appreciate in trying to understand the employment rate and the labour force participation rate.

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.

Labour force participation rates (the proportion already working or actively looking for work) for young Canadians have fallen since the recession, and unemployment rates are higher for youth than for older workers.

But too much of that is due to people dropping out of the workforce altogether (because the job market is * that * good): now at 63.2 %, the labour force participation rate has been catapulted all the way back to that which last prevailed in 1978.

Not exact matches

The IMF staff report on Canada raises an issue that I wrote about during the election campaign: the unacceptably large gap — 10 percentage points — between the labour - force participation rates of men and women.

Part of Finance Minister Bill Morneau's spending plan is expected to emphasize gender equality and lay out efforts to boost the labour - force participation of women.

He noted the federal government's budget last month made commitments aimed at increasing the labour - force participation of women.

However, some economists and critics have said while the budget moved in the right direction when it comes to raising female labour - force participation, its failure to announce steps towards national affordable child care likely means a significant number of women will remain out of the workforce.

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.

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.

The lesson is that both underemployment and labour - force participation are important indicators to understand market dynamics.

However, the labour - force participation in December, 2017, was still about 2 per cent below its rate in April, 2008.

The participation rate has returned to around 63 3/4 per cent in recent months, following the bedding down of the changes to the Labour Force Survey.

Participation in paid employment presents the best prospects for improving income and opportunities, forcing more and more parents out of the home and into the labour force.

Conclusions Participating in the labour force may be an important driver of social participation among those with chronic health conditions, independent of income.