Sentences with phrase «labour market numbers»

Australia is set to print its labour market numbers for the month of April.

With investors remaining focused clearly on offshore central bank developments as well labour market numbers from the US, Greenback direction will be the major driver behind broader NZD / USD moves through to weeks in end.

Not exact matches

But even providing good jobs for all these potential workers wouldn't solve the labour market's problems, because the workforce is shrinking: the number of millennials poised to enter the labour pool is lower than the number of baby boomers set to retire.

The Conference Board report identifies a number of possible labour market imperfections such as workers lacking the information they need to make informed decisions.

While there have been improvements in some labour market indicators, the number of people who have been unemployed for over a year has remained frustratingly high since the end of the recession, as shown in the graph below.

Western Australia's unemployment rate has fallen by a surprising 0.9 per cent in the month of December, while job numbers were up for a record - equalling 15th consecutive month nationwide, with economists giving positive assessments of the labour market.

The recent improvement in start - up activity despite a relatively healthy labour market indicates that a significant number of new entrepreneurs chose self - employment as a career rather than being forced to open a business due to a lack of other employment opportunities.

In fact, it is thinking of lowering the 6.5 % threshold for a short - term rate hike because it believes the headline number still gives too optimistic a picture of the situation in the labour market.

And although inflation can be measured easily enough, central banks now rely nearly as much on estimates of labour - market «slack», an impossibly hazy number.

Looking at the bigger picture, however, the latest numbers said the labour market expanded 2.1 per cent compared to a year earlier with the addition of 374,300 net new jobs.

Van Loan and Flaherty didn't mention the employment rate, which many economists believe is a better indicator of the health of the labour market than simply the number of jobs created.

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.

Finally, the Speech from the Throne stated that the Government would «work with provinces and territories» in a number of areas, including credential recognition, labour market mobility, removal of trade barriers, among others.

While the increase will have a positive impact on the province's total labour market income — hiking it by 1.3 per cent — it will also result in the job losses over a number of years.

There are three very important labour market releases out this morning: both Canada and the U.S. published their November employment numbers, and Statistics Canada also released the labour productivity growth figures for the July - September period.

The general flexibility in the labour market, including the ability of firms and employees to adjust hours of work, limited the rise in numbers unemployed.

Certain changes in the labour market also played a role in helping to increase the number of people ineligible for EI.

Along with the pick - up in activity, there are tentative signs that conditions are improving in labour markets across the region, with the unemployment rate declining slightly in a number of countries.

See Appendix A. 1 for more information * There are a number of broad Australian comparative disadvantages such as high labour costs, a dispersed and geographically isolated market and small population which impact the MTP sector.

So it isn't an exact model: if domestic servants value productivity differs from (say) video game programmers, the price of the commodities they contribute to won't express the actual number of human hours of labour, but only the number of hours of human labour that our society (through market, production, class war) deems socially average.

Economists distinguish a number of types of unemployment, however: cyclical unemployment is brought about by the vagaries of the business cycle; structural unemployment is brought about by changes in the economy or the labour market, when the jobs available do not fit the workforce's skills; frictional unemployment is the phenomenon of people being «between jobs»; and seasonal unemployment is linked to certain types of seasonal jobs, such as farm work and construction.

But other issues also need to be addressed to enable long - term wealth creation in the region — not least the record number of 75 million illiterate adults, the fatal mismatch within the labour market and, most importantly, the gender inequality in both education and employment.

There are some predictable lines: the Tories are still failing on immigration; government is missing its own target; the Bill won't tackle biggest problems; «illegal immigration» is up and deportation numbers down; The Bill does nothing about exploitation in the labour market.

Figures released by the ONS just last week, showed a sharp increase in the number of people with long term illnesses and disabilities dropping out of the labour market altogether.

The number of people in part - time work has also hit an all time high due to the scarcity of full time jobs in the labour market.

For years Labour presided over a labour market where the number of foreign people in jobs rocketed to record levels — while thousands of British workers were left on the sidelines, facing the prospect of long - term unemploLabour presided over a labour market where the number of foreign people in jobs rocketed to record levels — while thousands of British workers were left on the sidelines, facing the prospect of long - term unemplolabour market where the number of foreign people in jobs rocketed to record levels — while thousands of British workers were left on the sidelines, facing the prospect of long - term unemployment.

The Office for National Statistics's latest bulletin backs up Cameron's claim that the number of people seeking work has risen by 23,000 (see headline labour market indicators, page 1).

SNP MSP George Adam said Labour was also «hopelessly split over Brexit», and that the party leadership's stance on the single market was «alienating huge numbers of Labour supporters and members across Scotland and the rest of the UK».

Unfortunately, after working abroad for a number of years it is not easy to find specialised work in the domestic labour market.

Baidu has collated all the data to build an employment index for China, a number that reflects the overall state of the labour market by tracking how many people are visiting industrial, manufacturing and technology zones in the country.

A report published last autumn points out that the Swedish labour market's need for such a high number of university graduates has been overestimated.

He added: «While firms complain about a shortage of qualified physicists and engineers on the labour market, a very large number of graduates in these fields work in the financial sector, where they only use their STEM skills to a very limited degree.

The numbers for computing and physics, key subjects for the labour market of the future, are far below where the Department for Education (DfE) would want them, with only 68 per cent and 66 per cent of trainees required.

The decline in the average number of applicants per vacancy suggests that the labour market has got tighter and schools are finding it harder to recruit.

While the increase will have a positive impact on the province's total labour market income — hiking it by 1.3 per cent — it will also result in the job losses over a number of years.

More recently, the IPA has been the driving force behind the establishment of a number of new non-profit front groups, including the Australian Environment Foundation - which campaigns for weaker environmental laws - Independent Contractors of Australia - which campaigns for an end to workplace safety laws and a general deregulation of the labour market, and the ironically named Owner Drivers Australia, which campaigns against safety and work standard for truck drivers.

(3) Quality criminal legal aid work must be possible It was the Labour government's intention to overhaul the criminal legal aid market so that advice and representation will be delivered by a dramatically reduced number of very large firms.

Bardal factors include, but are not limited to, your age, your level of expertise, the number of years you've worked with your employer, and the availability of similar employment in the current labour market.

The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) last week (15 September) released its latest labour market report, which showed sombre numbers on rising unemployment and redundancies.

A modestly improved global economy has seen labour market pressures ease slightly since 2016, as growing numbers of well - educated migrants provide a flow of skilled labour across countries.

Businesses in the skilled labour market should benefit from improving education flexibility, with a growing number of graduates in the recruitment pool.

Goals: Increase the employment rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; reduce the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are long term CD&EP participants or CD&EP participants where there is access to mainstream labour market; increase the average income of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people within the NNYR and reduce the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living below the poverty line; safe and viably sustainable Indigenous communities, families and individuals (in terms off housing, infrastructure, essential services, employment, health, law, justice and education); identify the key stakeholders.

Parental leave policies were developed in response to increasing numbers of women participating in the labour market and out of concern for the health and well - being of both mother and infant.

And when we look at the age group of existing licensees and the increase in the number of women in the business, we shouldn't be surprised by attrition due to retirement and parental leave — challenges faced by every segment of the labour market.