Sentences with phrase «low labor force»

Spader's presentation addressed past and projected movements in the homeownership rate, and Calabria dove into why reversing weak productivity and the low labor force participation rate are necessary to boost the economy.

Low - skill workers are experiencing stagnant wages, family instability, high unemployment, and low labor force participation even as the economy has been growing for six years.

Our lowest skill workers already have a relatively low labor force participation rate and high unemployment even six years into the economic recovery.

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.

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Growth is expected to remain too low to provide enough jobs for the expanding labor force, the fund warned.

More than 110,000 of VW's worldwide labor force of 589,000 work at its immense headquarters in Wolfsburg and four other plants in Lower Saxony.

Not only are the figures for women - owned companies very low, relative to the female fraction of the labor force, but also the growth of women's business ownership seems to be greatest among non-employer businesses, which have little economic impact.

In fact, a large enigma remains unresolved, in that the labor force participation rate has been trending lower for a long time and has returned to levels last seen in the 1970s.

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.

For 1994 through 1996, for example, the average annual company birthrate for top - ranking Colorado was 5.5 new companies for every thousand people in the labor force while lowest - ranking Pennsylvania had 2.91.

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.

But as Neil Dutta, Chief Economist with Renaissance Macro Research points out, if you look at the actual flow data showing the number of people each month entering and exiting the labor force, the rate at which workers are entering the labor force is actually lower today than at any point over the last two years.

Minnesota also has the 15th lowest business - tax rate in the nation, along with a highly - educated labor force of 1.6 million people, making it a worthwhile option for any entrepreneur.

The unemployment rate held steady at 4.1 %, the lowest since 2000, as the labor force swelled by 806,000...

Overall, the percentage of Americans 18 or older who are in the labor force increased to 63 % in February, still near a four - decade low.

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.

Economic growth has been falling since 2010 and the economy has been operating below its potential since then; employment growth, particularly full time employment growth has struggled; in 2014 only 121,000 jobs were created; employment growth has not kept up with population growth; labor force participation has declined to its lowest level since 2000; long - term unemployment has increased; the unemployment rate remains stuck at just under 7 per cent, and youth unemployment is at 14 per cent; business investment has stagnated; and Canadians are losing confidence in their economic future.

Labor force participation remains too low, especially among prime - age workers (25 - 54).

Lower unemployment rate driven by massive increases in percent of population not in the labor force.

The underemployment rate, which includes 5.2 million involuntary part - time workers who'd rather be full - timers, fell to a cyclical low of 8.4 percent, though this too reflects May's labor force exits.

The labor force participation rate has not been this low — 63.3 percent — since 1979, a time when women were less likely to be working.

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.

The Chicago - style monetary plan described efforts to privatize industry, reign in government spending to lower inflation, and to create a more active stock market financed by labor's own forced savings in order to increase stock prices.

Since the 1940's, the 8 - year growth rate of U.S. labor force productivity has rarely exceeded 3 %, and the recent trend has been progressively lower.

The labor force participation rate is at its lowest level since 2002.

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 unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.9 %, remaining at its lowest level since 2008, while the labor force participation rate continued to rebound, rising slightly to 62.9 % as the strong labor market encouraged more people to start, or resume, looking for jobs.

Some of these new, lower - paying jobs are being taken by people just entering the labor force, like recent high school and college graduates.

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.

«These treaties have forced American workers to compete against desperate and low - wage labor around the world.

Other limiting factors are low wage growth, high unemployment, the large numbers of workers who have dropped out of the labor force, declining home prices, higher tax payments and a flattening out of transfer payments.

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.

That understates the problem as the labor force participation rate for low - skill workers is 44.5 %.

The reasons are often that the factory is unionized and the workers are well paid, whereas in South Carolina a more docile labor force is willing to work for lower wages.

Flake argues that America needs more low - skill workers — even though America's low - skill workforce has the country's highest unemployment rate and by far the lowest labor - force participation rate.

I spent the 1990s and the first half of the previous decade thinking way too much about cutting taxes and way too little about labor - force participation and family structure among America's low - skilled workforce.

We are almost six years into our economic recovery and the unemployment rate for our lowest - skill workers is still 8.4 percent, while the labor force participation rate for that population is 46.3 percent.

New York's labor force participation rate dropped to 60.7 percent in 2014, the lowest level in more than a decade.

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«The low - wage service workers we represent need a champion in Albany who will advocate for raising workers» standards, the DREAM Act and state - level immigration reforms, and ensure the labor movement remains a force for upward economic mobility.»

In a study of how recent Chinese imports affected the U.S. labor force, the researchers found that counties with higher rates of self - employment suffered fewer negative effects, such as reduced job growth, from increased imports than counties with lower self - employment rates, said Stephan Goetz, professor of agricultural and regional economics, Penn State and director of the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development.

«To date [postdocs» wages] have been quite low, especially in light of the long hours... [they] work and [their] level of training,» writes labor force expert Paula Stephan of Georgia State University in Atlanta in an email to Science Careers.

Well, it's pretty much self - explanatory: it's when the full force of labor seems to concentrate in the lower back, directly above the sacrum.

In a new Education Next article «A Bad Bargain: How teacher collective bargaining affects students» employment and earnings later in life,» Michael Lovenheim and Alexander Willén of Cornell University present the first evidence that students» exposure to a duty - to - bargain law while in elementary and secondary school lowers future earnings and leads to fewer hours worked, reductions in employment, and decreases in labor force participation.

An estimate of 9 % to 50 % of the labor forces of developed countries are susceptible to automation in the coming decades, but even at the 9 % low end of the estimates, this can cause significant social unrest — not to mention the 50 % nightmare possibility.

Over the past ten years, the Massachusetts's labor force has grown an anemic 1.5 percent, the 47th lowest growth rate in the nation.

At the same time, labor force participation rates are at an all - time low and wages are stagnant.

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.

«U.S. schooling may be on a historic glide toward lower per - pupil resources and significant labor - force reductions,» James Guthrie and Elizabeth Ettema, researchers at the conservative George W. Bush Institute, recently wrote in an article for the Harvard journal Education Next.