Sentences with phrase «lower employment levels»

Its authors declare that there is «no correlation between federal minimum - wage increases and lower employment levels, even in the industries that are most impacted by higher minimum wages.

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Fuel prices remain relatively low, the jobs report continues to show that we are near full employment, and small business lending has rebounded from the depths of the credit crunch to record levels by some measures.

At the same time, the city has a high rate of income inequality, slow employment growth, high levels of car crashes and crime, and low levels of Medicare enrollment.

(The Bank's gauge of hiring intentions shows the balance of businesses expecting to add new employees minus those that think their employment levels will be lower.)

Low levels of female employment and leadership in tech should signal alarm bells, and not just for women.

She said: «But it is my judgment that the lower level of the unemployment rate today probably does not fully capture the extent of slack remaining in the labor market — in other words, how far away we are from a full - employment economy.»

Generally this suggests about the same low level of layoffs in April as for the previous eight months (employment gains averaged 253,000 per month over that period).

The employment share of full time jobs was less than in 2008; and, the quality of jobs had sunk to its lowest level in a quarter of a century.

Program expenses were lowered by $ 5.4 billion in that Update, with all three major components contributing to the decline: major transfers to persons down $ 1.8 billion, primarily due to lower employment insurance benefits; major transfers to other levels of government, down $ 1.4 billion, primarily reflecting the recovery of the sales tax harmonization transitional payment from British Columbia; and direct program expenses, down $ 2.2 billion, due to lower other transfers.

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.

Program expenses were up only 0.4 per cent, as the ending of most of the stimulus spending in the Economic Action Plan and lower employment insurance benefits nearly offset increases in transfers to other levels of governments (spending in this area is largely set in legislation) and in elderly benefits.

First, the resource economy is going through a painful and complex adjustment to low prices — an adjustment that will mean lower levels of income, investment and employment, as well as the migration of families within Canada.

A transfer of domestic demand from investment to consumption implies, in other words, that employment growth can be maintained at much lower levels of GDP growth.

«However, historically high levels of household debt and low wage growth will offset some of the positive impact of recent strong employment data, so consumers are likely to remain cautious.»

During his speech Friday, Powell said with unemployment at 4.1 percent — the lowest level in nearly two decades — the labor market was «in the neighborhood of maximum employment.»

Coal mine employment fell 12 percent in 2015 to its lowest level since the Department of Energy began collecting such data in 1978.

* Percentage of firms expecting higher levels of employment minus the percentage expecting lower levels

If Canada's ratio of employment to its labour force had decreased to the U.S. level (and the other four factors had stayed the same), Canada's income per capita would have been $ 500 lower.

The employment series eased to the lowest level since February.

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.

Particularly noteworthy in recent months has been the performance of the labour market, with employment posting a series of big increases and the unemployment rate declining to its lowest level since the 1970s.

Employment intentions reported in the NAB business survey and the ACCI - Westpac survey of manufacturers have fallen below their peaks recorded in mid 1999, with the NAB business survey recording its lowest level of employment intentions in Employment intentions reported in the NAB business survey and the ACCI - Westpac survey of manufacturers have fallen below their peaks recorded in mid 1999, with the NAB business survey recording its lowest level of employment intentions in employment intentions in two years.

Employment and business investment spending remain weak given the nearly 30 % lower oil price from year ago levels.

That initiative provides funds to train unemployed workers not eligible for employment insurance and is aimed at aboriginals, immigrants, women, youth, older workers, people with disabilities and those with low literacy levels.

You might think this is undesirable but economists welcome a low level of inflation and the Federal Reserve even has a dual mandate to maintain a steady low level of inflation in addition to full employment.

Of note, employment fell 3 pts to 53.6, the lowest level since April 2017 and some of this can certainly be due...

In the three months to July, the average level of recorded employment was 2.1 per cent higher than a year earlier, but lower than the average level in the previous three months (Graph 33).

The PBO estimated that the November 2013 Update restraint measures will result in the level of employment being about 22,000 net jobs lower in 2016 than would have been the case in the absence of these restraint measures.

The labour market remained firm in the March quarter, with employment posting further large increases and the unemployment rate remaining at its lowest level since the 1970s.

The strong employment growth has lowered the unemployment rate to levels not recorded since the late 1980s.

Employment has been broadly unchanged over the past year, having fallen for much of the past six years, with the unemployment rate declining to 5.1 per cent by September — its lowest level in two years.

Strangely, just as welfare states are drowning in a sea of debt whilst also increasingly being seen as at least partly responsible for lower levels of family formation and employment, the Church has started to question welfare states rather less.

While they do not receive the benefits of corporate employment, clergy are subject to the maladies of corporate - style work hours, high levels of job stress and low job security.

The finding that fathers» education levels are actually more predictive than their income of their children's education success has led to suggestions in the US that developing low income fathers» educational attainment should be a serious goal — perhaps in preference to their employment (Yeung, 2004).

Inclusion criteria: ≤ 25 years, low educational level (primary school or prevocational secondary school), maximum 28 weeks of gestation, no previous live birth, understood Dutch, and at least 1 of the following additional risk factors: no social support, previously or currently experiencing domestic violence, psychosocial symptoms, unwanted and / or unplanned pregnancy, financial problems, housing difficulties, no education and / or employment and alcohol and / or drug use

Employment minister Caroline Flint said: «It's great to see the number claiming unemployment benefit fall for the 14th month in a row to reach its lowest level for over 30 years.»

It's a very deprived area, employment levels are low; it needs a lift, and I think this will be a great way of doing it.»

In Japan, a system of lifetime employment in many big businesses, a tradition of employer provided benefits such as housing in many cases, and a wage system in those kinds of businesses where workers receive a substantial share of their annual income in the form of an annual bonus whose size can be used to buffer good and bad years for a company sharing risks and rewards with workers instead of limiting the risks and rewards to an investor class, have contributed to low levels of income inequality in the Japanese economy relative to comparably developed countries with comparable levels of government spending on welfare state type programs in other countries.

A national survey indicated that areas of high violence (darker colors) had low levels of marriage and employment but high levels of education.

Public - sector employment rates for black men rebounded to pre-recession levels by 2013, but employment levels among black women that year remained even lower than in 2008.

Canada originated the system of admitting immigrants based on skill levels rather than on employment promises, but it will drop this approach in 2014 because of what Maclean's magazine calls the «ugly reality facing so many» of the skilled immigrants in the country: great difficulty finding work and low earnings when they do.

Also paid my nanny on the books because as a low level gvt employee with a security clearance, I felt obligated to in order to protect my employment.

The event has been created to address many of the major priorities of the regional Governments for education; in improving finance; increasing access; raising the levels of quality; increasing vocational and skills development for higher employment levels; and harnessing low - cost technologies to improve reach.

By socio - economic level, low - income boys tend to drop out earlier from the educational system and enter into the labor market sooner than their wealthier peers even though they face higher unemployment rates, lower income and worse employment conditions (Amarante, 2011; Bucheli, 2006).

These assumptions, Hehir states, «not only reinforce prevailing prejudices again disability but may very well contribute to low levels of educational attainment and employment.»

T levels will build on the success of the government's ambitious reforms that have already contributed to the proportion of young people not in education, employment or training being at a record low.

The authors pointed out some of the advantages of low poverty noting, «Children whose parents read to them at home, whose health is good and can attend school regularly, who do not live in fear of crime and violence, who enjoy stable housing and continuous school attendance, whose parents» regular employment creates security, who are exposed to museums, libraries, music and art lessons, who travel outside their immediate neighborhoods, and who are surrounded by adults who model high educational achievement and attainment will, on average, achieve at higher levels than children without these educationally relevant advantages.»

The only reliable way to raise student test scores in the United States to the level of Finland would be to raise the employment rate among the parents of students in the US and thereby lower the child poverty rate in the US.

The U.S. economy is operating at near full employment levels, wages are rising, interest rates and fuel prices remain low and consumer confidence remains high.

«Employment remains strong, interest rates remain at historically low levels and gas prices are stable, so we expect auto sales to remain strong for the foreseeable future.»