Sentences with phrase «lower labor rates»

This farming out of projects increased engineering capacity at significant savings to the company due to the lower labor rates in Armenia.

With lowering levels of entrepreneurship in the country, chances are that other countries could provide greater competition, often at lower labor rates, creating increased pressure on U.S. entrepreneurs.

Not exact matches

First, they have a lot of leverage these days — contrary to some opinions, the unemployment rate for college grads is actually pretty low (2.5 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics).

The charming Midwestern city offers great job potential and has a low unemployment rate of 3.7 %, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

«The NAFTA trade agreement encouraged «off - shoring» or the placement of U.S. manufacturing in its neighbors due to better labor laws, cheaper exchange rates and / or lower wages,» added Darby.

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.

In management occupations it's 2 %, and within that category, unemployment in «business and financial occupations» as measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is a near - invisible 1.7 %, equaling the lowest unemployment rate among all job classifications economywide.

Labor costs were low, too: The going rate for a hotel manager was just $ 400 a month.

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.

«I don't see raising the target range for the fed funds rate above its current low level in 2015 as being consistent with the pursuit of the kind of labor market outcomes that we are charged with delivering,» he said.

Labor: U.S. job growth surged in January and the unemployment rate of 4.1 percent is at a 17 - year low.

The Labor Department's monthly employment report, due Friday, is projected to show payroll gains slowed to a still - solid 185,000 in March and the unemployment rate ticked down to 4 percent, which would be a 17 - year low.

Prior week's reading was revised to 218,000 from 215,000, erasing what was originally reported as a 45 - year low Unemployment rate among people eligible for benefits was unchanged at 1.3 percent Colorado and Maine had estimated claims last week, according to the Labor Department

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.»

First, it lowers the labor participation rate — the share of adults participating in the workforce.

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.

And with wage growth and the labor participation rate both stuck at historic lows, we can expect the economy to keep growing at its current rate for some time.

At the same time, we're told the labor participation rate is lower than what the experts like it to be.

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

The relatively quick upturn, fueled by low interest rates, has left the industry struggling with a greying labor pool and huge demand.

The stock market opened way down, continuing last Friday's selloff, though it has climbed back since the open — implying the return of volatility — as skittish investors continue to fear the sequence I describe in this AM's WaPo: tight labor market, wage pressures, higher interest rates, inflation, lower profit margins.

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.

On Friday, the Labor Department announced the U.S. economy added a robust 209,000 jobs in July, beating the consensus, while the unemployment rate dropped even further to a 16 - year low of 4.3 percent.

In addition to the decline in demand for labor, the manufacturing capacity utilization rate declined to 65.1 in June of 2009, the lowest level of the post-World War II period.

Low interest rates and the uncertainty around the partial implementation of the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule were to blame, but market analysts said the annuity market is gradually moving on from the DOL rule.

Given that the personal saving rate is still relatively low, it will be hard for consumer spending to grow more quickly without large increases in real labor income.

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.

But despite low interest rates and a tightening labor market, gross domestic product growth has been underwhelming.

If the banks could just be stabilized, if the «markets» could just be elevated back in the direction of peak 401 (k) levels, if interest rates could just be lower so that borrowers would inevitably take the bait, then labor — job creation — would inevitably follow.

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

«The tight labor market is putting some upward pressure on wages, and this should continue as we look for the unemployment rate to trend lower,» said Ryan Sweet, senior economist at Moody's Analytics in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

Businesses benefit by lowering recruitment costs, improving attrition rates, optimizing labor in relation to demand signals, and improving the customer experience with happier, more engaged employees.

Labor market reforms have expanded the workforce in Japan, helping explain why wage growth remains limited even with the country's unemployment rate at three - decade lows.

The labor market in Fargo shows a lot of promise, as the city has the second - lowest unemployment rate on our list, behind only neighboring Sioux Falls, S.D. And, future job growth over the next 10 years is estimated at nearly 43 percent, according to Sperling's.

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 Bureau of Labor Statistics notes that «as the population ages, more workers will enter older age cohorts, which have lower participation rates.

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.

In October 2017, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the national unemployment rate stood at 4.1 percent, with some states reaching even lower rates (North Dakota and Colorado recorded 2.5 percent and 2.7 percent, respectively, that same month).

You have companies that are going to benefit from the tax cuts, you have lower unemployment, you have slightly greater labor participation rate.

One has to look back to the 1970s to find a time when the labor participation rate was this low.

The lower the Feds keep rates, the higher the margins in trading labor for capital.

7) Record low labor participation rates.

If one uses real rates of inflation produced by Shadowstats (versus the fantasy land figures of low inflation quoted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics every month for years on end), one can prove that the US dollar has crashed.

For example, certain advertising channels, such as second - tier pay - per - click search engines, may generate an exceptional conversion rate and positive return on advertising investment; however, the sales volume generated could be so low that it does not offset the labor required to achieve it.

Although unemployment across Europe has been falling and in Germany the unemployment rate is at a post reunification low, labor market pressures simply are not building.