Sentences with phrase «much the labor market»

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The «Tupperware party» was a way for women to earn an income after much of the labor market closed to them as soldiers came back from war.

Some employers» associations say the law «imposes costly compliance burdens and involves too much government interference in the labor market,» reports the Associated Press.

Some experts question whether the ACA's employer mandate makes much, if any, difference when there's a solid business case for providing health care: With unemployment low and the labor market tight, benefits give employers an advantage in recruiting and retaining the best workers.

Hugely topical, the book discusses the much debated idea that advances in automation will soon radically affect the labor market.

Meanwhile, teaching salaries, one of the biggest single line items, have remained relatively flat — much like those across most of the U.S. labor market.

On the wage side, though there's always variance, most wage and compensation series have been stuck at around 2 % year - over-year growth (nominal) with some, but not much, evidence of acceleration in response to the tightening labor market.

Empirically, the links in the chain between tight labor markets, wage pressure, and price pressure appear much weaker than they were decades ago, a point Ben Spielberg underscores in the recent podcast we did on the Federal Reserve (which some have found surprisingly entertaining!).

This is not certainty, but the evidence that we've observed in the equity market, labor market, and credit markets to - date is simply much more consistent with the recent advance being a component of a more drawn - out and painful deleveraging cycle.

Many speculate it has to do with typical American vacation plans peaking between Memorial Day and Labor Day: While the traders are away, their portfolios pretty much stay put, and the market follows suit.

While a tight labor market provides definite advantages — such as employment opportunities for workers who have struggled to find a job — nonetheless, providing too much stimulus from either monetary or fiscal policy at this stage of the economic cycle could threaten to create a so - called «boom and bust» economy, which policymakers certainly want to avoid.

Labor markets are much tighter than anytime in the past 50 years.

Contingent workers are key to increasing productivity, extending recovery Government policies threaten to ossify labor markets and stunt growthThe often - maligned phenomenon of contingent workers could play a key role improving workers» lives and productivity but so much depends on government policy, writes Peter Morici.

Our analysis leverages data from the U.S. Census and Bureau of Labor Statistics to determine how much new housing a metro can build, the amount of slack in the housing market and the impact of an influx of high - wage workers.

Yet I'm not seeing as much inflation as we would expect, considering how strong the labor market is.

In other words, for two years of economic recovery, the labor market in the U.S. has been doing only slightly better than treading water, and much of the improvement in the unemployment rate can be attributed to people dropping out of the labor force either because they've given up looking for work or because they've retired.

This labor market trend is very much in evidence in recent data too, with the service / information industries adding jobs much more rapidly than goods - producing sectors.

«One of the things that the china beige book plans to do is to give people a real picture of not just the growth dynamics, but also the labor market, the credit dynamics, the macro implications of Chinese growth, indications of future Chinese demand, implications of commodity markets around the world, we try to give the people a much better picture on what's actually happening instead of just relying on official data and press release».

As bad as the damage appeared through the lens of the U.S. labor market, it was much worse in South Carolina.

The impact will be much broader, as soaring transport prices encourage higher - cost local production to replace sourcing from cheap labor markets halfway around the world.

While employers can pull your credit report, a study done for The National Bureau of Economic Research states, «Credit reports -LSB-...] are of limited consequence for labor market outcomes, where employers rely on a much broader set of screening mechanisms.»

The answer can be found in a weak U.S. dollar (the dollar index has wallowed around the 90 mark for much of 2018, after a stunning free fall in 2017), an immense fiscal expansion in the last decade pushing the economy toward overheating, a tight labor market, and recent (albeit modest) price pressure in the wake of trade war possibilities and tariff talk, Slok said.

Underlining the health of the German economy compared with much of the rest of the eurozone, an independent bi-annual report produced by a range of economic institutions for the German Economics Ministry raised its forecast for the country's growth in 2016 from 1.6 % to 1.9 %, citing the strength of the labor market and private consumption.

That price closed under $ 11 before the Labor Day weekend, further weakened by the overall stock market tumble, and not buoyed much by the recent announcement of a $ 30 million stock repurchase plan.

In the market money makes money much more rapidly than does labor.

This worked best in a market where each person undertook to acquire as much as possible for as little labor as possible.

LaBarbera's argument also sent mixed - signals on how much of an impact the wage requirements will have if union labor held onto a majority of the market to begin with (meaning that those jobs were likely paying prevailing wages anyway).

Like the conference itself, the Rand report ranges widely, but there is near consensus on certain key points: that any attempts to assess labor - market supply - and - demand imbalances require a careful, analytical approach; that it isn't easy to recognize a shortage, much less to predict one; and that right now we lack the data needed to do either.

Standing at the threshold, adjusting now is much easier before society embraces big business (the very control freaks putting labor and market ahead of citizens) in space.

Mainstream conservative politicians are much more amenable to labor market and welfare reforms that would accommodate unskilled immigration, but they have traditionally been opposed to easy or early naturalization, and reject dual citizenship.

Students enroll and only much later realize lousy labor market outcomes.

It stands in contrast to the models of online education that preceded it, which involved either highly ranked institutions offering online degrees that cost as much as their in - person equivalents, lower - ranked institutions offering inexpensive online degrees with low labor - market returns, or a variety of institutions offering free massive open online courses (MOOCs), with unclear returns and very high attrition rates.

As Murnane explains, «Cognitive skills matter much more in today's labor market than in the labor market of the 1970s.

This employment gap is consistent with other data [xx] showing that the Great Recession hit black college graduates much harder than white college graduates, as well as with evidence [xxi] that employers are more likely to discriminate against minorities in weak labor markets.

Like much in the world of education, this aspect of the teacher labor market appears not to be very different today than 50 years ago.

This estimate is conservative in terms of considering today's labor market, as average unemployment duration today is much higher than its historical average.

The Evidenced Based Model determines per - pupil expenditures by identifying how much research - based «best practices» cost, given a state's overall and regional labor market and other cost factors.

And they'll drill down into Wisconsin's labor market to learn about what jobs might be out there, how much they pay and the education and training needed to land one.

Overall, non-college goers did much better in the labor market if they had completed high - level math and science courses; earned average to above average grades; completed multiple vocational courses focusing on a specific labor market area (occupational concentration); and obtained a professional certification or license.

The reasonable salary is not dependent on how much the business makes, but instead is based on what the market rate is for labor.

However, base effects on energy prices will be much less favorable down the road and, combined with a tighter labor market and faster economic growth, could result in a meaningful acceleration in inflation pressures.

Additional: Unless the labor market deteriorates further (unlikely), effective tax rates come down further (unlikely) or interest rates come down further (not much room for that at this point), the corporate profit to GDP / GNP ratio is basically tapped out (I presume foreign will have trouble growing much).

This disparity is rooted in structural, race - based disadvantages, including, according to Marshall Steinbaum's research, «segregation within higher education, which relegates minority students to the worst - performing institutions, discrimination in both credit and labor markets, and the underlying racial wealth gap that means black and Hispanic students have a much smaller cushion of family wealth to fall back on, both to finance higher education in the first place and also should any difficulty with debt repayment arise.»

Second, we wanted to see what kind of momentum the local job market has, so we checked Bureau of Labor Statistics stats to find how much employment grew between March 2013 and March 2014.

As a result, the FOMC ain't moving rates up, absent improvement in labor market indicators, much higher inflation, or a US Dollar crisis.

«For most investments, much can go wrong, including numerous factors beyond an investor's control: the economy, the markets, interest rates, the dollar, war, politics, tax rates, new technology, labor problems, competition, litigation, natural disasters, fraud, dilution, accounting gimmicks, and corporate mismanagement.

Your property may have gone down as much as 40 % in market value, but its replacement cost is likely to have gone up due to the rising cost of labor and materials.

Elevate your decision - making process with real - time statistics and reports - placing labor market data directly within the recruiter's workflow, tracking success of job boards and social media and much more.

A new CareerBuilder survey finds just how much emphasis employers are placing on soft skills in our new labor market, and as a job seeker, this skill set may be just what sets you apart from the competition.

The State of Minnesota produces information that can help you learn about the labor market: skill requirements, what's in demand, how much different occupations pay, and more.

In fact, according to the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, the market for Medical Assistants is supposed to increase by 29 % between 2012 and 2022, much faster than the average for other occupations.