Sentences with phrase «of labor force»

With 4 million people tucked into seven counties, Tampa is currently home to 22 % of Florida's population and has 22 % of its labor force.

The key issue in 2018 is whether these people return to the labor force, boosting employment growth but keeping wages in check, or remain out of the labor force, allowing wage pressures to build?

To determine the trajectory of the labor force participation rate, read more

«I question as to whether much of our labor force is really capable of self - administering,» says Jerome E. Mathews, national president of the Society of Industrial & Office Realtors, and president of Kidder Mathews Segner in Seattle.

Rather, the rate fell as more workers dropped out of the labor force.

Carroll added that sales of existing homes are poised to increase in the coming months too because much of the labor force stepped away from new construction to work for companies that provide a variety of property maintenance, including tree removal and lawn debris cleanup.

The subpar growth reflects weak productivity growth, which has averaged less than 1 % over the past five years, and a low rate of labor force participation that remains at levels last seen in the 1970s.

In that city, tech talent makes up 5 percent of the labor force, compared with a national average of 3.5 percent, according to CBRE.

They make up the largest portion of the labor force, according to the Pew Research Center, and also a big segment of the home - buying and - selling market.

Although the recovery from the 2008 - 09 recession has produced more than six million jobs, total employment remains about two million jobs below its pre-recession peak and nearly 12 million Americans remain out of work (7.4 percent of the labor force).

Kassis says the biggest employment problem across the state is a lack of labor force.

The Solomon Islands is a lesser - developed nation, and more than 75 percent of its labor force is engaged in subsistence farming and fishing.

Although in most states, caregiving is a factor that judges are instructed to consider, judges often characterize dropping out of the labor force or opting for a job with fewer hours as an individual «choice.»

Using local estimates of labor force participation by gender and parental status from the U.S. Census Bureau, and weighting the estimates by the population of parents in each census tract, this analysis compares parental labor force participation between child care deserts and nondeserts.

There are lots of folks that have dropped out of the labor force, which does shift the percentages a little bit - but the increase in payrolls still look good to me.

With the aging of the baby - boom generation, defined as persons born between 1946 and 1964, the older age cohorts are expected to make up a much larger share of the labor force.

It will be written to the highest of standards, completely error free while being professionally presented in the correct format of Mongolia and with an unemployment rate of 8.6 % of the labor force (almost 300,000 people) you may need all the help you can get.

As matters stand, only about 30 % of Saudi Arabians who could be part of the labor force are working.

The unemployment rate fell to 4.7 percent, the lowest since November 2007, but is believed to be due to more Americans dropping out of the labor force.

Developed cell lay - out for maximum production requirements with best possible utilization of labor force directed at one piece flow.

Statistically place less than 15 % of the labor force.

The city has a population of 106,000 residents, about 55,000 of whom are members of the labor force.

Texas is more sparsely populated, it has lower gasoline prices, and 2 percent of its labor force commutes via public transportation, as compared to 5 percent in California.

Once a flourishing industrial center for textile manufacturing (dubbed «Cottonopolis» at the turn of the 19th century), Manchester suffered under the economic policies of Margaret Thatcher in the late 1970s and throughout the»80s, resulting in a significant reduction of its labor force and dramatic shift in the social landscape and identity of the city.

The solo exhibition takes it name, which translates to work group, from «the moniker bestowed, in different contexts and at different points in time, on [Brazilian] government policies designed to address the problem of labor force inactivity,» a press release notes.

As Baby Boomers move out of the labor force and into retirement, the ratio of workers to beneficiaries will drop to roughly 2:1 by 2034.

Though many have flocked there for its hipster scene, Portland has a good job market, and the size of the labor force has jumped by a whopping 25 % since 1990.

The share of the labor force that is jobless and actively looking for work, adjusted for seasonal patterns.

Median weekly salary: $ 390.00 Percentage of labor force: 0.18 Job description: Mends cosmetic and structural damages to cars, trucks and bus chassis.

While people of color make up more than one - third of the labor force, 11 less than 20 percent of teachers identify as people of color.12 Recruitment is essential to ensure that highly qualified candidates consider a career in teaching, as well as to combat current diversity disparities in today's schools and within the teaching profession.

Innovation is an opportunity for people to come in without any of these accumulated routines — to start fresh, taking advantage of the labor force that exists today and new patterns of behavior and new tools of communication and technology to solve problems.

The Department of Education's official responseto Rocketship's grant application — that it «assists youth in developing social emotional learning» and has «not had any significant student safety issues» — reflects a shared agenda to privatize public education and to reduce the size of the labor force, while overlooking serious concerns.

This means that universal pre-K can be more easily scaled up to have truly large effects on the overall quality of the labor force of a state or of the nation, and thereby to have truly large effects on overall economic development.

The potential level of real GDP for a nation is determined by the quantity and quality of its natural resources, the size and skills of its labor force, and the size and quality of its stock of capital resources.

Although the share of the labor force enrolling in college increased modestly in the 1990s, college graduation rates remained essentially flat.

The unemployment rate is the percentage of the labor force that is willing and able to work, does not currently have a job, and is actively looking for work.

Stepping up may be an option for only a small minority of the labor force.

During most of the last century, steady increases in the proportion of the labor force that had graduated from high school fueled the nation's economic growth and rising incomes.

As noted above, student achievement, which provides a direct measure of later quality of the labor force, is strongly related to economic growth.

Consider two hypothetical women: one worked every year beginning at age 25 and the other worked most years but spent seven years out of the labor force.

And new approaches to teacher training will enable them to get better results with half of the labor force and student assistance.

According to Bonnie Marcus in his article Mentors Help Create A Sustainable Pipeline For Women In STEM, women represent half of the labor force in the US and only 26 % work in STEM.

On work, Murray notes the great increase in the percentage of the population on disability payments, from under 1 to more than 5 percent of the labor force, and the growth in the number of prime - age males who are not in the labor force, contrasted with almost all in the labor force in 1960.

We assume that 2.5 percent of the labor force retires each year and that these workers are replaced by better - educated ones, implying that the labor force does not fully reach its ultimate new skill level for 50 years (10 years of reform followed by 40 years of retirements).

Small gains in the education of teachers relative to other workers may not be evidence of declining quality, however; additional years of schooling may be more valuable for teachers because, as highly skilled workers, they face higher opportunity costs of staying out of the labor force.

Significantly, the quality of the labor force as measured by math and science scores proved to be extremely important.

No less important is the overall relationship between the quality of the labor force, as measured by tests of cognitive skill, and economic growth.

Such a path of improvement would not have had an immediately discernible effect on the economy, because new graduates are always a small portion of the labor force.

Recent work in which Dennis Kimko and I have been engaged has looked closely at the size of the impact of labor force quality, as measured by tests of cognitive ability, on the economic growth of countries.

It also is densely populated with 40 percent of the labor force engaged in agriculture and more than 60 percent living in coastal areas — factors that contribute to Indonesia's climate vulnerability.