Sentences with phrase «of labor market data»

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The Fair Labor Association (FLA) and Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production standard (WRAP) both grew out of U.S. market reactions to labour abuses in Central America during the 1990s, while the Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI), the Supplier Ethical Data Exchange (SEDEX) and Ethical Trade Initiative (ETI) worked to address early European concerns with the fair treatment of workers across North Africa, India and Bangladesh.

In a new analysis, Business Insider culled data across five measures of labor - market and general economic health for the 40 metropolitan statistical areas with the largest 2017 populations.

Treasury yields resume a steady climb higher on Wednesday as fretting about the threat of an economically disruptive trade war between the U.S. and China subsided, and takes a back seat to the concerns about rising interest rates and coming labor - market data, which could inform the Federal Reserve's policy agenda.

«The outlook according to the latest data suggests the labor market in Maryland has kind of stalled over the last 6 months.

The report notes that «[i] n emails to senior White House advisors, a Labor Department official wrote of the need to find literature and data that can be woven together to demonstrate that there is a market failure and to monetize the potential benefits of fixing it.»

The U.S. Department of Labor released new data on May 5, showing a solid rebound for the job market.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported on Friday that the U.S. economy added 80,000 jobs in June, leaving the jobless rate unchanged at 8.2 %, disappointing analysts and driving the stock market downward even though the data showed that all of the new jobs came from the private sector.

On the data front, labor market information and data products from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis offer tools to explore critical supply and demand questions.

While other data on Thursday showed a modest increase in new applications for jobless benefits last week, the number of Americans receiving unemployment aid fell to its lowest level since 1973, pointing to tightening labor market conditions.

According to my team's analysis of data via Bloomberg, «good» inflation can be viewed as price increases resulting from accelerating economic activity and a strong labor market, and thus, most likely to further support rising wages and employment.

This compensation data was ranked within the Labor Market Peer Group by the aggregate amount of annual salary, annual target and actual incentive awards, plus the annualized grant date value of long - term cash and equity compensation.

Even apart from the desirability of allowing inflation to rise above two percent in a happy economic scenario GDP, labor market and inflation expectations data all make a compelling case against a rate increase.

Most of the marketing data they provide is from free government sources such as the Department of Commerce and Department of Labor, as well as various Internet sources.

Some of that qualification comes from recent announcements of poor employment data and a soft labor market.

As a result, even though a tightening labor market and recently supportive levels of business, consumer, and investor confidence may bode well for the near - term outlook, the hard data currently seems considerably less encouraging than the soft data.

In fact, given that the U.S. labor market likely experienced its cyclical peak at the end of 2015 and the Fed began raising rates too late in my opinion, current Fed Funds futures are pricing in essentially only one hike in 2016, according to data accessible via Bloomberg.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, operating in a highly competitive industry; changes in the retail landscape or the loss of key retail customers; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the impacts of the Company's international operations; the Company's ability to leverage its brand value; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits from its cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; the execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; tax law changes or interpretations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the United States and in various other nations in which we operate; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives we use; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's ability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which we or the Company's customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's ownership structure; the impact of future sales of its common stock in the public markets; the Company's ability to continue to pay a regular dividend; changes in laws and regulations; restatements of the Company's consolidated financial statements; and other factors.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, increased competition; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the Company's ability to differentiate its products from other brands; the consolidation of retail customers; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's inability to realize the anticipated benefits from the Company's cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; changes in laws and regulations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; failure to successfully integrate the business and operations of the Company in the expected time frame; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the nations in which the Company operates; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives that the Company uses; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's inability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which the Company or its customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; tax law changes or interpretations; and other factors.

Following the Company's repayment of the TARP CPP investment in December 2009, the HRC re-evaluated the appropriate base salaries for the named executives based on 2010 Labor Market Peer Group compensation data.

For each position, this compensation data was ranked within the Labor Market Peer Group by the aggregate amount of annual salary, annual target and actual incentive awards, plus the annualized grant date value of long - term cash and equity compensation.

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.

The GNC reviews the individual components and total amount of director compensation at least annually and may recommend changes in director compensation to the Board for its approval more or less frequently based on, among other factors, competitive pay data for non-employee directors of the financial services companies in the Company's Labor Market Peer Group.

Unemployment data underlined the extent of the recovery in labor markets, with the ratio of jobless workers falling to its lowest level since 2009, although around a tenth of the workforce still remained out of work.

Despite their insistence on a tragic end to this story, we really haven't seen a meaningful level of economic slowdown from recent data releases, especially those in the labor and housing markets.

«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».

October's labor market data reverted to the relatively familiar picture of solid job creation accompanied by lackluster wage growth.

As for what this means for the timing of a Federal Reserve (Fed) rate hike, data about the U.S. economy on balance exceed the reasonable measures a «data dependent» Fed might require to move off of «emergency interest rate» levels, as BlackRock's proprietary «Yellen Index» of labor market / economic conditions shows in the chart below.

The improvement in conditions was further emphasized by labor market data, showing that unemployment in the region had fallen in June to a nine - year low of 9.1 %, 1 % down from a year earlier.

Though the 156,000 jobs added in August's labor market report fell short of the figure predicted in consensus forecasts, any disappointment was muted by the historical tendency of data in August to be adjusted at a later date, with the initial level of hiring revised higher in five of the last six years.

But the recent positive tone of data increases our optimism the US economy is on solid ground going into this period, underpinned by the enduring strength of the labor market and the healthy contribution to growth from consumers.

In an ambitious project to assess the correctness of Talcott Parsons» theory of evolutionary universals, Gary Buck accumulated masses of data for 115 contemporary nation - states from every part of the world.7 He developed elaborate indices (as of 1960 wherever possible) of the ten variables Parsons discussed: (1) communication, (2) kinship organization, (3) religion, (4) technology, (5) stratification, (6) cultural legitimation, (7) bureaucratic organization, (8) money and market complex, (9) generalized universalistic norms, and (10) democratic association.8 Information was taken from such sources as the United Nations Statistical Yearbook, the Yearbook of Labor Statistics, and UNESCO's World Survey of Education.

Hicks expands on Rauschenbusch's method, offering highly sophisticated data gathered by economists to expose two aspects of inequality that indicate injustice even when there is equal opportunity in the labor market.

The state Labor Department threw ice cold water on the Buffalo Niagara job market, releasing revised numbers based on more complete payroll tax and census data, indicating that hiring by local employers was just a third of what was initially reported.

The Rand report concludes that, although adequate data and accurate assessments of labor market conditions are important for many different parties, early career and prospective scientists are especially vulnerable.

Labor market data are «suggestive of surpluses» of scientists, with only «isolated shortages of skilled people in narrow fields or in specific technologies.»

In this paper, Hitt, Trivvit, and Cheng demonstrate across several longitudinal data sets that students who are more non-responsive to survey questions (skipping items or saying «don't know») have significantly lower educational attainment and fare less well in the labor market, even after controlling for a broad set of background characteristics and cognitive measures.

In a new working paper that traces connections between earnings and skills over time, HGSE economist David Deming has found that the labor market is increasingly rewarding social skills — even over the kind of cognitive skills that we often think of as being particularly valuable in an era of big data and expanding technology.

We rely first on data on labor - market experiences of people at different ages and in different countries collected in the mid-1990s as part of an OECD - sponsored venture.

We then use data from the British Cohort Study, which regularly surveys all those living in Great Britain born in the United Kingdom between April 5 and 11 in 1970, to estimate the impact of an improvement in reading scores of this magnitude on future labor market earnings.

In a sophisticated analysis of student high school transcripts, postsecondary enrollment and labor market data, researchers learned that:

«A variety of national data analyzed by the Center for Labor Market Studies show that conservatively all youth between the ages of 16 and 24 (6,173,883 individuals) that had left high school without a regular diploma by 2007.

Finally, «Next Generation» accountability systems should adhere to the following five essentials: «(a) state, district, and school leaders must create a system - wide culture grounded in «learning to improve;» (b) learning to improve using [the aforementioned informational systems also] necessitates the [overall] development of [students»] strong pedagogical data - literacy skills; (c) resources in addition to funding — including time, access to expertise, and collaborative opportunities — should be prioritized for sustaining these ongoing improvement efforts; (d) there must be a coherent structure of state - level support for learning to improve, including the development of a strong Longitudinal Data System (LDS) infrastructure; and (e) educator labor market policy in some states may need adjustment to support the above elements» (p.data - literacy skills; (c) resources in addition to funding — including time, access to expertise, and collaborative opportunities — should be prioritized for sustaining these ongoing improvement efforts; (d) there must be a coherent structure of state - level support for learning to improve, including the development of a strong Longitudinal Data System (LDS) infrastructure; and (e) educator labor market policy in some states may need adjustment to support the above elements» (p.Data System (LDS) infrastructure; and (e) educator labor market policy in some states may need adjustment to support the above elements» (p. x).

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TPEIR allows for the analysis of student data from enrollment into the public education system through matriculation and graduation from Texas colleges and into the labor market.

Our products and activities include the creation of guidelines for examining return on investment (ROI) at local, agency, and state levels; a technical skills assessment inventory; the validation of crosswalks that link education programs to labor market information; and the identification of common data standards for Perkins accountability.

In this paper, we seek to provide a fairly comprehensive and up - to - date snapshot of the most important postsecondary education and labor market outcomes in the U.S. using two nationally representative sources of data: The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and The National Educational Longitudinal Survey (NELS).

Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor - market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries.

The NRCCTE produces and publishes videos that highlight and explore issues of urgency to both the field of CTE and the nation's higher education system, recovering economy, and evolving labor market, addressing such topics as programs of study / career pathways, curriculum integration of CTE and academic content knowledge and skills, postsecondary student retention and completion, and professional development for educators in the areas of data use for program improvement and support for alternatively certified CTE educators.

AutoMD's Fair Price estimates are calculated for both shop repair and Do - It - Yourself, and are formulated for specificity using average labor costs for each zip code, hours to complete and AutoMD's proprietary real - time market pricing data on millions of vehicle parts - down to engine size and sub-model.

For the report, ATTOM Data Solutions compared recently released fair market rent data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development with reported income amounts from the Department of Labor and Statistics to determine the percentage of income that a family would have to spend on their monthly housing cost (rent or mortgage paymenData Solutions compared recently released fair market rent data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development with reported income amounts from the Department of Labor and Statistics to determine the percentage of income that a family would have to spend on their monthly housing cost (rent or mortgage paymendata from the Department of Housing and Urban Development with reported income amounts from the Department of Labor and Statistics to determine the percentage of income that a family would have to spend on their monthly housing cost (rent or mortgage payments).