Sentences with phrase «of labour force»

They are designed for the output of Labour Force Survey data and reflect labour markets within each state and territory.

According to a study by the McKinsey Global Institute, 20 - 30 % of the labour force in both the US and EU is now made up of independent workers — while not all actively choose independent work and derive their primary income from it (these are categorised as «free agents» in the study), the figures are indicative of a decisive trend.

The impending retirement of a significant portion of the labour force means that succession planning is (or should be) top of mind.

There were between 76,711 — 230,379 low - skilled migrant workers in Canada at the end of 2012 — making them 0.0042 per cent — 0.013 per cent of the labour force (the large discrepancy between the figures is because 153,668 workers» occupational classification is not reported on by Immigration Canada).

Around one million people in the UK (3 — 4 % of the labour force) now work on zero hours contracts, according to research by the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD); about four times more than recent figures from the Office for National Statistics suggested.

In addition, it was discovered in 2003 that more than half of the labour force in Quebec did not reach a level 3 reading skill (to be able to read a relatively dense and long text, to locate multiple elements and make simple inferences).

Bill I think is on my wavelength about this - as far as I can see 4 people (in addition to you hugh) have made blog contributions - what percentage of the labour force and / or those involved in the sales process does that represent?

When members of the labour force have lost their jobs in the past, they have been able to draw equity from their homes or borrow in order to maintain spending.

«By taking that many workers out of the labour force, Trump could bring business to a grinding halt.»

If we look at the percentage of 15 - 29 year - olds not in education and unemployed or out of the labour force, the correlation with the PISA reading Score is -0.37, and for the proportion of students performing below proficiency level 3 in PISA, the correlation is +0.35.»

These included infrastructure, the education of its labour force, government policy, the availability of technology, and innovation.

So are the British irrationally afraid of a problem which by this measure seems to leave 97.5 per cent of the labour force as it was?

«As individual units small businesses may appear to be small, but together they account for as much as 50 per cent of Nigeria's GDP and over 80 per cent of our labour force.

The Office for National Statistics collects employment statistics for the public sector as part of the Quarterly Public Sector Survey and for the private sector as part of the Labour Force Survey.

-LSB-...] Meanwhile, private - sector employment has risen and the self - employed account for a record 15 per cent of the labour force.

According to our analysis of the 2002 election, a typical member of the labour force was only 4.7 percentage points more likely to vote for a center - right party if he was an insider than if he was an outsider (and this difference was not statistically signifi - cant).

We also show that the large electoral losses for the Social Democrats between 1994 and 1998 were much more pronounced among outsiders: according to our estimates, a typical member of the labour force became 18 percentage points less likely to support the Social Democrats if he was an outsider, but only 8.5 percentage points less likely to do so if he was an insider.

Unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for job as a percentage of the labour force.

At one time a principal part of the labour force consisted of slavery, but many saw it was wrong and moved on.

Small and medium scaling enterprises in Canada employ over 70 % of our labour force.

Even more significant, the strong expansion of the labour force and employment as shown by the (separate) household survey in February and March (averaging 388,000 per month) kept the unemployment rate at 5.0 % in March.

So if there are policies that would boost potential output — the sum of labour force growth and productivity growth — then we need to pursue them.

In Canada and the United States, for example, the annual growth rate of the labour force slowed from around 1 1/4 per cent in 2006 to less than 1/2 per cent in 2016.11 This decline has reduced potential output growth and investment demand.

Therefore, demographic forces that affect the growth of the labour force will also affect the demand for capital.

«If mom was a lawyer and dropped out of the labour force for four or five years, the family gave up the opportunity cost of maybe $ 60,000 to $ 100,000 a year in order to bring that child to a point where he could enter the education system,» says Ward.

In 1960, 24 per cent of the labour force was engaged in manufacturing — good - paying jobs, with benefits, even for those without a college education.

In turn, this decline is being driven primarily by the aging of our population, which is slowing the rate of growth of the labour force.

They generate 40 per cent of the national gross domestic product (GDP) and 30 per cent of the state budget and employ 77 per cent of the labour force.

That means the next Statistics Canada snapshot of the labour force — September employment figures are slated for release on Oct. 7 — will be very closely watched.

The charitable and nonprofit sector represents 8.1 % of Canada's GDP and 10.5 % of the labour force.

Instead, the downtick in the headline employment number is due to job seekers becoming so discouraged that they stop looking for work and drop out of the labour force measurement all together.

Unemployment, measured in a different survey, edged down to 7.7 % from 7.9 % in January and, for once, not just because more Americans gave up the job search: 170,000 said they had found employment, meaning those who dropped out of the labour force were less than half the total.

You might recall Fed Vice-Chair Janet Yellen discussing at length the numerous pitfalls of the headline unemployment rate, which doesn't count the discouraged workers who've dropped out of the labour force, those who've stopped looking for work but say they would still like to have a job, and those who would like to work full - time but could only find part - time employment.

In 1987, 8.6 % of the labour force worked in sales jobs, estimates Statistics Canada; a generation later, that figure has inched up to 9.7 %, with about 3.7 million Canadians working in «sales and service» as of September 2011.

This means there are more young people simply out of the labour force.

With over 90 % of the labour force in the informal economy, it is very difficult to assess the impact of policy actions and measure true growth.

The data, collected on a survey basis, includes estimates on the number of employed persons and the size of the labour force (which is roughly equal to the number of employed persons plus persons without jobs but actively looking for work).

This list excludes Barrie, which lost 1,800 jobs (5th worst showing ever) but had a modest 500 - person decline in the size of their labour force.

In December 2010, Barrie, Sudbury and Abbotsford all experienced significant declines in both the size of their labour force and the number of employed persons.

April's numbers are rather dramatic, with five CMAs (of 33 total across Canada) in three provinces seeing unusually large declines in both employment and the size of their labour forces:

Not exact matches

Every month, Statistics Canada releases their Labour Force Survey, a barometer of the health of labour markets at the provincial and metropolitan lLabour Force Survey, a barometer of the health of labour markets at the provincial and metropolitan llabour markets at the provincial and metropolitan levels.

London also saw a record 5,000 people leaving the labour force, but their employment decline of 3,700 was only the 5th worst on record.

Given the sheer number of anomalies and last year's data recall, I can not put much stock in the Labour Force Survey.

Several alleged forced labour may have been used in Bisha's construction.After receiving word of these allegations, Davis himself volunteered to appear before the committee via teleconference to set the record straight.

By the time construction commenced at Bisha in late 2008, forced labour was an inseparable feature of Eritrea's economy.

This financial picture, combined with the labour strife, has forced its share price below 90 cents, down from $ 1.10 in January and a tiny fraction of its value five years ago, when it traded at close to $ 20.

The IMF staff report on Canada raises an issue that I wrote about during the election campaign: the unacceptably large gap — 10 percentage points — between the labour - force participation rates of men and women.

In response, the fund's ethics council began an ongoing assessment of whether any of the companies in the fund might be involved in human rights violations (forced labour particularly) in Eritrea.

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Numerous studies contend a growing number of middle - income workers will not be able to replace the benchmark 60 % to 70 % of their pre-retirement income once they leave the labour force, in large part because of the lack of pension coverage.