Sentences with phrase «of near full employment»

To win in the north - west it needs just 8 % of the vote, barely 1.5 % more than it got in 2004 - the days of near full employment and before the credit crunch; in the West Midlands only an extra 1.6 %; and in Yorkshire and the Humber just 4.3 % more.

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Fuel prices remain relatively low, the jobs report continues to show that we are near full employment, and small business lending has rebounded from the depths of the credit crunch to record levels by some measures.

That suggests ongoing job growth in an economy many regard as near full employment, with the jobless rate at a 17 - year low of 4.1 percent.

Several Fed committee members suggested that the economy is at or near full employment, or the level of unemployment below which inflation becomes a concern.

At that level, joblessness is nearing the threshold that economists and the Fed consider close to full employment; inflation foes worry that allowing the unemployment rate to fall significantly below 5 percent runs the risk of leading to an overheated economy.

It would take five more years of 180,000 per month new jobs without interruption to be near full employment.

However, with the economy nearing full employment, easy money could set off a wage - price spiral reminiscent of 1970s double digit inflation.

The pace of wage growth has been restrained amid excess slack in the labor markets, but the labor force participation rate has recently stabilized and labor markets are currently nearing full employment, supporting core inflation.

Over the past year a near - record 383,300 more Australians have been funnelled into employment, all but 87,700 of them full - time.

And with the U.S. economy near full employment and millions of jobs open in the private sector, the situation is growing more dire by the day.