Sentences with phrase «on labor force participation»

Gary Burtless has written about the possible effects of increasing both the earliest eligibility age and the normal retirement age, stating that «most recent research suggests the effect of increasing the normal retirement age on labor force participation will probably be small.

Shades their views of GDP household spending and business fixed investment up, and their views on labor force participation down.

In 2006, five Federal Reserve economists published a paper on labor force participation, which was falling even back then.

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If growing unemployment was not enough, a decline in labor market participation was also on the rise, the ILO said, a warning borne out by the latest U.S. jobs data from December which showed that the labor force participation rate tumbled to 62.8 percent, its worst level since January 1978.

We do know that reduced labor force participation will be a drag on growth.

«It doesn't really appear that [the rise in the labor force participation rate] is due to workers on the sidelines coming back,» Dutta says.

This data shouldn't change the Fed's interest - rate strategy, as a rising labor force participation rate will put a lid on inflation regardless of how it's done, but it should lower our confidence that the Fed can solve the problem of a bifurcated workforce, in which a large chunk of workers are getting left behind, simply through interest rate policy.

Then... this is the best part... he made it clear that a 6.5 percent unemployment rate would not necessarily be the threshold for raising rates, then went on a long discussion of the conditions under which he would NOT raise rates, including if the unemployment rate dropped mostly due to cyclical declines in the labor force participation rate rather than gains in unemployment, as well as persistently low inflation.

For this reason, economists prefer to rely on the participation rate of the labor force, measuring the percentage of the population that's either working or actively looking for a job.

Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States Stephen Jones, McMaster University Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia Jones and Riddell build on two previous papers: one by David Card and Riddell (originally published in Small Differences that Matter) that studies the reasons for higher rates of unemployment in Canada than the U.S. in the 1980s, the other by Jones and Riddell which uses data from the U.S. Labor Force Survey to study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor fLabor Force Participation in Canada and the United States Stephen Jones, McMaster University Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia Jones and Riddell build on two previous papers: one by David Card and Riddell (originally published in Small Differences that Matter) that studies the reasons for higher rates of unemployment in Canada than the U.S. in the 1980s, the other by Jones and Riddell which uses data from the U.S. Labor Force Survey to study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor fForce Participation in Canada and the United States Stephen Jones, McMaster University Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia Jones and Riddell build on two previous papers: one by David Card and Riddell (originally published in Small Differences that Matter) that studies the reasons for higher rates of unemployment in Canada than the U.S. in the 1980s, the other by Jones and Riddell which uses data from the U.S. Labor Force Survey to study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor fLabor Force Survey to study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor fForce Survey to study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor flabor forceforce.

Instead of focusing on the poor families that do not qualify for Social Security retirement benefits in the first place, the remainder of this paper will focus on the families who are effectively denied full coverage because of their family forms and in spite of their input from taxes and participation in the labor force.

nTIDE focuses on the key parameters, including labor force participation rate, the employment - to - population ratio, and the percent looking for work.

The most prominent is a brilliant analysis by Betsey Stevenson that examines the impact of Title IX on girls» participation in high school sports, finding a significant increase in college going and labor force participation.

Not only can the provision of high - quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) facilitate women's participation in the labor force, it can also have a positive effect on their children's educational performance.

He has also written about the effects of unemployment insurance on job search and labor force participation; the role of structural factors in impeding recovery from the Great Recession; and the incidence of the Earned Income Tax Credit.

Given global competition in the labor markets, if our wages on the low end don't reduce, isn't that a significant reason why our labor force participation rate so low?

Waning labor force participation, international uncertainty and poor earnings leading to pricey P / E ratios are just some of the reasons why I am bullish on treasuries.

The House Budget Committee report seemingly contradicts itself, stating that child care subsidies both improve labor - force participation and have an insignificant impact on it.

«On the one hand, the associated tightness in the labor market might help speed the return of inflation to the committee's 2 percent goal and induce a further increase in labor force participation,» the minutes said.