Sentences with phrase «percent of the labor force»

If you think about it, if you go back to 1800, it took 80 percent of the labor force to produce enough food for the country.

Yet, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, by 2022, 25.6 percent of the labor force will be comprised of baby boomers (up from 11.8 percent in 1992), and by 2020, 46 percent will be comprised of millennials.

In the UAE, according to research by Harvard University, migrants make up roughly 90 percent of the labor force.

Definition: A carefully - watched economic indicator representing the percent of the labor force that's actively seeking employment.

Polls show that better than 40 percent of the labor force are seriously worried about the threat of unemployment.

This new report finds that unauthorized immigrants are responsible for $ 40 billion, or three percent, of New York's economic output, and make up five percent of the labor force.

Women comprise 52 percent of Erie County's total population, 49.5 percent of its labor force, 59 percent of senior citizens, and 53 percent of the county's registered voters.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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 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).

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.

Not exact matches

In the overall U.S. labor force, 80 percent of workers are white, 12 percent are black, and 5 percent are Asian, according to the Bureau of Labor Statislabor force, 80 percent of workers are white, 12 percent are black, and 5 percent are Asian, according to the Bureau of Labor StatisLabor Statistics.

A change that would make Buffett hopeful for women in the workforce took place soon after: Following World War II, women's participation in the U.S. labor force rose from 32.7 percent in 1948 to 56.8 percent in 2016, according to the U.S. Department of Llabor force rose from 32.7 percent in 1948 to 56.8 percent in 2016, according to the U.S. Department of LaborLabor.

According to a survey by McKinsey, the total number of gig - workers in the U.S. is now 53 - 68 million, or 35 percent of the total civilian labor force and growing to 50 percent by 2020.

The unemployment rate fell to 6.7 percent, from 7 percent, but that was less about job creation than about people, fed up or unsuccessful in their job searches, dropping out of the labor force.

The labor force participation rate, or the share of working - age Americans who are employed or at least looking for a job, was steady at 62.8 percent.

Sixty - one percent of the company's employees are white, compared to 66 percent of the of the overall U.S. labor force.

According to the «Full Participation Report,» about 55 percent of women globally are part of the labor force, compared with 82 percent of men, and the gap between men and women has not changed significantly since 1995.

Plus, 15 percent of Americans currently have office or administrative jobs, which is the largest of 22 segments of the U.S. labor force.

He explained that, while the economy is currently growing at a rate of around 1.5 to 2 percent, without the improvement in women's participation in the labor force, Japan would've grown at around 1 to 1.5 percent.

In 2010, 54 percent of women 16 years and older participated in the labor force, with 71 percent of those women raising children, the study said.

At the heart of Virginia's economy are more than 650,000 small businesses, which represent 97.8 percent of all employers and employ nearly half of the private - sector labor force, or nearly 1.5 million people.

Even with the talent its well - respected universities produce... is Amazon, a company that thinks of growth in terms of decades, going to locate a headquarters in a place where it might have to hire over 4 percent of the metro area's labor force with uncertainty over whether that labor force will ever grow?

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.

Of those surveyed, 48 percent are employed, 29 percent are not in the labor force, and 21 percent are unemployed and actively seeking employment.

FYI, the steady unemployment rate was not a function of either higher labor participation (steady at 62.7 percent) or a big gain to the Labor Force (up labor participation (steady at 62.7 percent) or a big gain to the Labor Force (up Labor Force (up 64K).

According to the International Labor Organization, nearly 25 million people work in forced - labor conditions worldwide, with 47 percent of them in the Asia - Pacific reLabor Organization, nearly 25 million people work in forced - labor conditions worldwide, with 47 percent of them in the Asia - Pacific relabor conditions worldwide, with 47 percent of them in the Asia - Pacific region.

Lower unemployment rate driven by massive increases in percent of population not in the labor force.

The underemployment rate, which includes 5.2 million involuntary part - time workers who'd rather be full - timers, fell to a cyclical low of 8.4 percent, though this too reflects May's labor force exits.

The unemployment rate fell to 4.3 percent, its lowest level since 2001, but for the wrong reason: labor force participation fell by two - tenths of a percent.

Few people say «I want to grow up and work in an office,» yet 15 percent of Americans have office / administrative jobs (the largest of 22 segments of the U.S. labor force, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistlabor force, according to the Bureau of Labor StatistLabor Statistics).

«The only way to get to 3 percent growth on a sustained basis is faster growth of the labor force or faster growth of productivity.

People with disabilities demonstrate the same passion, independence and self - direction as all Americans, and given certain characteristics — including being on average older and less educated — it is not surprising that the rate of self - employment for people with disabilities in the labor force in 2011 was about 50 percent higher than the corresponding rate for people without disabilities -LSB-...]

The labor force participation rate, the number of people working or actively looking for work, has fallen since the Great Recession and has stagnated near 63 percent for the last four years, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statislabor force participation rate, the number of people working or actively looking for work, has fallen since the Great Recession and has stagnated near 63 percent for the last four years, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisLabor Statistics.

If enacted, JCT estimates that Camp's discussion draft would increase labor force participation by an average of between 0.3 and 1.5 percent each year this decade, and increase private sector employment by between 0.4 and 1.5 percent.

That's good news to economists, who want to see the labor force participation rate return to pre-recession levels of about 66 percent.

In our survey of the labor force, only 11 percent said they understand «very well» how our economic system works, and even among those who said they had thought a great deal about their responsibility to the poor only 18 percent said they understand it very well.

The Florida Forestry Association reported that the pulp and paper product industry supported 72 percent of income paid to the labor force employed in forestry; while forest management and logging accounted for about 9 percent of income.

Pay has become a hot - button issue in Albany as the governor seeks a series of one - day furloughs for 100,000 state workers, after labor leaders refused to forgo a 4 percent raise for the state work force that was largely negotiated under Gov. Eliot Spitzer, or to delay a week's pay.

Cuomo was praised by New York State AFL - CIO President Mario Cilento for having the «sheer force of will» for getting the project done and for the bridge being built with «100 percent union labor.»

The U-3 value, 4.9 %, only accounts for «Total unemployed, as a percent of the civilian labor force (official unemployment rate).»

Per the above, U-6 accounts for «Total unemployed, plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force.»

In recent years the number of privately employed workers paying dues to labor organizations dropped to below 7 percent of the US work force.

The city also lost 18,000, or 24.6 percent, of its labor force.

The Syracuse metro has a labor force of a little less than 310,000 people and an unemployment rate of just 5 percent, so it might be a big challenge for the company to fill all those jobs here.

«The fact that the production of food and fiber engages only 5 percent of the U.S. labor force is primarily due to the mechanization of farming.

Statistics show that 25.5 percent of SEH doctoral degree holders in the labor force held a doctorate in the biological, agricultural or environmental life sciences; 18.5 percent held doctorates in engineering; 17.1 percent in physical sciences; 14.5 percent in psychology; 12.3 percent in social sciences; 4.6 percent in health; 4.5 percent in mathematics and statistics and 3 percent in computer and information sciences.