Sentences with phrase «point fall in the unemployment»

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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.

The Office for National Statistics said the unemployment rate in May fell to 7.8 per cent in the three months to May, 0.2 percentage point lower than the previous two - month period.

The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell to near a six - month low last week, pointing to a further tightening in the labor market that could encourage the Federal Reserve to lay...

Despite some monthly volatility, the unemployment rate remains on a downward trend and has fallen by 1/2 percentage point over the past year to reach 4.4 per cent in December.

The starting point is the cyclical view, and while the PMI has been in and out of contraction, the unemployment rate has fallen to 20 year lows so there is some positive trends underway in Japan's economy and this is likely part of the reason.

She found that, all else equal, for every one - percentage - point increase in the national unemployment rate, the starting income of new graduates fell by as much as 7 percent; the unluckiest graduates of the decade, who emerged into the teeth of the 1981 — 82 recession, made roughly 25 percent less in their first year than graduates who stepped into boom times.

The unemployment rate has fallen less in NSW than in the smaller states, and it is now above the national average for the first time since the early 1990s, whereas Queensland's unemployment rate has fallen almost 2 percentage points to be the lowest across all states.

As a result, the unemployment rate, which is derived from the household survey, has fallen by about 1/2 a percentage point from its recent peak, although this decline is also partly explained by a large fall in the participation rate.

12.03 - «Today's fall in unemployment is welcome» says Miliband unconvincingly, and then points to youth unemployment which isn't.

12:06 - Miliband starts by welcoming the fall in unemployment but asks Cameron to confirm there is a cost of living crisis, given that wages are at their lowest point since records began.

A nice easy opener for Cameron, who points out this is the largest quarterly fall in youth unemployment on record.

In New York, the unemployment rate has fallen by 1.9 percentage points, or tied for the 34th biggest drop among the 50 states over that period.

The unemployment rate fell to 5.9 %, its lowest point since July 2008, but much of the drop in unemployment stemmed from a continuing decline in the labor force participation rate.

He's examined recessions in the U.S., Canada and other industrialized countries going back to the 1960s, and he's boiled his findings down to a simple formula — a one percentage point rise in unemployment causes the death rate to fall by half a percent and the overall number of medical problems to fall 1.5 %.

The unemployment rate, meanwhile, fell to 6.1 percent in June — its lowest point in nearly six years.

The main point is that while a slow job market has meant rising demand for education in the past, today's law school enrollment has fallen off along with the rise in unemployment numbers.

The unemployment rate reached a high point of 11.2 percent in July 2010 before falling to 8.6 percent by May 2012.

Housing experts such as Lawrence Yun, the REALTOR ® group's chief economist, credit the sliding unemployment rate — which fell in January to its lowest point in three years — as well as a downward trend in home prices and a supply of homes that is at a nearly seven - year low.

We can also expect economic growth in the 2.5 to 3.0 percent range, more than 0.5 percentage points better than was projected for 2013, with the unemployment rate falling below 7 percent, perhaps by mid-2014.