Sentences with phrase «proportion of the labor force»
During most of the last century, steady increases in the proportion of the labor force that had graduated from high school fueled the nation's economic growth and rising incomes.
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«It's good news but a very large but a very large proportion of this improvement came from people who left the labor force - labor force participation has declined significantly and therefore the effort to draw them back into the labor force is a structural issue.»
One of the most challenging points to get across about this issue in general is that a larger proportion of the exploitation resides inside forced manual labor, rather than in sex slavery.
Since Ulster County had in September 2017 only 3,373 manufacturing jobs in a labor force of 68,000, that proportion is not surprising.
A significant proportion of the economic growth experienced in the US and in Europe during the 20th century was caused by the entry of women into the labor force.
But a sizeable proportion of both boys and girls appear to be unprepared to take the next steps towards either further education or the labor force.
The labor force participation rate is a measure that describes the proportion of adults who are either currently employed or actively looking for work.