Sentences with phrase «rate than employment»

the spouse derives a significant portion of income from dividends, capital gains or other sources that are taxed at a lower rate than employment or business income or that are exempt from tax; and

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The OECD data finds other industrialized countries, not members of the G7, have come out of the slump a shade better than Canada, including Austria, Israel, Sweden and Switzerland, all of whom have higher employment rates today than prior to the recession.

The unemployment rate is a useful statistic but far from a perfect one, so I believe the caller was right to focus on employment rather than unemployment metrics.

He identified three obstacles that could affect any possible recovery in the global employment rate: «Over the fore ¬ seeable future, the world economy will probably grow less than was the case before the global crisis,» complicating «the task of generating the over 42 million jobs that are needed every year in order to meet the growing number of new entrants in the labor market.»

It's also greater than the 3.4 percent rate of employment growth measure in a comparison group of small, non-clustered businesses based on Dun & Bradstreet data.

Rates of employment and revenue growth were higher in the program's business «clusters» than in comparable numbers of unaffiliated businesses, according to analysis of the SBA's two - year pilot Regional Cluster Initiative.

Officials see the unemployment rate dropping to 4.7 % in 2016, lower than the 4.9 % rate that Fed associates with its congressional mandate to foster «maximum employment.»

While men sustained more than 70 % of the job losses during the recession, new numbers from the National Bureau of Economic Research in the U.S. suggest that through 2010, male employment rates increased and eventually surpassed those of women.

The CEPR researchers add that prime - age employment for men is now 3 percentage points lower than it was in December 2007, while the rate for women is 2.2 percentage points below where it was.

The data also shows that more women arrive in Canada as the spouses of economic immigrants or as non-economic newcomers or refugees and have lower employment rates and earn less than the average wage.

Both startup growth rate and share of scaleups are employment - based measurements, and share of scaleups refers to companies that grew to 50 employees or more in less than 10 years of operation.

Depending on which period you're looking at, I suppose you can pick out a recent episode in which employment rates in the U.S. increased more than in Canada, but the most striking thing to me in that graph is the much steeper fall in the U.S. employment rate.

At the same time, the rate of self - employment has barely budged so it seems clear that much of this big shift has been tax - motivated rather than reflecting changes in actual economic activity.

In this Update, the Minister of Finance again scooped the Canada Employment Insurance Financing Board (CEIFB) by announcing that the employee premium rate for 2012 would increase by 5 cents, rather than the 10 cents assumed in the June 2011 Budget.

The Update incorporates the October average private sector economic forecasts and an increased «adjustment for risk» for 2011 - 12 to 2013 - 14, as well as an increase in employment insurance rates of only 5 cents (employee rate) for 2012, rather than the 10 cents set in legislation As a result, the balanced budget target is delayed from 2014 - 15 to 2016 - 17, prior to the inclusion of the Targeted Strategic and Operating Review Savings (now called «Deficit Reduction Action Plan Saving Target»).

Germany's employment rate for people between 15 and 64 in the third quarter of 2013 was slightly better than Canada's during the same period.

The story suggested by the U-6 is far more consistent with the still - depressed employment rate than rosy one told by the official U-3.

In addition, the New Deomcratics do not include the various initiatives affecting Employment Insurance Benefits as a Use of Funds and the freezing of Employment Insurance premium rates at $ 1.88 per $ 100 of insurable earnings rather than letting them fall to $ 1.49, as specified in the April 2015 Budget, as a Source of Funds.

Premium rates for 2011 were to be set by the «independent» Canada Employment Insurance Financing Board, subject to an annual change of no more than 15 cents (employee rate) per year.

Van Loan and Flaherty didn't mention the employment rate, which many economists believe is a better indicator of the health of the labour market than simply the number of jobs created.

However, as these higher expenses are financed by employee - employer premium rates, employment insurance premiums are higher than in the March 2011 Budget, especially in 2015 - 16.

This is substantially higher than the overall self - employment rate of 10 %.

Conversely, a return to an unemployment rate of even 6 % in 2024 would leave the growth rate of employment over the next 8 years at less than 0.2 % annually.

According to TSF, U.S. solar jobs grew by almost 20 percent in 2013 — far exceeding expectations — or roughly ten times faster than the national employment rate of just 1.9 percent.

Research shows the effective tax rate on business owners is far higher than at first glance, when one considers all the unique taxes business owners pay or the higher rates they pay for Employment Insurance (1.4 times the employee rate) or property taxes (often two to five times higher than homeowners).

In the Great Recession and the previous recession, employee stock ownership firms had smaller employment cutbacks and higher survival rates than similar firms.

The second thing is that the unemployment rate especially and labor markets in general are moving toward something that is closer to full employment than we've seen in a long time.

Dallas has a strong local economy with an employment rate higher than the national average.

These improvements were reflected in the rise in the participation rate to 63 %, up 0.6 % since September, confirming there is greater slack in the labour force than conveyed by the headline unemployment rate, and suggesting that longer term unemployed or discouraged workers who have hitherto remained on the sidelines are being pulled back into the labour market by the growth in employment opportunities.

This morning's Employment Report for May was disappointing with the unemployment rate up 0.1 to 9.1 % and weaker than expected growth in payrolls.

After all, the ECB is firmly committed to asset monetisation and negative interest rates based on the belief that these counter-productive policies are working, and the Federal Reserve is seemingly afraid to take even a small step towards «policy normalisation» despite its targets for employment and «inflation» having been reached more than three years ago.

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 Fed governor also made a comparison between the current unemployment and inflation rates with the 2004 - 07 period, when the US economy was near full employment and inflation was higher than 2 percent, thereby making the point that policymakers should hold on to the current federal funds rate and remain extremely cautious when it comes to raising it.

The FOMC announced it will keep the rate lower than the normal 2 percent even after employment and inflation are in a healthy range.

Tightening policy will adversely affect employment levels because higher interest rates make holding on to cash more attractive than investing it.

Instead, it reflects a tendency to respond to all economic data as if it is coincident (reflecting the current state of the economy) rather than carefully distinguishing leading data — primarily new orders and order backlogs, from coincident data — primarily income and production, from lagging data — employment figures, particularly payrolls and the unemployment rate, which are essentially the most lagging data series in economics.

This suggests the pool of people available for employment is substantially higher than the unemployment rate implies.

Is employment actually accelerating other than through the unemployment rate lens?

In contrast, employment in NSW has been increasing more slowly than elsewhere since early 2003 and is presently growing at around trend rates.

September's employment report was a touch softer than forecast but did little to move the dial on interest - rate expectations.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

However the employment rate (68 rather than 74 per cent) and the weekly pay (# 476 rather than # 525 per week) is lower in the city region than the national average.

It is worth noting that while people under age 65 in the U.S. live in a heavily market - dominated economy where poor employment outcomes mean poverty and a lack of access to health care, almost everyone over age 65 has most of their healthcare paid for by Medicare, (a FICA tax financed, single payer system that pays providers more or less the same rates as private insurance companies and has few cost controls), more than half of their nursing home costs paid by Medicaid, (which is stingy in how much it pays providers and moderately means tested), and receives enough of a guaranteed income from the combination of Social Security and SSI payments to keep the poverty rate for people age 65 +, (even if they have no retirement savings of their own), above the poverty line, regardless of the state of the local economy.

Many of these people live in areas where jobs are available and «there actually tends to be more vacancies in areas with low employment rates than the national average», Mr Hutton told the IPPR.

This is because they have a lower employment rate than average and also often qualify for in - work support.

Gordon Brown claims low interest rates and high employment put the UK in a better position than during the last recession - do the figures add up?

• On a year - ago basis, private sector employment in November was only 0.1 % higher than in 2013, compared to a U.S. growth rate of 2.3 %.

The situation was different for master's and first - degree graduates with good grades, who saw their full - time employment rates fall by more than 3.3 %.

Public - sector employment rates for black men rebounded to pre-recession levels by 2013, but employment levels among black women that year remained even lower than in 2008.

In a study of how recent Chinese imports affected the U.S. labor force, the researchers found that counties with higher rates of self - employment suffered fewer negative effects, such as reduced job growth, from increased imports than counties with lower self - employment rates, said Stephan Goetz, professor of agricultural and regional economics, Penn State and director of the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development.