Sentences with phrase «recent decline in the unemployment»

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«Job gains have been solid in recent months and the unemployment rate has declined,» the Fed said in its policy statement.

«The unexpectedly swift decline in the unemployment rate in recent years has in large part been attributed to a drop in the labor force participation rate.

Pushing past even 2 % on a sustained basis will require the avoidance of any recession in the years ahead, along with a continued decline in the unemployment rate below 4.1 %, or an acceleration of productivity growth beyond anything we've observed in recent decades.

On the economic front, the recent decline in new unemployment claims seems to have added a great deal of steam to the bullish case.

The recent strength in employment growth contributed to a further decline in the unemployment rate to 6 3/4 per cent in the June quarter, compared with almost 7 1/2 per cent a year ago (Graph 21).

This has generated a continuing decline in unemployment, bringing the unemployment rate down to around 6 3/4 per cent in recent months, its lowest level for a decade.

Particularly noteworthy in recent months has been the performance of the labour market, with employment posting a series of big increases and the unemployment rate declining to its lowest level since the 1970s.

The unemployment rate has declined in recent months, to levels last seen in the late 1980s.

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.

After consistent declines in the unemployment rate and notable gains in consumer attitudes through 2014, recent months have experienced a leveling off.

Despite an apparent decline in opportunities for information technology professionals in recent years, the job market for computer science Ph.D. s remains strong, with an unemployment rate below 1 %, according to the latest Taulbee Survey from the Computing Research Association (CRA), which was released in May.

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Using the paper's estimates, that would imply the recent recession caused a decline in female enrollment in elementary education of 33.6 percent (the 5.6 percentage point change in the unemployment rate multiplied by the 6 percent figure above).

Labor market conditions have improved in recent months; the unemployment rate has declined but remains elevated.

According to a recent report from Bloomberg News, «the number of Americans saying the U.S. economy is getting better rose in March to the highest level since 2004 as a decline in claims for unemployment benefits offered more evidence of a labor - market recovery.»

A decline in initial unemployment claims has historically been a reliable signal of economic recovery, and in recent months, initial claims have continued downward.