Sentences with phrase «share of the labor force»

There is now a position open for every unemployed person in the country, and the share of the labor force — Americans who are working or job hunting — has crept up this year, too.

Significantly, nearly a third of the concession holders are women, and women also make up a disproportionate share of the labor force in the processing industry.

Although the share of the labor force enrolling in college increased modestly in the 1990s, college graduation rates remained essentially flat.

The share of the labor force that is jobless and actively looking for work, adjusted for seasonal patterns.

With the aging of the baby - boom generation, defined as persons born between 1946 and 1964, the older age cohorts are expected to make up a much larger share of the labor force.

Not exact matches

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.

The conventional wisdom in the economics community is that the labor force participation rate would have continued to decline even if the great recession never occurred, because as the nation ages the share of retired workers would grow.

One reason the Federal Reserve Chair has used to justify keeping interest rates barely above zero is the fact that the labor force participation rate — or the share of Americans over 16 who are in the labor force — has risen over the past year.

The flip side of the movement of mothers into the labor force has been a dramatic decline in the share of mothers who are now stay - at - home moms.

Achieving the goals that Springfield has set for itself is, of course, much easier in a robust economy, and the economic outlook I will share today is consistent with an economy that will require even more workers in the labor force.

[158] Other causes include the rise in non-cash benefits as a share of worker compensation (which aren't counted in CPS income data), immigrants entering the labor force, statistical distortions including the use of different inflation adjusters by the BLS and CPS, productivity gains being skewed toward less labor - intensive sectors, income shifting from labor to capital, a skill gap - driven wage disparity, productivity being falsely inflated by hidden technology - driven depreciation increases and import price measurement problems, and / or a natural period of adjustment following an income surge during aberrational postwar circumstances.

Meanwhile, the overall share out of the labor force because they're discouraged, have family responsibilities, transportation problems, illness, or a disability has stayed flat at around 1 % since the BLS started asking this question in the current form in 1994, they add.

I've sat across the room from a group of fisherman who shared their stories of being drugged, forced to labor 20 hours a day for years on fishing boats, under horrific conditions.

Growth in Low - Skilled, Low - Wage Occupations: A sizeable share of the county's labor force is employed in low wage occupations.

The Department of Education's official responseto Rocketship's grant application — that it «assists youth in developing social emotional learning» and has «not had any significant student safety issues» — reflects a shared agenda to privatize public education and to reduce the size of the labor force, while overlooking serious concerns.

«Whether we look at major markets like Houston, or smaller markets in West Texas, Oklahoma, Wyoming, or North Dakota, those with a larger share of employment related to oil and gas are near the bottom of the list for apartment performance due to a decrease in the labor force.»