Sentences with phrase «slowing labour force»

The disappointing performance of business investment to date could reflect more sustained structural factors, such as slowing labour force growth, low productivity growth and regulatory obstacles.

Most economists expect potential economic growth to decline from about 3 per cent annually to about 2 per cent over the next ten years, as a result of continued poor productivity growth and a slowing labour force growth as the population ages.

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The Great Stagnation: In «Why the global economy may be doomed to lower growth — maybe forever,» Simone Foxman gives four reasons why economic growth may be much slower in the future: scarce resources, an aging labour force, stagnant technology growth and externalities from climate change.

Canada faces a deep long - term fiscal challenge, as its population ages and its labour force growth slows, states a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute.

It's true that demographic forces are leading to slower growth in the labour force, which reduces the neutral interest rate in the economy and increases the chances that monetary policy will be constrained by the lower bound on interest rates.

In turn, this decline is being driven primarily by the aging of our population, which is slowing the rate of growth of the labour force.

In Canada and the United States, for example, the annual growth rate of the labour force slowed from around 1 1/4 per cent in 2006 to less than 1/2 per cent in 2016.11 This decline has reduced potential output growth and investment demand.

If you have been hurt badly, lied to or had significant physical and emotional damage from traditional medical care — being forced back into that environment will cause fear, that will hamper labour due to how women were made (any threat the woman feels causes labour to slow until she no longer experiences that «fight or flight response», and when she feels safe again, labour should resume)-- labour slows and then interventions «have» to be done... and the cycle repeats itself — reenforcing the belief that the hospital is not the place to birth.

«The reality is the labour force is slowing down, due to demographics, and this slows the pace of income growth,» he says.