Sentences with phrase «survey of the labor force»

In our survey of the labor force, only 11 percent said they understand «very well» how our economic system works, and even among those who said they had thought a great deal about their responsibility to the poor only 18 percent said they understand it very well.

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According to a survey by McKinsey, the total number of gig - workers in the U.S. is now 53 - 68 million, or 35 percent of the total civilian labor force and growing to 50 percent by 2020.

Of those surveyed, 48 percent are employed, 29 percent are not in the labor force, and 21 percent are unemployed and actively seeking employment.

For these reasons the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Statistics Canada base their calculations on surveys: the Current Population Survey in the United States and its Canadian counterpart, The Labour Force Survey, are conducted monthly and use a sample of between 50,000 and 60,000 households to represent the working age population in each country, those 15 years of age and older.

Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States Stephen Jones, McMaster University Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia Jones and Riddell build on two previous papers: one by David Card and Riddell (originally published in Small Differences that Matter) that studies the reasons for higher rates of unemployment in Canada than the U.S. in the 1980s, the other by Jones and Riddell which uses data from the U.S. Labor Force Survey to study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor fLabor Force Participation in Canada and the United States Stephen Jones, McMaster University Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia Jones and Riddell build on two previous papers: one by David Card and Riddell (originally published in Small Differences that Matter) that studies the reasons for higher rates of unemployment in Canada than the U.S. in the 1980s, the other by Jones and Riddell which uses data from the U.S. Labor Force Survey to study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor fForce Participation in Canada and the United States Stephen Jones, McMaster University Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia Jones and Riddell build on two previous papers: one by David Card and Riddell (originally published in Small Differences that Matter) that studies the reasons for higher rates of unemployment in Canada than the U.S. in the 1980s, the other by Jones and Riddell which uses data from the U.S. Labor Force Survey to study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor fLabor Force Survey to study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor fForce Survey to study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor flabor forceforce.

Even though the current Millennials ages 25 to 32 are better educated than the generations of young adults who preceded them, 14 the survey found only one significant generational difference in the overall perceived value of their education in preparing them for a job and career — some 41 % of Millennials ages 25 to 32, 45 % of Gen Xers and 47 % of Baby Boomers say their schooling was «very useful» in getting them ready to enter the labor force.

The situation that Spain is experiencing in terms of unemployment is problematic: together with Greece, it has the highest level of unemployment among European countries (23.7 % according to the latest EPA (Encuesta de Población Activa — Labor Force Survey); one out of two young adults under the age of 25 can not find work (52.4 %); and nearly half of the unemployed receive no benefits whatsoever.

We can use the same Quarterly Labor Force survey data to examine enrollment rates by parental income, for young students who are still classified as part of their parents» household.

The second, a household survey of residents, measures labor force characteristics including the number of DC residents who are employed regardless of the jurisdiction in which their job is located.

Although the US is on the upswing from the recession, the United States Department of Labor's Labor Force Statistics from the Current Populations Survey still gives a pretty grim report on the state of employment for millennials.

According to the survey, 11.2 % of 20 - 24 year olds and 6.5 % of the 25 - 34 year old labor force are unemployed.

It uses data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), which is a survey of a nationally representative sample of U.S. households with individuals over age 50 and is the most comprehensive survey of older Americans in the nation and covers topics such as health, assets, income, and labor - force status in detail.