Sentences with phrase «than the labor force»

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More than 110,000 of VW's worldwide labor force of 589,000 work at its immense headquarters in Wolfsburg and four other plants in Lower Saxony.

Robots and automation are priorities in China, where salaries have increased more than 100 percent over the last 10 years while the national labor force has been shrinking.

The unemployment rate fell to 6.7 percent, from 7 percent, but that was less about job creation than about people, fed up or unsuccessful in their job searches, dropping out of the labor force.

It's because an even larger number of people, 396,000, joined the labor force than found jobs.

But as Neil Dutta, Chief Economist with Renaissance Macro Research points out, if you look at the actual flow data showing the number of people each month entering and exiting the labor force, the rate at which workers are entering the labor force is actually lower today than at any point over the last two years.

Nearly 40 % of top performing firms already have more than 30 % of their labor force composed of contract / freelance workers with next year increases expected to be 30 — 60 — 90 % or more.»

At the heart of Virginia's economy are more than 650,000 small businesses, which represent 97.8 percent of all employers and employ nearly half of the private - sector labor force, or nearly 1.5 million people.

Then... this is the best part... he made it clear that a 6.5 percent unemployment rate would not necessarily be the threshold for raising rates, then went on a long discussion of the conditions under which he would NOT raise rates, including if the unemployment rate dropped mostly due to cyclical declines in the labor force participation rate rather than gains in unemployment, as well as persistently low inflation.

By 2015, analysts had significantly marked down GDP growth, based on the fact that the labor force had contracted more than they thought back in 2007 and productivity growth was slower.

It's the gap between those two that shows up as unemployed workers, and then only if they keep looking for jobs rather than leaving the labor force.

They urge economies to submit to financial austerity by sanctifying debts rather than saving themselves and their labor force at the expense of debt and savings trends.

Small businesses employ more than 2.4 million workers and account for roughly half of the private - sector labor force.

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.

In other words, for two years of economic recovery, the labor market in the U.S. has been doing only slightly better than treading water, and much of the improvement in the unemployment rate can be attributed to people dropping out of the labor force either because they've given up looking for work or because they've retired.

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 U.S. labor force must increase production faster than their incomes rise to stay competitive with foreign workers.

Since economists, especially by those that specialize in international business economics, know that an economy that is not growing faster than its population or labor force is not growing, it's very important to that into account even though for «political» reasons the CB, and NBER do not report that consideration, and thus the financial media do not either.

One of the most challenging points to get across about this issue in general is that a larger proportion of the exploitation resides inside forced manual labor, rather than in sex slavery.

They constitute one - half of the world population and one - third of the official labor force, perform nearly tw6 - thirds of the hours worked, and receive only one - tenth of the world income and own less than one - hundredth of the world property.

Of course she says nothing about her husband's policy of overlooking human rights violations by China, including the slave labor of uncounted thousands and forced abortions for pregnant women with more than one child.

Today more than half of the total labor force in the United States is involved in the production, dissemination, or use of information in its various forms.

Polls show that better than 40 percent of the labor force are seriously worried about the threat of unemployment.

That also enables him to work successfully with his labor force, which he provides motel - quality housing for and pays $ 2.50 more than the minimum wage.

I have a memory of a war movie in which a woman is giving birth in a tank or a submarine (for whatever reason) and even in THAT situation, the men know better than she does how to labor — she's forced to lie down and put her feet up in two bandoliers suspended from the ceiling as stirrups.

At - Home Dads — According to 2012 estimates, 189,000 married fathers with children younger than 15 have remained out of the labor force for at least one year primarily so they can care for the family while their wife works outside the home.

Plus, when your body is undergoing forced labor through induction, it could go on longer than natural labor would - prolonging the pain!

If we define labor in primiparous women over 12 hours as dystocia, we will invent another technology to force women to hurry up their labor to less than 12 hours.

The Working Families Party, whose base combines labor unions and individuals and activist groups, has emerged as a force in New York through unusual «fusion» laws that allow candidates to run on more than one party line.

The next mayor is facing a daunting multibillion - dollar bill for retroactive pay hikes because the entire city - labor force has been working for more than two years under expired contracts, the Independent Budget Office warned yesterday.

The Supreme Court's handling of an upcoming forced dues case could cost labor unions in New York more than $ 100 million, according to a new report.

In March 2013, 322,817 people were in the workforce, which is 8,076 more than how many people were in the labor force in February 2016, according to the BLS.

The next mayor of NYC is facing a multibillion - dollar bill for retroactive pay hikes because the entire city - labor force has been working for more than two years under expired contracts, the Independent Budget Office warned.

He received fewer than 42,000 votes, and thereafter the Greens have been forced into the expensive and labor - intensive task of independent petitioning to gain a place on the ballot each time they have wished to field a candidate for anything.

New York's labor force participation rate dropped to 60.7 percent in 2014, the lowest level in more than a decade.

«You're a cynic,» Cuomo told one reporter who questioned his efforts to help the Rochester area, where there are 40,000 fewer people in the labor force than in the 1990s.

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- A Democrat widely viewed as a union favorite emerged Wednesday to challenge Gov. Scott Walker, a day after petition circulators spurred by anger over the Republican's moves against organized labor said they submitted more than enough signatures to force a recall election.

The Syracuse metro has a labor force of a little less than 310,000 people and an unemployment rate of just 5 percent, so it might be a big challenge for the company to fill all those jobs here.

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.

Older married women shoulder more housework than their husbands do even when neither of them are in the labor force — and health problems she may have don't change that arrangement unless they are significant.

It also is densely populated with 40 percent of the labor force engaged in agriculture and more than 60 percent living in coastal areas — factors that contribute to Indonesia's climate vulnerability.

On work, Murray notes the great increase in the percentage of the population on disability payments, from under 1 to more than 5 percent of the labor force, and the growth in the number of prime - age males who are not in the labor force, contrasted with almost all in the labor force in 1960.

Forgoing a year in the labor force is much costlier for a college graduate than a high - school dropout because the college graduate has more lucrative job opportunities.

If one were to place bets based on past evidence, the odds favor America's public schools to operate next year with at least as much and probably with somewhat more money and a larger and (modestly) better - paid labor force than they had in 2009.

STANFORD — Despite an economic downturn and new data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) released last month that show no learning gains in math for American 4th graders, the nation's public schools will likely have more money and a larger and better paid labor force than they had in 2009, according to education researchers James W. Guthrie and Arthur Peng of Vanderbilt University.

The participation of women in the labor force grew rapidly during the 20th century, from less than 20 percent of women in 1890 to well over 50 percent today.

Although people of color constitute more than one - third of the U.S. labor force, less than 20 percent of teachers identify as people of color.

While people of color make up more than one - third of the labor force, 11 less than 20 percent of teachers identify as people of color.12 Recruitment is essential to ensure that highly qualified candidates consider a career in teaching, as well as to combat current diversity disparities in today's schools and within the teaching profession.

Because Wilson is black, he's sent to work as forced labor in the mines rather than being incarcerated with Roscoe.

Her mother survived Auschwitz and her father, a prisoner of forced labor, was rescued by a Hungarian army officer and Seventh Day Adventist who saved more than 100 Jewish men under his command.