Sentences with phrase «than the labor market»

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The labor market is tighter than it has been in decades, with unemployment near an all - time low at 4.1 % and unfilled job openings near an all - time high at about 6 million.

One, the quits rate fell during the 2007 - 09 recession and has been slower to recover than other labor market indicators because workers lacked confidence to leave their jobs for greener pastures.

Minutes from March's FOMC meeting show that members are more worried about the labor market than inflation.

He identified three obstacles that could affect any possible recovery in the global employment rate: «Over the fore ¬ seeable future, the world economy will probably grow less than was the case before the global crisis,» complicating «the task of generating the over 42 million jobs that are needed every year in order to meet the growing number of new entrants in the labor market.»

With the labor market tighter than it has been in decades, workers who've been yearning to change jobs finally have their moment.

The labor market recovery so far has made up less than half of the prime - age employment lost in the recession.

Our old professor was a bit more upset about it, though, partly because the college milks those guys more than a Libyan trafficking gang (albeit the access to the labor market is a lot better at the end of the process).

«For these companies, maintaining a presence in key growth markets abroad is a priority, and so they are adapting to trends such as rising labor and shipping costs in China, rather than shying away from opportunities in global markets,» says Esch.

It had more than 90 questions, everything from details on the local labor market to the site's susceptibility to hurricanes, sinkholes, and floods.

As the labor market in the U.S. tightens, employers have turned to perks like paid time off, maternity leave, and signing bonuses — rather than higher wages in some instances — as the carrots they dangle to attract new talent.

On Wall Street, stocks rose on Friday after job growth surged more - than - expected in June, reaffirming labor market strength that could keep the Federal Reserve on track for a third interest rate hike this year.

«The recent behavior of both nominal and real wages point to weaker labor market conditions than would be indicated by the current unemployment rate,» Yellen said in a speech to central bankers last week.

Job growth ground nearly to a halt in May, with the U.S. labor market having its worst performance in more than five years, the Labor Department said Frlabor market having its worst performance in more than five years, the Labor Department said FrLabor Department said Friday.

It usually requires an explanation on the order of infinite retention («yes, our sales and marketing costs are really high and our annual profit margins per user are thin, but we're going to keep the customer forever»), a massive reduction in costs («we're going to replace all our human labor with robots»), a claim that eventually the company can stop buying users («we acquire users for more than they're worth for now just to get the flywheel spinning»), or something even less plausible.

Since the 1990s, the total taxation of the Swedish economy as a percentage of GDP has fallen more than 5 %, while labor market reforms, such as Denmark's cutting of unemployment benefits have helped Scandanavian economies rocket up measures of economic freedom.

To combat a tightening talent market, companies must focus on improving productivity and operational efficiencies, rather than relying on cheap and plentiful labor, as some have in the past.

In that scenario, I would expect no more than one Fed policy rate hike this year, as labor market strength has been the highlight of recent economic performance.

«The recovery in the labor market is probably going to be more sluggish than the Fed recognizes,» Michael Hanson, senior U.S. economist at Bank of America in New York and a former Fed economist, told the news service.

ER: Federal Reserve staff forecasts, like those of the bulk of private forecasters, see the labor market tightening considerably over the next three years — and this is the case even assuming more rate increases than are currently anticipated by market participants and reflected in market rates.

More importantly, millions of Americans have been jobless for more than 6 months, and many adults apparently have left the labor market permanently.

It was often cheap labor in emerging markets that, more than two decades ago, led companies in developed markets to move company jobs away from the home country either to company owned facilities (off - shoring) or to third parties (out - sourcing) in developing markets.

Empirically, the links in the chain between tight labor markets, wage pressure, and price pressure appear much weaker than they were decades ago, a point Ben Spielberg underscores in the recent podcast we did on the Federal Reserve (which some have found surprisingly entertaining!).

Furthermore, it is not clear that wages in the Russian Far East are lower than wages in northeastern China, and the declining Russian population has raised concerns over the supply of labor and the true potential of the domestic market.

This potential relaxation of fiscal constraints is significant, particularly when you consider that the economy, specifically the labor market, has less slack than at any point in the post-crisis period.

The essence of the global financial bubble is that savings are diverted to inflate the stock market, bond market and real estate prices rather than to build new factories and employ more labor.

And for all the muddle, the one thing that seems clear is that the risks to the economy and particularly the labor market — which is generating solid job growth and even some wage gains (for which we should all give Chair Yellen and the Fed serious credit)-- remain «asymmetric:» there's a greater risk of needlessly slowing non-inflationary growth than there is of inflation accelerating.

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Labor markets are much tighter than anytime in the past 50 years.

As a result, even though a tightening labor market and recently supportive levels of business, consumer, and investor confidence may bode well for the near - term outlook, the hard data currently seems considerably less encouraging than the soft data.

By some key metrics, the labor market improved more in 2014 than it had in almost 20 years.

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Until we see more pro-growth stimulus and structural reforms (especially in the labor market), we think QE will serve more as an economic stabilizer than a solution for Europe's chronically slow growth.

The second thing is that the unemployment rate especially and labor markets in general are moving toward something that is closer to full employment than we've seen in a long time.

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.

If growth in America is accelerating, which it seems to be, and any remaining slack in the labor markets is disappearing — and wages start going up, as do commodity prices — then it is not an unreasonable possibility that inflation could go higher than people might expect.

This labor market trend is very much in evidence in recent data too, with the service / information industries adding jobs much more rapidly than goods - producing sectors.

However, a survey of German consumers, who have made a significant contribution to driving growth in Europe's largest economy, came in higher than consensus expectations during February, as the country's tight labor market bolstered confidence.

Moreover, in Europe, Italy's new Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, has taken a different tack than his French neighbors by acknowledging that sustainable growth does not come from government spending programs but rather from policies such as labor market flexibility, job training and simplification of Italy's archaic civil justice system.

But the longer - term story in the labor market remains one of strengths: The United States is creating jobs at an average of more than 250,000 a month.

«Immigration affects rents and home prices far more than it affects the labor market,» says Mr Nowrasteh.

In the market money makes money much more rapidly than does labor.

«Our labor challenges are no different than anyone else in our industry or within the Seattle market,» Urbina explains.

The labor republicans sought to create producer cooperatives, believing these to be more productive and that they afforded workers more leisure than the natural workings of the labor market.

Despite the weak labor market, graduates still have better chances of finding good jobs than do their peers without degrees.

Puerto Rico has far lower wages generally than any other part of the United States and, in the Krueger Report analysis, that $ 7.25 minimum wage destructively distorts the Puerto Rican labor market.

«It is increasingly important to look at long - run outcomes of educational policies, including impacts on educational attainment and labor market outcomes, rather than just focus on test scores.

This system has for decades produced many more Ph.D. s than the academic labor market can absorb.

Beyond the currently dysfunctional labor market for science jobs, something else that badly needs disrupting is the pernicious ideology that sees scientists seeking off - campus careers as failed academics rather than as experts who are very valuable to the right employers.

Based on these findings, any shortage in America's scientific labor market is «most likely a demand - side problem of STEM [science, technology, engineering, and mathematics] career opportunities that are less attractive than career opportunities in other fields» rather than a supply - side problem of too few Americans with scientific training, asserted Salzman in congressional testimony presented on 6 November before the House Committee on Science and Technology's Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation.

«The supply of U.S. - born / residents, particularly men, to science and engineering appears to be more responsive to labor market conditions than the supply of the foreign born,» Freeman continues.