Sentences with phrase «total labour force»

Agriculture: Agriculture currently provides some 65 % of the country's total foreign exchange earnings, and employs approximately 30 % of the total labour force.

Outside of the camps, there are an estimated 2.4 million documented and undocumented Burmese migrant workers, making up 80 percent of the migrant worker population and five percent of Thailand's total labour force in critical industries like shrimp factories (IOM 2011).

However, unemployment fell by only 24,100 in January (unemployment fell by less than employment rose because the total labour force expanded.)

Not exact matches

April's numbers are rather dramatic, with five CMAs (of 33 total across Canada) in three provinces seeing unusually large declines in both employment and the size of their labour forces:

Unemployment, measured in a different survey, edged down to 7.7 % from 7.9 % in January and, for once, not just because more Americans gave up the job search: 170,000 said they had found employment, meaning those who dropped out of the labour force were less than half the total.

There is a limit to how many hours there are in a day that employees can work, how low the unemployment rate can go on a sustained basis, how high the labour force participation rate can rise, and how large the proportion of working - age people within the total population can be.

In that period we lost 11 per cent of the total jobs in the sector when the labour force grew by 18 per cent.

Is the right thing to do is total income / (adults in labour force + adults who want to be in labour force)?

[123] Ghana's labour force in 2008 totalled 11.5 million Ghanaian citizens.

The sum will be yearly it's the levy that labour are after, they once asked Jack Straw to look into the levy to see if he could force the Unions to pay this up front in total.

But a sharp prod from the left could force the old Labour tribe to abandon its insistence on total power, total control, obliging it to open and share with others.

Labour should be asking questions about why thousands of people in 21st Century Britain are forced to be reliant upon Charity, and should be publicly stating why this represents a total failure of the State.