Sentences with phrase «weak labor market»

U.S. small businesses created 55,000 jobs in November but employees worked fewer hours and earned less money, according to a survey on Tuesday that highlighted the still weak labor market conditions.

The Great Stagnation of American Education New York Times, 9/7/13» [Professor] Richard J. Murnane, an educational economist at Harvard, has found evidence that high school and college completion rates have begun to rise again, although part of this may be a result of weak labor markets that induce students to stay in school rather than face unemployment.»

Meanwhile, states such as Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Alabama, Rhode Island and New Jersey that are coping with weak labor markets are also struggling to get their housing activity back on track.

But to the extent weak labor markets are part of it, a strengthening labor market would be the result of a stronger economy and thus E would be going up again as margins contract.

«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.

The disappointing trends of the Great Recession and its aftermath come on the heels of the weak labor market from 2000 - 2007, during which the median income of non-elderly households fell significantly from $ 68,941 to $ 66,575, the first time in the post-war period that incomes failed to grow over a business cycle.

A weak labor market — the nation added an average of 75,000 jobs a month in the calendar second quarter — threatens to stall the country's economic progress.

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

Earning a four - year college degree is now considered essential for achieving a «middle - class» lifestyle, even as many new graduates have trouble landing good, full - time jobs in a weak labor market.

Of course the still - weak labor market and recent dips in consumer confidence may dampen any such tendencies.

Teach for America begun a major expansion several years ago, funded by a grant from the federal government and likely facilitated by a weak labor market for college graduates, who may have increasingly turned to teaching after failing to find other work.

Weak labor market, U.S. businesses reach max efficiency which is only achievable in difficult times such as these, I don't know.

It is clear that a weak labor market and rising student debt are putting the squeeze on young people.

The authors also failed to find any significant change in labor supply resulting from the reductions in wages, but suggest one possible explanation may be the timing of the provision's implementation in the weak labor market in late 2010.

Interest in the question is fueled by a weak labor market that has given rise to widespread concerns that the market is flooded with law school graduates who have cleared the bar exam hurdle but are unemployed and not «practice - ready.»

Given the current economic environment — in particular the weak labor market — consumer confidence is not likely to gain any significant momentum in the coming months.»

This did not occur at the end of the Great Recession due to historic price declines, excess inventories and pent - up housing demand associated with a weak labor market.