Sentences with phrase «well labour markets»

The temporary foreign workers issue is just another example of why Canada needs to keep better labour market data.

She thinks that an improving U.S. economy will boost insurance sales, while a better labour market will result in more group life revenues.

With investors remaining focused clearly on offshore central bank developments as well labour market numbers from the US, Greenback direction will be the major driver behind broader NZD / USD moves through to weeks in end.

The 15 new IECs will operate in areas with good labour markets.

Not exact matches

Another good sign noted by Dawn Desjardins, assistant chief economist at RBC, is an improvement in labour market conditions in the U.S.

«These changes will reflect the relative value Canadian employers place on foreign work experience, and redirect points to language and age factors, which are better indicators of success in the Canadian labour market.»

But even providing good jobs for all these potential workers wouldn't solve the labour market's problems, because the workforce is shrinking: the number of millennials poised to enter the labour pool is lower than the number of baby boomers set to retire.

Indeed, the once thriving labour - sponsored funds sector seems to be teetering on the verge of oblivion — a good thing, in the eyes of critics who claim it puts unsophisticated investors at risk and skews Canada's venture capital market toward technology sector long shots with little chance of payoff.

«When you change your trading relationship and population movements with the world, it has to change everything from the cost and supply of labour, the cost of good (exchange rate), the availability of market access (in and out), government finances (fiscal policy) or as we know very well monetary policy.

But too much of that is due to people dropping out of the workforce altogether (because the job market is * that * good): now at 63.2 %, the labour force participation rate has been catapulted all the way back to that which last prevailed in 1978.

Yellen herself said she continues to think the labour market isn't as strong as the low unemployment rate suggests, and inflation is well shy of the Fed's second objective of guiding annual price increases to 2 %.

A better approach, Usher says, is to ensure job - seekers have easily accessible labour - market information to make their own decisions.

Tal believes that improving participation rates in high - demand fields will likely require finding a way to identify emerging trends in labour market needs, as well as improved quality and equity of learning opportunities and increased resources.

Cyclical unemployment left untreated, as Yellen and Bernanke very well know, can turn into so - called structural unemployment, as the long - term jobless see their skills deteriorate and become obsolete or lose touch with the professional networks of colleagues that could help them re-enter the labour market.

«If you're physically able to work — as people are today with better health outcomes — a lot of people are just choosing to join the labour market,» says Francis Fong, an economist with TD Bank.

A booming sector model is a good way of analyzing an export oriented sector that combines export led growth with neoclassical labour market adjustment properties.

David Reifschneider's hypothesis that supply may well be endogenous is even more plausible when a combination of labour market deregulation and technological innovation is occurring.

Van Loan and Flaherty didn't mention the employment rate, which many economists believe is a better indicator of the health of the labour market than simply the number of jobs created.

In their 2015 election platform, the Trudeau Liberals identified a number of items related to Employment Insurance (EI) that they would change: reversing the Harper EI reforms defining «suitable work»; reducing the waiting period for EI benefits; reducing EI premiums; introducing more flexible parental leave; providing better access to compassionate care; and increasing funding for employment and training programs managed by provinces, territories and Aboriginal labour market organizations.

Compared with previous episodes of booming commodity prices, a floating currency, a sound but flexible medium - term framework for monetary policy and a flexible labour market mean we are doing much better this time than in the mid 1970s or early 1950s.

For all those complexities, though, I still believe that we will cope best with these shocks by sticking with a flexible inflation target, a floating currency and pro-flexibility supply - side policies in labour and product markets.

Over all, the U.S. labour market is in pretty good shape.

«Women with children are often excluded from full participation in the labour market due to challenges in balancing work and family life, or they work part - time, which often means lower wages and fewer benefits, including lack of a pension, paid vacation and sick leave, as well as less job stability,» the document states.

«Accurate and timely data about the labour market is essential to good decision - making,» said The Honourable John Manley, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Business Council.

But oil's wild ride has exposed fissures that have been deepening for years, such as Canada's overreliance on household debt and real estate for growth, as well as imbalances in trade and the labour market.

While the labour market is now getting better rather than worse, some 1.5 million Canadians remain officially unemployed.

China has an abundant labour pool with well - trained people, a big domestic market and a fast growing economy.

This change in relative wages and the relatively modest adjustment in overall wages have been helped by the combination of well - anchored inflation expectations and a more flexible labour market, particularly in comparison to earlier terms of trade booms.

The adjustment process through the current episode has also been helped by inflation expectations remaining well anchored, combined with greater flexibility in the labour market, relative to earlier booms in commodity prices.

Studies of periods of tight labour markets like the late 1990s and 1960s make it clear that the best social programme for disadvantaged workers is an economy where employers are struggling to fill vacancies.

This decline would be good news if it reflected an improving labour market.

Nonetheless, it is likely that considerable slack remains in the labour market, with the participation rate remaining well below the level of earlier years and little sign of upward pressure on wages.

Dole believed that locating the facility in North Carolina will improve its supply logistics to certain areas of the market and also take advantage of the natural resources of North Carolina, including a good labour pool and a potentially excellent supply of fresh vegetables.

Just as we clear a garden to disrupt it in readiness for the next crop, so we can disrupt corrupt farm labour market practices to trigger the process of change that leads to a better model, a model that is new and fair.

Family farmers, small and especially innovative food distributors and the nation's eaters are best served not by the quasi-monopoly of a grocery market controlled by the supermarket duopoly and its unscrupulous fellow travellers that engage in the alleged slave - like farm labour practices, but by a freed market.

We asked for views from disabled people, employers, charities and others on how we can change attitudes among employers as well as improving local services so that we can break down the barriers disabled people still face in the labour market.

Stuart White's book «Building a Citizen's Society» is a fantastic analysis and critique of both capitalism and statism as well as the conflict between labour market's and citizenship.

As well as a loss of confidence and self - esteem, disconnection from the labour market and loss of skills, there are deeper issues such as mental health problems, debt, family difficulties and, in some cases, drug and alcohol addiction that must be taken into account.

That's what makes it a free market: regulatory equivalence and freedom of labour as well as capital.

Blue Labour talks about family and friendships at the heart of society, rather than just material wealth; it also offers a very strong critique of the free market as well as the big state.

At the time, we had been shortlisted for «Best Agency» by Research magazine — the most prestigious award in the market research industry — so I was a bit alarmed at first to receive a letter from Labour peer Lord Joffe, possibly frustrated that his attempts to change the law on assisted suicide had failed yet again, expressing unhappiness with the wording of a question.

Invest in growth to drive productivity, strengthen urban labour markets, build more and better housing and improve infrastructure in and between cities.

Alongside a national system of good quality childcare to help more women into the labour market

There are calls for labour market reform, for lower labour costs (ie lower wages), for «renewed efforts» to get school leavers into training, for better use of an existing EU jobs website to «facilitate the cross-border placement of young people».

It is predicted that the effects of demographic change on the health and welfare system as well as the labour market will be drastic.

I think the best bet for Labour here is for Ed Miliband to do what Harold Wilson did in the 1975 Common Market Referendum - allow Labour MPs, party members and shadow cabinet ministers to campaign for or against, or not at all, depending on their personal preferences.

Spencer Pitfield: «The radicalism of Thatcher Governments is best encapsulated in a political philosophy and economic policies emphasising flexible labour markets, deregulation and privatisation.

If Labour decides to back free movement, why shouldn't it then back single market membership as well?

A forecast by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) states the decline of the gross domestic product (GDP) registered in the third quarter was «at best misleading», as it was inconsistent with business surveys and labour market data.

The other is helping the young men and women who struggle to break into the labour market — whether it is in good health or not.