Sentences with phrase «while labor force participation»

The unemployment rate increase 0.1 percent while the labor force participation rate jumped 0.2 tenths higher.

We are almost six years into our economic recovery and the unemployment rate for our lowest - skill workers is still 8.4 percent, while the labor force participation rate for that population is 46.3 percent.

The unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.9 %, remaining at its lowest level since 2008, while the labor force participation rate continued to rebound, rising slightly to 62.9 % as the strong labor market encouraged more people to start, or resume, looking for jobs.

Furthermore, the unemployment rate improved notably, falling to 5.1 percent (5.112 percent unrounded) from 5.3 percent (5.261 percent unrounded), while the labor force participation rate held at 62.6 percent (62.552 percent unrounded).

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While it's too soon to know what economic effect the strike might have, significant participation could make an impact — after all, women make up nearly half of the U.S. labor force and influence about 73 % of all household spending.

He explained that, while the economy is currently growing at a rate of around 1.5 to 2 percent, without the improvement in women's participation in the labor force, Japan would've grown at around 1 to 1.5 percent.

In a new Education Next article «A Bad Bargain: How teacher collective bargaining affects students» employment and earnings later in life,» Michael Lovenheim and Alexander Willén of Cornell University present the first evidence that students» exposure to a duty - to - bargain law while in elementary and secondary school lowers future earnings and leads to fewer hours worked, reductions in employment, and decreases in labor force participation.

And while refugees ultimately — after a period of six to ten years — have higher labor force participation and employment rates, and have similar welfare participation rates, relative to U.S. - born residents, they often enter the U.S. with low human capital and language skills and have initially poor labor market outcomes and high rates of welfare usage.

Kashkari notes that the labor force participation and employment - population ratios, while showing improvement, have yet to come close to the levels seen prior to the Great Recession.

And while the jobless rate ticked lower from 4.2 % to 4.1 %, that was largely due to the labor force participation rate deteriorating from 63.1 % to 62.7 %.