Sentences with phrase «with weak labor markets»

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.

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While the labor market has returned to more normal levels, with the unemployment rate at around 5.1 percent, overall hiring has remained weak, per the most recent Department of Labor jobs replabor market has returned to more normal levels, with the unemployment rate at around 5.1 percent, overall hiring has remained weak, per the most recent Department of Labor jobs repLabor jobs reports.

In a sense, many labor market indicators for blacks are biased up as those with weaker labor force attachment are removed from the sample.

Today the most intense competition in the globally integrated market is not between the gigantic Transnational Corporations, but it is between governments that find themselves competing with one another for investors by offering the cheapest and most compliant labor; the weakest environmental, health, and safety standards, the lowest taxes; and the most fully developed infrastructure.

«This article concludes that there are few signs that groups with traditionally weaker bonds to the labor market are less motivated to work if they live in generous and activating welfare states.

For women entering the labor market directly after graduation from high school in 1972, those with mastery of basic mathematical skills earned $ 0.78 per hour ($ 1,560 per year) more at age 24 than did those with weak math skills.

This employment gap is consistent with other data [xx] showing that the Great Recession hit black college graduates much harder than white college graduates, as well as with evidence [xxi] that employers are more likely to discriminate against minorities in weak labor markets.

In particular, significant labor market premia can be earned in a variety of more technical certificate and Associate (AA) programs, even for those with weak earlier academic performance, but instead many disadvantaged (and other) students choose general humanities programs at the AA (and even the Bachelor's or BA) level with low completion rates and low compensation afterwards.

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.»

Today, with most measures of the labor market signaling full employment in the U.S., wage growth has remained weak.

However, conditions remain uneven, with strengthening labor markets supporting solid price gains in some member countries, notably Ireland, Spain and Germany, while other markets, including France and Italy, continue to languish alongside a weaker economic recovery.