The decline came because of a 20 basis point drop in the labor-force participation rate.
But in a growing economy, high labor-force participation is both normal and desired.
If you use the labor-force number from just last April, unemployment is 10.5%.
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But in September, the labor force actually grew by 418, 000 to 155.1 million, as labor-force participation stayed the same.
Payroll employment continues to slump, far below the level needed to accommodate new labor-force entrants, much less reduce the 8.2% unemployment rate.
The labor-force participation rate, which measures the percentage of working-age people in the workforce, also dropped to 63.5%, the lowest in 30 years.
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Egypt has one of the lowest rates of female labor-force participation (20%) in the world and perhaps the lowest rate of female representation in parliament (2%).
They put the price of labor-force participation so high with regulations, social charges, minimum wages and so forth that businesses are reluctant to take on young, untrained workers.
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The labor-force participation rate, which measures those employed as well as those looking for work as a portion of the population, fell 0.2 to a seasonally adjusted 63.3%, a level last seen in mid-1979.
But Briggs figures that while immigration adds to the labor force--people come to the U.S. to work--enforcing limits and getting tough with employers who hire illegals is the best way to act in union members' best interests.
We have some of most talented engineer and -- and labor force in the world.
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But Argentina also has a young, well-educated labor force including some 30, 000 bilingual speakers, more than other Latin American countries, notes Jones Lang LaSalle.
There were some population adjustments based on more recent Census data that make the change from December to January confusing, but apparently labor force drop-outs did not account from the large decline in the unemployment rate.
In 1960, half of the native-born men in the labor force were high school dropouts happy to do physically demanding, low-skilled work.
About half of all disability-insurance applicants are eventually awarded benefits, and only rarely re-enter the labor force.
One particularly distressing leading indicator of job growth is that the number of workers re-entering the labor force was negative in May.
Comparing salaries among colleagues has long been a taboo of workplace chatter, but that is changing as Millennials-individuals born in the 1980s and 1990s-join the labor force.
It is our expectation that as the economy strengthens later this year the (labor) participation rate will stop declining, as there is already a large pool of potential workers on the sidelines who are likely to re-enter the labor force if conditions improve.
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The self-employment rate for adults 55 and older is 16.4 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, well above the 10.4 percent rate of self-employment for the total labor force.
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One bright spot in the Labor Department jobs release, at least, was the slight rise in both the labor force participation rate and employment-to-population ratio, the first increases since February.
Most working mothers return to work within a year of having a child, according to the 2009 report, "Opting-Out: An Exploration of Labor Force Participation of New Mothers, " based on the American Community Survey three-year data file for 2005-2007.
Moreover, from 1966-1972 the German labor force was actually smaller than it was in 1960.
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But while the labor force may absorb Spanish-only employees, an emerging debate among policy makers asks whether their children face additional challenges in English-speaking schools.
Slightly more than half of the work force is in agriculture, but services are the major source of economic growth, accounting for more than half of India's output, with only one-third of its labor force.
An average of 3.6 percent of the labor force worked in start-ups in the 1980s, while an average of 3.0 percent did so in the 1990s, and an average of 2.7 percent did so in the 2000s.
The size of the labor force grew by 578, 000 workers in October, with the labor force participation rate moving higher by two-tenths of a percentage point to 63.8%.
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Last week the Labor Department came out with a report on the black labor force in the recovery, and the Secretary -- Labor Secretary said the President and the Vice President did see this report.
The red line is the percentage of the working-age population in the labor force.
Today, less than 10% of the native-born men in the labor force are high school dropouts.
Of those in the 18-54 age bracket, labor force participation rates of veterans and nonveterans were both about 88%.
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