People get discouraged and stop looking for a job and get switched from in the labor force and employed to not in the labor force so not unemployed.
In addition, should one of them turn up in the household survey of employment, they should automatically be classified as not in the labor force rather than unemployed no matter how much they claim they are looking for work.
The proportion of youth between 15 and 24 years old not in the labor force (and thus most likely studying) has actually risen from 43% in 2004 to 47% in 2013, according to the Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics, better known as IBGE.
Yes, China still has cheap labor, but not mentioned in the article are the generally accepted projections that the labor force will level off in a half decade and then shrink.
Gains in education and labor force involvement have not yet translated into wage and income equity.
Now, I can understand that there are going to be limits to labor force participation within a population and that not everyone in a society is going to be physically or mentally able to work, but still, if there are no jobs and no work, what are people doing?
How can we create a sustainable, competitive product at an advantage to make us another leader in the manufacturing and labor force industry going forward, not just to get them back to work for a year or two, sir, but to get to work for the long term so they can grow the market on their own with their own product and their own work?
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.
The way to meet our demographic challenge is to keep people in the labor force longer, Mr. Shultz says, and not fall for European notions that there is some fixed amount of work to be divided up.
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It is not the case that the reason the unemployment rate fell sharply was because of reductions in labor force participation.
With small business credit tighter than in the pre-recession era and options for personally financing new companies through home equity lines of credit, credit cards, or savings much more restricted than it once was, many of those reentering the labor force who would have considered starting businesses in more expansionary times are not thinking of starting businesses now.
In a society that in effect says to the victims, it's your responsibility to re-equip yourself for the American labor force, we are telling you now that you are not properly equipped, in effect that you do not have value as a worker, that's the message in a layoff.
May traditionally sees a jump in the labor force because of all the new graduates entering the job market, but this was not this case last month as 286, 000 workers left the labor market tally.
While international trade moves our jobs into more productive activities, takes advantage of our comparative advantage, makes our labor force as a whole more productive, it does not necessarily create more jobs than it destroys in the short term.
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Without this decline in the labor force, mostly the result of people halting the job search after Sandy, unemployment would not have fallen.
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