Sentence examples for Goods-producing sector from inspiring English sources
-- figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show the economy continues to produce low-skill, low-pay jobs while employment in the goods-producing sector lags.
The decline was primarily in the goods-producing sector, which includes construction and manufacturing.
The majority of companies engaged in offshoring, she said, were in the goods-producing sector, which has obvious implications for U.S. manufacturing.
However, such global competition mainly occurs in the goods-producing sector - very few services are traded on international markets - and even within manufacturing there are many industries that remain largely isolated from foreign competitors (seen any Chinese refrigerators lately?).
"Construction sector growth also slowed, down to a five-month low, led by a moderation in the pace of house building, and the goods-producing sector has moved down a gear compared to earlier in the year.
"While manufacturing bucked the trend in October, with output rising at the fastest rate for three months, the goods-producing sector had already seen growth weaken considerably over the summer.
Many of the men's losses were in goods-producing sectors that will recover slowly, if at all.
Meanwhile, a structural shift occurred toward a service economy, narrowing the established union base in the goods-producing sectors: production workers made up 30 percent of the nonagricultural U.S. labour force in 1950 but only 22 percent in 1976.
Measured in terms of all goods-producing sectors, the losses come to a stunning 6.8 million jobs.
"In the last few months most of the moderation in the ADP numbers have come from the goods-producing sectors," Reinhart noted.
The results are presented on the diagram below — as can be seen, services-providing sectors are expected to grow and account for the majority of jobs, while goods-producing sectors have shown a decline in the last years, with the situation not expected to change substantially in the future.
