Sentence examples for labor force numbers from inspiring English sources

Faucher, the PNC macroeconomist, said: "The labor force numbers are bouncing around a lot.

For all its contributions to G.D.P., the technology industry is directly responsible for less than two million jobs, a pittance in a nation where the labor force numbers almost half a billion.

The strengthening recovery has reignited a long-running debate about how many of those workers will come back – making the participation rate and the overall number of people in the labor force interesting numbers to keep an eye on in the next few jobs reports.

A labor force that numbered 129,000 in 1996 was more than halved by 2004.

But for every four black workers added to the labor force, the number with jobs slipped by three.

Another cause for hope was that the city's labor force — the number of people either working or trying to find work — grew last month.

As a proportion of the labor force, the number of union members fell from 11.8percentnt in 2011 to 11.3percentnt in 2012.

And even today, if you take a broader measure of an unemployment rate that includes those who are partially employed and those who are discouraged, that have left the labor force, the number is already 15%.

For each Census decade and racial group, I regress an indicator for leaving one's pre-Census metropolitan area on the recent immigrant share of the local labor force (the number of Southerners living in the metropolitan area at the time of the Census but not in the pre-Census period as a fraction of the area's pre-Census population).

The shift in population controls means figures on the labor force or number of employed or unemployed in January are not directly comparable to December.

California's labor force — the number of people who are employed or looking for work— has stagnated over the last year, reflecting in part the retirement of baby boomers and an out-migration of Californians to other states due to the high cost of housing, Reaser said.