Wages, a good gauge of labour demand, are growing sluggishly.
There is simply not enough labour demand to go around.
"Labour demand should begin to accelerate again after the vote.
Both hours worked and wages notched meaningful increases, hinting at the robustness of labour demand.
Falling labour demand reduced dockworkers' bargaining power and cut the number of strikes.
Germany's Kurzarbeit programme shared declines in labour demand across workers by curtailing hours, for example.
The surviving mills have been reequipped for high productivity, but this, too, has had the effect of reducing labour demand.
Restricting migration where there is labour demand may seriously harm regional economies as businesses close and local workers are retrenched.
The dominance of capital-intensive firms in recovery dampens labour demand, which can only be offset by a falling real cost of labour.
But as Europe's pummelled economies continue their recovery and labour demand picks up, the figures are likely to start rising again.
In the wake of a less brutal recession and recovery most of the joblessness associated with 6.7% unemployment would clearly represent a cyclical shortfall in labour demand.
