Sentence examples for labour force shrinking from inspiring English sources

With the labour force shrinking and ageing, companies and the government are both likely to try much harder to bring more women into the labour force and to use them in skilled and responsible positions.

The so-called "labour force participation rate", which measures the proportion of the working-age population who are working or looking for work, is thought to have remained steady at 64.1percentt for the past three years, showing no sign of the labour force shrinking.

It was the second-straight month the labor force shrank.

For years the proportion of the population in the labour force shrank, as disappointed jobseekers gave up hope.

According to household-survey data, 297,000 more Americans were employed in December than a month earlier, while the country's labour force shrank by 260,000.

Between 1975 and 1984, four million members were lost, and the unionized share of the labour force shrank from 28.9 percent to below 20 percent.

China's demographic landscape has aged dramatically: the labour force shrank in 2012 for the first time in almost 50 years, and the ratio of taxpayers to pensioners will decline from almost five to one to just over two to one by 2030.

The unemployment rate also edged down, by a fifth of a percentage point to 9.5% in June, largely because the labour force shrank as fewer people sought work.Retail sales in the euro area crept up by 0.2% in May from the previous month.Spanish industrial production grew by 5.1% in the year to the end of May.

Output increases, marginal land is left fallow, the agricultural labour force shrinks and people move to the towns.

In a few decades, as the country's labour force shrinks, it may turn into a deficit.

Economists generally agree that the ageing of populations leads to slower growth, because a country's potential output tends to fall as its labour force shrinks.