Thirty-five yeago ago there was a massive difference in women's labour force participation between married and single women: Now the difference is marginal, and in some age groups married women are more likely to be in the labour force: Income splitting would seek to undo this trend at a time when lifting labour force participation is crucial given the ageing population.
(Or, if enough humans couldn't be found in the US labour force, a massive investment in assembly robots could be an alternative — such as we're starting to see Apple outsourcer Foxconn make — which would presumably not be the kind of long term (human) jobs Trump was hoping to create…).
We find that the massive influx of graduates into the labour force has been absorbed with no increase in overeducation.
In particular, the massive influx of graduates into the labour force in the age bracket 25 39 years was absorbed with no increase in overeducation.
Black migrant workers, long the backbone of South Africa's industrial labour force, are lodged in massive, single-sex hostels located close to the workplace or on the edge of black townships.
Such massive constructions would have needed a large labour force (up to 200 men) suggestive of large communities nearby.
Secondly, rapid economic expansion in urban areas has created massive rural to urban movement in the labour force.
In fact, the exponential economic growth in Shenzhen has commonly been attributed to the massive foreign direct investments and the influx of cheap labour force constituted mainly by migrant workers in manufacturing, at least by the early 2000s (Fan and Sun 2008; Niu et al. 2016; see also Shenzhen Special Economic Zone Yearbook 1985–2003).
The basic idea was to convert the massive labour surplus in China's hinterlands into a huge production force through a radical reorganization of rural production.
The Egyptians' most striking technical achievement, massive stone building, also exploited the potential of a centralized state to mobilize a huge labour force, which was made available by efficient agricultural practices.
By 1991, a massive decline in employment with a loss of about 3.5 million jobs (35% of the labour force) by the end of 1992; unemployment rose from almost zero at the beginning of 1990 to 15.4% of the labour force in 1992 [ 15].
