The decline came because of a 20 basis point drop in the labor-force participation rate.
Last month the unemployment rate dropped because of a drop in the labor participation rate.
We see no reason why that participation rate can't reach as high as 90%.
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The labor force participation rate, which peaked in 2000, has been trending lower ever since.
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The increase in the rate, however, was caused by the rise in the participation rate to 64.7%.
Their participation rate showed an upwards trend which the occasional recession would slow or flatten, but not reverse.
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Even among workers with full-time, full-year jobs, the participation rate was just 54.4% down from 60.4% a decade earlier.
They have a higher labor-participation rate than native-born Americans, and they also create new businesses at a higher rate.
The pilot program, sent out to 50, 000 taxpayers, had a 27% participation rate.
Millions more have dropped out of the work force, with the lowest labor participation rate in over 30 years.
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At the same time, the labor force participation rate is near 30-year lows.
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The overall labor force participation rate had declined all the way back to September, 1981, before the Reagan recovery.
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The labor force participation rate was also unchanged at 63.6 percent in December.
The female-participation rate in the workforce is 46%, the lowest in western Europe.
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The labor force rose by 578, 000 people in October, and the labor force participation rate increased by 0.2 percentage point.
Furthermore, the fall in unemployment might have as much to do with the low participation rate as with job creation.
The US female labor force participation rate, is rising over time, and for most of recent history higher than in Japan.
The participation rate, a measure of health in the labor market, slid again to 63.3%, marking the lowest level since 1979.
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Note that each percentage point decrease in labor force participation rate is equivalent to 3 million people leaving the labor force.
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And so, given the declining participation rate, the 20% underemployment figures may actually understate the true level of unemployment in the economy.
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The labor force participation rate for mothers of young children stood at 70.6% in 2011, compared with 47% in 1975.
Since Roth revamped things the participation rate jumped from 66% to 93%.
In August, the labor force participation rate for men was the lowest on record, which goes all the way back to 1948.
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The labor force participation rate was unchanged at 63.6 percent in January.
The labor force participation rate declined by 0.2 percentage point last month.
The civilian labor force declined by 496, 000 over the month, with the labor force participation rate falling by 0.2 percentage point to 63.3%.
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The economic consequence will be either higher unemployment, a further decline in the labor force participation rate, or a combination of the two.
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The Hewitt study found that the participation rate--the percentage of employees eligible for 401(k)s who contributed to them--was unchanged from 2008 at 74%.
The labor-force participation rate, which measures the percentage of working-age people in the workforce, also dropped to 63.5%, the lowest in 30 years.
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Moreover, the labor force participation rate, which is a measure of the percentage of people working in the entire population, is falling precipitously.
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