If the answer is yes, the respondent is considered in the labor force, but unemployed.
If the answer is yes, the responder is considered in the labor force and employed.
Courtesy of the Great Recession, men are no longer dominators in the labor force.
Particularly as they increase productivity and gradually shrink the labor force through normal retirement and attrition.
That is a far cry from 1933 when 25% of the labor force was unemployed.
The red line is the percentage of the working-age population in the labor force.
Without this adjustment the labor force increased by 851, 000 and employment increased by 1.11 million.
This is yet another reason why we need to strengthen the labor force (private sector).
Today, less than 10% of the native-born men in the labor force are high school dropouts.
The labor force participation rate, which peaked in 2000, has been trending lower ever since.
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He will point to the fact that the labor force shrunk during the recession.
To be more precise, the 1975 labor force was only 0.5% larger than the 1960 labor force.
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If not, they are considered not part of the labor force, and are not counted as unemployed.
As such, the percentage of the population participating in the labor force declined from 65.7 to 63.8.
About half of all disability-insurance applicants are eventually awarded benefits, and only rarely re-enter the labor force.
Moreover, the growth of two-income households cannot be blamed for the relative contraction of the labor force.
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In 1950, only 12% of mothers with children under the age of six were in the labor force.
This stability reflects roughly proportional rises in the labor force and employment, as measured by the household survey.
In fact, the marriage gap accounts for much of the income inequality in the labor force today.
Today, food accounts for just eight per cent of household income and two per cent of the labor force.
Now, the baby boomers are retiring and the women who want to work are already in the labor force.
Unemployment is only lower because there are fewer workers in the labor force.
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At the same time, the labor force participation rate is near 30-year lows.
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In 1870, 53 percent of the labor force was employed in farming.
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For every 17 people in the labor force, there is now one recipient of Social Security disability program payments.
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But in September, the labor force actually grew by 418, 000 to 155.1 million, as labor-force participation stayed the same.
My big reservation is we are no longer the land of opportunity for new entrants into the labor force.
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Most of the labor force is engaged in subsistence agriculture, especially livestock herding, although drought has decreased agricultural activity.
The labor force participation rate was also unchanged at 63.6 percent in December.
This is Japanese GDP per member of the labor force divided by US GDP per member of the labor force.
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