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	Labor force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In economics the labor force is the group of people who have a potential for being employed.
		The ratio between the labor force and the overall size of their cohort (national population of the same age range) is known as the labor force participation rate.
		In the West during the latter half of the 20th century, the labor force participation rate increased significantly, largely due to the increasing number of women entering the workplace.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Labor_force (194 words)

	FRBSF: Economic Letter - Labor Market Effects of Welfare Reform 8/29/97)
		Near the beginning of an expansion increases in labor force participation tend to be broad-based across types of workers, reflecting the response of a diverse pool of individuals to improving employment opportunities.
		While the large pickup in labor force growth for women maintaining families appears correlated with the passage of welfare reform, part of the observed acceleration may be attributable to broader economic factors rather than to changes in welfare regulations.
		On the heels of welfare reform welfare caseloads declined precipitously and labor force participation rose, suggesting that welfare reform induced individuals to replace welfare with work and that their entry may be behind the rather unexpected surge in labor force participation that began late in 1996.
	www.frbsf.org /econrsrch/wklyltr/el97-24.html (1682 words)

	Background Paper: CBO's Projections of the Labor Force
		Participation in the labor force depends on various factors that are difficult to forecast, lending uncertainty to projections of participation.
		Because their participation was considerably higher in 2003 than it had been 10 years earlier, the projection incorporates the expectation that as the women in that cohort age, their participation rate in 2013 at ages 60 to 64 will be higher than their counterparts' was in 2003.
		To project rates of participation for men who will be in the oldest subgroup--ages 50 to 54--in 2014, CBO compares the participation rate of men in that age group today with their rate 10 years earlier, when the same cohort was ages 40 to 44.
	www.cbo.gov /showdoc.cfm?index=5803&sequence=0 (5943 words)

	Centrists.Org: The Worrisome Decline in the Labor Force Participation Rate
		Centrists.Org: The Worrisome Decline in the Labor Force Participation Rate
		The Worrisome Decline in the Labor Force Participation Rate
		Thus, the labor force participation rate is down by over a percentage point, from 67.1 percent in March 2001 to 65.9 percent in February 2004.
	www.centrists.org /pages/2004/03/5_lemieux_econ.html (760 words)

	Declining labor force participation - The Washington Times: Commentary - November 12, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The statistic in question is the labor force participation rate — the percentage of the working-age population employed or looking for a job.
		Labor force participation in the postwar years has been rising, mainly among women, with interruptions during times of economic weakness.
		Labor force participation is cyclically sensitive, rising and falling with the job market, though usually with a lag.
	www.washtimes.com /commentary/20041111-075630-3893r.htm (769 words)

	ECONOMIC REPORT FIRST QUARTER 1995-LABOR MARKET-The labor force participation rate and employment in Greater Buenos ...
		The combination of the rate of employment and the labor force participation rate establishes the rate of unemployment, which measures the proportion of the active population that is unemployed.
		The rate of occupation can be stated as the quotient between the rate of employment and the labor force participation rate: Increases or reductions in the employment rate can affect the rate of occupation offset by movements in the opposite direction in the labor force participation rate.
		The increase in the rate of employment in the period 1991-1993 is accompanied by an increase in the labor force participation rate.
	www.mecon.gov.ar /report/report13/labmark/lab1.htm (945 words)

	Opting Out of Work: What's Behind the Decline in Labor Force Participation? - Southwest Economy, Nov/Dec 2005 - FRB ...
		The labor force participation rate—the share of the adult population that is working or looking for work—has been declining in the United States in recent years.[1] The downward trend has generated concern among some economists and policymakers.
		To illustrate this point, the total change is decomposed into two parts: (1) the difference in labor force participation that is due to an increase or decrease in the group’s share of the adult population, and (2) the difference due to a change in the group’s propensity to participate in the labor force.
		Annual labor force participation rates by education are for the adult civilian noninstitutionalized population ages 25 to 64.
	www.dallasfed.org /research/swe/2005/swe0506a.html (4368 words)

	DEED: LMI Trends / January, 2004
		Labor force characteristics of youth aged 16 to 19 are collected by the BLS in the Current Population Survey (CPS), and there is some evidence to suggest that Minnesota's teens are hard workers.
		The labor force participation rate measures the percent of the civilian population that is in the labor force.
		Workforce participation rates measures the number of 16- to 19-year olds employed and unemployed persons as a proportion of the civilian non-institutional population who are 16- to 19-years old.
	www.deed.state.mn.us /lmi/publications/trends/0104/youth.htm (1764 words)

	Women's Bureau (WB) - Quick Facts on Women in the Labor Force in 2004
		With a labor force participation rate of 59.2 percent, women represented 46 percent of the total United States labor force.
		Labor force participation rates for women, by race, were: fl, 61.5 percent; white, 58.9 percent; Asian, 57.6 percent; and Hispanic, 56.1 percent.
		Here are the labor force participation rates for women age 25 years and over by educational attainment: with less than a high school diploma—32.5 percent; with a high school diploma—54.1 percent; some college, no degree—64.3 percent; associate degree—71.5; and bachelor’s degree and higher—72.8 percent.
	www.dol.gov /wb/factsheets/Qf-laborforce-04.htm (375 words)

	The First Measured Century: Book: Section 2.8
		The sharp jump in their work force participation in 1967 is a statistical artifact reflecting an increase in the defined minimum age of the labor force from fourteen to sixteen years old.
		Their labor force participation was only slightly lower than that of single women and considerably higher than that of widowed, divorced, and separated women.
		Their labor force participation rate increased more than fivefold, from 12 percent in 1950 to 64 percent in 1998, helping to create an entire industry of paid day care in the process.
	www.pbs.org /fmc/book/2work8.htm (379 words)

	Jan Bentze, et.al. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The purpose of the present analysis is to investigate the relationship between the divorce rate and labor market variables for the USA and Denmark as there are some striking similarities in the development of especially the divorce rates during the last decades.
		Causation between divorces and the female labor force participation rate is probably bi-directional but historically, the female labor force participation rate increases before the structural shift in the divorce rate in the late 1960s.
		When female labor force participation rates influence on the divorce rates, this ought to be taken into consideration when deciding about policies related to labor market conditions as the development in marital dissolutions has some obvious effects on social welfare.
	www.iaes.org /conferences/past/charleston_50/prelim_program/j00-1/bentzen.htm (589 words)

	WB - Statistics & Data
		Labor force participation rates for women, by race, were: fl, 61.6 percent; white, 58.9 percent; Asian, 58.2 percent; and Hispanic, 55.3 percent.
		Women are projected to comprise 47 percent of the total labor force in 2014.
		Here are the labor force participation rates for women age 25 years and over by educational attainment: with less than a high school diploma—32.9 percent; with a high school diploma—53.8 percent; some college, no degree—63.9 percent; associate degree—71.9 and bachelor’s degree and higher—72.9 percent.
	www.dol.gov /wb/stats/main.htm (311 words)

	Lowest July labor force participation rate for youth since 1972, MLR: The Editor's Desk
		About half of the youth in school in July were in the labor force compared with three-fourths of those not in school.
		The participation rates for young women (67.5 percent), young whites (73.9 percent), and young fls (60.4 percent), all edged lower from their 2000 levels.
		The Bureau of Labor Statistics is an agency within the U.S. Department of Labor.
	www.bls.gov /opub/ted/2001/Aug/wk4/art01.htm (197 words)

	Dillon County :: Labor : Availability (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The labor force participation rate is the percentage which results from dividing the civilian labor force count by the total civilian population.
		The unemployment rate in the county was 10.7 percent (avg.
		The unemployment rate should be used in conjunction with other labor force data to obtain a more comprehensive picture of the availability of qualified recruitable labor.
	www.dilloncounty.org /html/labor_availability.html (486 words)

	ACF Office of Refugee Resettlement - Policy \| Annual Report 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In October 1999, the overall labor force participation rate for the five-year refugee population was 69 percent (74 percent for males and 63 percent for females).
		The overall labor force participation rate for the 1999 arrivals was 54 percent.
		The unemployment rate was seven percent for 1999 arrivals and three percent for FY 1994 arrivals.
	www.acf.dhhs.gov /programs/orr/policy/99arc9.htm (1911 words)

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		Labor force participation rate is a ratio, expressed in percentage, of persons 10 years old and over who are employed and unemployed to the total population aged 10 years old and over.
		Higher labor force participation rate was noted in the rural stratum relative to Phnom Penh and other urban stratum presumably because of low education enrollment rates and participation in own account agricultural activities at a young age.
		Unemployment rate was estimated at 10.9 percent for both sexes, 10.8 percent for males, and 11.1 percent for females in Phnom Penh.
	www.ocm.gov.kh /c_lab.htm (1697 words)

	Labor
		Labor statisticians project that, by 2008, the number of workers over 55 will be three times the number of employees in what once might have been considered the prime working years, 25 to 44.
		Labor statisticians say that the number of older workers is growing so rapidly that soon they will compose the bulk of the workforce.
		In 1997, the labor-force participation rate among fl males aged 16 to 19 was 36% compared to 56% for white males.
	www.williamsinference.com /Anomalies/labor.htm (3777 words)

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		From Table 2, Missouri’s labor force participation rate for the core population rose to a high of a number 7 State ranking in 1997, and was as low as 12 in 1995.
		Again, this data is for the core labor force (age 25 to age 60) and during the five-and-a-half period from January 1995 through June 2000.
		Civilian labor force — the sum of the population that includes all of the individuals classified as employed or unemployed.
	cei.haag.umkc.edu /cei/EconRep/Dec00/9903.doc (1491 words)

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		Millions of potential workers who dropped out of the labor force during the recession four years ago have not returned as expected and are thus not counted in the official unemployment statistics, said Katharine Bradbury in a paper published by the Boston Fed. Read the study.
		Labor force participation rates "have not recovered as much as usual and the discrepancies are large," she wrote.
		The unemployment rate is derived by dividing the number of people who are unemployed (and looking) by the number of people in the labor force.
	www.marketwatch.com /News/Story/Story.aspx?guid={A4486D2F-D56A-402C-B769-C400D88B208D}&siteid=mktw (824 words)

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		The labor-force participation rate is the labor force (144,568,000) divided by the adult population (212,291,000) times 100%, which equals 68%.
		The unemployment rate is the number of unemployed (6,021,000) divided by the labor force (144,568,000) times 100%, which equals 4.2%.
		The labor force constantly increases as the population grows and as labor-force participation increases, so the increase in the number of people employed may always exceed the reduction in the number unemployed.
	www.mnstate.edu /stutes/Econ204/Sp2003/Key5.htm (728 words)

	Youth Indicators 1996 / Indicator 19, Chart 1. Mothers' Employment - Labor force participation rate of married women ...
		Labor force participation rate of married women with children under 18 years old, by age of children: 1950 to 1993
		Between 1970 and 1993, the participation rate for these women rose from 30 percent to 60 percent.
		A higher proportion of married women with older children are in the labor force than of those with children under 6.
	nces.ed.gov /pubs98/yi/y9619c.asp (200 words)

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		However, complications in interpretation and measurement arise due to the fact that the labor force is constantly changing as people are constantly entering and leaving the labor force.
		Answer: During the summer when he is not working, there will be no affect on the unemployment rate as the people that who do not want to work and are not looking for a job are not included in the calculation of unemployment rate.
		But since the labor-force participation rate is calculated from the whole adult population, the labor-force participation rate will fall.
	www.csun.edu /~hceco008/c24ci-jm.doc (336 words)

	Economist's View: Cyclical and Long-Term Labor Force Participation Rate Changes by Gender, Age, and Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		There's been a lot of interest in labor force participation rates and in explaining why they are declining relative to historical, though there has been some increase recently.
		The total change is decomposed into two parts: (1) the difference in labor force participation that is due to an increase or decrease in the group’s share of the adult population, and (2) the difference due to a change in the group’s propensity to participate in the labor force.
		suggests that participation rates are pro-cyclical—positively correlated with economic output—and that the strongest correlation for males and females is between GDP today and participation two and three quarters from today...
	economistsview.typepad.com /economistsview/2005/12/cyclical_and_lo.html (1774 words)

	Angry Bear
		Update: The Bureau of Labor Statistics allows one to form customized tables of items such as labor force participation rates for various subsets of the labor force.
		This data indicates two important things: (1) while the labor force participation rate did fall dramatically among those under 25, it actually rose for those 55 and over; and (2) labor force participation is rather low for the 55 and over group.
		For the 55-64 year old group, labor force participation was 59.2% as of Dec. 2000 and 62.9% as of March 2005.
	angrybear.blogspot.com /2005/05/does-early-retirement-explain-decline.html (338 words)

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		But a person who drops out of the labor force because he or she could not find a job is not included in the labor force even though he or she wants to work.
		Assuming these rates are the same in 2005 and the working-age population will be 153 million, the size of the employed labor force will bemillion people.
		The higher rates of unemployment among young adults in Australia and France as compared to the United States are in part attributable to Australia and France having higher mandated minimum wages.
	www.faculty.fairfield.edu /rakelly/Ec12/Trot_1207.doc (1698 words)

	NCPA - Economic Issues - Why Are Fewer Older Men Still Working? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The fall in what reseachers call the labor force participation rate of men would be even more dramatic, say economists, if the figures were adjusted to account for increases in life expectancy over the past 60 years.
		Adjusting the labor force participation rate to account for the increase in longevity -- and assuming older men are as able to work as their younger counterparts in 1940 -- the rate for 60-year-olds in 1940 was close to 80 percent -- 10 percentage points greater than the traditional calculation of 70 percent for 65-year-olds.
		The sharpest drop in the participation rate of older male workers occurred soon after 1961, when early retirement Social Security benefits were made available to men at age 62, and at about the time that Medicare became accessible (1966).
	www.ncpa.org /pd/economy/pd111099e.html (343 words)

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