Below you will find example sentences with "labor force". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Labor Force in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: labor
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 14
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 29.4 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "labor force" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 29.4 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as in the labor force, of the labor force, unemployment, rate and black stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with air force, task force, police force, labor day, child labor and labor laws, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with labor force
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
About 25% of the labor force was out of work. (10 words)
Recent usage has distinguished human capital (the stock of knowledge in the labor force ) from labor. (16 words)
Labor force As of 1995, the labor force was estimated at 3.6 million, but with a shortage of skilled labor. (21 words)
This has resulted in a huge number of deaths of old people, who may have had their pension (ranging from $10 to $90) as the only source of money. citation Labor Recent statistics are not available on Turkmenistan’s labor force. (41 words)
In September, the state’s unemployment rate hovered around 6 percent, but state labor economists suggest the actual rate could be closer to 9 percent because of an unusually high number of people no longer counted in the labor force. (40 words)
But “an eager pool of black labor did indeed exist,” she wrote, noting that a black labor force moved in when a large number of Hispanics were fired from a Carthage chicken plant in the mid-2000s. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics confirms Burkett’s characterization of those not included in the labor force, stating that “Persons who are neither employed nor unemployed are not in the labor force.
Labor force As of 1995, the labor force was estimated at 3.6 million, but with a shortage of skilled labor.
Some of that disparity is explained by economic inequality while another factor is that the white labor force is significantly higher than the black labor force.
In the agricultural sector (which in 1993 still accounted for approximately 60 percent of the labor force), unemployment has been estimated to be far worse than the figures for the total labor force.
Labor Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma mentioned that recent data from the Philippine Statistical Authority’s Labor Force Survey show progress in increasing employability, developing skills, and creating more job opportunities.
Given that 27 million are currently receiving unemployment insurance according to the Department of Labor, out of a total labor force of 160 million, real unemployment is twice the official number at 16.7%.
In September, the state’s unemployment rate hovered around 6 percent, but state labor economists suggest the actual rate could be closer to 9 percent because of an unusually high number of people no longer counted in the labor force.
Unlike the unemployment rate – which only tracks a segment of workers the labor force – the labor participation rate tracks the size of the workforce itself.
But “an eager pool of black labor did indeed exist,” she wrote, noting that a black labor force moved in when a large number of Hispanics were fired from a Carthage chicken plant in the mid-2000s.
Its facile dismissal of women’s labor force participation required correction, as did its delineation of their domestic labor as a remnant from precapitalist modes of production that had somehow survived into the capitalist present.
The monthly unemployment rate is a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicator that reflects the number of unemployed people seeking employment within the prior four weeks as a percentage of the labor force.
It reported that “no record of any violations were received,” though it reported that a 2014 labor force survey found the prevalence of child labor across sectors is around 4.6 percent.
Industry and construction account for approximately one-fifth of GDP and labor, while agriculture is responsible for 2.1% of GDP and 8.5% of the labor force.
Recent usage has distinguished human capital (the stock of knowledge in the labor force ) from labor.
Schwekendiek, Daniel, "A socioeconomic history of North Korea", Jefferson and London: McFarland Publishers, 2011, p.122 Labor Growth and changes in the structure and ownership pattern of the economy also have changed the labor force.
This has resulted in a huge number of deaths of old people, who may have had their pension (ranging from $10 to $90) as the only source of money. citation Labor Recent statistics are not available on Turkmenistan’s labor force.
Georgia’s labor force grew in August by 5,478, adding to a total work force of more than 5.1 million.
About 25% of the labor force was out of work.
And that’s also significant because of the labor force participation rising at the same time, meaning that we’re also seeing more Iowans entering the pool,” he says.
And the Black labor force participation rate - which measures how many people have jobs or are searching for work - surpassed the level for whites last month.