Only when a positive employment trend has been sustained enough to improve the lending environment will most banks step up to the plate with higher rates on savings accounts.
Government employment continued to trend down.
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At the same time, there is a growing trend of remote employment, facilitated online, that is creating opportunity for businesses and professionals and is poised to address these labor market frictions.
The main conclusion from this demographic work is that, barring a new increase in female labor force participation or a significant increase in the growth rate of the population, these demographic factors point towards a further decline in trend growth of employment and hours in the coming decades.
But the Federation of Small Businesses said its own research suggested employment intentions were sliding - a trend it expected to continue.
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The weak economy might have inspired more students to start up their own businesses - with a steady upward entrepreneurial trend in self-employment.
Would anybody seriously deny that the Reagan policies of the early 1980s had such a significant effect on economic growth and employment that they changed the growth trend line?
While the U.S. economy remains strong, factory jobs are being outsourced, a slowing housing market has killed construction jobs over the past several months and manufacturing employment has been on a downward trend in recent years.
Better education also makes possible the other main trend changing marriage: female employment.
Last week we saw jobless claims come in higher than expected, breaking a recent trend of improvement in the employment picture.
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Within professional and business services, employment in temporary help services continued to trend up and has risen by 495, 000 since a recent low in September 2009.
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If this trend continues, companies directly related to the employment market will prosper, such as Automatic Data Processing.
Payroll employment declined 190, 000 in October, continuing the steady trend of moderating job loss that began last spring.
For a while birth rates were lower in countries where lots of women worked outside the home, but more recently that trend has been reversed: higher fertility and higher employment rates for women go together.
The bulk of growth comes from the increase in our population of about 3 million people and the growing need to simply replace stuff that is wearing out, not enough to get the economy back to trend growth much less the strong growth needed to restore employment to 2007 levels.
While the trend dates back to the 1950s, the decline in manufacturing employment really becomes clear starting in the early 1970s, when manufacturing jobs made up about 30% of all private payrolls.
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"The employment numbers are not good news, but they're still in line with the trend of continuing deterioration in the job market, " said Bill Stone, chief market analyst at PNC Wealth Management.
The trend, though, is a little discouraging: the 40, 000 rise in employment in the three months to October is the smallest since the start of the year.
The trend is expected to accelerate this year given the framework of the looming health-care law, employment analysts predict.
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But that increase, while welcome for those workers who now have a job, barely changes the larger trend: 11.8 million Americans work in manufacturing today, down 40% from peak manufacturing employment in June 1979.
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