Factors such as unemployment and the number of young people attending further education also influence labour force participation rates.

The participation gap is captured using the difference in labour force participation rates.

As part of this trend many workers acquired relatively high skill levels and female labour force participation rates greatly increased.

A comparison over the years of child labour force participation rate across gender and residence is shown in Table 1 below:

The labour force participation rates for males were over 70% while the rates for females were below 40%.

In developed countries, recent increases in labour force participation rates of older workers are due to changing work patterns of:

Overseas-born New Zealand Chinese, who accounted for a third of the Asian population, had a labour force participation rate of 45 percent in 2001.

Labour Force Participation Rate(2009)

The 1990-1991 Pakistan Integrated Household Survey indicated that the female labour force participation rate was 45% in rural areas and 17% the urban areas.

Labour force participation rate; as the number looking for jobs increases relative to total population, the unemployment rate increases, shifting the curve outwards from the origin.

In fact, one subject which has been well researched quantitatively is the impact of paid maternity leave on prime-age female labour force participation rates (FLFPR).

The Singapore Government and the NTUC have tried a range of programs to increase lagging productivity and boost the labour force participation rates of women and older workers.

For example, labour force participation rates for women have, until very recently, been low, so that in 1981 approximately 60 per cent of women between the ages of 20 and 59 were defined by the census as economically active.

This led not only to the aggravation of unemployment problems but also to the lowering of labour force participation rates through earlier retirement and fewer married women returning to work after child-rearing - a phenomenon which, not surprisingly, was particularly marked in northern cities and industrial towns.

The labor force participation rate for older workers has been rising since the late 1990s.

The labor force participation rate, in fact, has been stuck at 66.3 percent since July.

New Jersey labor force participation rates are at an all-time high, he said.

After decades of significant increases, the labor force participation rate for women has held steady in recent years.

The labor force participation rate for CT-04 is about 2% over the national average.

Accordingly, the female labor force participation rate doubled between 1974 and 1984, when it reached nearly 8 percent.

Factors such as unemployment and the number of young people attending further education also influence labour force participation rates.

Table 2 lists the labor force participation rates of women in eleven majority Muslim countries.

Women's labor force participation rate and literacy rate has been on the rise.

Actually, the overall labor force participation rates of whites and blacks are roughly equal.

This is especially notable because the 65-and-over labor force participation rate had been at historic lows during the 1980s and early 1990s.

Afghanistan's female labor force participation rate, for example, was 15% in 2010 according to World Bank figures.

The overall labor force participation rate is expected to decline for the remainder of the decade, projected to fall to 62.5% in 2020.

Women's labor force participation rates have steadily increased since the 1940s Since the 1970s, the relationship between marriage and college education has also been positive.

A basic indicator of women's involvement in the formal economy is a statistic known as the labor force participation rate.

The participation gap is captured using the difference in labour force participation rates.

The overall labor force participation rate of women is projected to attain its highest level in 2010, at 62 percent."

The labor force participation rate is a key component in long-term economic growth, almost as important as productivity.

Therefore, women would have a relatively higher ratio of female to male workers than its female labor force participation rate may suggest.

As part of this trend many workers acquired relatively high skill levels and female labour force participation rates greatly increased.

Yet two-thirds were born in the United States, and they have the highest labor force participation rate of all the groups surveyed for the report.

A comparison over the years of child labour force participation rate across gender and residence is shown in Table 1 below:

They also reflect projections of labor force participation rates, unemployment rates, and weekly hours worked.

Increase in women's labor force participation rate does not mean that women and men are treated equally in the labor market.

They also discussed low labor force participation rates among certain groups, such as high school dropouts, low-income individuals, and some minority groups.