labour force

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Those out of work choosing to leave the labour force helped contain the rise in unemployment, now at 9.5 per cent.
那些選擇離開勞動力大軍的失業者，幫助抑制了失業率的增長，目前美國失業率爲9.5%。
The reason is that unemployment is falling not just because of job creation but because the pool of people who want to work, the labour force, is not growing.
失業率下降的原因不是因爲創造了就業機會，而是因爲願意工作的人群，也就是勞動力隊伍，竝沒有擴大。
But if the disheartened are only now ceasing their search for work, that suggests a drawn out period in which they rejoin the labour force, lifting the unemployment rate.
但如果那些氣餒的人衹是到現在才停止找工作，那似乎表明他們在一個持續很久的期間重新加入勞動力大軍，從而提高失業率。

The third effect is to erode California's claim to have America's most highly skilled labour force.
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Back in 2007 the agency thought that the potential labour force would be 160m in 2012.
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That should be enough to draw accurate inferences about the entire American labour force.
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all the people in a particular country who are of the right age to work, or all the people who work for a particular company

The labour force consists of all the people who are able to work in a country or area, or all the people who work for a particular company.