Reduced rates of return will lower investment rates.

Alternatively, labor could migrate from high unemployment southern Europe to lower unemployment northern Europe.

Unemployment and poverty rates are very high.

Unemployment harms workers, while the lower interest rates needed to generate more jobs may lead to higher inflation, which especially harms those with nominal assets whose value is eroded.

While the decline in aggregate demand led to reduced imports, the combination of higher interest rates, lower public expenditure, tax increases, and wage deflation boosted unemployment and triggered recession.

Were unemployment lower, the worries about outsourcing would be less.

Bank interest rates on savings are lower than the inflation rate and many multiples lower than the rates promised by the informal sector.

Eventually, the sovereign debt crisis might hit the real economy, with Europe ending up in a vicious circle of even higher deficits, lower growth rates, exploding unemployment, and decreasing competitiveness.

Both were reluctant to lower interest rates markedly.

Unemployment rates for females are higher than those for males, and youth unemployment is greater than that of adults.

Lower interest rates are not a solution to this dilemma.

In recent years, the response rates have been lower still.

As rates of economic growth have declined, this has meant growing unemployment.

Wages are already falling under the weight of extremely high unemployment rates.

Unemployment rates, however, remained critically high, especially in the more diversified economies.

These small businesses, too, are not helped by lower interest rates.

Truman twice vetoed bills to lower income tax rates in 1947.

Lower interest rates can thus lead to lower consumption in surplus countries, thereby increasing the supply of loanable funds.

It needs policies that hold out the promise of lower unemployment and better times.

Slack labor markets with rising unemployment rates will cap wage and labor costs.

I see production 10 below capacity, and I see unemployment rates approaching 10 .

The central bank would lower interest rates households would spend in anticipation of lower taxes and business confidence would rise.

Birth rates, infant mortality rates, and death rates are lower in cities than in rural areas owing to better access to education, medicines and hospitals.

François Mitterrand promised rapid growth and lower unemployment when he came to power in 1981, but presided over an economic slowdown and rising unemployment.

The zero lower bound arises because nominal interest rates cannot fall below zero.

And yet global interest rates are even lower now than they were then.

Unemployment rates for 1999 were 0.5 per cent for men and 0.6 per cent for women, with slightly higher rates in rural areas.

It also explains why Continental Europe has had such high unemployment rates for so long.

For over 20 years I have argued that Western Europe s high unemployment rates are unsustainable.

Key trends in emerging market economies include high and increasing unemployment and low employment rates.

Young people have the highest rates of unemployment and are in many ways the most vulnerable to the social depredations caused by unemployment and poverty.

Goods taxed at high rates (for example, polished granite) are sold as goods taxed at lower rates (for example, as unpolished granite).

In 1998 we examined OECD data for a correlation between national unemployment rates in the mid 1990 s and current tax rates on labor.

In economics, the Phillips curve is a historical inverse relationship between rates of unemployment and corresponding rates of inflation that result in an economy.

In Europe, lower rates risk aggravating the problem by lowering the returns for savers.

Rates of migraines are slightly lower in Asia and Africa than in Western countries.

Primary school completion rates are lower among indigenous populations than among non indigenous populations.

And lowering the rates that government pays has not translated into correspondingly lower interest rates for the many small firms struggling for financing.

These states also tended to have the largest rise in unemployment rates between 2006 and 2009.

In 2004, we looked at labor force participation rates and again at unemployment. Still no correlation.

Unemployment rates and budget deficits are higher, and public debt GDP ratios are at record levels.

In slightly older age groups, the unemployment rates are much closer to those of other women.

Nevertheless, the US is able to borrow at dramatically lower interest rates than Greece can.

As a result, interest rates in those countries are lower than they would otherwise be.

Inflation and interest rates in Japan lately have been even lower than in the US.