Example sentences of "level of employment [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Their importance to the level of employment at the port was recognised by the journeymen carpenters who in 1792 let it be known that if the slave trade were abolished they would riot and pull down the houses of leading abolitionists .
2 We should be careful , then , not to confuse the level of employment with the level of output in the service industries .
3 Although many people had no clear idea of what level of employment was ‘ full ’ , none the less they felt it would not be the level of employment of the '20s or '30s .
4 Its foreword contained the kernel of the policy : ‘ The Government accept as one of their prime aims and responsibilities the maintenance of a high and stable level of employment after the war . ’
5 The conventional explanation of the coalition 's commitment to provide ‘ a high and stable level of employment after the war ’ is that men in positions of power were convinced the aim could be achieved by a policy of managing effective demand , as advocated by Keynes and his supporters .
6 The latter was significant because of its opening pledge : " The Government accepts as one of their primary aims and responsibilities the maintenance of a high and stable level of employment after the war . "
7 Compensation theory argues that the level of employment in the economy is , in the long run , determined only by the overall level of demand in the economy .
8 A decline in employment has followed a decline in the overall level of employment in the British Merchant Navy deep-sea trades .
9 The rate of decline has owed a great deal to the overall level of employment in the economy , so that year-to-year fluctuations have varied considerably — it has been calculated , for example , that a 1 per cent decline in the national level of unemployment is sufficient to provoke an increase in the outflow of labour from agriculture eight times as large .
10 The future level of employment in the defence industry is a matter for the commercial judgment of the companies concerned .
11 In particular , many of them are attempting to raise the level of employment in the small business sector through the provision of financial assistance .
12 The determination of the equilibrium level of national income is of central importance in macroeconomic analysis because it is this which determines to a large extent the level of employment in the economy .
13 At its hard edge it is critical of the threat of socialism itself , but it is also critical of Keynesianism — that theory of economic management which dominated the political consensus from the Second World War to the mid-seventies and which sought to maintain full(ish) levels of employment on the basis of governments managing the economy by manipulating the level of demand by putting money into , or taking it out of , the economy .
14 But humbly regret that the Gracious Speech seeks to continue economic policies which have caused a deep and damaging recession , falling output and investment , rising unemployment and record levels of business failures and house repossessions ; and call upon the Government to adopt a programme for recovery which will encourage investment and rising levels of employment by the promotion of sustained investment in the manufacturing sector , by encouraging industrial innovation through the application of science and technology and by fully exploiting the potential of the neglected regions through vigorous regional policies , and by providing new opportunities in education and training which are crucial to Britain 's economic recovery and future prosperity .
15 To ask the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement about levels of employment within the agricultural industry .
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