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(yè)者，幫助抑制了失業(yè)率的增長，目前美國失業(yè)率為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(yè)率下降的原因不是因為創(chuàng)造了就業(yè)機會，而是因為愿意工作的人群，也就是勞動力隊伍，并沒有擴大。
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只是到現(xiàn)在才停止找工作，那似乎表明他們在一個持續(xù)很久的期間重新加入勞動力大軍，從而提高失業(yè)率。

The third effect is to erode California's claim to have America's most highly skilled 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.