active labour force

基本解释

In the OECD, a club of mostly rich countries, 61% of women are active in the labour force.
在经合组织（一个多数为富国的俱乐部）成员国中，61%的妇女是活跃劳动力。
It elabourates that the regional labour force mobility is a factor of economic growth in China; the more active labour force flows, the higher economic growth level will be;
在中国，区域劳动力流动的变化是影响经济增长水平变化的因素之一：地区劳动力流动越活跃，经济增长的水平越高；
Third, the active labour force will increase by 650 thousands in 2006-2050, so the quality of human resources will have more and more influence on the economical development of Tibet in the future;
2050年劳动适龄人口将增加65万，劳动力资源质量的高低对西藏未来经济的发展影响越来越大；

This happens when there are relatively few children (because of the fall in fertility), relatively few older people (because of higher mortality previously), and lots of economically active adults, including, often, many women, who enter the labour force in large numbers for the first time.
ECONOMIST: Demography
The ranks of the unemployed are often replenished by those moving from outside the labour force—that is, from not looking for work at all—into active jobseeking.
ECONOMIST: An intractable problem is getting worse