Office of Publications & Special Studies

The Editor’s Desk

• Metropolitan area employment, July 2010

Monthly Labor Review

July 2010 (in PDF format)

• Employment and earnings of recent veterans: data from the CPS
• PPI and CPI seasonal adjustment: an update
• Multiple jobholding during the 2000s
• Multiple jobholding in States in 2009

Compensation and Working Conditions

August 2010

• Workplace Safety and Health in the Health Care and Social Assistance Industry, 2003-07
• Disparities in Automatic Enrollment Plan Availability

Occupational Outlook Quarterly

Summer 2010

• Museum work: Put your skills on exhibit
• The 2010 SOC: A classification system gets an update
• Informational interviewing: Get the inside scoop on careers

Spotlight on Statistics

• Travel
• Employment Situation of Veterans
• African American History Month

Program Perspectives

• Program Perspectives on Combined Benefit plans (PDF)
• Program Perspectives on Frozen Defined-Benefit Plans (PDF)
• Program Perspectives on Paid Sick Leave (PDF)
• Program Perspectives on Benefits by Wage Level (PDF)
• Program Perspectives on Retirement Benefits (PDF)

Chartbooks

• Employment and Wages, Annual Averages 2008
• Chartbook: Employment and Wages, 2008
• Chartbook: Charting International Labor Comparisons
• Fatal Workplace Injuries in 2006: A Collection of Data and Analysis
• Occupational Injuries and Illnesses: Counts, Rates, and Characteristics, 2006

Reports

• Labor Force Characteristics by Race and Ethnicity, 2009 (PDF)
• A Profile of the Working Poor, 2008 (PDF)
• Highlights of Women’s Earnings in 2009, Report 1025 (PDF)

Regional Reports

• Colleges and Universities in the New York Metropolitan Area: Rapid Growth in Employment and Wages
• After the Dot-Com Bubble: Silicon Valley High-Tech Employment and Wages in 2001 and 2008 (PDF)

Issues in Labor Statistics

• The role of younger and older business establishments in the U.S. labor market (HTML)
• Labor force flows in the most recent recession (PDF)
• Seasonally adjusted hours series from the Current Population Survey (HTML) (PDF)
• Illness-related work absences during flu season (HTML) (PDF)
• Long-term unemployment experience of the jobless (HTML) (PDF)

Focus on Prices and Spending

• Focus on Prices and Spending: Health Care Spending: 1998, 2003, and 2008 (HTML) (PDF)
• Focus on Prices and Spending: PPI Industry or Commodity Data: Which Better Suits Your Needs? (HTML) (PDF)
• Focus on Prices and Spending: The use of the CPI in adjusting Federal income tax brackets and other Federal tax parameters (HTML) (PDF)
• Focus on Prices and Spending: China's Exchange Rate Policy Reflected in U.S. Import Prices; Quarterly Price Highlights (HTML) (PDF)

• Occupational Outlook Handbook
• Career Guide to Industries
• Occupational Projections and Training Data
• All Career Guides

• Monthly Labor Review
• Compensation and Working Conditions Online
• Occupational Outlook Quarterly

• CPI Detailed Report
• Employment & Earnings Online
• PPI Detailed Report

• Labor force flows in the most recent recession (PDF)
• Seasonally adjusted hours series from the Current Population Survey (PDF)
• Illness-related work absences during flu season (HTML) (PDF)
• Long-term unemployment experience of the jobless (HTML) (PDF)
• Record unemployment among older workers does not keep them out of the job market (HTML) (PDF)
• Job availability during a recession: an examination of the number of unemployed persons per job opening (HTML) (PDF)
• All firm sizes hit hard during the current recession (HTML) (PDF)
• All Issues In Labor Statistics

Recent Chartbooks:

• Chartbook: Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2008
• Fatal Workplace Injuries in 2006: A Collection of Data and Analysis
• Occupational Injuries and Illnesses: Counts, Rates, and Characteristics, 2006
• A Chartbook of International Labor Comparisons (2010 Edition)
• Employment and Wages, Annual Averages 2008
• Charting the U.S. Labor Market in 2006

Archived Chartbooks:

• Fatal Workplace Injuries in 2005: A Collection of Data and Analysis
• Occupational Injuries and Illnesses: Counts, Rates, and Characteristics, 2005
• Chartbook: Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2007
• Employment and Wages, Annual Averages 2007
• A Chartbook of International Labor Comparisons (March 2009)
• Occupational Injuries and Illnesses: Counts, Rates, and Characteristics, 2004
• Fatal Workplace Injuries in 2004: A Collection of Data and Analysis
• Chartbook: Fatal Occupational Injuries in the United States, 1995-1999
• Regional Economic Patterns in the United States, 1990-1999
• Working in the 21st Century

• The National Compensation Survey: Health Plan Provisions in Private Industry in the United States, 2008
• BLS Handbook of Methods
• "The First Hundred Years of the Bureau of Labor Statistics"
• Report on the American Workforce
• Report on the Youth Labor Force
• Geographic Profile
• Worklife Estimates: Effects of Race and Education (PDF 1.32MB)
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• From March 2009: Measures of Labor Underutilization from the Current Population Survey
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