1998 Archived articles from The Editor’s Desk (in chronological order)
December 1998
- Workers with longer workweeks often earn more per hour (12/31/1998)
- Majority of employees have unpaid family leave benefit (12/30/1998)
- Professional and managerial occupations have higher wages (12/29/1998)
- Injuries and illnesses with lost workdays declining (12/28/1998)
- Consumer expenditures rise 3.0 percent in 1997 (12/24/1998)
- Physicians work the longest weeks (12/23/1998)
- Auto dealers are fewer, bigger, and employ more workers (12/22/1998)
- Entrants concentrated in sales, clerical, and service occupations (12/21/1998)
- Injury and illness incidence rate lowest on record (12/18/1998)
- High income households allocate smaller expenditure shares to necessities (12/17/1998)
- Share of workers experiencing unemployment at record low (12/16/1998)
- Homeowner expenditures take more out of budgets in Northeast and West (12/15/1998)
- Young workers more likely to try new occupations (12/14/1998)
- Suburbanites enjoy better labor market outcomes (12/11/1998)
- Quality changes bigger factor for light truck prices than for car prices in 1999 model year (12/10/1998)
- More people are working year-round (12/09/1998)
- Higher share of consumer expenditures going to homeowner expenses (12/08/1998)
- Services industry has highest number of emerging occupations (12/07/1998)
- Eight counties reported employment greater than 1 million in 1996 (12/04/1998)
- Employment declined in 27 large counties in 1996 (12/03/1998)
- Few of the Nation’s largest counties recorded pay declines in 1996 (12/02/1998)
- Nevada’s Clark County reported largest percent increase in employment in 1996 (12/01/1998)
November 1998
- Average annual pay highest in New York County in 1996 (11/30/1998)
- Labor productivity increases in most industries from 1987 to 1996 (11/13/1998)
- Education has positive impact on labor market activity of severely disabled (11/12/1998)
- Five states account for majority of public sector work stoppages (11/10/1998)
- New occupations emerging across industry lines (11/09/1998)
- Majority of employment in industries with rising productivity (11/06/1998)
- 3 of 10 persons with severe disabilities are active in the labor market (11/05/1998)
- Compensation costs increase with establishment size (11/04/1998)
- Many retail trade workers paid less than $10 per hour (11/03/1998)
- Three factors led to 1996 grain price shock (11/02/1998)
October 1998
- About 1 in 6 college graduates earns less than high school graduates (10/30/1998)
- Total compensation costs double from 1981 to 1997 (10/29/1998)
- Abundant career opportunities projected in information technology (10/28/1998)
- Securities and commodities brokers lead industries earning high wages (10/27/1998)
- Consumer expenditure rise largely attributable to discretionary spending (10/26/1998)
- Earnings increase substantially with additional education (10/23/1998)
- International average of factory worker compensation falls relative to U.S. (10/22/1998)
- Impact of grain price shocks may be lessening (10/21/1998)
- Childcare benefits remain uncommon (10/20/1998)
- More high school graduates enrolling in college (10/19/1998)
- Consumer expenditures rise at highest rate since 1989 (10/16/1998)
- Nonmanufacturing workers face increasing incidence of job displacement (10/15/1998)
- Large employers provide more training for employees (10/14/1998)
- People average 8.6 jobs from ages 18 to 32 (10/13/1998)
- Highway fatalities on-the-job reach all-time high in 1997 (10/09/1998)
- Defense-related employment decline projected to slow (10/08/1998)
- Employer costs for employee compensation higher in goods-producing industries (10/07/1998)
- Job tenure declines among men (10/06/1998)
- Unit labor costs fall in broad range of countries (10/05/1998)
- Fewer youths hired this summer (10/02/1998)
- Jobs requiring low levels of educational attainment grow faster in U.S. than in Japan or Europe (10/01/1998)
September 1998
- Job-related deaths are less likely for women (09/30/1998)
- Fewer medium and large private employers provide dental care for employees (09/29/1998)
- General Motors strikes affect employment counts (09/28/1998)
