(The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Archived articles from The Editor's Desk—
Hours
- Average time spent caring for household children, 2006–2010 (09/02/2011)
- Time spent in leisure activities, 2010 (06/27/2011)
- Average time spent caring for household children, 2005–2009 (07/01/2010)
- Percent of men and women engaged in household activities, 2009 (06/29/2010)
- Hours spent on childcare by mothers and fathers, 2003–07 (12/09/2009)
- Hours spent doing unpaid household work by age and sex, 2003–07 (08/06/2009)
- Access to medical care benefits: private industry vs. State and local government (07/29/2009)
- Comparisons of full- and part-time hourly earnings, 2007 (07/28/2009)
- Time spent in household activities, 2008 (06/29/2009)
- Average hours that men and women worked in 2008 (06/25/2009)
- Working at home, 2003-2007 (06/23/2009)
- Which workers spend the most time working at home? (04/28/2009)
- Involuntary part-time work (01/06/2009)
- Healthcare occupations and workdays (09/19/2008)
- Household activities in 2007 (06/27/2008)
- Average hours that men and women worked in 2007 (06/26/2008)
- Older teachers work more hours than younger teachers (04/25/2008)
- Retirement benefits of State and local government workers (03/26/2008)
- Working at home in 2006 (07/13/2007)
- Household activities in 2006 (07/03/2007)
- Average hours of work of men and women, 2006 (07/02/2007)
- The average day, 2006 (06/29/2007)
- Men's and women's work hours, 2005 (10/04/2006)
- Time spent at work in 2004 (10/07/2005)
- Leisure activities in 2004 (10/06/2005)
- The average day in 2004 (09/22/2005)
- Formal flexitime programs not common (07/07/2005)
- Flexible work schedules in 2004 (07/05/2005)
- Absence rates and industry, 2004 (02/15/2005)
- Absence rates and occupation, 2004 (02/14/2005)
- Hours: Two surveys compared (01/06/2005)
- Women work more hours per week than in the past (04/27/2004)
- Hours, earnings, and payrolls in August (09/08/2003)
- Part-time for economic reasons (01/29/2003)
- Farm jobs and managerial positions have lowest absence rate (01/28/2003)
- Earnings of part-timers (07/02/2002)
- Paid by the hour in 2001 (06/27/2002)
- One in 7 work evening, night, other shifts (04/30/2002)
- Over one quarter of full-time workers have flexible schedules (04/19/2002)
- About one in ten 16-year-old students working more than half-time (10/10/2001)
- Are youths working more now than in the past? (10/05/2001)
- Working more than one job in 2000 (09/21/2001)
- Lowest absence rate in farm jobs (03/23/2001)
- Reasons for working part time (03/21/2001)
- How seven pluses and a zero make a small minus for working hours (01/29/2001)
- Fewer hours, fewer benefits (09/21/2000)
- Average weekly hours drop in all retail trade industries (09/19/2000)
- Changes in average weekly hours, 1964-99 (09/06/2000)
- Executives most likely to have flexible work hours (07/26/2000)
- Longer hours at the top? (06/21/2000)
- Growth and overtime higher in durables factories (04/11/2000)
- Transportation equipment makers added the most overtime (03/31/2000)
- Overtime contributes to factory recovery (03/24/2000)
- Part-time workers in 1998 (02/23/2000)
- Full-time working couples more common (11/02/1999)
- Most hours in private sector now supplied by those with more than a high school education (09/29/1999)
- Hours worked for women with children rise (09/22/1999)
- Temps work same hours as other services workers (09/15/1999)
- Workweeks shorter in 1998 (04/02/1999)
Of interest
Spotlight on Statistics: The Recession of 2007–2009
The most recent recession in the United States began in December 2007 and ended in June 2009, though many of the statistics that describe the U.S. economy have yet to return to their pre-recession values. In this Spotlight, we present BLS data that compare the recent recession to previous recessions.
Read more »
|
