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Featured Article
Featured article image November 2024

Industry and occupational employment projections overview and highlights, 2023–33

Javier Colato, Lindsey Ice, Sofia Laycock

Total employment is projected to grow by 4.0 percent and add 6.7 million jobs from 2023 to 2033.

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Book Reviews
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Exploring the effects of labor market institutions

Tyler Rogers

This book examines labor market institutions, the interactions among them, and their individual and combined effects on employment and wages in imperfect labor markets.

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Beyond BLS

Teachers don’t strike out with strikes

Eleni X. Karageorge

Strikes are effective in achieving raises and improving working conditions in schools.

Effects of postdisaster recovery loans on the economic outcomes of firms

Yavor Ivanchev

Economists examine the effectiveness of government recovery assistance in aiding small businesses after natural disasters.

The decline of the teaching profession

Lisa N. Huynh

Although teachers are among one of the most prominent and essential occupations in the United States, there has been a rapid decline in interest and prestige for them throughout the past 50 years.

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