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May 2017
Consumer Expenditure Surveys Methods Symposium and Microdata Users’ Workshop, July 12–15, 2016
The Consumer Expenditure Survey program held its annual Survey Methods Symposium and Microdata User’s Workshop from July 12–15, 2016.
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Music for the people: the role of music in the southern textile strikes of 1929–34
This book offers an account of how local radio and music in the 1920s and 1930s played a role in unifying textile-mill workers in their struggle for better working conditions.
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The “marriage premium” and the economic impact it can have on children
Research shows that the effect on children of a mother’s marital status depends in part on the mother’s level of education.
Words pack a punch in online job recruiting
Researchers look at how effectively the words used in job listings recruit the desired applicants.
Is there age discrimination in hiring?
A new study offers extensive statistical evidence that there is age discrimination in hiring and that women experience more age discrimination than men.
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Tradable and nontradable inflation indexes: replicating New Zealand’s tradable indexes with BLS CPI data
Examining price transmission across labor compensation costs, consumer prices, and finished-goods prices
Employment expansion continues but at a slower pace
Unemployment holds steady for much of 2016 but edges down in the fourth quarter
An analysis of private long-term disability insurance access, cost, and trends
Economic productivity in the air transportation industry: multifactor and labor productivity trends, 1990–2014
Flashback
This month is a time to celebrate education and the teachers who teach it; let’s also look at education in an MLR article during another time—1994.
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