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September 2018
Why are employer-sponsored health insurance premiums higher in the public sector than in the private sector?
In this article, we examine the factors explaining differences in public and private sector health insurance premiums for enrollees with single coverage.
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Work sharing: reducing unemployment in good times and bad
This book compares the employment-saving effects of eight work-sharing programs during the Great Recession.
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The fall of employment in the manufacturing sector
A look at factors that have contributed to the decline of the manufacturing sector since 1980.
What happened to the employers surveyed by the BLS Mass Layoff Statistics Program?
Detailing outcomes for employers with mass layoffs.
Labor force participation and employment rates declining for prime-age men and women
This article examines data showing declines in labor force participation rates and employment-to-population ratios of prime age men and women, and some possible reasons for the declines.
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Productivity in transit: a new measure of labor productivity for urban transit systems
Shale gas production and labor market trends in the U.S. Marcellus–Utica region over the last decade
Multifactor productivity slowdown in U.S. manufacturing
Cross-validation of quality-adjustment methods for price indexes
Healthcare jobs and the Great Recession
Producer prices, 2017: inflation accelerates across the stages of production
Flashback
As we recognize the contributions of Hispanic Americans, we can read in an August 1988 MLR article about their growing numbers in the work force between 1980 and 1987.
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