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December 2019
70 years of the Occupational Outlook Handbook
The Occupational Outlook Handbook is celebrating 70 years as a popular and trusted source for career guidance.
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American identity through the lens of economic success
A brief synopsis of postwar America in an economic focus.
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School start times, academic achievement, and time use
Later school start times improve students’ test scores.
Do performance-based payment schemes make you work longer and harder?
A field experiment suggests that bonus pay increases worker effort on both the extensive and intensive margins.
Why lifetime earnings vary across different occupation categories
Several factors can affect earning gaps among occupations.
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The relative weakness in earnings of production workers in manufacturing, 1990–2018
Inflation expectations and inflation realities: a comparison of the Treasury Breakeven Inflation curve and the Consumer Price Index before, during, and after the Great Recession
Producer prices in the legal services industry after the Great Recession
American Indians and Alaska Natives in the U.S. labor force
Coworking couples and the similar jobs of dual-earner households
Time use of millennials and nonmillennials
Flashback
An in-depth look at savings and thrift plans in 1990 revealed that employers’ and employees’ average annual contributions varied widely.
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