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Health and insurance plans

The effect of state parity laws on how providers treat substance use disorder 06/13/2017
An analysis of private long-term disability insurance access, cost, and trends 03/21/2017
Could healthcare reform be a game changer for U.S. self-employment? Evidence from Massachusetts 06/02/2015
Trends in employment-based health insurance coverage: evidence from the National Compensation Survey 10/06/2014
Abolished OccupationsWhat Does the National Compensation Survey Tell Us? 10/28/2011
Tackling complexity in retirement benefits: challenges and directions for the NCS 07/01/2011
What is a benefit plan? Clarifying the NCS definition as health and retirement benefits evolve 07/01/2011
Fertile Ground: New Data on Reproductive Health Benefits 06/29/2011
Health, Wellness, and Employee Assistance: A Holistic Approach to Employee Benefits 05/25/2011
Auto Industry Labor Costs in Perspective 04/22/2011
It Pays to be the Boss--Supervisory Wages in the National Compensation Survey, 2009 01/21/2011
Ranking of Full-time Civilian Occupations by Hourly and Annual Earnings, July 2009 09/29/2010
The Employment Cost Index and the Impact on Medicare Reimbursements 10/26/2009
A Comparison of Hourly Wage Rates for Full- and Part-Time Workers by Occupation, 2007 07/23/2009
A Look at Supplemental Pay: Overtime Pay, Bonuses, and Shift Differentials 03/25/2009
Employers’ health insurance cost burden, 1996-2005 06/01/2008
Employer-provided “Quality-of-life” Benefits for Workers in Private Industry, 2007 10/24/2007
Access to Wellness and Employee Assistance Programs in the United States 12/27/2006
Comparing A Firm’s Occupational Wage Patterns with National Wage Patterns 09/29/2006
Summary: New Research on Retirement Savings among Workers 01/25/2006
Medical Plan Choices in Private Industry, 2005 08/31/2005
Percent Changes in the Employment Cost Index for Wages and Salaries and for Benefits, Private Industry, First Quarter 1981–First Quarter 2005 06/29/2005
Wages in Profit and Nonprofit Hospitals and Universities 06/29/2005
Trends in employer-provided mental health and substance abuse benefits 04/01/2005
Federal statistics on healthcare benefits and cost trends: an overview 11/01/2004
The National Compensation Survey: a wealth of benefits data 08/01/2004
Incidence benefits measures in the National Compensation Survey 08/01/2004
Trends in employer-provided prescription-drug coverage 08/01/2004
New benefits data from the National Compensation Survey 08/01/2004
New statistics for health insurance from the National Compensation Survey 08/01/2004
Medical and retirement plan coverage: exploring the decline in recent years 08/01/2004
Long-term Care Insurance Gains Prominence 01/28/2004
Janitors in 2000: An Overview of NCS Data 11/24/2003
What is a Pension Equity Plan? (10/29/2003) 10/29/2003
Relative Pay Rates among Census Divisions and Occupational Groups 08/27/2003
Health Insurance Series Now Available from the Employment Cost Index 08/27/2003
Percent of participants in defined benefit plans by type and periods of earnings, full-time employees, 1997-2000 07/29/2003
Retiree Health Care Benefits: Data Collection Issues 07/29/2003
Consumer expenditures for selected items, 1999 and 2000 05/01/2003
Variable Pay in the BLS National Compensation Survey 01/30/2003
Using the Employment Cost Index to adjust Medicare payments 10/01/2002
Preventive care provisions, other benefits: are they described in plan documents? 10/01/2002
Compensation in the later part of the century 09/01/2001
Managed Care Plans and Managed Care Features: Data from the EBS to the NCS 03/01/2001
Have Life Insurance Benefits Kept Pace With Wages? 09/01/2000
Insurance and Retirement Benefits in the Salt Lake City-Ogden, UT, and Toledo, OH, Construction Industries 09/01/2000
Private Sector Employee Benefits, 1996-97 06/01/2000
Special Services in the Employer-sponsored Health Plans, 1993 and 1997 06/01/2000
Health and retirement benefits: data from two BLS surveys 03/01/2000
Insurance and Retirement Benefits in the Jacksonville, Florida Construction Industry 09/01/1999
Comparing benefit costs for full- and part-time workers 03/01/1999
Health Insurance Provisions Captured by the EBS and the NCS 03/01/1999
Trends in Health Insurance Costs 03/01/1999
Dental Care Benefits, 1995 06/01/1998
Hospital Room and Board Benefits 06/01/1998
Overview of the NCS: Summer 1998 06/01/1998
Employee Medical Care Contributions on the Rise 03/01/1998
Measuring Trends in the Structure and Levels of Employer Costs for Employee Compensation 06/01/1997
Employee Contribution for Medical Care Coverage 09/01/1996
Changing Survey Strategies in the Evolution of Health Care Plans 09/01/1996
Trends in out-of-pocket spending on health care, 1980-92 12/01/1995
Employer-sponsored health insurance: what’s offered; what’s chosen? 10/01/1995
Health insurance coverage for families with children 08/01/1995
Who really has access to employer-provided health benefits? 06/01/1995
The effects of health insurance on consumer spending 03/01/1995
The development and growth of employer-provided health insurance 03/01/1994
Employee payments for health care services 11/01/1992
Outpatient surgery: helping to contain health care costs 11/01/1992
Growth of employer-sponsored group life insurance 10/01/1991
Substance abuse coverage provided by employer medical plans 04/01/1991
Health maintenance organizations: plan offerings and enrollments 04/01/1991
Employer-sponsored prescription drug benefits 02/01/1991
Trends in employer-provided health care benefits 02/01/1991
Mental health benefits financed by employers 07/01/1987
Health insurance loss: the case of the displaced worker 04/01/1987
Health insurance trends in cost control and coverage 09/01/1986
Trends in major medical coverage during a period of rising costs 07/01/1983
HMOs and other health plans: coverage and employee premiums 06/01/1983
Is employer-sponsored life insurance declining relative to other benefits? 09/01/1981

Health care

Nursing and the Great Recession 07/19/2017
Hospital workers: an assessment of occupational injuries and illnesses 06/13/2017
Employment expansion continues but at a slower pace 04/11/2017
Workforce growth in community-based care: meeting the needs of an aging population 12/02/2016
The effect of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion on health insurance coverage in 2014 06/27/2016
Are older Americans healthy enough to work longer? 04/20/2016
Which industries need workers? Exploring differences in labor market activity 01/08/2016
Cutting costs, growing problems: hospital issues in the United States and Canada 12/23/2015
Industry employment and output projections to 2024 12/08/2015
Occupational employment projections to 2024 12/08/2015
Overview of projections to 2024 12/08/2015
The satisfaction of retirement 11/06/2015
New measure of labor productivity for private community hospitals: 1993–2012 10/14/2015
The National Compensation Survey and the Affordable Care Act: preserving quality health care data 04/08/2015
A look at violence in the workplace against psychiatric aides and psychiatric technicians 03/10/2015
Trends in employment-based health insurance coverage: evidence from the National Compensation Survey 10/06/2014
Adding eldercare questions to the American Time Use Survey 11/01/2012
Abolished OccupationsWhat Does the National Compensation Survey Tell Us? 10/28/2011
Fertile Ground: New Data on Reproductive Health Benefits 06/29/2011
Health, Wellness, and Employee Assistance: A Holistic Approach to Employee Benefits 05/25/2011
Auto Industry Labor Costs in Perspective 04/22/2011
Employment in health care: a crutch for the ailing economy during the 2007-09 recession 04/01/2011
It Pays to be the Boss--Supervisory Wages in the National Compensation Survey, 2009 01/21/2011
Ranking of Full-time Civilian Occupations by Hourly and Annual Earnings, July 2009 09/29/2010
Workplace Safety and Health in the Health Care and Social Assistance Industry, 2003-07 08/30/2010
Occupational Earnings of Full-time Healthcare Workers in Civilian Hospitals, 2008 02/24/2010
Out-of-pocket health care expenditures: a comparison 02/01/2010
New expenditure data in the PSID: comparisons with the CE 02/01/2010
Producing disease-based price indexes 02/01/2010
New Definitions of Employee Access to Paid Sick Leave and Retirement Benefits in the National Compensation Survey 12/23/2009
Comparison of Take-up Rates in Employer-Sponsored Medical Care Plans: State and Local Government and Private Industry 12/23/2009
The Effect of Incentive Pay on Rates of Change in Wages and Salaries 11/24/2009
The Employment Cost Index and the Impact on Medicare Reimbursements 10/26/2009
Local Area Employee Benefits Estimates for 15 Metropolitan Areas 09/28/2009
Health care industries and the New York City labor market 09/01/2009
A Look at Supplemental Pay: Overtime Pay, Bonuses, and Shift Differentials 03/25/2009
The Likelihood of Having Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance 11/30/2007
Employer-provided “Quality-of-life” Benefits for Workers in Private Industry, 2007 10/24/2007
Caring for America’s aging population: a profile of the direct-care workforce 09/01/2007
Household food expenditure patterns: a cluster analysis 04/01/2007
Comparing A Firm’s Occupational Wage Patterns with National Wage Patterns 09/29/2006
Occupational Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities among Nursing, Psychiatric, and Home Health Aides, 1995-2004 06/30/2006
Summary: New Research on Retirement Savings among Workers 01/25/2006
Work-related hospitalizations in Massachusetts: racial/ethnic differences 10/01/2005
Medical Plan Choices in Private Industry, 2005 08/31/2005
Medical Insurance Premiums and Establishment Size, 2005 08/31/2005
Percent Changes in the Employment Cost Index for Wages and Salaries and for Benefits, Private Industry, First Quarter 1981–First Quarter 2005 06/29/2005
Wages in Profit and Nonprofit Hospitals and Universities 06/29/2005
Federal statistics on healthcare benefits and cost trends: an overview 11/01/2004
Long-term Care Insurance Gains Prominence 01/28/2004
What is a Pension Equity Plan? (10/29/2003) 10/29/2003
Health Spending Accounts 10/29/2003
Relative Pay Rates among Census Divisions and Occupational Groups 08/27/2003
Health Insurance Series Now Available from the Employment Cost Index 08/27/2003
Percent of participants in defined benefit plans by type and periods of earnings, full-time employees, 1997-2000 07/29/2003
Retiree Health Care Benefits: Data Collection Issues 07/29/2003
Health care and prescription drug spending by seniors 03/01/2003
Variable Pay in the BLS National Compensation Survey 01/30/2003
Using the Employment Cost Index to adjust Medicare payments 10/01/2002
Preventive care provisions, other benefits: are they described in plan documents? 10/01/2002
Compensation in the later part of the century 09/01/2001
Managed Care Plans and Managed Care Features: Data from the EBS to the NCS 03/01/2001
Joint Local Labor-management Safety and Health Committee Provisions in Private Sector Collective Bargaining Agreements 12/01/2000
Have Life Insurance Benefits Kept Pace With Wages? 09/01/2000
Insurance and Retirement Benefits in the Salt Lake City-Ogden, UT, and Toledo, OH, Construction Industries 09/01/2000
Special Services in the Employer-sponsored Health Plans, 1993 and 1997 06/01/2000
Economic and social conditions of children and the elderly 04/01/2000
Insurance and Retirement Benefits in the Jacksonville, Florida Construction Industry 09/01/1999
Health services industry: still a job machine? 03/01/1999
Health Insurance Provisions Captured by the EBS and the NCS 03/01/1999
Trends in Health Insurance Costs 03/01/1999
Persons with disabilities: Demographic, income, and health care characteristics, 1993 09/01/1998
Prescription drug prices for the elderly 09/01/1998
Dental Care Benefits, 1995 06/01/1998
Hospital Room and Board Benefits 06/01/1998
Overview of the NCS: Summer 1998 06/01/1998
Employee Medical Care Contributions on the Rise 03/01/1998
Are Health Industry Compensation Costs a Factor Influencing Employer Health Care Costs? 12/01/1997
Employee Contribution for Medical Care Coverage 09/01/1996
Changing Survey Strategies in the Evolution of Health Care Plans 09/01/1996
Trends in out-of-pocket spending on health care, 1980-92 12/01/1995
Who really has access to employer-provided health benefits? 06/01/1995
Hospital staffing patterns in urban and nonurban areas 03/01/1995
Health benefits coverage among male workers 03/01/1995
The effects of health insurance on consumer spending 03/01/1995
Home-sweet-home health care 03/01/1995
Drugs manufacturing: a prescription for jobs 03/01/1995
Health care alternatives: employment and occupations in 2005 04/01/1994
OECD social ministries focus on rising pension, health costs 02/01/1989
Employer-sponsored vision care brought into focus 09/01/1988
Health insurance trends in cost control and coverage 09/01/1986
Employment in health services: long-term trends and projections 08/01/1986
Hospital employment under revised medicare payment schedules 08/01/1986
BLS and Alice Hamilton: pioneers in industrial health 06/01/1986
ILO adopts new standards on health services, labor data 12/01/1985
Trends in major medical coverage during a period of rising costs 07/01/1983
HMOs and other health plans: coverage and employee premiums 06/01/1983
How women’s health affects labor force attachment 04/01/1982
Labor and material requirements for hospital construction 03/01/1982
Health services industry: a decade of expansion 05/01/1981

Health insurance

Hispanic

Unemployment holds steady for much of 2016 but edges down in the fourth quarter 03/31/2017
An NCAA coach’s blueprint for success: wins on the field or achievement in the classroom? 02/10/2017
Puerto Rico: a study of population loss amid economic decline 09/15/2015
Do concerns about being popular keep students from making scholastic investments? 05/19/2015
Life on the border of Mexico 10/22/2014
Investment in higher education by race and ethnicity 03/11/2014
Determining the employment effect of raising the minimum wage 02/05/2014
Can attending a diverse university have a positive impact on your career? 12/20/2013
America’s opinions of occupations 09/03/2013
Hispanic/Latino fatal occupational injury rates 02/01/2013

Hispanic workers

Employment expansion continues but at a slower pace 04/11/2017
How banning boxes encourages discrimination 01/12/2017
Underemployment among Hispanics: the case of involuntary part-time work 12/29/2016
An analysis of long-term unemployment 07/29/2016
Unemployment rate nears prerecession level by end of 2015 04/27/2016
Life on the border of Mexico 10/22/2014
Determining the employment effect of raising the minimum wage 02/05/2014
Coming to America: the Latino impact 10/01/2013
Foreign-born workforce, 2004: a visual essay. 07/01/2006
Fatal work injuries among foreign-born Hispanic workers 10/01/2005
The female share of weekend employment: a study of 16 countries 08/01/2005
Visual essay: Blacks, Asians, and Hispanics in the civilian labor force. 06/01/2004
A changing market: expenditures by Hispanic consumers, revisited 08/01/2003
The role of foreign-born workers in the U. S. economy 05/01/2002
A growing market: expenditures by Hispanic consumers 03/01/1998
Testing racial and ethnic origin questions in the CPS supplement 09/01/1996
Cognitive testing of racial and ethnic questions for the CPS supplement 09/01/1996
Job losses among Hispanics in the recent recession 06/01/1994
The diversity of Hispanics in the U.S. work force 08/01/1993
The growing presence of Hispanics in the U.S. work force 08/01/1988
Recent recessions swell ranks of the long-term unemployed 02/01/1984
Select commission suggests changes in immigration policy - a review essay 02/01/1982

History

The future of oil prices: a break with the past? 07/07/2017
Music for the people: the role of music in the southern textile strikes of 1929–34 05/26/2017
History of child labor in the United States—part 1: little children working 01/12/2017
One hundred years of Current Employment Statistics—an overview of survey advancements 08/31/2016
Current Employment Statistics survey: 100 years of employment, hours, and earnings 08/29/2016
One hundred years of Current Employment Statistics—the history of CES sample design 08/09/2016
An analysis of long-term unemployment 07/29/2016
The Monthly Labor Review at 100—part IV: employee benefits, industries and occupations, and worker safety and health since 1980 07/07/2016
The Monthly Labor Review at 100—part III: inflation, employment, and the labor force since 1980 06/22/2016
Labor market will shape U.S. economy in years to come 06/21/2016
The first 50 years of the Producer Price Index: setting inflation expectations for today 06/10/2016
The Monthly Labor Review through a century of economic transformation 05/26/2016
The Monthly Labor Review at 100—part II: the “middle years,” 1930–80 05/24/2016
The balance of technology, data, and values 05/12/2016
The Monthly Labor Review at 100—part I: the early years, 1915–30 05/06/2016
Expect 25 years of rapid change 03/23/2016
I, robot? 03/10/2016
Reimagining the Monthly Review, July 1915 02/23/2016
Labor markets in 2040: big data could be a big deal for jobseekers 02/10/2016
Reflections on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Monthly Labor Review 01/22/2016
One hundred years of Current Employment Statistics data collection 01/19/2016
The quest for meaningful and accurate occupational health and safety statistics 12/30/2015
A century of the Monthly Labor Review: projections and prognostications 12/15/2015
Future surveys 11/17/2015
Looking at the labor market of 25 years from now: demography, demography, demography 11/06/2015
Digitization changes everything: improving economic measurement in an era of radical innovation and transformation 10/23/2015
Freelancers in the U.S. workforce 10/01/2015
The National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth: research highlights 09/16/2015
The increasing importance of Hispanics to the U.S. workforce 09/15/2015
Preserving the American Dream in the face of change 08/19/2015
Consumer spending in World War II: the forgotten consumer expenditure surveys 08/13/2015
The pendulum will swing back 08/05/2015
Celebrating 100 years of the Monthly Labor Review 07/02/2015
Rising to the challenge of a 21st century workforce 07/02/2015
Preparing for the future—whatever it might hold 07/02/2015
The Monthly Labor Review turns 100 07/02/2015
The Monthly Labor Review turns 100 07/02/2015
The economy: applying theory to reality 02/24/2015
Dueling economics: a tale of three theories 01/14/2014
Historical trends, 1950-92, and current uncertainties 11/01/1993
Centennial 01/01/1984

Home-based work

Flexible jobs give workers choices 05/31/2017
The hard truth about telecommuting 06/01/2012
Bringing work home: implications for BLS productivity measures 12/01/2010
Wage differentials associated with working at home 03/01/2007
Home-based workers: data from the 1990 Census of Population 11/01/1996
Work at home: data from the CPS 02/01/1994
Work at home: new findings from the Current Population Survey 11/01/1986
Work schedules of Americans:an overview of new findings 11/01/1986

Hospitals

Hours of work

Estimating the U.S. labor share 02/24/2017
History of child labor in the United States—part 1: little children working 01/12/2017
Reconstruction of CES time series: implementing the 2010 OMB metropolitan area delineations 10/06/2016
A new approach to work-hour instability 03/10/2016
No time to play in the USA? 09/04/2014
Is the workweek really overestimated? 06/02/2014
Do high-achieving, low-income students miss out? 02/01/2013
The hard truth about telecommuting 06/01/2012
Paid Sick Leave: Prevalence, Provision, and Usage among Full-Time Workers in Private Industry 02/29/2012
Nonstandard work schedules over the life course: a first look 07/01/2011
The overestimated workweek revisited 06/01/2011
The decline in work hours during the 2007-09 recession 04/01/2011
Consumer-Driven Health Care: What Is It, and What Does It Mean for Employees and Employers? 10/25/2010
New all-employee hours and earnings from the CES survey 03/01/2010
All-employee hours and earnings for States and metropolitan areas 03/01/2010
Productivity trends in business cycles: a visual essay 06/01/2009
Beyond Basic Benefits: Employee Access to Other Types of Benefits, 1979-2008 05/29/2009
International comparisons of hours worked: an assessment of the statistics 05/01/2009
Gender and nonstandard work hours in 12 European countries 02/01/2008
A time to work: recent trends in shift work and flexible schedules 12/01/2007
Overemployment mismatches: the preference for fewer hours 04/01/2007
A Different Approach to Measuring Workplace Safety: Injuries and Fatalities Relative to Output 07/26/2006
What can time-use data tell us about hours of work? 12/01/2004
Planning, designing, and executing the BLS American Time-Use Survey 10/01/2004
Converting from Nine Factors to Four in the Occupational Work Leveling System of the National Compensation Survey 09/29/2004
Alternative measures of supervisory employee hours and productivity growth 04/01/2004
CES Program: changes planned for hours and earnings series. 10/01/2003
Pay Relatives for Major Metropolitan Areas 04/28/2003
Synchronicity in the work schedules of working couples 04/01/2002
Measuring the complexity of hours at work: the weekly work grid 04/01/2002
Measuring time use in households with more than one person 02/01/2002
The American Time Use Survey: cognitive pretesting 02/01/2002
Measuring intrahousehold allocation of time: response to Anne E. Winkler 02/01/2002
Wage differentials associated with flextime 03/01/2001
Flexible work schedules: what are we trading off to get them? 03/01/2001
Characteristics of and preference for alternative work arrangements, 1999 03/01/2001
Contingent work in the late-1990s 03/01/2001
The impact of strikes on current employment statistics 08/01/2000
On the decline in average weekly hours worked 07/01/2000
Flexible schedules and shift work: replacing the ‘9-to-5’ workday? 06/01/2000
Analyzing the recent upward surge in overtime hours 02/01/2000
Noneconomic fluctuations in hours and earnings data 08/01/1999
Measuring how people spend their time: a time-use survey design 08/01/1999
What can we learn from time-use data? 08/01/1999
Notes on time use 08/01/1999
Measuring time at work: are self-reports accurate? 12/01/1998
How hours of work affect occupational earnings 10/01/1998
Flexible labor: restructuring the American work force 08/01/1997
Measuring job security 06/01/1997
Trends in hours of work since the mid-1970s 04/01/1997
Contingent and alternative work arrangements, defined 10/01/1996
A profile of contingent workers 10/01/1996
Into contingent and alternative employment: by choice? 10/01/1996
Entry into and consequences of nonstandard work arrangements 10/01/1996
Workers in alternative employment arrangements 10/01/1996
Earnings and benefits of contingent and noncontingent workers 10/01/1996
Earnings and benefits of workers in alternative work arrangements 10/01/1996
Part-time and temporary employment in Japan 10/01/1995
The overestimated workweek? What time diary measures suggest 08/01/1994
Seasonal employment falls over past three decades 07/01/1993
Interrelation of child support, visitation, and hours of work 06/01/1992
Time-off benefits in small establishments 03/01/1992
Reasons for the continuing growth of part-time employment 03/01/1991
Hours at work: a new base for BLS productivity statistics 02/01/1990
Work-time reduction in the U.S. and Western Europe 12/01/1988
Missed work and lost hours, May 1985 11/01/1986
Overtime work: an expanded view 11/01/1986
Shift work and flexitime: how prevalent are they? 11/01/1986
Work schedules of Americans:an overview of new findings 11/01/1986
The growing diversity of work schedules 11/01/1986
Preferred hours of work and corresponding earnings 11/01/1986
Temporary help workers: who they are, what jobs they hold 11/01/1986
Computer-aided telephone interviewing used in the Hours at Work Survey 05/01/1986
Part-time workers: who are they? 02/01/1986
Hours at work increase relative to hours paid 06/01/1985
Work-sharing approaches: past and present 09/01/1984
A new BLS survey measures the ratio of hours worked to hours paid 06/01/1984
Job commitment in America: is it waxing or waning? 07/01/1983
Effects of selected variables on work hours of young women 07/01/1983
Short workweeks during economic downturns 06/01/1983
Industry diffusion indexes for average weekly hours 05/01/1983
Estimating annual hours of labor force activity 02/01/1983
Better measures of service employment goal of Bureau survey redesign 11/01/1982
Workers on long schedules, single and multiple jobholders 05/01/1982
The effects of shift work on the lives of employees 10/01/1981
Response to recession: reduce hours or jobs? 10/01/1981
Productivity drops, output and hours rise during the fourth quarter 06/01/1981
Involuntary part-time work: new information from the CPS 02/01/1981

housing

Employment expansion continues but at a slower pace 04/11/2017
Occupational employment projections to 2024 12/08/2015
The relationship between the housing and labor market crises and doubling up: an MSA-level analysis, 2005–2011 08/16/2013
The U.S. housing bubble and bust: impacts on employment 12/01/2010
Adjusting the CPI shelter index to compensate for effect of depreciation 10/01/1988
Private rental housing abroad: dwindling supply stirs concern 09/01/1981
Two Consumer Price Index issues: weighting and homeownership 03/01/1981

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