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Manufacturing
- The relative weakness in earnings of production workers in manufacturing, 1990–2018 12/06/2019
- How did employment fare a decade after its 2008 peak? 10/12/2018
- Multifactor productivity slowdown in U.S. manufacturing 07/16/2018
- Employment growth moderates in 2017, continuing a lengthy expansionary period 05/11/2018
- How safe are the workers who process our food? 07/31/2017
- The impact of technology on labor markets 06/30/2017
- Music for the people: the role of music in the southern textile strikes of 1929–34 05/26/2017
- Employment expansion continues but at a slower pace 04/11/2017
- History of child labor in the United States—part 2: the reform movement 01/18/2017
- Firms’ productivity rises as women become executives 01/18/2017
- History of child labor in the United States—part 1: little children working 01/12/2017
- Why manufacturing matters 10/26/2016
- Occupational employment projections to 2024 12/08/2015
- Is overeducation with underpayment a lifelong problem? 08/27/2014
- The U.S.–China trade deficit—a value-added perspective 10/01/2013
- Cluster analysis: state unemployment trends during the recession 09/03/2013
- A welcome “sticker” shock: “Made in the U.S.A.” 08/06/2013
- Green acres is the place to be? 07/15/2013
- Manufacturing employment hard hit during the 2007-09 recession 04/01/2011
- China’s employment and compensation costs in manufacturing through 2008 03/01/2011
- Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities in Food Manufacturing, 2008 01/21/2011
- Compensation costs in manufacturing across industries and countries, 1975-2007 06/01/2010
- Labor costs in India’s organized manufacturing sector 05/01/2010
- Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities in Manufacturing, 2005 07/25/2007
- Labor costs of manufacturing employees in China: an update to 2003?04 11/01/2006
- Manufacturing earnings and compensation in China 08/01/2005
- Manufacturing employment in China 07/01/2005
- Differences in productivity growth: Canadian-U.S. business sectors, 1987-2000 04/01/2003
- 2001 Major Work Stoppages 01/30/2003
- Comparing 50 years of labor productivity in U.S. and foreign manufacturing 06/01/2002
- Productivity growth in high-tech’ manufacturing industries 03/01/2002
- Bias in aggregate productivity trends revisited 03/01/2002
- The Evolution of Compensation in a Changing Economy 09/01/2001
- Multifactor productivity trends in manufacturing industries, 1987-96 06/01/2001
- A perspective on the U.S.-Canada manufacturing productivity gap 02/01/2001
- Analyzing the recent upward surge in overtime hours 02/01/2000
- Labor force participation: 75 years of change, 1950-98 and 1998-2025 12/01/1999
- Work-related Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities in Manufacturing and Construction 09/01/1999
- Caterpillar’s Prolonged Dispute Ends 09/01/1998
- Taking note of the paper industry 09/01/1997
- Semiconductors: the building blocks of the information revolution 08/01/1996
- Computer manufacturing: change and competition 08/01/1996
- Using the BLS Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System as a Safety and Health Management Tool 06/01/1996
- Productivity growth improves in housefurnishings industry 03/01/1996
- International comparisons of manufacturing compensation 10/01/1995
- Manufacturing prices, productivity, and labor costs in five economies 07/01/1995
- Measurement of productivity growth in U.S. manufacturing 07/01/1995
- Manufacturing multifactor productivity in three countries 07/01/1995
- Trade and displacement in manufacturing 04/01/1995
- Drugs manufacturing: a prescription for jobs 03/01/1995
- International manufacturing compensation costs 11/01/1994
- Productivity in hardwood dimension and flooring 10/01/1994
- Manufacturing costs, productivity, and competitiveness, 1979-93 10/01/1994
- Multifactor productivity in household furniture 06/01/1994
- An analysis of U.S. industries sensitive to foreign trade, 1982-87 02/01/1993
- Trends in manufacturing productivity and labor costs in the U.S. and abroad 12/01/1987
- Multifactor productivity in U.S. manufacturing, 1949-83 10/01/1987
- International trends in productivity and unit labor costs in manufacturing 12/01/1986
- U.S. productivity growth since 1982: the post-recession experience 12/01/1986
- Steelworkers press organizing and coordinated bargaining 11/01/1986
- Computer manufacturing enters a new era of growth 09/01/1986
- Deindustrialization and the shift to services 06/01/1986
- Minimum wage stability affects shirt and nightwear industry pay 03/01/1986
- Employment lessons from the electronics industry 02/01/1986
- Occupational pay in the manufacture of men’s and boys’ suits and coats 01/01/1986
- Shift work pay differentials and practices in manufacturing 12/01/1985
- Occupational earnings and benefits in making nonelectrical machinery 06/01/1985
- Robots are a big success at auto plant in Japan 08/01/1984
- Pay gains tempered in basic steel mills 08/01/1984
- Incentives in manufacturing: the carrot and the stick 07/01/1984
- Wages in the paper industries among highest in manufacturing 03/01/1984
- Productivity growth in the switchgear industry slows after 1973 03/01/1984
- Employment in durable goods anything but durable in 1979-82 02/01/1984
- Productivity trends in manufacturing in the U.S. and 11 other countries 01/01/1984
- Multifactor productivity: a new BLS measure 12/01/1983
- Productivity growth in plastics lower than all manufacturing 09/01/1983
- Pay levels in hosiery manufacturing 03/01/1983
- Productivity increased in 1981 in most industries measured 12/01/1982
- Productivity in the pump and compressor industry 12/01/1982
- The office furniture industry: patterns in productivity 12/01/1982
- International trends in productivity and labor costs 12/01/1982
- Cosmetics industry achieves long-term productivity gains 12/01/1982
- Productivity growth average in farm machinery manufacturing 10/01/1982
- Hand and edge tools industry experiences slow rise in productivity 10/01/1982
- The productivity puzzle: numbers alone won’t solve it 10/01/1982
- Labor turnover in manufacturing: the survey in retrospect 06/01/1982
- Time rates tighten their grip on manufacturing industries 05/01/1982
- Nonwool yarn mills experience slow gains in productivity 03/01/1982
- Occupational wage variation in wood household furniture plants 07/01/1981
- Veterans return to the nations factories 12/29/1946
Massachusetts
- Collecting union status for the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries: a Massachusetts case study 02/12/2019
Medical care
- Why are employer-sponsored health insurance premiums higher in the public sector than in the private sector? 09/06/2018
- The effect of state parity laws on how providers treat substance use disorder 06/13/2017
- The National Compensation Survey and the Affordable Care Act: preserving quality health care data 04/08/2015
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- Misclassification in an experimental poverty measure 06/01/2006
- Summary: New Research on Retirement Savings among Workers 01/25/2006
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Experimental poverty measures: accounting for medical expenditures 08/01/2002
- 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
- Special Services in the Employer-sponsored Health Plans, 1993 and 1997 06/01/2000
- 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
- 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
- Employee payments for health care services 11/01/1992
- Health services: the real jobs machine 11/01/1992
- Outpatient surgery: helping to contain health care costs 11/01/1992
- Disability and insurance plans in the public and private sectors 12/01/1988
- Employer-sponsored dental insurance eases the pain 10/01/1988
- CPI revision provides more accuracy in the medical care services component 04/01/1988
- Health insurance loss: the case of the displaced worker 04/01/1987
- Comparing medical care expenditures of two diverse U.S. data sources 03/01/1987
- 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
- Health services industry: a decade of expansion 05/01/1981
Medical prices
- What’s up with low inflation? 04/25/2018
- Price indexes for clinical trial research: a feasibility study 06/17/2014
Men
- The American working class and the unfulfilled promise of policy-driven growth 12/06/2019
- Coworking couples and the similar jobs of dual-earner households 11/01/2019
- What’s behind occupational separations? 06/12/2019
- Men’s declining labor force participation 05/23/2018
- Job market continued to improve in 2017 as the unemployment rate declined to a 17-year low 04/25/2018
- Who chooses part-time work and why? 03/16/2018
- Do foreign-born workers affect Americans’ labor market decisions? 03/09/2018
- Labor force participation: what has happened since the peak? 09/27/2016
- Growing up in high-poverty areas can affect your employment 03/30/2016
- Does paid family leave increase leave taking among fathers? 02/23/2016
- The rise in women’s share of nonfarm employment during the 2007–2009 recession: a historical perspective 04/07/2014
- Job promotion in midcareer: gender, recession, and “crowding” 01/27/2014
- Labor force trends: a synthesis and analysis 10/28/1977
Middle East
- Foreign aid: history, theories, and facts 01/07/2014
- Inventing a working class in Saudi Arabia 05/01/1997
Midwest
Migration
- Labor’s new challenge—securing the rights of informal workers 05/11/2018
- Do foreign-born workers affect Americans’ labor market decisions? 03/09/2018
- The effect of natural disasters on local economies 07/31/2017
- Music for the people: the role of music in the southern textile strikes of 1929–34 05/26/2017
- Migrants: making it in the melting pot 06/30/2015
- Hurricane Katrina evacuees: who they are, where they are, and how they are faring 03/01/2008
- Labor force characteristics of second-generation Americans 09/01/2006
- The labor market impact of Hurricane Katrina: an overview 08/01/2006
- Worker mobility before and after Hurricane Katrina 08/01/2006
- The effect of Hurricane Katrina on employment and unemployment 08/01/2006
- A decade of economic change and population shifts in U.S. regions 11/01/1996
- Migration of the unemployed: a relocation assistance program 04/01/1981
Minimum wage
- Raising the minimum wage in three different ways: what are the effects? 07/19/2017
- How should we define “low-wage” work? An analysis using the Current Population Survey 10/04/2016
- A best way to help low-wage workers? 10/30/2015
- Agriculture: occupational employment and wages 07/03/2014
- A discussion worth “waging” 06/17/2014
- Determining the employment effect of raising the minimum wage 02/05/2014
- Workers at the minimum wage or less: who they are and the jobs they hold 07/01/1987
- Minimum wage stability affects shirt and nightwear industry pay 03/01/1986
- Comparable worth,Employment effects of minimum wages 10/01/1983
Minority workers
- Racial and ethnic disparities in access to and use of paid family and medical leave: evidence from four nationally representative datasets 01/23/2019
- Labor’s new challenge—securing the rights of informal workers 05/11/2018
- Program participation and spending patterns of families receiving government means-tested assistance 01/19/2018
- Explaining the black–white gap in returns to education: it’s not a black-and-white issue 10/31/2017
- Does employer bias affect worker performance? 03/09/2017
- Underemployment among Hispanics: the case of involuntary part-time work 12/29/2016
- Social capital and career advancement for African Americans 05/12/2016
- Unemployment rate nears prerecession level by end of 2015 04/27/2016
- Labor law highlights, 1915–2015 10/07/2015
- Job characteristics among working parents: differences by race, ethnicity, and nativity 05/27/2014
- A black community with advanced labor force characteristics in 1960 02/01/2007
- Foreign-born workforce, 2004: a visual essay. 07/01/2006
- Visual essay: Blacks, Asians, and Hispanics in the civilian labor force. 06/01/2004
- Racial Differences in Occupational Firearm Homicides, 1993-97 11/24/2003
- Racial differences in youth employment 08/01/2001
- A growing market: expenditures by Hispanic consumers 03/01/1998
- Occupational Fatalities Among the Immigrant Population 03/01/1997
- Testing racial and ethnic origin questions in the CPS supplement 09/01/1996
- Race and the shifting burden of job displacement: 1982-93 09/01/1996
- Cognitive testing of racial and ethnic questions for the CPS supplement 09/01/1996
- Secular and cyclical patterns in white and nonwhite employment 05/01/1996
- Earnings mobility in the United States, 1967-91 09/01/1995
- Relative earning of black men to white men by region, industry 04/01/1995
- The diversity of Hispanics in the U.S. work force 08/01/1993
- Job displacement: black and white workers compared 07/01/1991
- Black college graduates in the labor market, 1979 and 1989 11/01/1990
- Employment gains by minorities, women in large city government, 1976-83 11/01/1988
- The Great Migration of Afro-Americans, 1915-40 03/01/1987
- Arbitrating discrimination grievances in the wake of Gardner-Denver 10/01/1983
- Labor force data from the CPS to undergo revision in January 1983 11/01/1982
- Blacks in the 1970s: Did they scale the job ladder? 06/01/1982
- Labor Department’s first program to assist black workers 06/01/1982
- Usual weekly earnings: another look at intergroup differences and basic trends 04/01/1982
- Select commission suggests changes in immigration policy - a review essay 02/01/1982
- Education, on-the-job training, and the black-white earnings gap 04/01/1981
Multifactor productivity
- Multifactor productivity slowdown in U.S. manufacturing 07/16/2018
- Economic productivity in the air transportation industry: multifactor and labor productivity trends, 1990–2014 03/09/2017
- Estimating the U.S. labor share 02/24/2017
- Multifactor productivity: Cotton and synthetic broadwoven fabrics 07/01/1995
- Manufacturing multifactor productivity in three countries 07/01/1995
- Multifactor productivity in the metal stampings industry 05/01/1995
Multiple jobholding
- Measuring labor market activity today: are the words work and job too limiting for surveys? 11/14/2018
- Electronically mediated work: new questions in the Contingent Worker Supplement 09/28/2018
- Multiple jobholding in states in 2015 02/23/2017
- Multiple jobholding in states in 2014 08/21/2015
- Multiple jobholding over the past two decades 04/01/2015
- Multiple jobholding in states in 2013 08/06/2014
- Multiple jobholding in states in 2012 12/16/2013
- Multiple jobholding in states in 2011 05/01/2012
- Multiple jobholding in States in 2010 09/01/2011
- Multiple jobholding in U.S. States in 2009 07/01/2010
- Multiple jobholding during the 2000s 07/01/2010
- Multiple Jobholding in States in 2008 12/01/2009
- Multiple jobholding in States in 2007 09/01/2008
- Multiple jobholding in States in 2006 09/01/2007
- Multiple jobholding in States in 2005 11/01/2006
- Multiple jobholding in States, 2004 12/01/2005
- Multiple jobholding in States, 2003 07/01/2004
- Multiple jobholding in States, 2002 11/01/2003
- Multiple jobholding in States, 2001 11/01/2002
- Multiple jobholding in States, 2000 07/01/2001
- Reasons for working multiple jobs 10/01/2000
- Married women, work, and values 08/01/2000
- Multiple jobholding, by State 06/01/1999
- New data on multiple jobholding available from CPS 03/01/1997
- Characteristics of multiple jobholders 03/01/1997
- Multiple jobholding up sharply in the 1980’s 07/01/1990
- Moonlighting by women jumped to record highs 11/01/1986
- Work schedules of Americans:an overview of new findings 11/01/1986
- Workers on long schedules, single and multiple jobholders 05/01/1982
