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Manufacturing

Jobs, jobs, jobs: what’s an analyst to do? 12/20/2022
Diffusion indexes of state and metropolitan area employment changes 03/24/2022
Western manufacturing employment: trends and peaks over 30 years 01/14/2022
Exploring Midwest manufacturing employment from 1990 to 2019 11/10/2021
Manufacturing employment in the Southeast: examining the last 30 years 07/22/2021
A 30-year analysis of Northeast manufacturing employment trends 03/26/2021
Examining industry composition effects in state employment 07/01/2020
Manufacturing violence at the border 05/14/2020
Employment expansion continued in 2019, but growth slowed in several industries 04/22/2020
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

Incorporating medical claims data in the Consumer Price Index 02/23/2023
Improving response rates and representativity in the CPI medical care index 02/21/2023
What’s up with low inflation? 04/25/2018
Price indexes for clinical trial research: a feasibility study 06/17/2014

Men

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on workers with a criminal history 01/24/2023
U.S. labor market shows improvement in 2021, but the COVID-19 pandemic continues to weigh on the economy 06/07/2022
Nonstandard work schedules in 29 European countries, 2005–15: differences by education, gender, and parental status 07/28/2021
Unemployment rises in 2020, as the country battles the COVID-19 pandemic 06/10/2021
A look at the new job-task information in the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth 05/21/2021
Male prime-age nonworkers: evidence from the NLSY97 12/09/2020
COVID-19 recession is tougher on women 09/04/2020
Closing the gender data gap to create equality 07/17/2020
Job market remains tight in 2019, as the unemployment rate falls to its lowest level since 1969 04/28/2020
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

Firm migrations in the United States: magnitude and trends 06/06/2023
Immigration and innovation 04/23/2021
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

Does part-time work offer flexibility to employed mothers? 02/10/2022
Balancing work and family life 03/05/2020
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

Global labor market debates in the ILO publications in the COVID-19 era 09/14/2023
Unemployment rate returned to its prepandemic level in 2022 06/28/2023
Creating future career opportunities for African Americans 11/18/2022
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

The U.S. productivity slowdown: an economy-wide and industry-level analysis 04/06/2021
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

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