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Safety and health (occupational)

The quest for meaningful and accurate occupational health and safety statistics 12/30/2015
A Different Approach to Measuring Workplace Safety: Injuries and Fatalities Relative to Output 07/26/2006
A Century-Long Quest for Meaningful and Accurate Occupational Injury and Illness Statistics 12/01/1997

Salaries

Measuring wage inequality within and across U.S. metropolitan areas, 2003–13 09/23/2015
Do performance-based incentives work for teachers? 05/19/2014
Former smokers earn more 11/08/2013
Life Insurance Benefits: Variations Based on Workers’ Earnings and Work Schedules 03/30/2012
Wages of Full-time and Part-time Cooks: A Multicity Tour 11/22/2010
Disparities in Automatic Enrollment Plan Availability 08/30/2010
Supplemental Pay in the Healthcare Industry: Overtime Pay, Bonuses, and Shift Differentials 07/23/2010
Work Schedules in the National Compensation Survey 07/28/2008
National Compensation Survey: Post-Katrina Occupational Wage Data for New Orleans 06/27/2007
The New ECI “Exclusionary” Series: An Improved Measure to Control for Wage Volatility 08/24/2006
Emerging Benefits: Access to Health Promotion Benefits in the United States, Private Industry, 1999 and 2005 07/26/2006
Preretirement Distributions: Can You Take Them with You? 10/24/2005
Defined Benefit Plans at the Dawn of ERISA 03/30/2005
Tiered Hospital Plans 07/29/2003
Differences in Union and Nonunion Earnings in Blue-collar and Service Occupations 06/25/2003
Payment Options under Retirement Plans 04/28/2003
Confidentiality Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002 03/26/2003
The Role of Incentive Pay in the Volatility of the Employment Cost Index 06/01/2001
On the Nonoptimality of the Compensation System in Major League Baseball 06/01/2001
The Cost and Incidence of Referral, Hiring and Retention Bonuses 12/01/2000
Part-time Workers’ Earnings: Some Comparisons 06/01/2000
Union-nonunion Wage Differences, 1997 03/01/2000
Comparing Wage Changes in Salt Lake City to the Nation: An NCS Test 12/01/1998
Salary Caps in Professional Team Sports 03/01/1998
Occupational Pay by Establishment Size 03/01/1998
Baseball’s Changing Salary Structure 09/01/1997
New Approach to Measuring Occupational Wages 12/01/1996
Pay in Private Industry and State and Local Government, 1994 09/01/1996
Trends in the Differences Between Union and Nonunion Workers in Pay Using the Employment Cost Index 09/01/1996
Occupational Pay in Private Goods and Service-Producing Industries 06/01/1996

Sampling

Saudi Arabia

Inventing a working class in Saudi Arabia 05/01/1997

Scientists

Do low-tax states lure high-paid talent? 12/23/2015
STEM crisis or STEM surplus? Yes and yes 05/26/2015
Gender gap in patenting 03/01/2013
Scientific and technical employment, 1990-2005 02/01/1992

Seasonal adjustment

Seasonal employment

Unemployment continued its downward trend in 2013 04/01/2014
The early 2000s: a period of declining teen summer employment rates 05/01/2010
Seasonal employment falls over past three decades 07/01/1993

Self-employment

Unemployment holds steady for much of 2016 but edges down in the fourth quarter 03/31/2017
Does the place you grew up in shape your future as an entrepreneur? Evidence from Italy 06/21/2016
Freelancers in the U.S. workforce 10/01/2015
Could healthcare reform be a game changer for U.S. self-employment? Evidence from Massachusetts 06/02/2015
Female self-employment in the United States: an update to 2012 10/16/2014
Self-employment in the United States 09/01/2010
Self-employment, entrepreneurship, and the NLSY79 02/01/2005
Self-employment among older U.S. workers 07/01/2004
Self-employment in the United States: an update 07/01/2004
Participation in Retirement Plans: A Comparison of the Self-employed and Wage and Salary Workers 12/01/2000
The role of entrepreneurship in U.S. and European job growth 07/01/2000
The role of self-employment in U.S. and Canadian job growth 04/01/1999
Measuring self-employment in the United Sates 01/01/1996
Self-employed individuals fatally injured at work 08/01/1995
Characteristics of self-employed women in the United States 03/01/1994
Work at home: data from the CPS 02/01/1994
On their own: the self-employed and others in private business 05/01/1987
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
Self-employed workers: an update to 1983 07/01/1984

Separations

Unemployment holds steady for much of 2016 but edges down in the fourth quarter 03/31/2017
Labor force participation: what has happened since the peak? 09/27/2016
Job openings, hires, and separations return to prerecession levels in 2015 09/07/2016
Unemployment rate nears prerecession level by end of 2015 04/27/2016
Job switching: a prelude to wage growth? 10/07/2015
Job openings reach a new high, hires and quits also increase 06/05/2015
Job openings continue to rise in 2013 05/30/2014
Job openings continue to grow in 2012, hires and separations less so 05/06/2013
A new method for estimating job separations by sex and race 06/01/1983

Services

Service sector

Nonprofits in America: new research data on employment, wages, and establishments 02/29/2016
Evaluation of BLS employment, labor force and macroeconomic projections to 2006, 2008, and 2010 11/23/2015
Is involuntary part-time work here to stay? 11/23/2015
Workplace hazards of truck drivers 04/06/2015
New Definitions of Employee Access to Paid Sick Leave and Retirement Benefits in the National Compensation Survey 12/23/2009
Manhattan’s financial sector and the 2005-07 employment dynamic 10/01/2009
Wages in the Nonprofit Sector: Management, Professional, and Administrative Support Occupations 10/28/2008
BLS Introduces New Employment Cost Indexes for 14 Metropolitan Areas 09/24/2008
National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO) 2003 Conference 06/25/2003
Differences in productivity growth: Canadian-U.S. business sectors, 1987-2000 04/01/2003
Services: business demand rivals consumer demand in driving job growth 04/01/2002
Employment in business services: a year of unprecedented decline 04/01/2002
Employment in services industries affected by recessions and expansions 10/01/2001
Occupational Hazards In Eating and Drinking Places 06/01/2001
Health services industry: still a job machine? 03/01/1999
The services industry in the ‘good’ versus ‘bad’ jobs debate 02/01/1998
Flexible labor: restructuring the American work force 08/01/1997
Productivity trends in two retail trade industries, 1987-95 07/01/1997
Employment shifts in high-technology industries, 1988-96 06/01/1997
Difficulties in the measurement of service outputs 03/01/1994
Occupational safety and health in retail grocery stores 09/01/1992
Producer services industries: why are they growing so rapidly? 12/01/1987
White-collar salaries vary widely in the service industries 11/01/1987
Communications Workers focus on bargaining with AT&T 07/01/1986
Deindustrializationand the shift to services 06/01/1986
The business services industry sets pace in employment growth 04/01/1986
Earnings of employees in certificated air carriers 11/01/1985
Tips: the mainstay of many hotel workers’ pay 07/01/1985
Pay in data processing services by occupation and urban area,Future of collective bargaining probed in ILO report 09/01/1984
The employment shift to services: where did it come from? 04/01/1984
The service-producing sector: some common perceptions reviewed 04/01/1983
Hourly pay of contract cleaners lags but sweeps past weekly gains 03/01/1983
Better measures of service employment goal of Bureau survey redesign 11/01/1982
Measuring productivity in service industries 06/01/1982
The services industry: is it recession-proof? 10/01/1981
Health services industry: a decade of expansion 05/01/1981
Have employment patterns in recessions changed? 02/01/1981

Slovakia

Small business

Could healthcare reform be a game changer for U.S. self-employment? Evidence from Massachusetts 06/02/2015
Business dynamism: is it really declining? 07/15/2014
Startups and older firms: which is more responsive to local economic changes? 04/03/2014
High-employment-growth firms: defining and counting them 06/29/2013
JOLTS as a timely source of data by establishment size, 1990-2010 05/01/2011
The characteristics of small-business employees 04/01/2000
Small businesses and their employees 10/01/1994
On their own: the self-employed and others in private business 05/01/1987

Does bankruptcy hurt an individual’s ability to be hired or borrow money? 05/31/2017
Music for the people: the role of music in the southern textile strikes of 1929–34 05/26/2017
How banning boxes encourages discrimination 01/12/2017
Suicide in the workplace 12/06/2016
Workforce growth in community-based care: meeting the needs of an aging population 12/02/2016
Young adults and trends in household formation 09/13/2016
The life of American workers in 1915 02/04/2016
How was your weekend? Would your answer be different if you were happy at your job? 12/17/2015
The National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth: research highlights 09/16/2015
What’s “like” got to do with it? 04/21/2014
Is the inheritance boom changing the distribution of wealth in the United States? 02/05/2014

The retirement age and the deficit 05/22/2015
Better retirement planning 01/13/2015
New Federal Regulations Affect Overtime Coverage for Some Workers 12/21/2004
New Tax Law Includes Provisions Affecting Employee Benefits 01/30/2003
Social Security Earnings Limit Removed 06/01/2000
Social Security in the United States and Chile 09/01/1998
Cost-of-Living Clauses: Trends and Current Characteristics 12/01/1996
On the disparity between private and public pensions 04/01/1994
New survey data on pension benefits 08/01/1991
Supplementing retirement until Social Security begins 02/01/1990
How social security payments affect private pensions 05/01/1984
The growth of fringe benefits: implications for social security 11/01/1981

State government

Hospital workers: an assessment of occupational injuries and illnesses 06/13/2017
The de-licensing of occupations in the United States 05/18/2015
Changes in federal and state unemployment insurance legislation in 2012 03/01/2013
State labor legislation enacted in 2012 02/01/2013
State labor legislation enacted in 2011 02/01/2012
Changes in Federal and State unemployment insurance legislation in 2011 02/01/2012
State labor legislation enacted in 2010 01/01/2011
Changes in Federal and State unemployment insurance legislation in 2010 01/01/2011
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Union Representation Elections, 1997-2009 06/30/2010
Profiles of Significant Collective Bargaining Disputes of 2010 02/23/2010
State labor legislation enacted in 2009 01/01/2010
Changes in Federal and State unemployment insurance legislation in 2009 01/01/2010
The Effect of Incentive Pay on Rates of Change in Wages and Salaries 11/24/2009
Profiles of Significant Collective Bargaining Disputes of 2008 06/24/2009
State labor legislation enacted in 2008 01/01/2009
Changes in State unemployment insurance legislation in 2008 01/01/2009
Major Union Mergers, Alliances, and Disaffiliations, 1995-2007 09/24/2008
State labor legislation enacted in 2007 01/01/2008
Changes in State unemployment insurance legislation in 2007 01/01/2008
Collective Bargaining Agreements File Moves to New Home 11/30/2007
State labor legislation enacted in 2006 01/01/2007
Changes in Federal and State unemployment insurance legislation, 2006 01/01/2007
Major Work Stoppages in 2004 and 2005 10/25/2006
State labor legislation enacted in 2005 01/01/2006
Changes in State unemployment insurance legislation in 2005 01/01/2006
Changes in workers’ compensation laws in 2004 01/01/2005
State labor legislation enacted in 2004 01/01/2005
Changes in Federal and State unemployment insurance legislation in 2004 01/01/2005
Changes in workers’ compensation laws in 2003 01/01/2004
Changes in State unemployment insurance legislation in 2003 01/01/2004
State labor legislation enacted in 2003 01/01/2004
IRRA Considers Name Change 11/24/2003
Changes in workers’ compensation laws, 2002 01/01/2003
Changes in unemployment insurance legislation in 2002 01/01/2003
State labor legislation enacted in 2002 01/01/2003
Changes in workers’ compensation laws during 2001 01/01/2002
Changes in unemployment insurance legislation in 2001 01/01/2002
State labor legislation enacted in 2001 01/01/2002
Changes in workers’ compensation laws during 2000 01/01/2001
State labor legislation enacted in 2000 01/01/2001
Changes in unemployment insurance legislation in 2000 01/01/2001
Work Stoppages in 1999 09/01/2000
Profile of the American Airlines Pilot Sickout 12/01/1999
Compensation Cost Trends in Private Industry and State and Local Governments 09/01/1999
1998 Work Stoppages 06/01/1999
1982-97 State and Local Government Work Stoppages and Their Legal Background 09/01/1998
Changes in unemployment insurance legislation in 1997 01/01/1998
Workers’ compensation legislation enacted in 1997 01/01/1998
State labor legislation enacted in 1997 01/01/1998
105th Congress Addresses Working Conditions 12/01/1997
Profile of an Airline Emergency Dispute 09/01/1997
State workers’ compensation legislation enacted in 1996 01/01/1997
Changes in State unemployment insurance legislation in 1996 01/01/1997
State labor legislation enacted in 1996 01/01/1997
Pay in Private Industry and State and Local Government, 1994 09/01/1996
Workers’ compensation laws enacted in 1995 01/01/1996
Change in State unemployment insurance legislation in 1995 01/01/1996
State labor legislation enacted in 1995 01/01/1996
Collective bargaining in State and local government, 1994 06/01/1995
Changes in unemployment insurance legislation in 1994 01/01/1995
State labor legislation enacted in 1994 01/01/1995
Workers’ compensation laws: Enactments in 1994 01/01/1995
Changes in unemployment insurance legislation in 1993 01/01/1994
State labor legislation enacted in 1993 01/01/1994
Negotiated wage changes in government, 1992 06/01/1993
State labor legislation enacted in 1992 01/01/1993
Workers’ compensation: State enactments in 1991 01/01/1992
Changes in unemployment insurance legislation in 1991 01/01/1992
State labor legislation enacted in 1991 01/01/1992
Changes in unemployment insurance legislation during 1990 01/01/1991
State workers’ compensation: legislation enacted in 1990 01/01/1991
State labor legislation enacted in 1990 01/01/1991
State workers’ compensation: enactments in 1988 01/01/1989
An evaluation of State projections of industry, occupational employment 10/01/1987
Changes in unemployment insurance legislation during 1986 02/01/1987
State and local government pay increases outpace five-year rise in private industry 02/01/1987
State labor legislation enacted in 1986 01/01/1987
Changes in unemployment insurance legislation during 1985 01/01/1986
Key workers’ compensation laws enacted by States in 1985 01/01/1986
State labor legislation enacted in 1985 01/01/1986
Changes in unemployment insurance legislation during 1984 01/01/1985
Workers’ compensation: 1984 State enactments 01/01/1985
State labor legislation enacted in 1984 01/01/1985
State labor legislation enacted in 1983 01/01/1984
Unemployment insurance laws: legislative revisions in 1982 01/01/1983
Modest productivity gains in State Unemployment Insurance Service 01/01/1983
Workers’ compensation in 1982: significant legislation enacted 01/01/1983
State labor legislation enacted in 1982 01/01/1983
Unemployment insurance laws: changes enacted during 1981 02/01/1982
Workers’ compensation: key legislation in 1981 02/01/1982
State labor legislation enacted in 1981 01/01/1982
Workers’ compensation in 1980: summary of major enactments 03/01/1981
Using statistics to manage a State safety and health program 03/01/1981
Legislative revisions of unemployment insurance in 1980 01/01/1981
State labor legislation enacted in 1980 01/01/1981

Statistical methods

Statistical programs and methods

Producer prices, 2016: goods inflation returns and price increases for services move higher 03/07/2017
Estimating the U.S. labor share 02/24/2017
Adding questions on certifications and licenses to the Current Population Survey 11/23/2016
Establishment, firm, or enterprise: does the unit of analysis matter? 11/10/2016
One hundred years of Current Employment Statistics: busting CES myths 10/20/2016
The 2018 revision of the Consumer Price Index geographic sample 10/17/2016
An update on SOII undercount research activities 09/13/2016
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
Introducing 2012 fixed employment weights for the Employment Cost Index 08/03/2016
Price transmission within the Producer Price Index Final Demand–Intermediate Demand aggregation system 08/01/2016
Labor productivity growth in elementary and secondary school services: 1989–2012 06/30/2016
Measuring quarterly labor productivity by industry 06/27/2016
The first 50 years of the Producer Price Index: setting inflation expectations for today 06/10/2016
The Consumer Expenditure Survey redesign initiative 04/13/2016
Current Employment Statistics data and their contributions as key economic indicators 03/15/2016
One hundred years of Current Employment Statistics data collection 01/19/2016
Revisiting the dilemma of review for modeled wage estimates by job characteristic 09/29/2015
The National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth: research highlights 09/16/2015
Consumer Expenditure Survey Microdata Users’ Workshop and Survey Methods Symposium, 2014 07/13/2015
Measuring the generosity of employer-sponsored health plans: an actuarial-value approach 06/02/2015
The National Compensation Survey and the Affordable Care Act: preserving quality health care data 04/08/2015
Analysis of the Current Employment Statistics program using customer outreach survey results 01/23/2015
Comparing fatal work injuries in the United States and the European Union 06/19/2014
Consumer Expenditure Survey Microdata Users’ Workshop and Survey Methods Symposium, 2013 04/30/2014
One hundred years of price change: the Consumer Price Index and the American inflation experience 04/25/2014
The first hundred years of the Consumer Price Index: a methodological and political history 04/14/2014
Comparing new final-demand producer price indexes with other government price indexes 01/28/2014
Analyzing price movements within the Producer Price Index Final Demand–Intermediate Demand aggregation system 01/28/2014
Using data from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries to estimate the “value of a statistical life” 10/31/2013
Scheduled passenger air transportation in the Producer Price Index: improvements and trends 09/26/2013
Research highlights of the Consumer Expenditure Survey redesign 09/09/2013
Updating the rent sample for the CPI Housing Survey 08/06/2013
Consumer Expenditure Survey: is it worth expending energy on and need it consume our time? 06/30/2013
Implementing the 2010 Standard Occupational Classification in the Occupational Employment Statistics 05/02/2013
Changes in the publication of seasonally adjusted Employment Cost Index series 03/01/2013
The Green Goods and Services Occupational survey: initial results 01/01/2013
Green technologies and practices: a visual essay 01/01/2013
Current Employment Statistics seasonal adjustment and the 2007-2009 recession 10/01/2012
Benefit Cost Concepts and the Limitations of ECEC Measurement 07/26/2012
Data Working for a Working Nation-Uses of BLS Occupational Safety and Health Statistics 05/31/2012
The Relevance of Occupational Wage Leveling 04/27/2012
Consumer Expenditure Survey Microdata Users’ Workshop, July 2011 04/01/2012
Profiles of Significant Collective Bargaining Disputes of 2011 03/30/2012
Life Insurance Benefits: Variations Based on Workers’ Earnings and Work Schedules 03/30/2012
Consumer Expenditure Survey Microdata Users’ Workshop, July 2010 04/01/2011
A new, experimental system of indexes from the PPI program 02/01/2011
Conference Report: JOLTS Symposium 02/01/2011
Revising the Standard Occupational Classification system for 2010 08/01/2010
PPI and CPI seasonal adjustment: an update 07/01/2010
How Does Your 401(k) Match Up? 05/26/2010
Earnings of Healthcare Workers by Level of Duties and Responsibilities, 2008 04/21/2010
Consumer Expenditure Survey Microdata Users’ Workshop, July 2009 04/01/2010
Occupational Earnings of Full-time Healthcare Workers in Civilian Hospitals, 2008 02/24/2010
Producing disease-based price indexes 02/01/2010
Change to Hours-Based Fatality Rates in the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries 01/25/2010
The Effect of Incentive Pay on Rates of Change in Wages and Salaries 11/24/2009
New wherever-provided services and construction indexes for PPI 08/01/2009
A Comparison of Hourly Wage Rates for Full- and Part-Time Workers by Occupation, 2007 07/23/2009
Business Processes and Business Functions: a new way of looking at employment 12/01/2008
Wages in the Nonprofit Sector: Occupations Typically Found in Educational and Research Institutions 11/26/2008
Addressing misconceptions about the Consumer Price Index 08/01/2008
A hedonic model for Internet access service in the Consumer Price Index 07/01/2008
BLS Resumes Estimation of Sample Errors for Benefits Measures 05/22/2008
Transitional Employment Cost Indexes for seasonal adjustment 04/01/2008
Methods Underlying New Workplace Injury and Illness Rates by Demographic Group 03/26/2008
A Look at Wages in Transportation-Related Occupations in the Memphis Area and in the United States 02/25/2008
The Likelihood of Having Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance 11/30/2007
National Compensation Survey: Post-Katrina Occupational Wage Data for New Orleans 06/27/2007
Pretax Benefits: Access to Section 125 Cafeteria Benefits and Health Savings Accounts in the United States, Private Industry 03/28/2007
Access to Wellness and Employee Assistance Programs in the United States 12/27/2006
Price and expenditure measures of petroleum products: a comparison 12/01/2006
The effects of rounding on the Consumer Price Index 10/01/2006
Interarea price levels: an experimental methodology 09/01/2006
The CE and the PCE: a comparison 09/01/2006
The New ECI “Exclusionary” Series: An Improved Measure to Control for Wage Volatility 08/24/2006
Emerging Benefits: Access to Health Promotion Benefits in the United States, Private Industry, 1999 and 2005 07/26/2006
Misclassification in an experimental poverty measure 06/01/2006
Price measurement in the United States: A decade after the Boskin Report 05/01/2006
Impact of business births and deaths in the payroll survey 05/01/2006
Accounting for missing data in the Employment Cost Index 04/01/2006
Introducing 2002 weights for the Employment Cost Index 04/01/2006
Another Retirement Savings Option: Roth 401(k) Plan 02/22/2006
Estimating gross flows consistent with stocks in the CPS 09/01/2005
Analyzing CPS data using gross flows 09/01/2005
Model-based seasonally adjusted estimates and sampling error 09/01/2005
Wages in Profit and Nonprofit Hospitals and Universities 06/29/2005
Preliminary estimates of multifactor productivity growth 06/01/2005
The Relationship Between Labor Costs and Inflation: A Cyclical Viewpoint 05/24/2005
Real compensation, 1979 to 2003: analysis from several data sources 05/01/2005
Improving estimation and benchmarking of State labor force statistics 05/01/2005
Defined Benefit Plans at the Dawn of ERISA 03/30/2005
Pay relatives for metropolitan areas in the NCS 03/01/2005
Deriving Occupational Fatal Injury Costs: A State Pilot Study 02/23/2005
Antecedents and predecessors of NLSY79: paving the course 02/01/2005
The problem of respondent attrition: survey methodology is key 02/01/2005
Comparing the Retirement Savings of the Baby Boomers and Other Cohorts 01/24/2005
Occupational injury and illness: new recordkeeping requirements 12/01/2004
Industry productivity trends under the North American Industry Classification system 11/01/2004
Percent of Private Industry Workers Participating in Retirement Plans, Selected Periods, 1990-2003 07/28/2004
Calculating Wage Percentiles in the National Compensation Survey 04/28/2004
Cost Sharing in Medical Insurance Plans 03/31/2004
Relative Pay Rates among Census Divisions and Occupational Groups 08/27/2003
Percent of participants in defined benefit plans by type and periods of earnings, full-time employees, 1997-2000 07/29/2003
Relative Pay Rates among Major Industry and Occupational Groups 03/26/2003
IRS Proposed Regulations to Simplify Retirement Plan Distribution Rules 03/26/2003
Qualified Employer Retirement Plans and Deemed Individual Retirement Arrangements 02/26/2003
Earnings and Other Compensation Data at BLS: What Users Seek and What We Offer 02/26/2003
New Tax Law Includes Provisions Affecting Employee Benefits 01/30/2003
Is the ECI sensitive to the method of aggregation? an update 12/01/2002
Providing comparable international labor statistics 06/01/2002
A first look at employment and wages using NAICS 12/01/2001
Implementing the North American Industry Classification System at BLS 12/01/2001
A state space model-based method of seasonal adjustment 07/01/2001
The Leontief-BLS partnership: a new framework for measurement 06/01/2001
The Role of Incentive Pay in the Volatility of the Employment Cost Index 06/01/2001
Stock Option Plans Surveyed by NCS 03/01/2001
The National Compensation Survey: Compensation Statistics for the 21st Century 12/01/2000
Price index research in the coming decades 09/01/2000
When It Comes To Pay, Does Location Matter? 06/01/2000
Supervisory Duties and the National Compensation Survey 03/01/2000
BLS Completes Test Surveys of the Construction Industry 03/01/2000
National Compensation Survey Collects Test Data on Stock Option Plans 12/01/1999
Using the National Compensation Survey to Predict Wage Rates 12/01/1999
National Compensation Produces First Nationwide Results 09/01/1999
CPI research series using current methods, 1978-98 06/01/1999
Test Surveys of the Construction Industry 06/01/1999
Revising the Standard Occupational Classification system 05/01/1999
An Overview of the EBS and the NCS 03/01/1999
Tracking Changes in Benefit Costs 03/01/1999
Comparing Wage Changes in Salt Lake City to the Nation: An NCS Test 12/01/1998
Incorporating a geometric mean formula into the CPI 10/01/1998
BLS completes major expansion of industry productivity series 09/01/1998
Collecting Data on Human Capital Variables 09/01/1998
Introducing the North American Industry Classification System 07/01/1998
Earnings in Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Areas 06/01/1998
Overview of the NCS: Summer 1998 06/01/1998
A Century-Long Quest for Meaningful and Accurate Occupational Injury and Illness Statistics 12/01/1997
Improving the PPI samples for prescription pharmaceuticals 10/01/1997
Are producer prices good proxies for export prices? 10/01/1997
The Occupational Compensation Surveys: A Retrospective 09/01/1997
Unemployment insurance: measuring who receives it 07/01/1997
Is the ECI sensitive to the method of aggregation? 06/01/1997
Earnings by Level of Work: Results from Pilot Studies of the National Compensation Survey Program 06/01/1997
Explaining the Differential Growth Rates of the ECI and ECEC 06/01/1997
Measuring Trends in the Structure and Levels of Employer Costs for Employee Compensation 06/01/1997
Comparing Trends in Components of the Employment Cost Index 06/01/1997
Tips and Excluded Workers: The New Orleans Test 06/01/1997
New Sample Areas Selected for BLS National Compensation Program 03/01/1997
Nursing Pay in Private Industry, 1994 03/01/1997
Revision of the CPI hospital services component 12/01/1996
Revision of the housing sample and estimators 12/01/1996
The redesign of the CPI geographic sample 12/01/1996
Overview of the 1998 revision of the Consumer Price Index 12/01/1996
New methodology for selecting outlet samples 12/01/1996
Publication strategy for the 1998 revised Consumer Price Index 12/01/1996
Changing the item structure of the Consumer Price Index 12/01/1996
Comp2000: Designing A New Wage Survey 12/01/1996
New Approach to Measuring Occupational Wages 12/01/1996
Occupational Wages and Employee Benefits among Small Certificated Air Carriers in Alaska 12/01/1996
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
BLS Redesigns Its Compensation Surveys 09/01/1996
Changing Survey Strategies in the Evolution of Health Care Plans 09/01/1996
Occupational Wages and Employee Benefits in the Airline Industry 09/01/1996
Hospital price inflation: what does the new PPI tell us? 07/01/1996
The CPI for hospital services: concepts and procedures 07/01/1996
Effect of 1992 weights on Producer Price Indexes 07/01/1996
Occupational Pay Across Regions in 1994 06/01/1996
Total Compensation Costs Increase Nearly 1 Percent 06/01/1996
National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, 1995 06/01/1996
Towards a Working Definition of Compensation 06/01/1996
Counting the Incidence of Employee Benefits 06/01/1996
Improvements to the quarterly productivity measures 10/01/1995
BLS introduces new range of alternative unemployment measures 10/01/1995
BLS modernizes industry labor productivity program 07/01/1995
Using gross flows to explore movement in the labor force 04/01/1995
The Consumer Expenditure Survey: a comparative analysis 12/01/1994
Imputing income in the Consumer Expenditure Survey 12/01/1994
CE data: quintiles of income versus quintiles of outlays 12/01/1994
Seasonality: economic data and model estimation 12/01/1994
Seasonal adjustment of quarterly consumer expenditure series 12/01/1994
Apparel price indexes: effects of hedonic adjustment 05/01/1994
Redesigning the questionnaire 09/01/1993
Evaluating changes in the estimates 09/01/1993
Why is it necessary to change? 09/01/1993
BLS regional offices: 50 years of Federal-State cooperation 12/01/1992
New international price series published by Nation and region 06/01/1992
Statistical needs in Eastern Europe 03/01/1992
The Employee Turnover and Job Openings Survey 03/01/1992
Testing a census approach to compiling data on fatal work injuries 12/01/1990
New benchmarks and SIC codes for Establishment Survey 11/01/1990
An experimental price index for the computer industry 10/01/1990
National Longitudinal Survey: development and uses 07/01/1990
Employment Cost Index rebased to June 1989 04/01/1990
A data user’s look back from 2015 04/01/1990
Diffusion indexes: an economic barometer 04/01/1990
Labor force data in the next century 04/01/1990
BLS compensation programs: what will users need? 02/01/1990
Developing statistics to meet society’s needs 10/01/1989
New methodology reduces importance of used cars in the revised CPI 12/01/1988
BLS prepares to broaden scope of its white-collar pay survey 03/01/1987
The Consumer Expenditure Survey: quality control by comparative analysis 03/01/1987
Problems encountered in measuring single- and multifactor productivity 12/01/1986
New household survey and the CPS:a look at labor force differences 09/01/1985
Measuring labor force flows: a special conference examines the problems 07/01/1985
Implementing the Levitan Commission’s recommendations to improve labor data 02/01/1985
BLS and the economy: a centennial timetable 11/01/1984
A century of wage statistics: the BLS contribution 11/01/1984
Response variation in the CPS: caveats for the unemployment analyst 03/01/1984
New occupational separation data improve estimates of job replacement needs 03/01/1984
The “underground economy” and BLS statistical data 01/01/1984
Worklife estimates should be consistent with known labor force participation 06/01/1983
Changing the treatment of shelter costs for homeowners in the CPI 06/01/1982
BLS job cross-classification system relates information from six sources 11/01/1981
Some proposals to improve the Consumer Price Index 09/01/1981
Indexing Federal programs: the CPI and other indexes 03/01/1981
Federal agencies updating base year of indexes to 1977 02/01/1981
Labor force, employment, and unemployment, 1929–39: estimating methods 04/29/1948

Steel industry

Steelworkers press organizing and coordinated bargaining 11/01/1986

Strikes

Music for the people: the role of music in the southern textile strikes of 1929–34 05/26/2017
Understanding strikes in CES estimates 11/12/2015
The hockey lockout of 2012–2013 07/19/2013
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Union Representation Elections, 1997-2009 06/30/2010
Profiles of Significant Collective Bargaining Disputes of 2010 02/23/2010
Profiles of Significant Collective Bargaining Disputes of 2008 06/24/2009
Major Union Mergers, Alliances, and Disaffiliations, 1995-2007 09/24/2008
Profiles of Significant Collective Bargaining Disputes in 2007 05/22/2008
Collective Bargaining Agreements File Moves to New Home 11/30/2007
Major Work Stoppages in 2004 and 2005 10/25/2006
IRRA Changes Its Name 11/30/2005
Industries with 10 or More Major Work Stoppages for the Period 1993-2003 10/27/2004
IRRA Considers Name Change 11/24/2003
What Can You Tell Me About Collective Bargaining Expirations and Work Stoppages? 05/28/2003
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Union Representation Elections, 1998-2002 04/28/2003
Unique Provision in ISG-United Steelworkers Recent Agreement 03/26/2003
IRRA Holds Its 2002 National Forum in Washington, DC 01/30/2003
Work Stoppages in 1999 09/01/2000
The impact of strikes on current employment statistics 08/01/2000
Longshore Settlement May Bring 3 Years of Labor Peace 12/01/1999
Profile of the American Airlines Pilot Sickout 12/01/1999
1998 Work Stoppages 06/01/1999
Looking Back at the SEPTA Transit Strike 12/01/1998
How do labor and management view collective bargaining? 10/01/1998
1982-97 State and Local Government Work Stoppages and Their Legal Background 09/01/1998
105th Congress Addresses Working Conditions 12/01/1997
Profile of an Airline Emergency Dispute 09/01/1997
The baseball strike of 1994-95 03/01/1997
Major Work Stoppage Activity Moves Up in 1996 03/01/1997
Stretching Out a Victory in Long Rubber Dispute 03/01/1997
Baseball labor relations: the lockout of 1990 10/01/1990
The AFL and a national BLS: labor’s role is crystallized 03/01/1982

Substance abuse coverage

Supplemental benefits

Recent trends in spending patterns of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program participants and other low-income Americans 09/13/2013
Paid Sick Leave: Prevalence, Provision, and Usage among Full-Time Workers in Private Industry 02/29/2012
Tracking Employment-Based Health Benefits in Changing Times 01/27/2012
Fertile Ground: New Data on Reproductive Health Benefits 06/29/2011
Auto Industry Labor Costs in Perspective 04/22/2011
Ranking of Full-time Civilian Occupations by Hourly and Annual Earnings, July 2009 09/29/2010
Supplemental Pay in the Finance and Insurance Industry 04/21/2010
The Employment Cost Index and the Impact on Medicare Reimbursements 10/26/2009
BLS Introduces New Employer Costs for Employee Compensation Data for Private Industry Workers in 15 Metropolitan Areas 09/28/2009
Recent Modification of Imputation Methods for National Compensation Survey Benefits Data 08/28/2009
A Comparison of Hourly Wage Rates for Full- and Part-Time Workers by Occupation, 2007 07/23/2009
Recent Modifications of Employee Benefits Data in the National Compensation Survey 05/29/2009
A Look at Supplemental Pay: Overtime Pay, Bonuses, and Shift Differentials 03/25/2009
The Structure of State and Local Government Retirement Benefits, 2008 02/25/2009
Wages in the Nonprofit Sector: Healthcare, Personal Care, and Social Service Occupations 01/27/2009
Experimental Estimates of Compensation Levels and Trends for Workers in the 15 Largest Metropolitan Areas, 2004-05 09/17/2007
Medical Plan Type, Fee Arrangement, and Financial Intermediaries, 2006 02/27/2007
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
Access to Defined Contribution Retirement Plans among Workers in Private Industry, 2005 04/26/2006
Rankings of Full-Time Occupations, by Annual Earnings, July 2004 11/30/2005
Retirement Plan Design and the Mobile Workforce 09/28/2005
Wages in Profit and Nonprofit Hospitals and Universities 06/29/2005
New Area Sample Selected for the National Compensation Survey 03/30/2005
Comparing the Retirement Savings of the Baby Boomers and Other Cohorts 01/24/2005
Stock Options: National Compensation Survey Update 06/30/2004
Documenting Benefits Coverage for all Workers 05/26/2004
Calculating Wage Percentiles in the National Compensation Survey 04/28/2004
Janitors in 2000: An Overview of NCS Data 11/24/2003
What is a Pension Equity Plan? (10/29/2003) 10/29/2003
Questions and Answers on Cash Balance Pension Plans 09/22/2003
New Law Moves Insurance Plans Closer to Total Mental Health Parity 09/22/2003
Health Insurance Series Now Available from the Employment Cost Index 08/27/2003
Retiree Health Care Benefits: Data Collection Issues 07/29/2003
Differences in Union and Nonunion Earnings in Blue-collar and Service Occupations 06/25/2003
Job Satisfaction of Recent Graduates in Financial Services 05/28/2003
NCS Reviews the Effectiveness of Variable Pay Collection 04/16/2003
Relative Pay Rates among Major Industry and Occupational Groups 03/26/2003
The E-Government Act of 2002 02/26/2003
Variable Pay in the BLS National Compensation Survey 01/30/2003
Employee Contributions for Health Insurance 1980-2000 01/30/2003
The Role of Incentive Pay in the Volatility of the Employment Cost Index 06/01/2001
Childcare Benefits Continue to Evolve 06/01/2001
Stock Option Plans Surveyed by NCS 03/01/2001
The Cost and Incidence of Referral, Hiring and Retention Bonuses 12/01/2000
The National Compensation Survey: Compensation Statistics for the 21st Century 12/01/2000
Insurance and Retirement Benefits in the Salt Lake City-Ogden, UT, and Toledo, OH, Construction Industries 09/01/2000
Putting Stock in Benefits: How Prevalent Is It? 09/01/2000
Cash Balance Pension Plans: The New Wave 06/01/2000
Private Sector Employee Benefits, 1996-97 06/01/2000
Special Services in the Employer-sponsored Health Plans, 1993 and 1997 06/01/2000
When It Comes To Pay, Does Location Matter? 06/01/2000
National Compensation Survey Collects Test Data on Stock Option Plans 12/01/1999
National Compensation Produces First Nationwide Results 09/01/1999
Insurance and Retirement Benefits in the Jacksonville, Florida Construction Industry 09/01/1999
Retirement Benefits in the Jacksonville, FL and Tucson, AZ Construction Industries 06/01/1999
Unpaid Family Leave 12/01/1998
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 Benefits in the United States, 1994-95 03/01/1998
Linking Retirement Plan Measures 03/01/1998
Life Insurance 12/01/1997
Paid Personal, Funeral, Jury Duty, and Military Leave: Highlights from the Employee Benefit Survey, 1979-95 12/01/1997
The Occupational Compensation Surveys: A Retrospective 09/01/1997
Factors Predicting the Most Important Source of Retirement Income 09/01/1997
Post-retirement Pension Increases 09/01/1997
Public and Private Sector Defined Benefit Pensions: A Comparison 06/01/1997
Short-term Disability Benefits 06/01/1997
Early Retirement Provisions in Defined Benefit Pension Plans 12/01/1996
Paid Lunch and Paid Rest Benefits: highlights from the Employee Benefit Survey 1979-93 12/01/1996
Occupational Wages and Employee Benefits among Small Certificated Air Carriers in Alaska 12/01/1996
Occupational Wages and Employee Benefits in the Airline Industry 09/01/1996
Employee participation in savings and thrift plans, 1993 03/01/1996

Supreme Court

The de-licensing of occupations in the United States 05/18/2015
Labor and the Supreme Court: significant issues of 1991-92 01/01/1992
Labor and the Supreme Court: significant issues of 1990-91 01/01/1991
Labor and the Supreme Court: significant issues of 1989-90 01/01/1990
Labor and the Supreme Court: significant decisions of 1979-80 04/01/1981

Survey methods

Consumer Expenditure Surveys Methods Symposium and Microdata Users’ Workshop, July 12–15, 2016 05/26/2017
Occupational Requirements Survey: results from a job observation pilot test 11/07/2016
One hundred years of Current Employment Statistics: busting CES myths 10/20/2016
One hundred years of Current Employment Statistics—an overview of survey advancements 08/31/2016
One hundred years of Current Employment Statistics—the history of CES sample design 08/09/2016
Labor productivity growth in elementary and secondary school services: 1989–2012 06/30/2016
The Consumer Expenditure Survey redesign initiative 04/13/2016
One hundred years of Current Employment Statistics data collection 01/19/2016
The Occupational Requirements Survey: estimates from preproduction testing 11/18/2015
Revisiting the dilemma of review for modeled wage estimates by job characteristic 09/29/2015
The National Compensation Survey and the Affordable Care Act: preserving quality health care data 04/08/2015
Improving data quality in Consumer Expenditure Survey with TAXSIM 03/24/2015
Imputing income in the Consumer Expenditure Interview Survey 11/13/2014
Agriculture: occupational employment and wages 07/03/2014
Is the workweek really overestimated? 06/02/2014
Research highlights of the Consumer Expenditure Survey redesign 09/09/2013
Green Goods and Services survey: results and collection 09/03/2013
Adding eldercare questions to the American Time Use Survey 11/01/2012
Updated BLS Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System 08/01/2012
The Relevance of Occupational Wage Leveling 04/27/2012
Profiles of Significant Collective Bargaining Disputes of 2011 03/30/2012
Life Insurance Benefits: Variations Based on Workers’ Earnings and Work Schedules 03/30/2012
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
The overestimated workweek revisited 06/01/2011
Change to Hours-Based Fatality Rates in the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries 01/25/2010
The Effect of Incentive Pay on Rates of Change in Wages and Salaries 11/24/2009
A Comparison of Hourly Wage Rates for Full- and Part-Time Workers by Occupation, 2007 07/23/2009
Wages in the Nonprofit Sector: Occupations Typically Found in Educational and Research Institutions 11/26/2008
Examining evidence on whether BLS undercounts workplace injuries and illnesses 08/01/2008
Methods Underlying New Workplace Injury and Illness Rates by Demographic Group 03/26/2008
A Look at Wages in Transportation-Related Occupations in the Memphis Area and in the United States 02/25/2008
The Likelihood of Having Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance 11/30/2007
National Compensation Survey: Post-Katrina Occupational Wage Data for New Orleans 06/27/2007
Pretax Benefits: Access to Section 125 Cafeteria Benefits and Health Savings Accounts in the United States, Private Industry 03/28/2007
Access to Wellness and Employee Assistance Programs in the United States 12/27/2006
The New ECI “Exclusionary” Series: An Improved Measure to Control for Wage Volatility 08/24/2006
Emerging Benefits: Access to Health Promotion Benefits in the United States, Private Industry, 1999 and 2005 07/26/2006
Income data quality issues in the CPS 06/01/2006
Impact of business births and deaths in the payroll survey 05/01/2006
Multiyear nonfatal work injury rates 05/01/2006
Understanding the employment measures from the CPS and CES survey 02/01/2006
Internet collection at the Bureau of Labor Statistics: an option to report data 02/01/2006
Defined Benefit Plans at the Dawn of ERISA 03/30/2005
Deriving Occupational Fatal Injury Costs: A State Pilot Study 02/23/2005
The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth: 1979 cohort at 25 02/01/2005
Antecedents and predecessors of NLSY79: paving the course 02/01/2005
The problem of respondent attrition: survey methodology is key 02/01/2005
Comparing the Retirement Savings of the Baby Boomers and Other Cohorts 01/24/2005
Planning, designing, and executing the BLS American Time-Use Survey 10/01/2004
Calculating Wage Percentiles in the National Compensation Survey 04/28/2004
Cost Sharing in Medical Insurance Plans 03/31/2004
Percent of participants in defined benefit plans by type and periods of earnings, full-time employees, 1997-2000 07/29/2003
Recent changes in the State and Metropolitan Area CES survey 06/01/2003
Recent changes in the national Current Employment Statistics survey 06/01/2003
Relative Pay Rates among Major Industry and Occupational Groups 03/26/2003
Earnings and Other Compensation Data at BLS: What Users Seek and What We Offer 02/26/2003
The American Time Use Survey: cognitive pretesting 02/01/2002
Measuring intrahousehold allocation of time: response to Anne E. Winkler 02/01/2002
A first look at employment and wages using NAICS 12/01/2001
Implementing the North American Industry Classification System at BLS 12/01/2001
New tools for labor market analysis: JOLTS 12/01/2001
Lack of a disability measure in today’s Current Population Survey 06/01/2001
The Role of Incentive Pay in the Volatility of the Employment Cost Index 06/01/2001
The National Compensation Survey: Compensation Statistics for the 21st Century 12/01/2000
New survey measures demand for labor 09/01/2000
When It Comes To Pay, Does Location Matter? 06/01/2000
Supervisory Duties and the National Compensation Survey 03/01/2000
BLS Completes Test Surveys of the Construction Industry 03/01/2000
National Compensation Survey Collects Test Data on Stock Option Plans 12/01/1999
Using the National Compensation Survey to Predict Wage Rates 12/01/1999
National Compensation Produces First Nationwide Results 09/01/1999
Test Surveys of the Construction Industry 06/01/1999
An Overview of the EBS and the NCS 03/01/1999
Tracking Changes in Benefit Costs 03/01/1999
Comparing Wage Changes in Salt Lake City to the Nation: An NCS Test 12/01/1998
Incorporating a geometric mean formula into the CPI 10/01/1998
Collecting Data on Human Capital Variables 09/01/1998
Introducing the North American Industry Classification System 07/01/1998
A Century-Long Quest for Meaningful and Accurate Occupational Injury and Illness Statistics 12/01/1997
Three Measures of Nonfatal Injuries at Work 12/01/1997
The Occupational Compensation Surveys: A Retrospective 09/01/1997
Explaining the Differential Growth Rates of the ECI and ECEC 06/01/1997
Measuring Trends in the Structure and Levels of Employer Costs for Employee Compensation 06/01/1997
Tips and Excluded Workers: The New Orleans Test 06/01/1997
New Sample Areas Selected for BLS National Compensation Program 03/01/1997
Comp2000: Designing A New Wage Survey 12/01/1996
New Approach to Measuring Occupational Wages 12/01/1996
Occupational Wages and Employee Benefits among Small Certificated Air Carriers in Alaska 12/01/1996
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
BLS Redesigns Its Compensation Surveys 09/01/1996
Changing Survey Strategies in the Evolution of Health Care Plans 09/01/1996
Occupational Wages and Employee Benefits in the Airline Industry 09/01/1996
National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, 1995 06/01/1996
Towards a Working Definition of Compensation 06/01/1996
Counting the Incidence of Employee Benefits 06/01/1996
BLS introduces new range of alternative unemployment measures 10/01/1995
The overestimated workweek? What time diary measures suggest 08/01/1994
Redesigning the questionnaire 09/01/1993
Evaluating changes in the estimates 09/01/1993
Why is it necessary to change? 09/01/1993
The Employee Turnover and Job Openings Survey 03/01/1992
Employment Cost Index rebased to June 1989 04/01/1990
A data user’s look back from 2015 04/01/1990
Diffusion indexes: an economic barometer 04/01/1990
Labor force data in the next century 04/01/1990
BLS compensation programs: what will users need? 02/01/1990
BLS prepares to broaden scope of its white-collar pay survey 03/01/1987
Computer-aided telephone interviewing used in the Hours at Work Survey 05/01/1986
New household survey and the CPS:a look at labor force differences 09/01/1985
Implementing the Levitan Commission’s recommendations to improve labor data 02/01/1985
BLS and the economy: a centennial timetable 11/01/1984
A century of wage statistics: the BLS contribution 11/01/1984
The Current Population Survey: a historical perspective and the BLS role 06/01/1984
Response variation in the CPS: caveats for the unemployment analyst 03/01/1984
The “underground economy” and BLS statistical data 01/01/1984

Survey procedures

Sweden

Trends in retirement age in four countries, 1965-95 08/01/1998
U.S. and foreign productivity and unit labor costs 02/01/1997
International unemployment indicators, 1983-93 08/01/1995
Employment change and sectoral distribution in 10 countries, 1970-90 10/01/1993
International comparisons of unemployment indicators 03/01/1993
Manufacturing productivity and labor costs in 14 economies 12/01/1991
Flexible and partial retirement for Norwegian and Swedish workers 10/01/1985
Recent trends in unemployment and the labor force, 10 countries 08/01/1985
How Sweden combats unemployment among young and older workers 10/01/1982

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