Archived articles from The Economics Daily— Metropolitan Areas and Counties

• Rising wage inequality, 2003–13 (10/08/2015)
• Metropolitan area unemployment: the highs and lows, August 2015 (10/07/2015)
• Employment increased in 49 of 51 large metro areas for the year ending August 2015 (10/02/2015)
• Percent change in employment in the 342 largest counties, March 2014 to March 2015 (09/22/2015)
• Comparing metro area unemployment rates to the national rate of 5.6% in July 2015 (09/04/2015)
• Changes in metro area employment, July 2015 (09/03/2015)
• Hurricane Katrina: a look back at employment and unemployment (08/25/2015)
• Registered nurses employment and wages by state and metropolitan area (08/19/2015)
• Percent changes in average hourly earnings for largest metro areas, June 2014 to June 2015 (08/07/2015)
• Austin-Round Rock, Texas, has lowest unemployment rate among large metro areas in June 2015 (08/04/2015)
• Provo-Orem, Utah, has largest percentage job gain from June 2014 to June 2015 (08/03/2015)
• Areas with highest concentration of employment in software publishing, December 2014 (07/29/2015)
• Large metro area unemployment rates, May 2015 (07/09/2015)
• Employment up 5.7 percent over the year in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, California (07/08/2015)
• Employment and wages increase over the year in all 10 of the largest U.S. counties, December 2014 (06/26/2015)
• Metro division unemployment rates in April 2015 (06/05/2015)
• Metropolitan area employment in April 2015 (06/04/2015)
• County employment concentration in the leisure and hospitality industry, September 2014 (06/03/2015)
• Metropolitan area employment in March 2015 (05/04/2015)
• Employment and wages in places named for Abraham Lincoln (04/15/2015)
• All 38 metropolitan divisions had over-the-year unemployment rate decreases in February 2015 (04/13/2015)
• Largest counties accounted for 74 percent of 12-month increase in U.S. employment, September 2014 (03/30/2015)
• Unemployment rates fall in most metropolitan areas, for the year ending in January 2015 (03/25/2015)
• San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, California, has largest employment percent increase over the year (03/24/2015)
• Average weekly wages of workers in counties bearing names of U.S. presidents in June 2014 (02/13/2015)
• 208 out of 372 metro areas had unemployment rates below U.S. rate of 5.4 percent in December 2014 (02/06/2015)
• Dallas has largest percentage increase in employment among large metropolitan areas, December 2014 (02/05/2015)
• Counties with highest concentration of employment in oil and gas extraction, June 2014 (01/09/2015)
• Unemployment in areas with a population of 1 million or more, November 2014 (01/07/2015)
• Large metropolitan area employment changes, November 2013 to November 2014 (01/06/2015)
• Employment in fitness and recreational sport centers in 2013 (01/02/2015)
• Weld County, Colorado, has largest 12-month employment increase, June 2014 (12/24/2014)
• Ames, Iowa, had highest share of employment in government among metro areas (12/17/2014)
• Industries with the highest concentration of employment among large areas, 2013 (11/20/2014)
• Illinois had 5 of 10 metro areas with largest 12-month declines in unemployment rate, September 2014 (11/03/2014)
• Candy, chocolate, and costumes: a look at data related to sweets and treats (10/31/2014)
• Muncie, Midland, and Elkhart-Goshen have largest 12-month percentage increases in employment (10/30/2014)
• Out of 339 largest counties, wages up in 323 and employment up in 281, March 2013 to March 2014 (10/20/2014)
• California had 7 of the 10 metropolitan areas with the highest unemployment rates, August 2014 (10/03/2014)
• Employment change in baseball playoff metro areas, August 2009–August 2014 (10/02/2014)
• County average weekly wages, first quarter 2014 (09/22/2014)
• Unemployment rates in large metropolitan areas range from 4.2 to 9.8 percent, July 2014 (09/02/2014)
• Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana had highest employment in manufacturing among areas, July 2014 (08/29/2014)
• Longview, Washington, has the largest over-the-year unemployment rate decrease, June 2014 (08/01/2014)
• Employment growth in large metropolitan areas, June 2014 (07/31/2014)
• Average weekly wages in majority of U.S. counties were below national average in 2013 (07/18/2014)
• Unemployment rates and French import prices for Bastille Day (07/14/2014)
• Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas, has largest percentage employment increase over the year (07/02/2014)
• County employment and wages, fourth quarter 2013 (06/23/2014)
• Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, California, has highest unemployment rate among large metro areas (05/30/2014)
• Employment up in 36 of 38 large metro areas, April 2013 to April 2014 (05/29/2014)
• Metropolitan area unemployment in March 2014 (05/01/2014)
• Metropolitan division nonfarm employment, March 2013 to March 2014 (04/30/2014)
• Employment in large metropolitan areas, February 2014 (04/18/2014)
• Metropolitan area unemployment in January 2014 (03/27/2014)
• County employment and wages, third quarter 2013 (03/24/2014)
• Naples-Marco Island, Florida has largest over-the-year percentage increase in employment (02/06/2014)
• Spectator sports employment (01/31/2014)
• Metropolitan area unemployment in November 2013 (01/09/2014)
• Sebastian-Vero Beach, Florida has largest over-the-year percentage increase in employment (01/08/2014)
• Employment increases in 288 of 334 largest U.S. counties, June 2013 (12/24/2013)
• Metropolitan area unemployment rates in October 2013 (12/12/2013)
• Metropolitan area employment, October 2013 (12/06/2013)
• Unemployment rates in August were lower than a year earlier in 311 of 372 metropolitan areas (10/25/2013)
• 288 metro areas had over-the-year employment increases in August (10/22/2013)
• Employment increased in 282 of the 334 largest U.S. counties, March 2012 to March 2013 (09/27/2013)
• Unemployment rate lower than U.S. rate in 214 metropolitan areas in July 2013 (08/30/2013)
• Employment by state and metropolitan area, July 2013 (08/29/2013)
• Unemployment rates in June were lower than a year earlier in 272 of 372 metropolitan areas (08/01/2013)
• Midland, Texas has largest over-the-year percentage increase in employment (07/31/2013)
• U.S. city average for gasoline was $3.63 per gallon in June 2013 (07/26/2013)
• Yuma, Arizona had the highest unemployment rate among metropolitan areas, May 2013 (07/05/2013)
• Santa Cruz-Watsonville, California has largest over-the-year percentage increase in employment (07/03/2013)
• Employment up in 287 of 328 largest counties, December 2011 to December 2012 (06/28/2013)
• Employment and unemployment in large metropolitan areas, April 2013 (05/30/2013)
• Employment and unemployment in Mountain states metropolitan areas, March 2013 (05/02/2013)
• Metropolitan area employment and unemployment, February 2013 (04/11/2013)
• Employment in 10 largest counties (03/29/2013)
• Metropolitan area unemployment, January 2013 (03/26/2013)
• Metropolitan area unemployment, December 2012 (02/01/2013)
• Metropolitan division employment, December 2012 (01/31/2013)
• Large county employment, June 2012 (01/10/2013)
• Employment and unemployment in large metropolitan areas, November 2012 (01/09/2013)
• Unemployment rate lower than the U.S. rate in 213 metropolitan areas in October (11/30/2012)
• Employment increases in 288 metro areas in October (11/29/2012)
• Metropolitan division employment and unemployment, September 2012 (11/01/2012)
• Unemployment rates in baseball playoff metro areas, August 2012 (10/05/2012)
• Payroll employment in metropolitan areas, August 2011–August 2012 (10/04/2012)
• Employment and wages up in large counties (09/28/2012)
• Metropolitan area employment and unemployment, July 2012 (08/30/2012)
• Atlanta’s air transportation industry, 1990–2010 (08/27/2012)
• Metropolitan area employment and unemployment, June 2012 (08/02/2012)
• Employment up, wages down, in large counties (06/29/2012)
• Metropolitan area employment and unemployment, May 2012 (06/28/2012)
• Metropolitan area employment and unemployment, April 2012 (05/31/2012)
• Metropolitan area employment and unemployment, March 2012 (05/03/2012)
• Unemployment rates lower from February 2011 to 2012 (04/18/2012)
• County employment, September 2011 (03/30/2012)
• Metropolitan area employment and unemployment, January 2012 (03/28/2012)
• Metropolitan area employment and unemployment, December 2011 (02/07/2012)
• County wages up in second quarter 2011 (01/11/2012)
• Metro area employment and unemployment, November 2011 (01/05/2012)
• Metropolitan area employment and unemployment, October 2011 (12/08/2011)
• Employment and unemployment in the Midwest, September 2011 (11/09/2011)
• New York City’s pay premium from 1990 to 2009 (11/08/2011)
• Employment in large counties, March 2010–March 2011 (11/02/2011)
• State employment and unemployment, September 2011 (10/28/2011)
• Employment in Silicon Valley high-tech businesses, 2000–2009 (10/14/2011)
• Employment in large counties, March 2010–March 2011 (10/04/2011)
• Metropolitan area unemployment rates comparison, August 2011 (10/03/2011)
• Employment in large metropolitan areas, August 2011 (09/30/2011)
• Employment and unemployment in the Northeast, July 2011 (09/06/2011)
• Unemployment in large U.S. metropolitan areas, June 2011 (08/08/2011)
• Metropolitan area employment in June 2011 (08/05/2011)
• Employment and wages in the 10 largest U.S. counties, 2009–2010 (07/06/2011)
• Metropolitan area unemployment rates, May 2011 (07/05/2011)
• Metropolitan area employment, May 2011 (07/01/2011)
• Employer costs for employee compensation in March 2011 (06/10/2011)
• Employment and unemployment in the Southwest, April 2011 (06/03/2011)
• Pay comparisons between metropolitan areas in 2010 (05/27/2011)
• Employment during the 2007–2009 recession (05/04/2011)
• Metropolitan area unemployment in March 2011 (04/29/2011)
• Employment in metropolitan areas, March 2011 (04/28/2011)
• Unemployment in metropolitan areas, February 2011 (04/11/2011)
• Metropolitan area employment, February 2011 (04/08/2011)
• Employment and wages in large U.S. counties, September 2009–September 2010 (03/31/2011)
• Employment and unemployment in the Southeast, January 2011 (03/23/2011)
• Employment and unemployment in the West, December 2010 (02/04/2011)
• Employment changes among large U.S. counties, June 2009–June 2010 (01/13/2011)
• Metropolitan area unemployment in November 2010 (01/07/2011)
• Metropolitan area employment, November 2010 (01/06/2011)
• Employment and unemployment in the Midwest, October 2010 (12/10/2010)
• Unemployment in large U.S. metropolitan areas, September 2010 (11/05/2010)
• Metropolitan area employment, September 2010 (11/04/2010)
• Occupations with high geographic concentration, 2009 (11/03/2010)
• Average weekly wages among large counties, March 2010 (10/21/2010)
• Metropolitan area unemployment in August 2010 (10/05/2010)
• Metropolitan area employment, August 2010 (10/04/2010)
• Unemployment in large U.S. metropolitan areas, July 2010 (09/09/2010)
• Metropolitan area employment, July 2010 (09/08/2010)
• Metropolitan area unemployment rates, June 2010 (08/02/2010)
• Over-the-year employment changes in large metro areas, June 2010 (07/30/2010)
• Comparisons of pay between metropolitan areas in 2009 (07/27/2010)
• Employment changes in the largest counties, December 2009 (07/12/2010)
• Employment and unemployment in New England, May 2010 (07/02/2010)
• Metropolitan area over-the-year unemployment rate changes, April 2010 (06/07/2010)
• Metropolitan area employment, April 2010 (06/04/2010)
• Industry shifts put Philadelphia on a new road to job growth (05/05/2010)
• Unemployment in large metropolitan areas, March 2010 (04/30/2010)
• Over-the-year metro area employment changes, March 2010 (04/29/2010)
• Metropolitan geography of tax preparers employment and earnings (04/15/2010)
• Metropolitan area over-the-year employment changes, February 2010 (04/12/2010)
• Metropolitan area over-the-year unemployment rate changes, February 2010 (04/09/2010)
• Employment declines in large counties, September 2008-2009 (04/02/2010)
• Metropolitan area unemployment rates, January 2010 (03/29/2010)
• January payroll employment in Sweet 16 metropolitan areas (03/26/2010)
• Employment declines in metropolitan divisions, December 2008–December 2009 (02/04/2010)
• Employment declines in U.S. counties, June 2008–09 (01/19/2010)
• Unemployment in large metropolitan areas, November 2009 (01/13/2010)
• Metropolitan area employment, November 2009 (01/11/2010)
• Metropolitan area employment: October 2008–09 (12/03/2009)
• Metropolitan area employment: September 2008–09 (10/30/2009)
• Unemployment in large metropolitan areas, September 2009 (10/29/2009)
• Demographics of New York City health care employment (10/07/2009)
• Metropolitan area employment, August 2009 (10/02/2009)
• Metropolitan area over-the-year unemployment rate increases, August 2009 (10/01/2009)
• Employee access to medical care benefits in metropolitan areas, December 2008 (09/29/2009)
• Employer costs for employee compensation in metropolitan areas, March 2009 (09/28/2009)
• High-tech employment in Silicon Valley, 2001 and 2008 (09/08/2009)
• Large metropolitan areas and unemployment in June 2009 (07/30/2009)
• Comparisons of pay between metropolitan areas in 2008 (07/27/2009)
• Employment changes in the largest counties, December 2008 (07/22/2009)
• Metro areas with lowest unemployment rates in May 2009 (07/02/2009)
• Metro areas with highest unemployment rates in May 2009 (07/01/2009)
• Metro areas with largest over-the-year percentage declines in employment, April 2009 (06/04/2009)
• Metro areas with highest unemployment rates in March (04/30/2009)
• Fastest decline in employment by county, September 2007-2008 (04/09/2009)
• Concentration of employment in higher education in metropolitan areas (02/13/2009)
• Counties with highest wage growth, second quarter 2008 (01/22/2009)
• Employment growth and decline by county, March 2007-2008 (10/28/2008)
• Counties with highest wage growth, first quarter 2008 (10/20/2008)
• Reasons for extended mass layoff events in the New York area, 1996-2006 (10/10/2008)
• New Employment Cost Indexes for selected metropolitan areas (09/26/2008)
• Counties with largest gains and losses in employment, December 2006-2007 (07/30/2008)
• Comparisons of pay between metropolitan areas, 2007 (07/28/2008)
• Counties with highest average weekly wages at the end of 2007 (07/25/2008)
• Employment in the residential framing contractors industry (06/24/2008)
• Employment of fast food cooks by metropolitan area, May 2006 (06/19/2008)
• County employment: largest growth and decline, September 2006- 2007 (04/10/2008)
• Employment growth and decline by county, June 2006-2007 (01/23/2008)
• Creative arts employment in New York and Los Angeles (11/29/2007)
• Employment and wages by occupation for nonmetropolitan areas (10/25/2007)
• Employment growth and decline by county, March 2006-2007 (10/23/2007)
• Counties with highest wage growth, first quarter 2007 (10/22/2007)
• Comparisons of pay between metropolitan areas, 2006 (09/27/2007)
• Counties with highest wage growth, fourth quarter 2006 (07/27/2007)
• Fastest growth and decline in employment by county, December 2005-2006 (07/26/2007)
• Employment in managing offices, June 2006 (07/12/2007)
• Recovery after Hurricane Katrina (06/20/2007)
• Highest paid registered nurses are in California (05/18/2007)
• Employment growth and decline by county, September 2005-2006 (04/12/2007)
• Fairfax County and growth of professional and business services jobs in Washington, DC area (01/31/2007)
• Fastest growth and decline in employment by county, June 2005-2006 (01/17/2007)
• Counties with highest wage growth, second quarter 2006 (01/12/2007)
• Telemarketing centers in the U.S. (01/03/2007)
• Most rapid growth and decline in employment by county, March 2005-March 2006 (10/27/2006)
• Comparisons of pay between metropolitan areas, 2005 (09/29/2006)
• The labor market impact of Hurricane Katrina (08/31/2006)
• Counties with highest wage growth, fourth quarter 2005 (08/02/2006)
• Most rapid growth and decline in employment by county, December 2004-December 2005 (07/27/2006)
• Earnings of retail salespersons highest in metro areas in West (06/08/2006)
• Counties with fastest pay growth, third quarter 2005 (04/18/2006)
• Wage growth by county, third quarter 2005-2006 (04/17/2006)
• Counties with most rapid employment growth and decline, September 2004-September 2005 (04/13/2006)
• Counties with fastest growth in employment, June 2004-June 2005 (01/18/2006)
• Counties with most rapid pay growth, second quarter 2005 (01/12/2006)
• Comparisons of pay between metropolitan areas (12/29/2005)
• Counties with most rapid growth in employment, March 2004-March 2005 (10/25/2005)
• Counties with fastest pay growth, first quarter 2005 (10/21/2005)
• Counties with fastest pay growth, third quarter 2004 (04/15/2005)
• Unemployment rates in metropolitan divisions, January 2005 (03/18/2005)
• Academia, agriculture, and metropolitan area unemployment rates (02/03/2005)
• Counties with most rapid growth in employment, June 2003-June 2004 (01/19/2005)
• Counties with most rapid pay growth, second quarter 2004 (01/12/2005)
• Counties with fastest job growth, March 2003-March 2004 (10/27/2004)
• Counties with most rapid growth in employment, December 2002-December 2003 (07/27/2004)
• Counties with fastest growing pay, fourth quarter 2003 (07/09/2004)
• 9/11 and the New York City economy (07/01/2004)
• Extended mass layoffs decline in first quarter of 2004 (05/19/2004)
• Counties with fastest growing employment, September 2003 (04/07/2004)
• San Jose had biggest unemployment rate drop in 2003 (02/05/2004)
• Counties with fastest growing employment, June 2003 (01/08/2004)
• Counties with fastest growing pay, first quarter 2003 (11/06/2003)
• Counties with fastest growing employment, March 2003 (11/03/2003)
• Metro areas with highest percentages of high-tech workers (08/22/2003)
• Job flows in Rust Belt (12/02/2002)
• Counties with employment declines last year (11/29/2002)
• California, Texas, Florida, Nevada had fastest growing counties (11/26/2002)
• Lafayette County, Louisiana had highest growth in pay in 2001 (11/25/2002)
• New York County had highest pay level in 2001 (11/22/2002)
• Metro areas with highest pay in 2001 (11/13/2002)
• Largest pay hike in Lafayette, La. (11/12/2002)
• Benefit, wage costs for State and local government workers rise in step at the beginning of 2002 (04/26/2002)
• Smaller rise in benefit costs for State and local government workers at end of 2001 (02/06/2002)
• Counties with largest employment gains in 2000 (11/02/2001)
• Job growth in suburbs versus cities (10/31/2001)
• Benefit costs for State and local government workers up sharply in past 3 months (10/30/2001)
• Employment growth fastest in Loudoun County, Virginia (10/24/2001)
• Santa Clara County had top pay level in 2000 (10/23/2001)
• San Mateo County, California had highest growth in pay in 2000 (10/19/2001)
• Gap widens between metropolitan and nonmetropolitan area pay (10/11/2001)
• San Jose again leads nation in annual pay (10/04/2001)
• San Jose has biggest pay hike again (10/01/2001)
• Variation in women’s employment across metropolitan areas, 1999 (07/23/2001)
• New York County leads in pay in 1999 (12/20/2000)
• San Jose ranks first in annual pay (12/12/2000)
• Biggest hike in pay in San Jose (11/29/2000)
• Travis County, Texas had biggest pay increase in 1998 (02/03/2000)
• Jacksonville, NC, has lowest annual pay (01/27/2000)
• Los Angeles County experiences largest employment gains (01/07/2000)
• Austin had highest 1998 pay increase (01/03/2000)
• Nationwide earnings data by occupation from National Compensation Survey now available (10/19/1999)
• New York County tops in pay in 1997 (09/21/1999)
• San Jose leads nation in annual pay (08/26/1999)
• Much variation in women’s employment across metropolitan areas (08/20/1999)
• Odessa-Midland, Texas, had largest unemployment rate increase during 1998 (02/08/1999)
• Most metropolitan areas experience jobless rate decrease in 1998 (02/05/1999)
• Suburbanites enjoy better labor market outcomes (12/11/1998)
• Eight counties reported employment greater than 1 million in 1996 (12/04/1998)
• Employment declined in 27 large counties in 1996 (12/03/1998)
• Few of the Nation’s largest counties recorded pay declines in 1996 (12/02/1998)
• Nevada’s Clark County reported largest percent increase in employment in 1996 (12/01/1998)
• Average annual pay highest in New York County in 1996 (11/30/1998)