2017 Archived articles from The Economics Daily (in chronological order)

August 2017

• Baby boomers born from 1957 to 1964 held an average of 11.9 jobs from ages 18 to 50 (08/28/2017)
• Women's and men's earnings by age in 2016 (08/25/2017)
• Summer youth labor force in July 2017 (08/24/2017)
• North Dakota and Tennessee set new unemployment series lows in July 2017 (08/23/2017)
• Delaware had highest percentage increase in average hourly earnings from July 2016 to July 2017 (08/22/2017)
• Shining a light on employment in the path of the August 21 solar eclipse (08/21/2017)
• Import air passenger fares fall 2.6 percent over the year; export fares rise 4.3 percent (08/18/2017)
• Real average hourly earnings up 0.7 percent over the year ending July 2017 (08/17/2017)
• Consumer Price Index rose 1.7 percent from July 2016 to July 2017 (08/16/2017)
• PPI for final demand up 1.9 percent over the year ended July 2017 (08/15/2017)
• Productivity up in wholesale trade, retail trade, and food services and drinking places in 2016 (08/14/2017)
• Productivity increased 1.2 percent from Q2 2016 to Q2 2017 (08/11/2017)
• Job openings rose to 6.2 million in June 2017 (08/10/2017)
• Employment–population ratio and labor force participation rate by age (08/09/2017)
• Nonfarm employment up 209,000 in July 2017 (08/08/2017)
• 43 out of 51 largest metro areas had over-the-year unemployment rate decreases (08/07/2017)
• Employment increased in 342 metropolitan areas over the year ending June 2017 (08/04/2017)
• Married couples with oldest child under age 6 spent 36.3 percent of total expenditures on housing (08/03/2017)
• 93 percent of managers and 46 percent of service workers had paid sick leave benefits in March 2017 (08/02/2017)
• Compensation costs for leisure and hospitality workers up 3.9 percent in 12 months ending June 2017 (08/01/2017)

July 2017

• Average weekly wages highest in D.C. and lowest in Mississippi in fourth quarter 2016 (07/31/2017)
• Employment gain 201,000 at firms with 250 or more employees, 4th quarter 2016 (07/28/2017)
• 95 percent of managers and 39 percent of service workers offered medical benefits in March 2017 (07/27/2017)
• Colorado and North Dakota had the lowest unemployment rates among the states in June 2017 (07/26/2017)
• Nevada employment up 3.8 percent over the year, June 2017 (07/25/2017)
• Multifactor productivity grew in 54 of 86 manufacturing industries from 1987 to 2015 (07/24/2017)
• High school graduates who work full time had median weekly earnings of $718 in second quarter (07/21/2017)
• Import prices up 1.5 percent, export prices up 0.6 percent over the year ending June 2017 (07/20/2017)
• Real average hourly earnings up 0.8 percent over the year ending June 2017 (07/19/2017)
• Consumer Price Index rose 1.6 percent from June 2016 to June 2017 (07/18/2017)
• Producer Price Index for final demand increased 2.0 percent over the year ended June 2017 (07/17/2017)
• Almost half of people employed in sales and related occupations worked weekends and holidays in 2016 (07/14/2017)
• Leisure and hospitality industry leads in job openings rates (07/13/2017)
• Leisure and hospitality had highest unemployment rate in June 2017 (07/12/2017)
• Payroll employment up 222,000 in June 2017 (07/11/2017)
• Productivity and compensation, 1987–2015 (07/10/2017)
• Pay and access to benefits rise as job level rises (07/07/2017)
• 8.8 million science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) jobs in May 2016 (07/06/2017)
• Employment and wages in all the Jefferson counties in 2016 (07/05/2017)
• 194 of 388 metropolitan areas had unemployment rates below U.S. rate of 4.1 percent in May 2017 (07/03/2017)

June 2017

• Nonfarm payroll employment increased in 304 metropolitan areas for year ending May 2017 (06/30/2017)
• On days they worked, 22 percent of employed did some or all of their work at home in 2016 (06/29/2017)
• 37 percent of May 2016 employment in occupations typically requiring postsecondary education (06/28/2017)
• 30 percent of civilian jobs require some driving in 2016 (06/27/2017)
• Unemployment rate of people with a disability 10.5 percent in 2016 (06/26/2017)
• Higher paid workers more likely to have access to retirement benefits than lower paid workers (06/23/2017)
• Seven states at historically low unemployment rates in May 2017 (06/22/2017)
• Employment up 3.3 percent in Utah over the year ending May 2017 (06/21/2017)
• Import prices decline 12.9 percent from June 2014 to May 2017 (06/20/2017)
• Real average hourly earnings increased 0.6 percent over the year ended May 2017 (06/19/2017)
• CPI rose 1.9 percent over the 12 months ending May 2017 (06/16/2017)
• PPI for final demand goods less foods and energy increased 2.2 percent over the year ending May 2017 (06/15/2017)
• Running employment data on Flagstaff, Arizona, up the flag pole, April 2017 (06/14/2017)
• Hourly compensation costs total $53.61 in San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland in March 2017 (06/13/2017)
• Employment in 10 largest counties, December 2016 (06/12/2017)
• Job openings rose to 6.0 million in April 2017 (06/09/2017)
• Chicago-Naperville-Elgin metro had largest unemployment rate decrease for year ended April 2017 (06/08/2017)
• Reasons for unemployment in May 2017 (06/07/2017)
• Payroll employment up 138,000 in May 2017 (06/06/2017)
• Nonfarm payroll employment increased in 297 metropolitan areas over the year ending April 2017 (06/05/2017)
• Industries with summertime peaks in employment (06/02/2017)
• 73 percent of all civilian workers had access to paid vacations in March 2016 (06/01/2017)

May 2017

• 14.9 percent of civilian jobs exposed to hazardous contaminants in 2016 (05/31/2017)
• Labor productivity rose in 17 of 28 selected service-providing industries in 2016 (05/30/2017)
• Illinois, Oregon, West Virginia, Wyoming have largest 12-month jobless rate drops in April 2017 (05/26/2017)
• Employment in professional and business services increased in most states for year ending April 2017 (05/25/2017)
• Foreign-born workers made 83.1 percent of the earnings of their native-born counterparts in 2016 (05/24/2017)
• Textile mills labor productivity up 6.6 percent in 2016 (05/23/2017)
• 69.7 percent of 2016 high school graduates enrolled in college in October 2016 (05/22/2017)
• Real hourly earnings up 0.4 percent over the year ending April 2017 (05/19/2017)
• Apparel prices up 0.5 percent over the year ending April 2017 (05/18/2017)
• PPI final demand index up 2.5 percent for the 12 months ended April 2017 (05/17/2017)
• Import prices up 4.1 percent for the year ended in April (05/16/2017)
• Job openings and hires rates by industry, March 2017 (05/15/2017)
• Unemployment rates lower in March 2017 than a year earlier in 336 metro areas (05/12/2017)
• Nonfarm payroll employment increased in 310 metropolitan areas for year ending March 2017 (05/11/2017)
• 1.5 million people marginally attached to the labor force in April 2017 (05/10/2017)
• Nonfarm employment up 211,000 in April 2017 (05/09/2017)
• Nonfarm business unit labor costs increase 2.8 percent from Q1 2016 to Q1 2017 (05/08/2017)
• Workplace injuries and illnesses resulting in job transfer or restriction in 2015 (05/05/2017)
• Firm size and employment growth, 1992–2016 (05/04/2017)
• Three quarters of state and local government workers were in defined benefit pension plans in 2016 (05/03/2017)
• Compensation costs rise 2.3 percent for private industry workers over the year ending March 2017 (05/02/2017)
• Gross job gains exceed gross job losses by 688,000 in third quarter of 2016 (05/01/2017)

April 2017

• Workplace injuries, illnesses, and fatalities by occupation (04/28/2017)
• Employment in families with children in 2016 (04/27/2017)
• 18 states have lower unemployment rates in year ending March 2017 (04/26/2017)
• Twenty-seven states had significant employment increases for year ending March 2017 (04/25/2017)
• Median weekly earnings increase 4.2 percent for full-time workers over the year (04/24/2017)
• Real average hourly earnings up 0.3 percent for year ending March 2017 (04/21/2017)
• CPI rose 2.4 percent over the 12 months ending March 2017 (04/20/2017)
• Unemployment rates decline in 274 metropolitan areas over the year ending February 2017 (04/19/2017)
• Camden and Dallas had highest percent increases in employment for year ended February 2017 (04/18/2017)
• Producer Price Index for final demand goods increased 4.0 percent over the year ending March 2017 (04/17/2017)
• Import prices up 4.2 percent over the year ending March 2017 (04/14/2017)
• 5.2 million private industry job openings on last business day of February 2017 (04/13/2017)
• U-3 unemployment rate was 4.5 percent in March 2017; U-6 was 8.9 percent (04/12/2017)
• Payroll employment edged up by 98,000 in March 2017 (04/11/2017)
• Physical strength required for jobs in different occupations in 2016 (04/10/2017)
• Multifactor productivity decreased 0.2 percent in 2016 (04/07/2017)
• Annual mean wage of construction and extraction occupations was $48,900 in 2016 (04/06/2017)
• Fatal injuries at road work zones (04/05/2017)
• Households spent an average of $528 on pets in 2015 (04/04/2017)
• Newspaper publishers lose over half their employment from January 2001 to September 2016 (04/03/2017)

March 2017

• Unemployment rates in Arkansas and Oregon at record lows in February 2017 (03/31/2017)
• Nonfarm payroll employment increased in 31 states over the 12 months ending February 2017 (03/30/2017)
• 31 percent of employed veterans with a disability worked in government in August 2016 (03/29/2017)
• Supplemental pay averaged 3.5 percent of total compensation costs in December 2016 (03/28/2017)
• Salt Lake City had lowest unemployment rate among large metropolitan areas in January 2017 (03/27/2017)
• 308 metro areas had increases in employment for year ending January 2017 (03/24/2017)
• Real earnings unchanged over the year ending February 2017 (03/23/2017)
• Quits rise while layoffs and discharges fall in 2016 (03/22/2017)
• Prices for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs down 7 percent since August 2015 peak (03/21/2017)
• Producer Price Index for final demand increased 2.2 percent for the year ended February 2017 (03/20/2017)
• State unemployment rates, January 2007 to January 2017 (03/17/2017)
• Twenty-eight states had significant employment increases for year ending January 2017 (03/16/2017)
• Unemployment rate at 4.7 percent in February 2017 (03/15/2017)
• U.S. import and export prices up over the year ending February 2017 (03/14/2017)
• Nonfarm employment up 2.35 million, February 2016 to February 2017 (03/13/2017)
• Women in architecture and engineering occupations in 2016 (03/10/2017)
• Average weekly wages among largest counties, third quarter 2015 to third quarter 2016 (03/09/2017)
• Women’s median earnings 82 percent of men’s in 2016 (03/08/2017)
• Labor share of output has declined since 1947 (03/07/2017)
• Consumer spending in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan (03/06/2017)
• Establishments with fewer than 50 workers employed 60 percent of construction workers in March 2016 (03/03/2017)
• North Dakota had highest proportion of people employed in 2016 (03/02/2017)
• Standing or walking versus sitting on the job in 2016 (03/01/2017)

February 2017

• Pound of ground beef cost 17.9 percent of average hourly earnings in 2016 (02/28/2017)
• A look at employment and wages in the film industry (02/27/2017)
• Labor productivity growth since the Great Recession (02/24/2017)
• Union membership rates by state in 2016 (02/23/2017)
• 15 major work stoppages in 2016 (02/22/2017)
• Real average hourly earnings unchanged from January 2016 to January 2017 (02/21/2017)
• CPI rose 2.5 percent over the 12 months ending January 2017 (02/17/2017)
• PPI final demand index up 1.6 percent for the 12 months ended January 2017 (02/16/2017)
• Import prices from China decrease 1.7 percent over the year ending January 2017 (02/15/2017)
• 192 metropolitan areas had jobless rates below U.S. rate of 4.5 percent in December 2016 (02/14/2017)
• Employment up in 49 of the 51 largest metro areas, December 2015 to December 2016 (02/13/2017)
• Unit labor costs for nonfarm business increase 1.9 percent during 2016 (02/10/2017)
• Union membership rate 10.7 percent in 2016 (02/09/2017)
• Net employment gain measures 2.4 million in 2016 (02/08/2017)
• Unemployment rate 2.5 percent for college grads, 7.7 percent for high school dropouts, January 2017 (02/07/2017)
• Payroll employment up by 227,000 in January 2017 (02/06/2017)
• Prior work experience required for 47.8 percent of all civilian jobs in 2016 (02/03/2017)
• Employer costs for benefits to union workers up 31 percent over last decade (02/02/2017)
• Employment in apparel manufacturing decreased 85 percent over last 25 years (02/01/2017)

January 2017

• Gross job gains totaled 7.5 million in the second quarter of 2016 (01/31/2017)
• Median weekly earnings were $849 in the fourth quarter of 2016 (01/30/2017)
• December 2016 unemployment rates lowest in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, South Dakota (01/27/2017)
• Virginia added 14,100 jobs in December 2016 (01/26/2017)
• Work absences due to bad weather from 1994 to 2016 (01/25/2017)
• Real average hourly earnings for production and nonsupervisory employees up 0.5 percent in 2016 (01/24/2017)
• CPI up 2.1 percent over the 12 months ending December 2016 (01/23/2017)
• Power plant operators, distributors, and dispatchers had median hourly wages of $36.38 in May 2015 (01/19/2017)
• PPI final demand index up 1.6 percent in 2016 (01/18/2017)
• Computer and electronic product manufacturing import prices down 7.3 percent since December 2012 (01/17/2017)
• Unemployment rate and employment-population ratio vary by race and ethnicity (01/13/2017)
• Over 1 million health care and social assistance job openings on last business day of November 2016 (01/12/2017)
• Logging workers had highest rate of fatal work injuries in 2015 (01/11/2017)
• Unemployment rate down 0.3 percentage point over the year ended December 2016 (01/10/2017)
• Nonfarm payroll employment growth totaled 2.2 million in 2016 (01/09/2017)
• Over 90 percent of protective service and construction and extraction jobs require work outdoors (01/06/2017)
• Prices for new cars up 5 percent, insurance 50 percent, over last 10 years (01/05/2017)
• 7 Massachusetts metro areas among largest over-the-year unemployment rate declines in November 2016 (01/04/2017)
• Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, Florida, leads large metro areas in over-the-year employment percent gain (01/03/2017)

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