Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics 2009


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The Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics: Employment Earnings, Prices, Productivity and Other Related Data continues and enhances the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) discontinued publication, Labor Statistics. It brings historical and recent data from the BLS and other government agencies together into a convenient, single-volume source of labor data. The Handbook provides detailed and authoritative data on employment, earnings, prices, productivity, occupational safety and health, foreign labor force statistics, and other related topics. The Handbook provides: recent and historical data on employment earnings prices productivity consumer expenditures employment projections by industry and occupationalternative work arrangements union affiliation occupational safety and health and more Several additions were made to the 12th edition. Most notable is the inclusion of a new chapter titled 'Recent Trends in the Labor Market.' This chapter contains data from Mass Layoffs Statistics (MLS) program and the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS). A new series on the employment situation of veterans and new tables on compensation and wages were also added. In addition, new figures on a variety of topics including consumer expenditures, initial claimants for unemployment insurance, and household income were included. New to the 12th edition This edition maintains the content of previous editions and updates the text with additional and new features including: A new chapter - 'Recent Trends in the Labor Market.' It includes data from the Mass Layoffs Statistics program and the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. It also contains information on mass layoff events, initial claimants for unemployment insurance, movement of work, job openings, hires, and separations A new section on the employment situation of veterans. Data includes employment status by veteran status, industry, occupation, period of service, and more New figures on a variety of topics. Examples include consumer expenditures, initial claimants for unemployment insurance, and household income







National Estimates of Gross Employment and Job Flows from the Quarterly Workforce Indicators with Demographic and Industry Detail


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The Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) are local labor market data produced and released every quarter by the United States Census Bureau. Unlike any other local labor market series produced in the U.S. or the rest of the world, the QWI measure employment flows for workers (accession and separations), jobs (creations and destructions) and earnings for demographic subgroups (age and gender), economic industry (NAICS industry groups), detailed geography (block (experimental), county, Core-Based Statistical Area, and Workforce Investment Area), and ownership (private, all) with fully interacted publication tables. The current QWI data cover 47 states, about 98% of the private workforce in those states, and about 92% of all private employment in the entire economy. State participation is sufficiently extensive to permit us to present the first national estimates constructed from these data. We focus on worker, job, and excess (churning) reallocation rates, rather than on levels of the basic variables. This permits comparison to existing series from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey and the Business Employment Dynamics Series from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The national estimates from the QWI are an important enhancement to existing series because they include demographic and industry detail for both worker and job flow data compiled from underlying micro-data that have been integrated at the job and establishment levels by the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program at the Census Bureau. The estimates presented herein were compiled exclusively from public-use data series and are available for download.




Monthly Labor Review


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Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.













Studies in Labor Markets


Book Description

The papers in this volume present an excellent sampling of the best of current research in labor economics, combining the most sophisticated theory and econometric methods with high-quality data on a variety of problems. Originally presented at a Universities-National Bureau Committee for Economic Research conference on labor markets in 1978, and not published elsewhere, the thirteen papers treat four interrelated themes: labor mobility, job turnover, and life-cycle dynamics; the analysis of unemployment compensation and employment policy; labor market discrimination; and labor market information and investment. The Introduction by Sherwin Rosen provides a thoughtful guide to the contents of the papers and offers suggestions for continuing research.