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2008: Dec | Nov | Oct | Sept | Aug | Jul | Jun | May | Apr | Mar | Feb | Jan

December 2008

Not-for-profit sector and employment (12/31/2008)

401(k) plans and employer stock (12/30/2008)
Occupational injuries and illnesses, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands (12/29/2008)
Working in 2007 (12/24/2008)
Work-experience unemployment rate in 2007 (12/23/2008)
Mass layoff events in November 2008 (12/22/2008)

Working full time, year round in 2007 (12/19/2008)
Real average weekly earnings up in November 2008 (12/18/2008)
Consumer Price Index in November 2008 (12/17/2008)
Export prices in November 2008 (12/16/2008)
Producer prices fell in November 2008 (12/15/2008)

Import prices down again in November 2008 (12/12/2008)
Compensation costs per hour worked in private industry, September 2008 (12/11/2008)
Job openings rate in October 2008 (12/10/2008)
Unemployment rates by sex, November 2008 (12/09/2008)
Payrolls in November 2008 (12/08/2008)

Wages in architecture and engineering occupations by sector (12/05/2008)
Productivity growth in third quarter 2008 revised upward (12/04/2008)
Working in the electric power industry (12/03/2008)
Musculoskeletal disorders and days away from work in 2007 (12/02/2008)
Jobs with most injuries and illnesses resulting in days away from work (12/01/2008)

November 2008

Real average weekly earnings, October 2008 (11/28/2008)
Consumer expenditures in 2007 (11/26/2008)
Quarterly job gains and losses, March 2008 (11/25/2008)

Mass layoffs, October 2008 (11/24/2008)
Injuries and illnesses resulting in days away from work by age in 2007 (11/21/2008)
CPI in October 2008 (11/20/2008)
PPI in October 2008 (11/19/2008)
Reason for extended mass layoffs, third quarter 2008 (11/18/2008)

Import prices decline further in October 2008 (11/17/2008)
Job openings by industry, September 2008 (11/14/2008)
Airline employment: takeoff and descent (11/13/2008)
Payroll employment in October 2008 (11/12/2008)
Unemployment in October 2008 (11/10/2008)

Productivity growth in third quarter 2008 (11/07/2008)
Wages in the nonprofit and private sectors, 2007 (11/06/2008)
Employer shares of medical plan premiums, March 2008 (11/05/2008)
Compensation costs in State and local government, September 2008 (11/04/2008)
Employment costs in private industry, September 2008 (11/03/2008)

October 2008

Women's earnings by occupation in 2007 (10/31/2008)
Earnings of women and men by race and ethnicity, 2007 (10/30/2008)
Women's earnings as a percentage of men's, 1979-2007 (10/29/2008)

Employment growth and decline by county, March 2007-2008 (10/28/2008)
Workplace injury and illness rates by industry in 2007 (10/27/2008)
Injury and illness rate down again in 2007 (10/24/2008)
Mass layoff actions in September 2008 (10/23/2008)

Mixed-education occupations, 2006-16 (10/22/2008)
Weekly earnings in the third quarter of 2008 (10/21/2008)
Counties with highest wage growth, first quarter 2008 (10/20/2008)
Consumer Price Index in September 2008 (10/17/2008)
Producer Price Index down again in September 2008 (10/16/2008)

Export prices decrease in September 2008 (10/15/2008)
Import prices decline again in September 2008 (10/14/2008)
Reasons for extended mass layoff events in the New York area, 1996-2006 (10/10/2008)
Multiple jobholding in States in 2007 (10/09/2008)
Job openings rate in August 2008 (10/08/2008)

Unemployment and demographics in September 2008 (10/07/2008)
Changes in payroll employment by industry, September 2008 (10/06/2008)
Variation in life insurance benefits by establishment size, 2008 (10/03/2008)
Manufacturing unit labor costs fell in 2007 in Taiwan, Japan, U.S. (10/02/2008)
Employee tenure by industry, 2008 (10/01/2008)

September 2008

International factory productivity gains, and losses, in 2007 (09/30/2008)

Employees with 10 years or more of tenure with the same employer, 2008 (09/29/2008)
New Employment Cost Indexes for selected metropolitan areas (09/26/2008)
Variation in medical care benefits by occupation, 2008 (09/25/2008)
Mass layoff events in August 2008 (09/24/2008)
Export prices decline in August 2008 (09/23/2008)

Over-the-month changes in State unemployment rates, August 2008 (09/22/2008)
Healthcare occupations and workdays (09/19/2008)
Real average weekly earnings, August 2008 (09/18/2008)
CPI in August 2008 (09/17/2008)
Variation in worker earnings by occupation, July 2007 (09/16/2008)

PPI down in August 2008 (09/15/2008)
Import prices drop in August 2008 (09/12/2008)
Employer costs for retirement and savings plans, June 2008 (09/11/2008)
Hires rate in July 2008 (09/10/2008)
Payroll employment in August 2008 (09/09/2008)

Unemployment in August 2008 (09/08/2008)
Manufacturing productivity in second quarter of 2008 (09/05/2008)
Working poor and education in 2006 (09/04/2008)
Summer 2008 labor force participation of youth (09/03/2008)
Multifactor productivity in detailed manufacturing industries, 1987-2006 (09/02/2008)

August 2008

Unemployment among youth, Summer 2008 (08/29/2008)

On-the-job fatalities due to falls in 2007 (08/28/2008)
Displaced workers' earnings at new jobs, January 2008 (08/27/2008)
Workplace homicides in 2007 (08/26/2008)
Mass layoffs in July 2008 (08/25/2008)
Reason for job losses among displaced workers (08/22/2008)

Fatal work injuries in 2007 (08/21/2008)
Producer Price Index in July (08/20/2008)
Gross job gains and losses: fourth quarter 2007 (08/19/2008)
Extended mass layoffs by industry, second quarter 2008 (08/18/2008)
Consumer Price Index in July (08/15/2008)

Import prices in July 2008 (08/14/2008)
Job openings rate in June 2008 (08/13/2008)
Unit labor costs in manufacturing, second quarter 2008 (08/12/2008)
Productivity in second quarter 2008 (08/11/2008)
Retirement and medical care benefits in 2008 (08/08/2008)

Energy PPI in 2007 (08/07/2008)
More seniors working full time (08/06/2008)
Payroll employment in July 2008 (08/05/2008)
Unemployment in July 2008 (08/04/2008)
Change in wages and salaries in constant dollars, June 2007-June 2008 (08/01/2008)

July 2008

Projected growth in labor force participation of seniors, 2006-2016 (07/31/2008)
Counties with largest gains and losses in employment, December 2006-2007 (07/30/2008)

Labor force participation of seniors, 1948-2007 (07/29/2008)
Comparisons of pay between metropolitan areas, 2007 (07/28/2008)
Counties with highest average weekly wages at the end of 2007 (07/25/2008)
Mass layoffs in manufacturing, June 2008 (07/24/2008)
Surgical technologists (07/23/2008)

Earnings of bachelor's degree recipients 10 years after graduation (07/22/2008)
Earnings and education in the second quarter of 2008 (07/21/2008)
Real earnings, June 2008 (07/18/2008)
CPI in June 2008 (07/17/2008)
Producer prices in June 2008 (07/16/2008)

Export prices in June 2008 (07/15/2008)
Import prices up again in June (07/14/2008)
The unemployment rate and beyond (07/11/2008)
Hires rate down in May 2008 (07/10/2008)
Education and time spent in primary care of children (07/09/2008)

Unemployment rate unchanged in June 2008 (07/08/2008)
Payrolls in June 2008 (07/07/2008)
Coal mining fatalities (07/03/2008)
Working at home in 2007 (07/02/2008)
Employment and unemployment from age 18 to age 42 (07/01/2008)

June 2008

Youngest boomers: 10.8 jobs from ages 18-42 (06/30/2008)

Household activities in 2007 (06/27/2008)
Average hours that men and women worked in 2007 (06/26/2008)
Earnings in nine largest occupations, May 2006 (06/25/2008)
Employment in the residential framing contractors industry (06/24/2008)
Mass layoffs, May 2008 (06/23/2008)

Occupations with different wage variations (06/20/2008)
Employment of fast food cooks by metropolitan area, May 2006 (06/19/2008)
PPI in May 2008 (06/18/2008)
Real average weekly earnings, May 2008 (06/17/2008)
CPI in May 2008 (06/16/2008)

Import prices, May 2008 (06/13/2008)
Health benefit costs in private industry, March 2008 (06/12/2008)
Job openings rate in April 2008 (06/11/2008)
Payroll employment in May 2008 (06/10/2008)
Increase in unemployment rate in May 2008 (06/09/2008)

Quits as a percentage of separations, 2007 (06/06/2008)
Productivity growth in first quarter 2008 revised upward (06/05/2008)
Labor force participation of mothers with infants in 2007 (06/04/2008)
Families and unemployment, 2007 (06/03/2008)
Married-couple families and employment, 2007 (06/02/2008)

May 2008

Energy prices and expenditures in the South, 1984-2006 (05/30/2008)

Experimental CPI for Americans 62 years of age and older (05/29/2008)
More school, more play (05/28/2008)
Productivity growth in selected service-providing industries, 2006 (05/27/2008)
Mass layoffs down in April 2008 (05/23/2008)
Job losses and gains in the third quarter of 2007 (05/22/2008)

Producer prices in April 2008 (05/21/2008)
Job openings by industry, March 2008 (05/20/2008)
Extended mass layoffs by industry, first quarter 2008 (05/19/2008)
Real average weekly earnings in April 2008 (05/16/2008)
Consumer prices in April 2008 (05/15/2008)

Import prices in April 2008 (05/14/2008)
Highest and lowest paying occupational groups, 2007 (05/13/2008)
Office and administrative occupations in 2007 (05/12/2008)
Married parents, household activities, and childcare (05/09/2008)
Productivity in first quarter 2008 (05/08/2008)

Multifactor productivity in private business, 2007 (05/07/2008)
Unemployment demographics, April 2008 (05/06/2008)
Payrolls in April 2008 (05/05/2008)
Manufacturing multifactor productivity in 2006 (05/02/2008)
Change in compensation costs, December 2007-March 2008 (05/01/2008)

April 2008

Unemployment rate 26.9 percent among recent dropouts (04/30/2008)
Recent high school graduates and labor force participation, October 2007 (04/29/2008)

2007 high school grads and college enrollment (04/28/2008)
Older teachers work more hours than younger teachers (04/25/2008)
Initial claims for unemployment insurance due to mass layoffs, March 2008 (04/24/2008)
Unemployment in 2007 (04/23/2008)
Labor force participation of veterans of World War II, Korean War, or Vietnam era (04/22/2008)

Trends in industry employment in 2007 (04/21/2008)
Real average weekly earnings, March 2008 (04/18/2008)
CPI in March 2008 (04/17/2008)
PPI in March 2008 (04/16/2008)
Export prices in March 2008 (04/15/2008)

Import prices, March 2008 (04/14/2008)
Unemployment and young veterans, 2007 (04/11/2008)
County employment: largest growth and decline, September 2006- 2007 (04/10/2008)
Job openings in February (04/09/2008)
Payroll employment in March 2008 (04/08/2008)

Unemployment rate up in March 2008 (04/07/2008)
State and local government workers' access to quality-of-life benefits (04/04/2008)
Employer premiums for medical care plans in State and local government (04/03/2008)
Occupations and foreign-born workers in 2007 (04/02/2008)
Educational attainment of foreign born labor force (04/01/2008)

March 2008

Foreign-born workers by region, 2007 (03/31/2008)

Multifactor productivity in nonfarm business, 2006 (03/28/2008)
Foreign-born workers and unemployment, 2007 (03/27/2008)
Retirement benefits of State and local government workers (03/26/2008)
Commercial divers (03/25/2008)
Mass layoffs up in February (03/24/2008)

Manufacturing industries and productivity, 2006 (03/21/2008)
Employer costs for paid leave in private industry, December 2007 (03/20/2008)
Producer prices in February 2008 03/19/2008)
Real earnings, February 2008 (03/18/2008)
Consumer prices in February 2008 (03/17/2008)

Import prices in February 2008 (03/14/2008)
Hires and separations in 2007 (03/13/2008)
U.S. skiing employment (03/12/2008)
Unemployment rates by demographics, February 2008 (03/11/2008)
Payrolls in February 2008 (03/10/2008)

Unit labor costs in manufacturing, fourth quarter 2007 (03/07/2008)
Productivity growth in fourth quarter 2007 (03/06/2008)
2006-07 changes in State unemployment rates (03/05/2008)
Highest State unemployment rates in 2007 (03/04/2008)
Lowest State unemployment rates in 2007 (03/03/2008)

February 2008

Korea had largest manufacturing productivity gain in 2006 (02/29/2008)
Initial claims for unemployment insurance due to mass layoffs in January 2008 (02/28/2008)
PPI in January 2008 (02/27/2008)
Extended mass layoffs, 2007 (02/26/2008)
Duration of work stoppages beginning in 2007 (02/25/2008)

Real average weekly earnings, January 2008 (02/22/2008)
CPI in January 2008 (02/21/2008)
Export prices in January 2008 (02/20/2008)
Import prices in January 2008 (02/19/2008)
Extended mass layoffs by industry, fourth quarter 2007 (02/15/2008)

More workers idled by work stoppages in 2007 (02/14/2008)
Job openings and labor turnover in 2007 (02/13/2008)
Manufacturing compensation costs in U.S. and abroad, 2006 (02/12/2008)
Union membership by industry, 2007 (02/11/2008)
Manufacturing unit labor costs up in 2007 (02/08/2008)

Productivity growth in 2007 (02/07/2008)
Compensation costs in state and local government up 4.1 percent in 2007 (02/06/2008)
Unemployment and age, January 2008 (02/05/2008)
January 2008 payroll employment (02/04/2008)
Compensation costs in private industry up 3.0 percent in 2007 (02/01/2008)

January 2008

School status at age 20 (01/31/2008)

Education and volunteering (01/30/2008)
Union membership by State, 2007 (01/29/2008)
Union membership in 2007 (01/28/2008)
Mass layoffs in 2007 (01/25/2008)
Volunteering in 2007 (01/24/2008)

Employment growth and decline by county, June 2006-2007 (01/23/2008)
States with lowest unemployment rates in December 2007 (01/22/2008)
Real average weekly earnings, December 2006-December 2007 (01/18/2008)
Consumer Price Index up 4.1 percent in 2007 (01/17/2008)
Producer prices in December 2007 (01/16/2008)

Export prices in 2007 (01/15/2008)
Import prices in December 2007 (01/14/2008)
Hires rates by region, November 2006 and November 2007 (01/11/2008)
Industries losing the most jobs, 2006-16 (01/10/2008)
Contributing towards medical care coverage (01/09/2008)

Unemployment and labor force participation at the end of 2007 (01/08/2008)
Payroll employment up by 1.3 million in 2007 (01/07/2008)
Projected growth in professional occupations, 2006-16 (01/04/2008)
Medical care benefits for lower and higher wage workers (01/03/2008)
Work-experience unemployment rate in 2006 (01/02/2008)

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