(The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)

Archived articles from The Editor's Desk
—Chronological archives: 2005

December 2005

• Industries with the most new jobs, 2004-14 (12/30/2005)

• Comparisons of pay between metropolitan areas (12/29/2005)
• Work experience of men and women in 2004 (12/28/2005)
• Fewer experience unemployment (12/27/2005)
• Mass layoffs in November (12/23/2005)
• Occupations with the largest job growth, 2004–14 (12/22/2005)

• Producer prices in November (12/21/2005)
• Distribution of days away from work due to workplace injuries and illnesses, 2004 (12/20/2005)
• Service-providing sector and job growth to 2014 (12/19/2005)
• CPI down in November (12/16/2005)
• Import prices drop in November 2005 (12/15/2005)

• Age and injuries and illnesses resulting in days away from work, 2004 (12/14/2005)
• Occupational groups and projections, 2004-14 (12/13/2005)
• Volunteering in 2005 (12/12/2005)
• Job growth and firm size (12/09/2005)
• Labor force projected at 162.1 million by 2014 (12/08/2005)

• Factory productivity in the third quarter of 2005 (12/07/2005)
• Unemployment in November 2005 (12/06/2005)
• Payroll employment up in November (12/05/2005)
• Meeting and convention planners (12/02/2005)
• Workplace fatalities among Asian workers (12/01/2005)

November 2005

• Consumer expenditures in 2004 (11/30/2005)
• Food preparation and serving occupations, November 2004 (11/29/2005)
• Injury and illness rate up in the utilities industry (11/28/2005)
• Layoffs in October 2005 (11/25/2005)
• Hourly compensation in U.S. and foreign factories, 2004 (11/23/2005)

• Injury and illness rates down in 2004 (11/22/2005)
• Gross job gains and losses in the first quarter of 2005 (11/21/2005)
• Extended mass layoffs, third quarter 2005 (11/18/2005)
• CPI in October 2005 (11/17/2005)
• PPI in October 2005 (11/16/2005)

• Age, on-the-job injuries and illnesses, and days away from work (11/15/2005)
• Import prices down in October 2005 (11/14/2005)
• Highest paid occupations, November 2004 (11/10/2005)
• Job openings in September 2005 (11/09/2005)
• Unemployment rates for Hurricane Katrina evacuees (11/08/2005)

• Payroll employment little changed in October (11/07/2005)
• Productivity in third quarter 2005 (11/04/2005)
• Differences in earnings by age and sex in 2004 (11/03/2005)
• Women's earnings by occupation in 2004 (11/02/2005)
• Growth in inflation-adjusted earnings, 1979-2004 (11/01/2005)

October 2005

• Drop in compensation costs in constant dollars, September 2005 (10/31/2005)
• International factory productivity gains in 2004 (10/28/2005)
• Daily time use of high school students (10/27/2005)
• Post-hurricane claims for unemployment compensation (10/26/2005)
• Counties with most rapid growth in employment, March 2004-March 2005 (10/25/2005)

• State unemployment rates in September 2005 (10/24/2005)
• Counties with fastest pay growth, first quarter 2005 (10/21/2005)
• Education and earnings in 2004 (10/20/2005)
• PPI in September 2005 (10/19/2005)
• Real weekly earnings in September 2005 (10/18/2005)

• CPI up 1.2 percent in September 2005 (10/17/2005)
• Import prices in September 2005 (10/14/2005)
• Job openings in August 2005 (10/13/2005)
• Unemployment up in September 2005 (10/12/2005)
• Payroll employment in September (10/11/2005)

• Time spent at work in 2004 (10/07/2005)
• Leisure activities in 2004 (10/06/2005)
• Wholesale-trade productivity in 2004 (10/05/2005)
• Working at home and occupation (10/04/2005)
• Electronic equipment and job-related work at home (10/03/2005)

September 2005

• Frequency of working at home in 2004 (09/30/2005)
• Productivity in retail trade, 2004 (09/29/2005)
• Restaurant productivity growth in 2004 (09/28/2005)
• Reasons for working at home in 2004 (09/27/2005)
• Unemployment insurance claims due to mass layoffs, August 2005 (09/26/2005)

• Working at home in 2004 (09/23/2005)
• The average day in 2004 (09/22/2005)
• Fatal on-the-job highway incidents in 2004 (09/20/2005)
• Real weekly earnings, August 2005 (09/19/2005)
• CPI up 0.5 percent in August (09/16/2005)

• Treating cancer with technology (09/15/2005)
• Producer prices in August 2005 (09/14/2005)
• Fatal work injuries by occupation in 2004 (09/13/2005)
• Import prices up again in August 2005 (09/12/2005)
• Separations in July 2005 (09/09/2005)

• Factory productivity, second quarter of 2005 (09/08/2005)
• Employment up again in August (09/07/2005)
• Unemployment rate in August 2005 (09/06/2005)
• Most common uses for computers at work (09/02/2005)
• Workplace homicides declined in 2004 (09/01/2005)

August 2005

• High-technology employment (08/31/2005)
• Age and fatal work injuries in 2004 (08/30/2005)
• Productivity growth in information-sector industries (08/29/2005)

• Fatal work injuries in 2004 (08/26/2005)
• Retirement plans in 2005 (08/25/2005)
• Layoffs in July 2005 (08/24/2005)
• Unemployment among youth, Summer 2005 (08/23/2005)
• Youth labor force participation in Summer 2005 (08/22/2005)

• Gross job gains and losses in the fourth quarter of 2004 (08/19/2005)
• Producer prices in July 2005 (08/18/2005)
• CPI up 0.5 percent in July 2005 (08/17/2005)
• Methods of Internet job searching (08/16/2005)
• Import prices in July 2005 (08/15/2005)

• Extended mass layoffs in second quarter 2005 (08/12/2005)
• Hires rate in June 2005 (08/11/2005)
• Productivity in second quarter 2005 (08/10/2005)
• Payroll employment advanced in July (08/09/2005)
• Unemployment in July 2005 (08/08/2005)

• Job searching via the Internet (08/05/2005)
• Alternative employment arrangements and worker preferences (08/04/2005)
• Computer use at work in 2003 (08/03/2005)
• Temporary help agency workers (08/02/2005)
• Compensation costs up 3.2 percent in private industry over the year (08/01/2005)

July 2005

• Independent contractors in 2005 (07/29/2005)
• Contingent workers and education (07/28/2005)
• Mass layoffs and geography, June 2005 (07/27/2005)
• Jobs in the green industry (07/26/2005)
• Alternative routes to agricultural work (07/25/2005)

• Earnings in geography jobs (07/22/2005)
• Earnings and educational attainment: second quarter of 2005 (07/21/2005)
• Athletic trainers work in a variety of settings (07/20/2005)
• Real weekly earnings in June 2005 (07/19/2005)
• No change in June PPI (07/18/2005)

• CPI unchanged in June 2005 (07/15/2005)
• Import prices in June 2005 (07/14/2005)
• Job openings rate in May 2005 (07/13/2005)
• U.S. employment rose in June 2005 (07/12/2005)
• Unemployment rate trending down (07/11/2005)

• Healthcare spending in 2003 (07/08/2005)
• Formal flexitime programs not common (07/07/2005)
• Expenditures on apparel down in 2003 (07/06/2005)
• Flexible work schedules in 2004 (07/05/2005)
• Wages in for-profit and nonprofit private hospitals (07/01/2005)

June 2005

• Comparing growth rates of benefits and wages in private industry (06/30/2005)
• Simplified, preliminary multifactor productivity statistics
   (06/29/2005)
• Pricing commercial air travel (06/28/2005)

• May 2005 layoffs by region (06/27/2005)
• Initial claims for unemployment insurance due to layoffs, May 2005 (06/24/2005)
• Wives who earn more than their husbands (06/23/2005)
• Private industry compensation $24.17 per hour on average in March 2005 (06/22/2005)
• Fluctuations in beef and cattle producer prices (06/21/2005)

• Real weekly earnings, May 2005 (06/20/2005)
• Cost of health benefits: $1.64 per hour in March 2005 (06/17/2005)
• CPI in May 2005 (06/16/2005)
• PPI drops in May 2005 (06/15/2005)
• New business establishments: survival and longevity (06/14/2005)

• Import prices down in May 2005 (06/13/2005)
• Labor force participation of mothers and fathers (06/10/2005)
• Trends in real hourly compensation (06/09/2005)
• Job openings rates by industry, April 2005 (06/08/2005)
• Unemployment rate in May 2005 (06/07/2005)

• May 2005 payroll employment (06/06/2005)
• May 2005 payroll employment (06/04/2005)
• Factory productivity growth in first quarter 2005 (06/03/2005)
• Earnings of foreign-born workers, 2004 (06/02/2005)
• Lowest paying occupations in May 2004 (06/01/2005)

May 2005

• Layoffs in April 2005 (05/31/2005)

• Highly paid healthcare occupations (05/27/2005)
• Women, men, and unions, 1983 - 2004 (05/26/2005)
• Gross job gains and losses: third quarter 2004 (05/25/2005)
• Foreign-born labor force participation (05/24/2005)
• Real weekly earnings, April 2005 (05/23/2005)

• The size of layoffs in the First Quarter of 2005 (05/20/2005)
• CPI up 0.5 percent in April 2005 (05/19/2005)
• PPI up in April 2005 (05/18/2005)
• Disposable income and consumption (05/17/2005)
• Import prices in April 2005 (05/16/2005)

• Foreign-born workers and occupations, 2004 (05/13/2005)
• Differences in women's earnings by educational level (05/12/2005)
• Job openings rates in March 2005 (05/11/2005)
• Job growth in April 2005 (05/10/2005)
• Unemployment rates and demographics, April 2005 (05/09/2005)

• Productivity in first quarter 2005 (05/06/2005)
• Insurance coverage for mental healthcare (05/05/2005)
• Shelter inflation in 2004 (05/04/2005)
• First rise in consumer durables prices since 1996 (05/03/2005)
• Benefit and wage costs in private industry in March 2005 (05/02/2005)

April 2005

• Industries and employment growth in 2004 (04/29/2005)

• Employment of high school students rises by grade (04/28/2005)
• States and mass layoffs in March 2005 (04/27/2005)
• Employment gains among Hispanic population in 2004 (04/26/2005)
• Decline in lengthy periods of unemployment in 2004 (04/25/2005)
• Real weekly earnings, March 2005 (04/22/2005)

• CPI rises 0.6 percent in March 2005 (04/21/2005)
• PPI up in March 2005 (04/20/2005)
• Occupation and the working poor in 2003 (04/19/2005)
• Import prices up again in March 2005 (04/18/2005)
• Counties with fastest pay growth, third quarter 2004 (04/15/2005)

• Temporary help trends (04/14/2005)
• Job openings in February 2005 (04/13/2005)
• Rate of working poor unchanged in 2003 (04/12/2005)
• Work stoppages in 2004 (04/11/2005)
• Jobs that have become less male-dominated (04/08/2005)

• Length of work absences due to injuries and illnesses, 2003 (04/07/2005)
• Unemployment rate 39.9 percent among recent dropouts (04/06/2005)
• Payrolls up in March 2005 (04/05/2005)
• Unemployment in March 2005 (04/04/2005)
• Sprains and strains most common workplace injury (04/01/2005)

March 2005

• Injuries and illnesses resulting in days away from work, 2003 (03/31/2005)
• Recent high school graduates in college and in the work force (03/30/2005)
• College enrollment of 2004 high school grads (03/29/2005)

• Real weekly earnings in February 2005 (03/28/2005)
• Layoffs fall in February 2005 (03/25/2005)
• CPI up 0.4 percent in February 2005 (03/24/2005)
• Producer prices in February 2005 (03/23/2005)
• Hires and separations rates in January 2005 (03/22/2005)

• Import prices in February 2005 (03/21/2005)
• Unemployment rates in metropolitan divisions, January 2005 (03/18/2005)
• Average compensation in private industry: $23.90 per hour in December 2004 (03/17/2005)
• Job openings rate in January 2005 (03/16/2005)
• Changes in State unemployment rates in 2004 (03/15/2005)

• States with highest unemployment rate in 2004: Alaska and Oregon (03/14/2005)
• State with lowest unemployment rate in 2004: Hawaii (03/11/2005)
• Education and duration of employment relationships (03/10/2005)
• Unit labor costs in manufacturing dropped in 2003 in Japan, Taiwan, U.S. (03/09/2005)
• Unemployment in February 2005 (03/08/2005)

• Payroll employment in February 2005 (03/07/2005)
• Factory productivity growth in 2004 (03/04/2005)
• Frequency and nature of worker training (03/03/2005)
• Transition from school to work quicker as education increases (03/02/2005)
• Japan had largest manufacturing productivity increase in 2003 (03/01/2005)

February 2005

• New seasonally adjusted mass layoffs statistics (02/28/2005)
• Real earnings decline in January 2005 (02/25/2005)
• CPI up 0.1 percent in January (02/24/2005)
• Extended mass layoffs in fourth quarter of 2004 (02/23/2005)

• PPI in January 2005 (02/22/2005)
• Import prices by locality of origin, January 2005 (02/18/2005)
• Extended mass layoff events in 2004 (02/17/2005)
• Gross job gains and losses in the second quarter of 2004 (02/16/2005)
• Absence rates and industry, 2004 (02/15/2005)

• Absence rates and occupation, 2004 (02/14/2005)
• Hires rate in December 2004 (02/11/2005)
• Job openings rate up slightly in December 2004 (02/10/2005)
• Unionization rates by occupation, 2004 (02/09/2005)
• Payroll employment growth in January 2005 (02/08/2005)

• Unemployment rate decreases in January 2005 (02/07/2005)
• Productivity growth in 2004 (02/04/2005)
• Academia, agriculture, and metropolitan area unemployment rates (02/03/2005)
• Biggest rise in multifactor productivity since 1992 (02/02/2005)
• Weekly earnings in fourth quarter 2004 by demographics (02/01/2005)

January 2005

• Over-the-year union and nonunion compensation cost changes, December 2004 (01/31/2005)
• Unionization rates by industry, 2004 (01/28/2005)
• Mass layoffs down again in 2004 (01/27/2005)
• Over-the-year changes in State unemployment rates, December 2004 (01/26/2005)

• Comparing old and new statistics on workplace injuries and illnesses (01/25/2005)
• Real earnings in December 2004 (01/24/2005)
• CPI up 3.3 percent in 2004 (01/21/2005)
• Counties with most rapid growth in employment, June 2003-June 2004 (01/19/2005)
• PPI down in December 2004 (01/18/2005)

• Import prices drop in December 2004 (01/14/2005)
• Job openings in November (01/13/2005)
• Counties with most rapid pay growth, second quarter 2004 (01/12/2005)
• Unemployment rate unchanged in December 2004 (01/11/2005)
• Payroll growth tops 2 million in 2004 (01/10/2005)

• Earnings of advertising sales agents (01/07/2005)
• Hours: Two surveys compared (01/06/2005)
• New and emerging occupations at the start of the 21st century (01/05/2005)
• On-the-job fatalities at road construction sites (01/04/2005)
• Days away from work, job transfer, or restriction due to injuries and illnesses, 2003 (01/03/2005)