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December 1999

Declines in unit labor costs and gains in productivity (12/30/1999)

Occupations with the largest growth, 1998-2008 (12/29/1999)
Eighth consecutive drop in incidence of days away from work due to workplace injuries and illnesses (12/28/1999)
Fast-growing industries vs. fast-going industries (12/27/1999)
Annual wages of nurses, doctors, and other health care workers (12/23/1999)
Over half of contingent workers would prefer permanent jobs (12/22/1999)

Injuries and illnesses in goods-producing and service-producing sectors (12/21/1999)
The "grayby" boom ages the labor force (12/20/1999)
Rate of on-the-job injuries and illnesses continues to decline (12/17/1999)
Washington State reports biggest pay gain again (12/16/1999)
Consumer prices in November (12/15/1999)

The labor force in 2008: race and Hispanic origin (12/14/1999)
Producer prices in November (12/13/1999)
Import prices rise again in November (12/10/1999)
More than two-thirds of projected fastest growing occupations are in high wage jobs (12/09/1999)
Unit labor costs in the third quarter (12/08/1999)

Education requirements and job growth (12/07/1999)
Unemployment in November (12/06/1999)
Service sector dominant source of new jobs (12/03/1999)
Dental care benefits in medium and large private establishments (12/02/1999)
Millennial themes: age, education, services (12/01/1999)

November 1999

Features of life insurance plans (11/30/1999)
Blue-collar workers have highest eligibility for short-term disability benefits, lowest for long-term (11/29/1999)
Value of quality changes in 2000 model-year light trucks (11/26/1999)
What consumers pay for in a VCR (11/24/1999)
Value of quality changes in 2000 model-year cars (11/23/1999)

Employment in electric services industry drops in 1990s (11/22/1999)
Spending on food away from home up by 5.7 percent in 1998 (11/19/1999)
Consumer prices in October (11/18/1999)
PPI rising at an annual rate of 2.9 percent through October (11/17/1999)
Features of outpatient prescription drug benefits (11/16/1999)

Producer prices in October (11/15/1999)
Prevalence of paid sick leave (11/12/1999)
Rises in import prices by locality last month (11/10/1999)
Paid vacation and length of service (11/09/1999)
Manufacturing employment in October (11/08/1999)

Compensation rising more rapidly in service sector than in goods-producing sector (11/05/1999)
Few employees able to cash in unused sick leave (11/04/1999)
Benefits now increasing at slower rate than wages and salaries (11/03/1999)
Full-time working couples more common (11/02/1999)
Movements in constant-dollar wages and salaries, 1976-98 (11/01/1999)

October 1999

Average work experience rises in recent years (10/29/1999)
U.S. auto industry boosts productivity in 1990s (10/28/1999)
Industries with the most cases of occupational stress (10/27/1999)
Toxicology reports and workplace deaths (10/26/1999)
Variation in earnings of college grads (10/25/1999)

Pay gains similar for workers in private industry and State and local government over past two decades (10/22/1999)
Rate of occupational injuries and illnesses in construction drops by 38 percent in 1976-97 (10/21/1999)
Occupational stress and time away from work (10/20/1999)
Nationwide earnings data by occupation from National Compensation Survey now available (10/19/1999)
Working in manufacturing safer over the past two decades (10/18/1999)

Displaced professional workers most likely to return to same occupation (10/15/1999)
White-collar workers account for most cases of occupational stress (10/14/1999)
Decline in cases of occupational stress (10/13/1999)
Incidence of displaced workers becoming reemployed in the same industry (10/12/1999)
Income and public transportation expenditures (10/08/1999)

Education and second job entrepreneurs (10/07/1999)
Communications workers get the most paid leave (10/06/1999)
Knowledge gets the biggest pay premium (10/05/1999)
Just over half of temporary workers are female (10/04/1999)
Mass transit and public transportation expenditures (10/01/1999)

September 1999

Incidence of flexible work schedules increases (09/30/1999)

Most hours in private sector now supplied by those with more than a high school education (09/29/1999)
Shifts in auto industry employment, 1979-98 (09/28/1999)
Airfare dominates public transportation expenditures (09/27/1999)
Change in percent of persons working full-time year round varies by sex and education (09/24/1999)
How long does it take a displaced worker to find a new job? (09/23/1999)

Hours worked for women with children rise (09/22/1999)
New York County tops in pay in 1997 (09/21/1999)
Increasing skill levels now account for over a quarter of labor productivity growth (09/20/1999)
Shifts within and across occupations drive changes in skill levels (09/17/1999)
Displacement rates for blue-collar and white-collar workers more similar in recent years (09/16/1999)

Temps work same hours as other services workers (09/15/1999)
Unit labor costs fall in 1990s in U.S. auto industry (09/14/1999)
Transportation the largest piece of pleasure travel spending (09/13/1999)
Poverty rates higher for working women (09/10/1999)
Young adults most likely to be among the working poor (09/09/1999)

Midwestern States have top employment-population ratios (09/08/1999)
Service, farm workers have highest poverty rates (09/07/1999)
Unit labor costs in manufacturing decline the most in Korea, Taiwan, Japan in 1998 (09/03/1999)
Productivity gains in German and American factories better than 4 percent in 1998 (09/02/1999)
Working for someone else and for yourself (09/01/1999)

August 1999

Food, clothing, and shelter see different historical spending patterns (08/31/1999)
High earnings without a college degree? (08/30/1999)

Youth employment up 2.8 million this summer (08/27/1999)
San Jose leads nation in annual pay (08/26/1999)
Comparing food expenditures by income group (08/25/1999)
Largest drop ever in prices of crude materials in 1998 (08/24/1999)
Health insurance now accounts for biggest share of health care dollar (08/23/1999)

Much variation in women's employment across metropolitan areas (08/20/1999)
No change in producer prices in 1998 (08/19/1999)
Hospitals have highest number of occupational injuries (08/18/1999)
Rate of fatal work injuries rises with age (08/17/1999)
Educational and health services employment most extensive in Northeast (08/16/1999)

Most reported occupational illnesses are repeated-trauma disorders (08/13/1999)
Agriculture employment most widespread by far in West North Central States (08/12/1999)
Fatal work injuries at seven-year low (08/11/1999)
Pension expenditures drop for all except highest income group (08/10/1999)
How leased and owned vehicles stack up (08/09/1999)

Manufacturing employment most prevalent in Midwest (08/06/1999)
Meat packing plants have the highest rate of repeated-trauma disorders (08/05/1999)
Nonfatal injuries to young workers (08/04/1999)
Concentration of high-tech employment (08/03/1999)
Importance of retirement benefits in compensation (08/02/1999)

July 1999

Considerable variation in multiple jobholding by State (07/30/1999)

High tech doesn't always mean high growth (07/29/1999)
Hazards of refuse collection (07/28/1999)
Workdays lost to injury in manufacturing (07/27/1999)
Compensation highest in biggest establishments (07/26/1999)
Men's earnings at peak at age 45-54 (07/23/1999)

Large variation in union membership by State (07/22/1999)
High tech, high pay (07/21/1999)
Majority of college students work for pay (07/20/1999)
Prices for apparel fall in most years in 1990s in research series (07/19/1999)
Wages highest in West, benefits highest in Northeast (07/16/1999)

Youths and on-the-job danger (07/15/1999)
Length of work stoppages in 1998 (07/14/1999)
Transportation prices and the new research series (07/13/1999)
Unemployment and the newest high school dropouts (07/12/1999)
Fatalities among firefighters (07/09/1999)

Differences in benefits between government and private industry (07/08/1999)
Housing prices usually restrained in CPI research series (07/07/1999)
Blue-collar workers earn more of compensation in benefits than other workers (07/06/1999)
How risky is police work? (07/02/1999)
Pay increase largest in finance in 1997 (07/01/1999)

June 1999

Young women enroll in college in greater numbers than young men (06/30/1999)
Benefits nearly a third of compensation in manufacturing (06/29/1999)

Food inflation leaner in new research series (06/28/1999)
Alaska has smallest pay gain in 1997 (06/25/1999)
Washington State reports biggest pay gain in 1997 (06/24/1999)
Sources of adjustments in CPI research series (06/23/1999)
Apparel prices adjusted downward the most in new research series (06/22/1999)

New research series shows lower inflation (06/21/1999)
Projections of service worker employment generally on target (06/18/1999)
Consumers pay less for durables again in 1998 (06/17/1999)
Assessing projections of management jobs (06/16/1999)
Prices for services decelerate, but not shelter prices (06/15/1999)

BLS total employment projections usually close (06/14/1999)
Savings and thrift plans in small private establishments (06/11/1999)
Women in managerial, professional occupations earn more than others (06/10/1999)
Prices for apparel declined in 1998 (06/09/1999)
Employment of mothers with infants (06/08/1999)

Consumer prices for medical care accelerate in 1998 (06/07/1999)
Differences in women's and men's earnings by age, 1979-98 (06/04/1999)
Labor force participation of fathers and mothers varies with children's ages (06/03/1999)
Self-employment more important in 1990s Canadian job growth than in American (06/02/1999)
Fewer families experienced unemployment in 1998 (06/01/1999)

May 1999

Consumers pay more for desired features (05/28/1999)
Both husband and wife work for pay in majority of married-couple families (05/27/1999)
In small firms, blue-collar, service workers least covered by health care benefits (05/26/1999)
Women's earnings rise with education—earnings ratio falls, then rises (05/25/1999)

Life insurance for older workers at small establishments (05/21/1999)
White-collar workers more likely to receive disability benefits in small establishments (05/20/1999)
Women's earnings ratio highest in D.C., California (05/19/1999)
Executives, professionals, and service workers to be growing share of self-employed (05/18/1999)
Slower growth in health services earnings in the 90s (05/17/1999)

Earning patterns for women working part-time contrast with full-timers' (05/14/1999)
More than a third of youths combine school and jobs (05/13/1999)
It takes more information to understand labor shortages (05/12/1999)
Women's earnings, earnings difference highest after age 45 (05/11/1999)
Two of five 15-year olds hold jobs (05/10/1999)

More Northeastern workers receive most types of benefits (05/07/1999)
Health employment not as strong as it used to be (05/06/1999)
Productivity rose in most mining and service industries in 1997 (05/05/1999)
Five days away from work is median for injury or illness (05/04/1999)
About a quarter of 14-year olds hold jobs (05/03/1999)

April 1999

Consumers in the South spend less on entertainment in 1997 (04/30/1999)
West region's mass layoffs decline the most during 1998 (04/29/1999)

Employer costs for Medicare, workers' compensation rise from 1966-98 (04/28/1999)
Apparel spending down in 1997 (04/27/1999)
Lost-worktime injuries decline from 1993 to 1997 (04/26/1999)
Have our price indexes dampened productivity measures? (04/23/1999)
Persons not in the labor force who "want a job now" declines in 1998 (04/22/1999)

West, South lead employment growth by region in 1998 (04/21/1999)
Entertainment spending declines in 1997 (04/20/1999)
Employment advances on narrower industry front in 1998 (04/19/1999)
Manufacturing leads industries in nonfatal injuries and illnesses (04/16/1999)
Extended mass layoff events and separations up slightly in 1998 (04/15/1999)

Retirement costs share of compensation rises from 1966-98 (04/14/1999)
1998 services industry job growth strong, but still off 1993-97 average (04/13/1999)
Sprains, strains, and tears most frequent time-lost work injury (04/12/1999)
1996-98 growth fastest among jobs with highest earnings (04/09/1999)
Health care costs fluctuate with employer cost-containment efforts (04/08/1999)

Single- and multi-employer defined benefit pension plans differ (04/07/1999)
1998 job growth in several major industries outpaces 5-year average (04/06/1999)
Computer ownership up sharply in the 1990s (04/05/1999)
Workweeks shorter in 1998 (04/02/1999)
Expenditures for housing, personal insurance rise fastest in 1997 (04/01/1999)

March 1999

Manufacturing, mining report employment declines during 1998 (03/31/1999)
Job losses from mass layoffs rise in 1998 (03/30/1999)
Consumer prices in the South rise 1.5 percent in 1998 (03/29/1999)

Largest employment share is in services industry (03/26/1999)
Job absence rate higher for women than for men (03/25/1999)
New CPI estimator expected to lower inflation rate by 0.2 percent (03/24/1999)
Transportation spending brakes in 1997 (03/23/1999)
1998 consumer price rise in the West slightly above national increase (03/22/1999)

Reasons for unemployment differ by gender, age (03/19/1999)
Southeast region employs the most textile workers (03/18/1999)
France leads 11 countries in manufacturing productivity growth during 1997 (03/17/1999)
Medical care spending climbs again in 1997 (03/16/1999)
Consumer prices in the Midwest rise 1.6 percent in 1998 (03/15/1999)

Energy PPIs closely track oil, gas, and electricity prices (03/12/1999)
Unemployment rate drops with additional education (03/11/1999)
Hourly compensation rises in 1998 (03/10/1999)
Spending on food differs by gender (03/09/1999)
Consumer prices rise 1.7 percent in the Northeast in 1998 (03/08/1999)

7.9 million workers were multiple jobholders in 1998 (03/05/1999)
Sources of labor productivity shift (03/04/1999)
More temporary workers expected in certain blue-collar occupations (03/03/1999)
Midwest jobless rate lowest for eighth straight year (03/02/1999)
Outside DC, largest federal employment share in Alaska (03/01/1999)

February 1999

Expenditures on frozen foods, meat change considerably over 12-year period (02/26/1999)
Productivity of labor, capital rise again in 1997 (02/25/1999)
Temporary workers in professional occupations expected to increase (02/24/1999)
Share of long-term unemployed declined in 1998 (02/23/1999)

Montana reports lowest weekly wage (02/22/1999)
Northeastern States have highest weekly wages (02/19/1999)
Factory unit labor costs rise for first time in five years (02/18/1999)
Highest compensation reported in white-collar occupations (02/17/1999)
Demographics vary by occupation (02/16/1999)

A few more work stoppages in 1998 (02/12/1999)
Small establishments employ the largest share of workers (02/11/1999)
Productivity gains led by durables manufacturing (02/10/1999)
The young are most likely to be contingent workers (02/09/1999)
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)
Finance and manufacturing industries report highest weekly wages in 1997 (02/04/1999)
Black women report highest earnings premium for additional education (02/03/1999)
Independent contractors differ from traditional workers (02/02/1999)
Export prices decline again in 1998 (02/01/1999)

January 1999

Total compensation package up 3.4 percent in 1998 (01/29/1999)
Union membership edges up, but share continues to fall (01/28/1999)
Women's earnings 76 percent of median for men in 1998 (01/27/1999)
New Mexico had highest State unemployment rate at end of 1998 (01/26/1999)

Three Midwestern States tie for lowest unemployment rate at end of 1998 (01/25/1999)
Benefits share of compensation costs changed little from 1986 to 1998 (01/22/1999)
Paid vacation most frequently offered time-off benefit (01/21/1999)
Another real raise in 1998 (01/20/1999)
Record decline in import prices during 1998 (01/19/1999)

Annual consumer price rise smallest since 1986 (01/15/1999)
Producer prices edged down 0.1 percent in 1998 (01/14/1999)
Production occupations have largest employment share in 1997 (01/13/1999)
More fatalities from being caught in machinery in 1997 (01/12/1999)
Unemployment rate continued to drop in early 1998, then stayed down (01/11/1999)

More workers covered by HMOs and PPOs (01/08/1999)
High earnings without long hours a possibility (01/07/1999)
Defined contribution retirement plans becoming more prevalent (01/06/1999)
Clerical, service, and agricultural workers have low wages (01/05/1999)
Most dangerous occupation of 1997? Timber cutting (01/04/1999)

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