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

Archived articles from The Editor's Desk
—Chronological archives: 1998

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December 1998

Workers with longer workweeks often earn more per hour (12/31/1998)
Majority of employees have unpaid family leave benefit (12/30/1998)

Professional and managerial occupations have higher wages (12/29/1998)
Injuries and illnesses with lost workdays declining (12/28/1998)
Consumer expenditures rise 3.0 percent in 1997 (12/24/1998)
Physicians work the longest weeks (12/23/1998)
Auto dealers are fewer, bigger, and employ more workers (12/22/1998)

Entrants concentrated in sales, clerical, and service occupations (12/21/1998)
Injury and illness incidence rate lowest on record (12/18/1998)
High income households allocate smaller expenditure shares to necessities (12/17/1998)
Share of workers experiencing unemployment at record low (12/16/1998)
Homeowner expenditures take more out of budgets in Northeast and West (12/15/1998)

Young workers more likely to try new occupations (12/14/1998)
Suburbanites enjoy better labor market outcomes (12/11/1998)
Quality changes bigger factor for light truck prices than for car prices in 1999 model year (12/10/1998)
More people are working year-round (12/09/1998)
Higher share of consumer expenditures going to homeowner expenses (12/08/1998)

Services industry has highest number of emerging occupations (12/07/1998)
Eight counties reported employment greater than 1 million in 1996 (12/04/1998)
Employment declined in 27 large counties in 1996 (12/03/1998)
Few of the Nation's largest counties recorded pay declines in 1996 (12/02/1998)
Nevada's Clark County reported largest percent increase in employment in 1996 (12/01/1998)

November 1998

Average annual pay highest in New York County in 1996 (11/30/1998)

No TED articles were posted between 11/13/98 and 11/30/98 due to BLS review of procedures used to update the BLS Web site.
Labor productivity increases in most industries from 1987 to 1996 (11/13/1998)
Education has positive impact on labor market activity of severely disabled (11/12/1998)
Five states account for majority of public sector work stoppages (11/10/1998)
New occupations emerging across industry lines (11/09/1998)

Majority of employment in industries with rising productivity (11/06/1998)
3 of 10 persons with severe disabilities are active in the labor market (11/05/1998)
Compensation costs increase with establishment size (11/04/1998)
Many retail trade workers paid less than $10 per hour (11/03/1998)
Three factors led to 1996 grain price shock (11/02/1998)

October 1998

About 1 in 6 college graduates earns less than high school graduates (10/30/1998)

Total compensation costs double from 1981 to 1997 (10/29/1998)
Abundant career opportunities projected in information technology (10/28/1998)
Securities and commodities brokers lead industries earning high wages (10/27/1998)
Consumer expenditure rise largely attributable to discretionary spending (10/26/1998)
Earnings increase substantially with additional education (10/23/1998)

International average of factory worker compensation falls relative to U.S. (10/22/1998)
Impact of grain price shocks may be lessening (10/21/1998)
Childcare benefits remain uncommon (10/20/1998)
More high school graduates enrolling in college (10/19/1998)
Consumer expenditures rise at highest rate since 1989 (10/16/1998)

Nonmanufacturing workers face increasing incidence of job displacement (10/15/1998)
Large employers provide more training for employees (10/14/1998)
People average 8.6 jobs from ages 18 to 32 (10/13/1998)
Highway fatalities on-the-job reach all-time high in 1997 (10/09/1998)
Defense-related employment decline projected to slow (10/08/1998)

Employer costs for employee compensation higher in goods-producing industries (10/07/1998)
Job tenure declines among men (10/06/1998)
Unit labor costs fall in broad range of countries (10/05/1998)
Fewer youths hired this summer (10/02/1998)
Jobs requiring low levels of educational attainment grow faster in U.S. than in Japan or Europe (10/01/1998)

September 1998

Job-related deaths are less likely for women (09/30/1998)
Fewer medium and large private employers provide dental care for employees (09/29/1998)
General Motors strikes affect employment counts (09/28/1998)

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