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Discusses the two distinct phases of labor productivity in the paper and plastic bag industry in the U.S. Employment pattern by phases; Increase in the real value of consumer expenditure for soft goods; Technological advances in all parts of the bag-making process; Effect of product changes on production speeds.

Papers from the 10th anniversary conference of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 cohort, addressed schooling, employment, adolescent behaviors, and many other aspects of youths lives [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information about several papers discussed at a conference held in June 2007 in the U.S., in honor of the 75th anniversary of the W.E. Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation is presented. These papers discusses employment and America's future. It is reported that the state of the U.S. economy has worsened. Also it is stated that the net effect of economic change in recent decades is manifested in growing income inequality, but the way in which inequality has grown has intensified the problem.

The article reflects on the paper by economic development adviser and author Stuart Andreason which discusses the lower unemployment rate for American people with at least a bachelor's degree than those with less education. Topics include the benefits of degree to the individual's employment status and economic condition, the efforts of metropolitan areas to attract more highly educated labor force that would benefit local labor market, and the college-educated share of its labor force.

The article offers a look at the employment condition in different industries in the U.S. in November 1923. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, generally, an increase in employment volume was reported in November, as well as an increase in wages. Women's clothing, millinery, brick and men's clothing industries reported a decline in employment rate. While steel shipbuilding, slaughtering and meat packing, agricultural equipment and automobile tires industries recorded employment increase. Several charts comparing the employment volume in different industries are presented.

Reports on selected articles concerning labor management in the U.S. Social cost-of-living indexes; Job vacancies vis-a-vis unemployment; Long-term employment relationship as cause of Japan's high labor productivity.

The article discusses the study which aims to present evidence on the degree of wage and productivity stability of manufacturing plants in the U.S. from 1987 to 1997. It examines the degree of stability both in the total manufacturing sector and, separately, for two-digit Standard Industrial Classification industry groups. The study found that the substantial dispersion of wages and productivity across all manufacturing plants narrowed modestly over the studied period and that the connection between a plant's level of productivity and its hourly wages declined. Moreover, it revealed that although plants' 1987 levels of wages and productivity were significant predictors of their 1997 levels, many plants showed substantial movements within the relative wage and productivity distributions.

Presents labor statistics in the United States, compiled as of October 1977. Employment; Labor turnover; Wages and hours of labor; Consumer and wholesale prices.

The article assesses the rate of employment in the U.S. manufacturing sector in October 1925. The volume of employment rose in October in 7 of the 9 geographic divisions and dropped only slightly in the Mountain and Pacific states. The only marked decline in employment was a 7.4 percent decline in the automobile tire industry. Payroll totals, as well as per capita earnings, had also increased 12.1 percent in October. Ninety-four establishments in 31 industries also reported pay increases for the month ending October 15.

Discusses the different economic research concerning the size and distribution of employment and earnings effects of minimum wages in the U.S. Categories of studies dealing with teenage employment effects; Flaws of several unemployment studies; Developments in the different employment studies.

The article examines the state of the labor market for truck drivers in the U.S. An overview of the number and types of truckers, the regulations on truck driving, and the market size for trucking services as well as the employment and earnings patterns of truck drivers is offered. Results of the evaluation of the occupational outmigration and entry of truck drivers highlight the tight labor market, high and persistent turnover rates, and secular shortage of truck drivers.

The article focuses on the impact of high-poverty environment childhood on employment in adulthood in the U.S. Topics discussed include the association of childhood environment with adulthood economic well-being, the gender differences in employment, the variation of employment gender gap, and the observation of higher crime rates.

This article discusses the determination of the needs of the labor force in the United States, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections program. The authors comment on the study of job openings and opportunities. They also examine changes and trends in overall employment status.

The article examines the impact of minimum wage increase on the overall employment of low-skilled workers in the U.S. Topics discussed include the ability of these workers to escape poverty and move into jobs with middle-class earnings, the contrast of minimum wage increase with earned income tax credit increase, and a lower middle class income. The purchasing power and unemployment reduction among low-skilled workers are also noted.

The article analyzes the effects of increasing the minimum wage in the U.S. The states have employed various approaches in raising their minimum wages. Some researchers have warned about employment loss that the increased minimum wage would have. They also considered several factors, including general inflation levels, substitution of workers for machines, and wage increases.

The article looks at benchmarking in the Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), from its history from 1935 to current benchmark procedures. It describes the general practice of CES benchmarking and presents quantitative results at national and state levels. An overview of methods included in recent employment research is provided, as well as impediments to improving the method.

The article discusses a proposed procedure for benchmarking employment estimates from the Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The proposal includes seasonally adjusted Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages estimates on a quarterly basis. Also presented are the results of the method's simulation and its use for benchmarking both national employment estimates and state and area estimates.

The article focuses on the findings of a study titled "Do Competitive Work Places Deter Female Workers? A Large- Scale Natural Field Experiment on Gender Differences in Job-Entry Decisions" by Jeffrey A. Flory, Andreas Leib- brandt, and John A. As stated, the study demonstrates the imbalances between men and women that exist in regard to both employment and wages in the U.S. labor market. The findings show that men in comparison to women, applied for a greater proportion of positions in which job performance was heavily weighted in determining compensation. However, women were shown to be less likely to be willing to work in a competitive environment than men.

The article examines long-term unemployment experience of a cohort of men in the U.S. during their early careers and midcareers using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). Topics discussed include the plight of the long-term unemployed, the wage loss over time associated with having had a long-term unemployment spell and results for intermediate-term and short-term spells of unemployment.

Nonfarm employment continued to expand in 2015. Private service-providing industries accounted for the vast majority of job gains. Despite a slowdown in the overall rate of job growth in 2015, the gains were a continuation of an expansion that started in May 2014, when employment recovered to its previous peak level of January 2008. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reflects on the paper by American authors Milena Nikolova and Carol Graham which noted the increasing labor force participation rate of older workers in the U.S. since the 1900s. Topics include retirement, additional retirement savings, and employment-based health insurance. The authors also explore the relationship between employment arrangements and the levels of subjective well-being and job satisfaction.

To help mark the Monthly Labor Review's centennial, the editors invited several producers and users of BLS data to take a look back at the last 100 years. This article highlights research based on data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth. The studies presented demonstrate the breadth and uniqueness of the surveys, covering topics from employment and education to health and criminal behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To help mark the Monthly Labor Review's centennial, the editors invited several producers and users of BLS data to take a look back at the last 100 years. This installment of the anniversary series comes from the Bureau's Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) program. JOLTS produces labor demand data on job openings, hires, and separations in the United States. The first section of this article provides a brief overview of the JOLTS program. The second section examines the availability and definitions of labor demand data from other countries. Analyses of countries with comparable data are discussed in the final section. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Current Employment Statistics (CES) program of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) conducted a customer outreach survey in early 2014 to evaluate customer satisfaction with the program, which produces monthly estimates of employment, hours, and earnings using payroll records from a sample of business establishments. CES data users reported being most interested in major industry and industry sector employment from the CES program. More users are interested in statewide data than in national data. Additionally, users prefer news releases and BLS databases to obtain CES data and information over other CES products, such as Current Employment Statistics Highlights, Monthly Labor Review articles, and technical notes. The overwhelming majority of CES data providers reported that they are unfamiliar with the CES program and its outputs. Overall, however, CES stakeholders are satisfied with the quality and quantity of the CES data and publications, revisions, and customer service. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses Jacob Mincer's research on the employment effects of minimum wages in the U.S. Decline in labor demand; Increase in union wage rates; Prevalence of systematic job rationing.

Describes a method for determining the level of benchmark unemployment in the United States during the 1980s, proposed by John Connaughton and Roger Madsen. Evolution of the benchmark concept; Factors contributing to the rise in the benchmark unemployment over time.

Data from the BLS National Compensation Survey show that access to employer-provided health insurance declined from 1991 to 2002, chiefly because of narrower access among part-time workers. Then, from 2003 to 2012, access exhibited a significant further drop and participation also fell significantly. Over the latter period, nonunion workers, part-time employees, and lower wage workers, as well as those employed at small establishments, had a lower incidence of employer-provided health insurance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the latest recession, employment supported by U.S. consumer spending declined by an estimated 3.2 million jobs between 2007 and 2010, over a third of total job declines during that time frame. Compared with the overall economy, consumer-related employment demonstrated relative resilience, recovering in 2012. Through 2022, consumer spending is projected to support stable job growth with increasing expenditures on labor-intensive services like health care. However, consumer spending and its related employment are projected to grow slower than in the past and at rates similar to the overall economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Earlier research showed an added-worker effect for wives when their husbands stopped working during the Great Recession (December 2007-June 2009) but not when husbands stopped working in recent years of prosperity (2004- 2005). By including one recession per decade for the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, this article builds upon that research by using Current Population Survey data to compare wives' labor force responses to their husbands stopping work across three recessions to determine whether wives' employment responses during the Great Recession differed from those during earlier recessions. Additionally, we hypothesize motivations for wives entering the labor force and consider the occupations they enter. Across all three recessions included in this study, wives entered the labor force more often when their husband stopped working. More nuanced analyses show that during both the Great Recession and the 1990-1991 recession, wives were more likely to seek work and find a job if their husband became not employed, while in the 1981- 1982 recession wives were more likely to seek work but less likely to find a job. We also find that wives who started a job during the Great Recession or the 1990-1991 recession were more likely to enter service occupations than professional or managerial occupations, but this was not the case during the 1981-1982 recession. Furthermore, during the three recessions, college-educated wives who started a job were more likely than wives with less education to enter professional and managerial occupations relative to service occupations or other occupations. However, these newly employed college-educated wives were somewhat more likely to enter service or other occupations than their college-educated counterparts who were employed continuously. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents several definitions, notes, and charts related to current labor statistics in the U.S. Among the definitions, it is stated that employer-provided benefits are benefits that are financed wholly or partly by the employer. The Employment Cost Index (ECI) is a quarterly measure of the rate of change in compensation per hour worked and includes wages, salaries, and costs of employee benefits to the employer. The charts are on the unemployment rate in the U.S. and other countries as of 2011-2012, employment status of the working-age population, and annual indexes of manufacturing productivity for several countries.

The article provides index to the Current Labor Statistics and offers information on it. It states that a review of the statistics collected and calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics include information on series on labor force, employment, unemployment, labor compensation, consumer, producer, and international prices, productivity, international comparisons, and injury and illness statistics. More information about labor force, employment, and unemployment data and the household and establishment surveys underlying the data are available in the Bureau's monthly publication, Employment and Earnings. Historical unadjusted and seasonally adjusted data from the household survey are available on the Internet.

The article offers information and statistics regarding job market in U.S. It states that labor market improved in 2012 than in 2011 and the unemployment rate was one percent lower than 2011. It mentions that the number of job losers decreased in 2012 for the third consecutive year. The number of people who were unemployed because they lost their job fell by 1.2 million from the fourth quarter of 2011. This category includes people on temporary layoff. The number of people unemployed for a year or longer was down by 605,000 from 2011, almost twice the size of the decrease from the previous year.

The article reports on the inequality of the wage increase in the U.S. It notes the increase of low-skilled service employment in the country. It mentions the decline of the wages and labor in low-skill occupations in the region in the 1980s. Furthermore, it also states the role of demand in the structure of the wage and employment in the area.

Removing the declines due to the 2007-2009 recession prior to seasonal adjustment in a number of experimental data series reveals that the recession did not create any bias causing a pattern of stronger increases in employment in the winter months of the fourth through the first quarter versus weaker increases from the second to the third quarter [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the labor situation summary report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor of Statistics as of October 2012. It provides a variety of analyses relative to the state, county and local employment; monthly data on job openings, hires and separations; and quarterly reports on job gains and job losses. It provides data on the age, sex, race and other characteristics of the unemployed. It also breaks down the unemployed by length of time they have been without a job. Several charts are also presented depicting the condition of the labor market of the country in general.

Several charts are presented depicting the status of the labor market in the U.S. from 2011-2012, including employment, unemployment, and labor compensation.

The article assesses the principal statistical series gathered and calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the U.S. The analysis focuses on labor force, employment, and unemployment, labor compensation, consumer, producer, and international prices, productivity, international comparisons, and injury and illness statistics. It indicates that labor market indicators include employment measures from two major surveys and information on rates of change in compensation provided by the Employment Cost Index (ECI) program.

Recent veterans, although demo graphically different from and more likely to have a disability than the combined population of nonveterans and veterans whose service concluded before 2001, are nonetheless similar to them in terms of full-time employment, wage income, and adjusted family income [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Several tables are presented that list data by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on employment, unemployment, labor compensation, and others.

Several charts are presented depicting the labor statistics in the U.S. through 2012 including the average hourly earnings of production, unemployment rates, and employment status.

The article presents several charts, on employment and economic trends in the U.S., including one on percent changes in compensation, prices and productivity, for the year 2010 and 2011 in the U.S., one on the indicators of unemployment and one on census of employment and wages in 2010.

The article discusses the short-term employment and retirement patterns among the older workforce in the U.S. According to a data from the Health and Retirement Study, older Americans in the age groups of 50 years, 12 percent of men and 32 percent of women does not have a full-time career, and there has been a wide variation in their retirement patterns. It has been observed that older people leaving the full-time employment moved into the part-time employment, which is also known as bridge job. Additionally there has been evidences that people moved into self-employment before leaving the workforce. The article analyzes the impact of career job status on demographic and economic characteristics. Also presented are several charts and tables related to employment and retirement patterns.

The article discusses the effect of the baby boomer generation on the retirement age of older men during 1970s and 1980s, when baby boomers entered into the workforce in the U.S. It is mentioned that the members of the baby boomer generation started entering in the work force from 1960s onwards and their proportion was maximum in the 1970s and 1980s and this led to increased rate of unemployment, low wages and increase in the trend of part-time and part-year works. Also, it has been found in number of studies that during these time the age of retirement of men decreased and chief factors behind the phenomenon were changes in Social Security and pensions and government policy for health insurance. Additionally presented are several charts and tables describing the trends.

Several charts on statistical data collected by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics including labor force, employment and unemployment are presented.

Most major employment and unemployment indicators signaled improvement in the labor market in 2011; the unemployment level and rate fell, and employment was up over the year [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the way data is collected by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. It states that certain monthly and quarterly data are adjusted to eliminate the effect on the data of such factors as climatic conditions, industry production schedules, opening and closing of schools, holiday buying periods, and vacation practices, which might prevent short-term evaluation of the statistical series. It mentions that labor market indicators include employment measures from two major surveys and information on rates of change in compensation provided by the Employment Cost Index (ECI) program.

The health care and social assistance sector and the professional and business services sector will account for almost half the projected job growth from 2010 to 2020; construction is projected to rebound from the most recent recession and add jobs, while employment in manufacturing is expected to decline over the period [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Several charts are presented on labor statistics in the U.S. during 2009, 2010, and 2011, that include the labor market indicators, wage and compensation changes, and quarterly census of employment and wages.

An examination of gender segregation by jobs and industry reveals that industries classified in NAICS and job groups listed in the 2008 EEO-1 National Survey of Private Employers are more gender segregated than the total workforce; the largest contribution to gender segregation is attributable to difference s in diversity across NAICS subcategories [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]