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Issues in Labor Statistics Library

2010

• NEW Recession leads to lackluster employment in the trucking industry

2009

• NEW Where People Worked, 2003 to 2007
• NEW A New Approach to Classifying Industries in the Information Sector
• Ranks of Discouraged Workers and Others Marginally Attached to the Labor Force Rise During Recession
• Holiday Season Hiring in Retail Trade
• Work-at-Home Patterns by Occupation

2008

• Involuntary Part-Time Work on the Rise
• How the Business Birth/Death Model Improves Payroll Employment Estimates
• Employment and Wage Profile of the Louisiana and Texas Counties Affected by Hurricane Ike (1.2MB)
• Workdays for People in Healthcare Occupations
• The Unemployment Rate and Beyond: Alternative Measures of Labor Underutilization
• Why Has Unemployment Risen? Insights From Labor Force Flows
• Local Employment Trends in Residential Framing Contractors: Five Counties
• U.S. Skiing Employment: East and West

2007

• California Wildfires: An Employment and Wage Profile of the Affected Counties
• Current Trends in Construction Employment
• Security Guard Employment Before and After 2001
• Wages and Bonuses in Investment Banking
• Automotive Industries: Concentration and Change
• Corporate Management in Selected Local Economies
• Recovery After Hurricane Katrina: Employment in the Gulf Coast Area

2006

• Telemarketing: Five Industry Centers
• Women Still Underrepresented Among Highest Earners
• Comparing Characteristics and Expenditures of Consumer Units in Selected Income Ranges
• A Glance at Long-term Unemployment in Recent Recessions

2005

• Spending by Asian Families

2003

• Labor Force Participation During Recent Labor Market Downturns

2002

• Twenty-first Century Moonlighters
• Declining Teen Labor Force Participation
• Consumer Spending Patterns Differ by Region
• Housing Expenditures
• Certification Can Count: The Case of Aircraft Mechanics

2001

• New and Emerging Occupations
• Who Was Affected as the Economy Started to Slow?
• Characteristics and Spending Patterns of Consumer Units in the Lowest 10 Percent of the Expenditure Distribution

2000

• Unemployed Job Leavers: A Meaningful Gauge of Confidence in the Job Market?
• Spending Patterns By Age
• When One Job is Not Enough
• A Comparison of the Characteristics and Spending Patterns of Food Stamp Recipients and Nonrecipients
• Labor Supply in a Tight Labor Market
• Are Managers and Professionals Really Working More?

1999

• Occupational Stress
• Expenditures on Public Transportation
• Consumer Spending on Traveling for Pleasure
• What the Nation Spends on Health Care: A Regional Comparison
• What Women Earned in 1998
• Computer Ownership Up Sharply in the 1990s
• The Southeast is Maintaining its Share of Textile Plant Employment
• Auto Dealers are Fewer, Bigger, and Employ More Workers

1998

• Labor-Market Outcomes for City Dwellers and Suburbanites
• Spending Patterns of High-income Households
• New Occupations Emerging Across Industry Lines
• Employer-sponsored Childcare Benefits
• Women Experience Fewer Job-related Injuries and Deaths than Men
• Employment Growth Among Sectors in the United States, Japan, and Europe Based Upon Educational Attainment
• Persons Overboard/Sunk Vessels: Fishing Jobs Continue to Take Deadly Toll
• Are Workers More Secure?
• Who's Not Working
• Employee Medical Care Contributions on the Rise

1997

• Looking for a Job while Employed
• Serious Injuries Befall Workers Struck by Objects
• Health Expenditures and the Aging Population
• Electricity-related Injuries at Work
• Warm Areas Continue Hottest Job Growth
• Injuries to Caregivers Working in Patients' Homes
• Workers Are on the Job More Hours Over the Course of a Year
• How Long is the Workweek?

1996

• Deadly Highway Accidents Outnumber Other Fatal Work Incidents
• A Different Look at Part-time Employment
• Older Workers' Injuries Entail Lengthy Absences from Work

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