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2001 Archived articles from The Economics Daily (in chronological order)

December 2001

Layoffs in November (12/31/2001)
Spending drops on entertainment, pensions and insurance (12/28/2001)
Employee and freelance jobs among youths (12/27/2001)
Injuries and illnesses in goods producing and service producing industries in 2000 (12/26/2001)
Boys, girls equally likely to be employees by age 17 (12/21/2001)
Benefits vary somewhat by region (12/20/2001)
Rate of on-the-job injuries and illnesses at record low (12/19/2001)
Labor force participation trends for women and men (12/18/2001)
Consumer Price Index unchanged in November (12/17/2001)
Producer prices decrease again in November (12/14/2001)
Import prices down again in November (12/13/2001)
Industries on the wane, 2000-2010 (12/12/2001)
Youth segment of labor force to grow fastest (12/11/2001)
Unemployment rose in November (12/10/2001)
Third-quarter productivity growth revised downward (12/07/2001)
Fastest growing industries, 2000-2010 (12/06/2001)
Labor force to continue to diversify (12/05/2001)
Fastest growing jobs, 2000-2010 (12/04/2001)
Layoffs increase substantially in October (12/03/2001)

November 2001

Some service industries grow faster in recessions (11/30/2001)
Services in recession (11/29/2001)
Retail employment and establishment size (11/28/2001)
Most manufacturing employees work in larger establishments (11/27/2001)
Office, administrative support largest occupation (11/26/2001)
Lowest paid jobs in 2000 (11/23/2001)
Highest paying occupations in 2000 (11/21/2001)
Composition of change in real earnings in October (11/20/2001)
Consumer prices down 0.3 percent in October (11/19/2001)
Extended mass layoffs up sharply in third quarter (11/16/2001)
Blacks, men most likely to experience unemployment (11/15/2001)
Value of quality changes for 2002 passenger cars and light trucks (11/14/2001)
Decline in producer prices in October (11/13/2001)
Sharp drop in import prices in October (11/09/2001)
Productivity rises as output and hours fall (11/08/2001)
Working full time, year round at new high in 2000 (11/07/2001)
Large drop in payroll employment in October (11/06/2001)
Unemployment rate jumped in October (11/05/2001)
Counties with largest employment gains in 2000 (11/02/2001)
Highest increase in wages and salaries in West (11/01/2001)

October 2001

Job growth in suburbs versus cities (10/31/2001)
Benefit costs for State and local government workers up sharply in past 3 months (10/30/2001)
Layoffs hit hotels, airlines (10/29/2001)
Employment costs up 4.1 percent (10/26/2001)
Employment growth fastest in Loudoun County, Virginia (10/24/2001)
Santa Clara County had top pay level in 2000 (10/23/2001)
Consumer prices up 0.4 percent in September (10/22/2001)
San Mateo County, California had highest growth in pay in 2000 (10/19/2001)
Family structure and employment of 15-year-olds (10/18/2001)
Producer prices rise again (10/17/2001)
Import prices up in September (10/12/2001)
Gap widens between metropolitan and nonmetropolitan area pay (10/11/2001)
About one in ten 16-year-old students working more than half-time (10/10/2001)
Payroll employment fell in September (10/09/2001)
Are youths working more now than in the past? (10/05/2001)
San Jose again leads nation in annual pay (10/04/2001)
Mexico has biggest increase in hourly compensation in 2000 (10/03/2001)
Pay in private sector slightly higher than in government (10/02/2001)
San Jose has biggest pay hike again (10/01/2001)

September 2001

Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists—working to rehabilitate offenders (09/28/2001)
Drop in foreign factory wage costs (09/27/2001)
Financial sector had biggest raise in 2000 (09/26/2001)
Medical transcriptionists: making medical histories (09/25/2001)
Highest pay in 2000: Connecticut (09/24/2001)
Working more than one job in 2000 (09/21/2001)
Massachusetts, California tops in pay gains (09/20/2001)
Consumer prices inch up in August (09/19/2001)
Sales engineers: technical expertise plus people skills (09/18/2001)
Producer prices up in August (09/17/2001)
Small change in import prices in August (09/14/2001)
Average annual pay increase in 2000 (09/13/2001)
Insurance prices: one up, one down (09/12/2001)
Unemployment rate rose sharply in August (09/10/2001)
Keeping the environment clean (09/07/2001)
Downward revision in second-quarter productivity growth (09/06/2001)
Women’s earnings 76 percent of men’s in 2000 (09/05/2001)
U.S. led in factory productivity gains in 2000 (09/04/2001)

August 2001

Falling prices for telecommunications (08/31/2001)
New price indexes for food stores (08/30/2001)
Low earnings of female high school dropouts (08/29/2001)
Increase in job-related homicides in 2000 (08/28/2001)
Lowest July labor force participation rate for youth since 1972 (08/27/2001)
Work-related fatalities decrease in construction industry (08/24/2001)
Extended mass layoffs sharply higher in second quarter (08/23/2001)
Youth employment, unemployment both rise in summer (08/22/2001)
Decline in fatal on-the-job highway incidents (08/21/2001)
Most extended mass layoffs in 2000 involved fewer than 150 workers (08/20/2001)
Decrease in consumer prices in July (08/17/2001)
Women’s earnings growth higher than men’s at all education levels, 1979-2000 (08/16/2001)
Fatal work injuries in 2000 (08/15/2001)
Extended mass layoffs most common in manufacturing industries (08/14/2001)
Producer prices fall again (08/13/2001)
Largest drop in import prices since 1992 (08/10/2001)
Unit labor costs in second quarter (08/09/2001)
Manufacturing productivity falls for second quarter in a row (08/08/2001)
Unemployment rates in July (08/07/2001)
Payroll employment down in July (08/06/2001)
Employment cost increase by occupation (08/03/2001)
Displacement rates among blue-collar and white-collar workers (08/02/2001)
Midwesterners are most likely to be on the job (08/01/2001)

July 2001

Displacement rate still highest in West (07/31/2001)
Wages, benefit costs for State and local government workers both up 1.1 percent in past 3 months (07/30/2001)
Employment costs in private industry rise 4.0 percent over the year (07/27/2001)
Cost shares vary among manufacturing industries (07/26/2001)
Manufacturing employment by region, 1999 (07/25/2001)
Displaced workers reemployed in the same industry, 2000 (07/24/2001)
Variation in women’s employment across metropolitan areas, 1999 (07/23/2001)
Weekly earnings by demographics in second quarter (07/20/2001)
Consumer prices up 0.2 percent in June (07/19/2001)
Finding a new job after displacement (07/18/2001)
Displacement rate declined in late 1990s (07/17/2001)
Producer prices fall in June (07/16/2001)
Continued downward trend in import prices (07/13/2001)
Mixed multifactor productivity progress in biggest manufacturing industries (07/12/2001)
Benefits in State and local government, 2001 (07/11/2001)
Hourly earnings highest in Middle Atlantic (07/10/2001)
Another large job loss in manufacturing (07/09/2001)
Slower rise in out-of-pocket health care spending in 1999 (07/06/2001)
Health benefits 5.6 percent of total compensation (07/05/2001)
Five million new jobs in just ten occupations (07/03/2001)
Average compensation $22.15 per hour (07/02/2001)

June 2001

Tenure down for men, up for women (06/29/2001)
Consumers spend more on apparel in 1999 (06/28/2001)
Education pays (06/27/2001)
The labor force is getting older (06/26/2001)
Slower growth in labor force expected in next 25 years (06/25/2001)
Recent immigrants and educational attainment (06/22/2001)
Single parents allot higher share of spending to necessities in 1998 (06/19/2001)
Consumer prices increase 0.4 percent in May (06/18/2001)
Producer prices edge up in May (06/15/2001)
Export prices down four months in a row (06/14/2001)
Long-term declines in unit labor costs among service-producing industries (06/13/2001)
Jump in unit labor costs in manufacturing (06/11/2001)
No change in new vehicle prices in 2000 (06/08/2001)
Retail trade productivity: 1990-99 (06/07/2001)
Productivity down in first quarter (06/06/2001)
Apparel prices lower in 2000 (06/05/2001)
Employment situation changed little in May (06/04/2001)
Food inflation accelerates in 2000 (06/01/2001)

May 2001

Seeing with sound (05/31/2001)
From watches to pianos: precision instrument and equipment repairers (05/30/2001)
Medical care inflation continues to rise (05/29/2001)
Independent contractors in 2001 (05/25/2001)
Steep increase in energy prices again in 2000 (05/24/2001)
Sources of retirement income (05/23/2001)
Unit labor costs drop in 50 manufacturing industries (05/22/2001)
Consumer durables prices flat in 2000 (05/21/2001)
Extended mass layoffs climb in first quarter 2001 (05/18/2001)
Consumer prices up 0.3 percent in April (05/17/2001)
Productivity higher in over two-thirds of manufacturing industries (05/16/2001)
New information on job creation and destruction (05/15/2001)
Rise in producer prices in April (05/14/2001)
Third decline in a row for import prices (05/11/2001)
Nonfarm business unit labor costs up again (05/09/2001)
Fourth-quarter productivity growth in factories revised upward (05/08/2001)
Despite growth, contingent worker rate little changed (05/08/2001)
Unemployment up in April (05/07/2001)
Contract company employees more educated than traditional workers (05/04/2001)
Employment of mothers with infants decreases again (05/03/2001)
Two-thirds of temporary workers employed in services or manufacturing (05/02/2001)
State and local government employment costs up 3.3 percent over the year (05/01/2001)

April 2001

Occupations of independent contractors (04/30/2001)
Employment costs increase 4.2 percent in past 12 months (04/27/2001)
Families experiencing unemployment in 2000 (04/26/2001)
Less than 10 percent of workers in nontraditional arrangements (04/25/2001)
Gradual advance in women’s earnings vis-a-vis men from 1979 to 1999 (04/24/2001)
Most of last year’s high school graduates in labor force (04/23/2001)
Employment in families maintained by women rose in 2000 (04/20/2001)
Weekly earnings of full-time workers in first quarter (04/19/2001)
Consumer prices up 0.1 percent in March (04/18/2001)
Employment growth in 2000 by race and Hispanic origin (04/17/2001)
College enrollment of last year’s high school graduates (04/16/2001)
Producer prices edge down in March (04/13/2001)
Petroleum import prices down in March (04/12/2001)
Another rise in multifactor productivity (04/11/2001)
The U.S.-Canada manufacturing productivity gap (04/10/2001)
Decline in payroll employment in March (04/09/2001)
U.S. had largest productivity gains in manufacturing in 1999 (04/06/2001)
Younger workers have highest poverty rates (04/05/2001)
Sources of lost-worktime injuries and illnesses (04/04/2001)
Compensation stats for the new century (04/03/2001)
Days away from work highest for carpal tunnel syndrome (04/02/2001)

March 2001

Prevalence of bonus plans in service sector (03/30/2001)
Truck drivers have the most lost-time injuries (03/29/2001)
Unemployment level declined for 8th consecutive year (03/28/2001)
Size of workplaces and cost of bonuses (03/27/2001)
Poverty rate still higher for working women (03/26/2001)
Lowest absence rate in farm jobs (03/23/2001)
Consumer prices rise 0.3 percent in February (03/22/2001)
Reasons for working part time (03/21/2001)
Number, rate of working poor fell in 1999 (03/20/2001)
Producer prices up slightly in February (03/19/2001)
Prices of goods from Canada fall in February (03/16/2001)
Less multiple jobholding last year (03/15/2001)
Shorter unemployment spells in 2000 (03/14/2001)
Taxing jobs: tax examiners, revenue agents, and collectors (03/13/2001)
Job losses continue in manufacturing (03/12/2001)
Full-time on-call workers most likely to be men (03/10/2001)
Fastest productivity growth ever in durable goods manufacturing last year (03/09/2001)
Majority of private-industry employees work in small establishments (03/08/2001)
Highest unemployment rate in 2000: Alaska (03/06/2001)
Wild jobs: working in zoos and aquariums (03/05/2001)
Virginia had lowest unemployment rate in 2000 (03/02/2001)
Wages in sports all over the ballpark (03/01/2001)

February 2001

Extended mass layoffs idle 1.1 million in 2000 (02/28/2001)
Surge in demand for troubleshooters (02/27/2001)
Average unemployment down for most States in 2000 (02/26/2001)
Extended mass layoffs higher in fourth quarter 2000 (02/23/2001)
Consumer prices increase 0.6 percent in January (02/22/2001)
Fitness, wellness benefits moderately prevalent for State, local government workers (02/21/2001)
Producer prices up in January (02/20/2001)
Import prices fall again (02/16/2001)
More workers involved in work stoppages in 2000 (02/15/2001)
Finance industry led the way in earnings in 1990s (02/14/2001)
Unit labor costs accelerate in fourth quarter (02/13/2001)
Increase in work stoppages in 2000 (02/12/2001)
Stock compensation an old story (02/09/2001)
Strong productivity growth in 2000 (02/08/2001)
Managed care more common among State and local government employees (02/07/2001)
Insect bites, stings cause thousands of workplace injuries (02/06/2001)
Unemployment rate rises in January (02/05/2001)
More mass layoffs in 2000 (02/02/2001)
Government workers more likely to be union members (02/01/2001)

January 2001

Federal government biggest job loser in 1990s (01/31/2001)
Wages, benefit costs for State and local government workers both rise 0.8 percent (01/30/2001)
How seven pluses and a zero make a small minus for working hours (01/29/2001)
Employment costs increase 4.4 percent over the year (01/26/2001)
Animal attacks and on-the-job fatalities (01/25/2001)
Services fueled 1990s job growth (01/24/2001)
Union membership by occupation in 2000 (01/23/2001)
Life insurance benefits keep pace with wages (01/22/2001)
Gender gap in unionization closing (01/19/2001)
Consumer prices up 0.2 percent in December (01/18/2001)
Shorter work stoppages in 1999 (01/17/2001)
Producer prices hold steady in December (01/16/2001)
Imported petroleum prices drop in December (01/12/2001)
Government and financial industry workers use Internet most (01/11/2001)
Alternative approaches to CPI aggregation (01/10/2001)
Internet use highest for most educated (01/09/2001)
Private-sector employment up modestly in December (01/08/2001)
Most likely to be online: 14- to 17-year-olds (01/05/2001)
Librarians in 2008—more in business settings (01/04/2001)
Employment growth in Mexico (01/03/2001)
Consumers spend more in all categories in 1999 (01/02/2001)