Featured Article
November 2018
Measuring labor market activity today: are the words work and job too limiting for surveys?
This article uses data from the American Time Use Survey to investigate possible undercounting of employment in surveys using labor force questions patterned after those in the Current Population Survey.
Read full article »Book Reviews
A feminist choice: longitudinal work–family decisions into the new millennium
This book examines the worklife and childcare decisions of women from their college to middle-age years, with a focus on the factors influencing those decisions.
View all Book Reviews »Beyond BLS
Working off the beaten path: men in traditionally female jobs
Men working in jobs traditionally held by women are examined.
Ten years later—the financial crisis cost every American $70,000 in lifetime income
Economic analysis concludes that the financial crisis of 2007–09 cost Americans $70,000 in lifetime present-value income.
Down and down we go: the falling U.S. labor force participation rate
Major causes of the labor force participation decline in the United States.
View all Beyond BLS articles »recent Articles
How did employment fare a decade after its 2008 peak?
Job openings reach a new high in 2017, hires and quits also increase
Electronically mediated work: new questions in the Contingent Worker Supplement
Why are employer-sponsored health insurance premiums higher in the public sector than in the private sector?
Productivity in transit: a new measure of labor productivity for urban transit systems
Shale gas production and labor market trends in the U.S. Marcellus–Utica region over the last decade
Flashback
Let’s observe Native American Heritage Month by checking out an MLR article from July 1982 on measuring number of Native Americans in the labor force.
Read more »
