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State and Metro Area Employment, Hours, & Earnings

SAE Publications

  • Monthly Labor Review Articles by CES staff
    • Reconstruction of CES time series: implementing the NAICS 2022 redefinitions (HTML)
    • Oil, budgets, migration, and retirees: Alaska’s 2015–18 recession (HTML)
    • Diffusion indexes of state and metropolitan area employment changes (HTML)
    • Western manufacturing employment: trends and peaks over 30 years (HTML)
    • Exploring Midwest manufacturing employment from 1990 to 2019 (HTML)
    • Manufacturing employment in the Southeast: examining the last 30 years (HTML)
    • A 30-year analysis of Northeast manufacturing employment trends (HTML)
    • Estimating state and local employment in recent disasters - from Hurricane Harvey to the COVID-19 pandemic (HTML)
    • Benchmarking the Current Employment Statistics survey: the past, present, and future (PDF 441K)
    • Benchmarking the Current Employment Statistics national estimates (PDF 762K)
    • Benchmarking the Current Employment Statistics state and area estimates (PDF 1165K)
    • Benchmarking the Current Employment Statistics survey: perspectives on current research (PDF 1400K)
    • A quarterly benchmarking procedure for the Current Employment Statistics program (PDF 1365K)
    • Reconstruction of CES time series: implementing the 2010 OMB metropolitan area delineations (PDF 1009K)
    • Current Employment Statistics data and their contributions as key economic indicators (PDF 241k)
    • Technology industries helped post-Great Recession jobs grow faster in northern than in southern California (PDF 596K)
    • Job growth in the 1990s: a retrospect (PDF 71K)
    • Job growth in television: cable versus broadcast (PDF 71K)
    • The impact of strikes on current employment statistics (Technical note 45K)
  • Book Reviews by CES staff
    • Surveying dislocated workers in the paper industry (HTML)
    • Rethinking workplace disasters (HTML)
    • The "folk political economy" of Maine's paper workers (HTML)
    • Antitrust enforcement and labor monopsony in the United States (HTML)
    • Inequality in the United States and abroad: sources and paths forward (HTML)
    • Better business incentives for better prosperity (PDF 296K)
    • The American working class and the unfulfilled promise of policy-driven growth (PDF 282K)
    • The Great Recession: in what ways did policymakers succeed and fail? (PDF 290K)
    • Can "bigger" be a roadblock? (PDF 425K)
    • Easing the tension: economic growth and our dwindling natural resources (PDF 285K)
    • Temp workers, permanent effects: how temps changed the nature of the U.S. workforce (PDF 269K)
    • Cutting costs, growing problems: hospital issues in the United States and Canada (PDF 139K)
    • Shining a light on the shadow (PDF 143K)
    • Reforms in education: the challenges in Michigan (and elsewhere) (PDF 138K)
    • Life on the border of Mexico (PDF 156K)
    • No time to play in the USA? (PDF 143K)
  • Technical Notes
  • CES Report Forms for Establishments
  • Reliability of State and Area Estimates --Notes on variance and benchmark revisions; and standard errors associated with 1-, 3-, and 12-month changes for employment estimates.
  • Current Benchmark Information