Evaluating BLS labor force, employment, and occupation projections for 2000 (ABSTRACT), Monthly Labor Review Online, July 2005

Evaluating BLS labor force, employment, and occupation projections for 2000

H.O. Stekler
Research Professor, Department of Economics, George Washington University.
E-mail: hstekler@gwu.edu

Rupin Thomas
Graduate, Department of Economics, George Washington University.

In 1989, BLS first projected estimates for the year 2000 of the labor force, employment, and occupations; in most cases, the accuracy of BLS projections were comparable to estimates from naïve extrapolated models.

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