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Canada
Comparative manufacturing productivity and unit labor costs.—Feb. 1995.
Comparisons of economic performance: Canada versus Australia, 1983–2000. —Apr. 2005.
Differences in productivity growth: Canadian-U.S. business sectors, 1987–2000.—Apr. 2003.
Employment change and sectoral distribution in 10 countries, 1970-90.—Oct. 1993
Information technology and economic growth in Canada and the U.S.—Oct. 2002.
International comparisons of unemployment indicators.—Mar. 1993.
International unemployment indicators, 1983-93.—Aug. 1995.
Manufacturing productivity and labor costs in 14 economies.—Dec. 1991.
New views of inequality trends in Canada and the United States.—Apr. 1998.
Perspective on the U.S.-Canada manufacturing productivity gap, A.—Feb. 2001.
Purchasing power parity between the U.S. and Canada.—Dec. 1987.
Recent trends in unemployment and the labor force, 10 countries.—Aug. 1985.
Task force urges diffusion of microelectronics in Canada.—Oct. 1983.
U.S. and foreign productivity and unit labor costs.—Feb. 1997.
Child care
Boom in child care industry the result of many social changes.—Aug. 1995.
Child-care: arrangements and costs.—Oct. 1991.
Child-care problems: an obstacle to work.—Oct. 1991. Child day care services: industry at a crossroads.—Dec. 1990.
Comparing childcare measures in the ATUS and earlier time diary studies.—May 2007.
Expenditures of single parents: how does gender figure in?—Jul. 2002

China
China’s changing economy.—Jun. 2006.
Employment restructuring during China’s economic transition.—Aug. 2002.
Labor costs of manufacturing employees in China: an update to 2003–04.—Nov. 2006.
Manufacturing earnings and compensation in China.—Aug. 2005.
Manufacturing employment in China.—Jul. 2005.

Collective bargaining
Area wage surveys shed light on declines in unionization.—Sept. 1985.
Bargaining activity light in private industry in 1985.—Jan. 1985.
Bargaining calendar will be heavy in 1982 (PDF).—Dec. 1981.
Bargaining outlook for 1996.—Jan./Feb. 1996.
Baseball negotiations: a new agreement.—Dec. 2002 Baseball strike of 1994-95, The.—Mar. 1997.
Can employee associations negotiate new growth?—July 1989.
Changing employment patterns of organized workers.—Feb. 1985.
Collective bargaining agreements in 1992.—May 1993.
Collective bargaining agreements: safety and health provisions.—May 1998. Collective bargaining and private sector professionals.—Sept. 1989.
Collective bargaining and labor-management relations in 1988.—Jan. 1989.
Collective bargaining calendar crowded again in 1984—Jan. 1984.
Collective bargaining in 1982: results dictated by the economy.—Jan. 1983.
Collective bargaining in 1983: a crowded agenda.—Jan. 1983.
Collective bargaining in 1986: cost pressures remain.—Jan. 1986.
Collective bargaining in 1987: local, regional issues to set tone.—Jan. 1987.
Collective bargaining in 1989: talks set in diverse industries.—Jan. 1989.
Collective bargaining in 1989: old problems, new issues.—Jan. 1990
Collective bargaining in 1990.—Jan. 1990.
Collective bargaining during 1991.—Jan. 1991.
Collective bargaining in 1990: search for solutions continues.—Jan. 1991.
Collective bargaining in 1992: contract talks and other activity.—Jan. 1992.
Collective bargaining in 1993: jobs are the issue.—Jan. 1993.
Collective bargaining in 1994.—Jan. 1994.
Collective bargaining in private industry, 1994.—June 1995.
Collective bargaining in State and local government, 1994.—June 1995.
Collective bargaining outlook for 1995.—Jan. 1995.
Collective bargaining, 1991: recession colors talks.—Jan. 1992.
Compensation gains moderated in 1993 private industry settlements.—May 1994.
Cooperative provisions in collective bargaining agreements.—Jan. 1999.
Economy improves, bargaining problems persist in 1983.—Jan. 1984.
Estimates of union density by State.—Jul. 2001.
Evolution of fair labor standards: a study in class conflict, The.—Aug. 1983.
Experiment in the mediation of grievances, An.—Mar. 1983.
Have the 1980's changed U.S. industrial relations?—May 1988.
Helping labor and management see and solve problems.—Sept. 1982.
Higher settlements in 1989 end innovation decade.—May 1990.
Hockey lockout of 2004–05, The.—Dec. 2005.
How the 1980's have changed industrial relations.—May 1988.
How do labor and management view collective bargaining?—Oct. 1998.
Industrial democracy: made in the U.S.A.—May 1984.
Industrial relations in 1980 influenced by inflation and recession (PDF).—Jan. 1981.
Job-creating performance of employee-owned firms.—Aug. 1983.
Labor contract negotiations in the airline industry.—July 2003.
Labor, firms continue to combat mutual problems in 1985.—Jan. 1986.
Labor-management bargaining in 1992.—Jan. 1993.
Labor-management bargaining in 1993.—Jan. 1994.
Labor-management bargaining in 1994.—Jan. 1995.
Labor-management bargaining in 1995.—Jan./Feb. 1996. Labor-management scene in 1986: industrial woes continue.—Jan. 1987.
Labor relations in basketball: the lockout of 1998-99. — Apr. 1999. Major agreements in 1984 provided record low wage increases.—Apr. 1985.
Major collective bargaining settlements in private industry in 1988.—May 1989.
Major labor contracts in 1986 provided record low wage adjustments.—May 1987.
Measuring union-nonunion earnings differences.—Jun. 1990.
Modest labor-management bargains continue despite recovery.—Jan. 1985.
Negotiated changes in State and local government contracts, 1993.—Aug. 1994.
Negotiated wage changes in government, 1992.—June 1993.
Organized labor in 1981: a shifting of priorities.—Jan. 1982.
Reforming the U.S. system of collective bargaining.—Mar. 1983.
Regional Trends: Union membership, by States —Sept. 2000.
Regional Trends: Union membership by State—Jun. 1999.
Review of collective bargaining in 1987, A.—Jan. 1988.
The outlook for collective bargaining in 1988.—Jan. 1988.
Scheduled wage increases and cost-of-living provisions in 1981 (PDF).—Jan. 1981.
Scheduled wage increases and cost-of-living provisions in 1982.—Jan. 1982.
Should works councils be used as industrial relations policy?—Jul. 1985.
South African trade unions, 1970-90.—Oct. 1990.
Union membership statistics in 24 countries.—Jan. 2006.
Wage and compensation changes in settlements, 1991.—May 1992.
Wages and compensation: 1990 negotiated adjustments.—May 1991.
Wage adjustments in contracts negotiated in private industry.—May 1988.
Wage increases in 1981.—May 1982.
Wage restraints continue in 1985 major contracts.—Apr. 1986.
Compensation costs
1978-80 pay guidelines: meeting the need for flexibility, The (PDF).—Jul. 1981.
Accounting for missing data in the Employment Cost Index. — Apr. 2006.
Analyzing employers' costs for wages, salaries, and benefits.—Oct. 1987.
BLS compensation programs: what will users need?—Feb. 1990.
BLS prepares to broaden scope of its white-collar pay survey.—Mar. 1987.
BLS takes a new look at employee benefits. — Aug. 1982.
BLS wage query system: a new tool to access wage data, The.—Oct. 2001.
Changes affecting the Employment Cost Index: an overvie w. — Apr. 2006.
Comparing benefit costs for full- and part-time workers. — Mar. 1999.
Compensation gains moderated in 1993 private industry settlements.—May 1994.
Compensation trends into the 21st century.—Feb. 1990.
Cost of employee compensation in public and private sectors.—May 1993.
Employers' benefit cost rise slowed dramatically in the 1980's.—July 1988.
Employer-provided benefits: employer cost versus employee value.—Dec. 1989. Employment Cost Index: recent trends and expansion, The.—May 1982.
Employment Cost Index: what is it, The?—Sept. 2001.
Employment Cost Index in 1980: a first look at total compensation, The (PDF).—Jun. 1981.
Employment Cost Index publication plans. — Apr. 2006.
Employment Cost Index rebased to June 1989 (PDF 149K).—Apr. 1990
International comparisons of manufacturing compensation costs.—Nov. 1994.
Introducing 2002 weights in the Employment Cost Index. — Apr. 2006.
Introducing new weights for the Employment Cost Index.—Jun. 1985.
Is employer-sponsored life insurance declining relative to other benefits? (PDF).—Sept. 1981.
Is the ECI sensitive to the method of aggregation? an update.—Dec. 2002
Measuring the cost and incidence of employee benefits.—August 1988.
New measure of compensation cost adjustments.—Aug. 1990.
Perspective on U.S. and foreign compensation costs in manufacturing, A.—June 2002.
Post-recession productivity gain helps curb labor cost growth.—Dec. 1984.
Real compensation, 1979 to 2003: analysis from several data sources.—May 2005.
Seasonal adjustments in the Employment Cost Index. — Apr. 2006.
State and local government pay increases outpace gains in industry.—Feb. 1987.
Wage and compensation changes in settlements, 1991.—May 1992.
Wage restraints continue in 1985 major contracts.—Apr. 1986.
Workers' compensation insurance: recent trends in employer costs (PDF).—Mar. 1981.
Computers (See Technological change.)
Developing a hedonic model for Internet access service in the CPI.—Jul. 2008.
Consumer expenditures
Analysis of Southern energy expenditures and prices, 1984–2006, An.—Apr. 2008.
At Issue: Consumers' spending habits—Sept. 1999.
CE and the PCE: a comparison, The.—Sept. 2006.
CE data: quintiles of income versus quintiles of outlays.—Dec. 1994.
Century of family budgets in the United States, A.—May. 2001.
Changing food-at-home budget: 1980 and 1992 compared, The.—Dec. 1998.
Changing market: expenditures by Hispanic consumers, revisited, A.—Aug. 2003.
Child-care: arrangements and costs.—Oct. 1991.
Comparing medical care expenditures.—Mar. 1987.
Consumer expenditures for selected items, 1999 and 2000.—May 2003.
Consumer expenditures: results from the Diary and Interview surveys.—Jun. 1986.
Consumer Expenditure Survey: a comparative analysis, The.—Dec. 1994.
Consumer Expenditure Survey: quality control, The.—Mar. 1987.
Consumer spending: an engine for U.S. job growth.—Nov. 2002.
Consumer spending on durables and services in the 1980's.—May 1992.
Economic inequality through the prisms of income and consumption.—Apr. 2005.
Effects of health insurance on consumer spending, The.—Mar. 1995.
Elderly and nonelderly expenditures on necessities in the 1980s.—Sept. 1996.
Employers' benefit cost rise slowed dramatically in the 1980's.—July 1988.
Expenditures of single parents: how does gender figure in?—Jul. 2002
Expenditure patterns of older Americans, 1984-97.—May 2000.
Expenditure patterns of retired and nonretired persons.—Apr. 1994.
Experimental Consumer Price Index for the poor, An.—Sept. 1996.
Experimental poverty measures: accounting for medical expenditures.—Aug. 2002.
Food-at-home expenditures of Asian households.—Jun. 2006.
Growing market: expenditures by Hispanic consumers, A.—Mar. 1998.
Health care and prescription drug spending by seniors.—Mar. 2003.
Health insurance trends in cost control and coverage.—Sept. 1986.
Household-food-expenditure patterns: a cluster analysis.—Apr. 2007.
How does rental assistance influence spending behavior?—May 1994.
Imputing income in the Consumer Expenditure Survey.—Dec. 1994.
Income and spending patterns of single-mother families.—May 1994.
Income imputation and the analysis of consumer expenditure data.—Nov. 2006.
Interarea price levels: an experimental methodology. — Sept. 2006.
Let's do lunch: expenditures on meals away from home.—May 2000.
Making it on their own: the baby-boom meets generation X.—Feb. 1998.
Planning ahead: consumer expenditure patterns in retirement.—Jul. 2002.
Retirement expenditures for Whites, Blacks, and persons of Hispanic origin.—June 2003.
Seasonal adjustment of quarterly consumer expenditure series.—Dec. 1994.
Spending by older consumers: 1980 and 1990 compared.—May 1993.
Spending patterns of families receiving public assistance.—Apr. 1996.
Spending patterns of older persons revealed in expenditure survey.—Oct. 1986.
Spending patterns of public-assisted families.—May 2000.
Teenagers: employment and contributions to family spending.—Sept. 2000.
Trends in out-of-pocket spending on health care, 1980-92.—Dec. 1995.
U.S. consumers: which jobs are they creating?—June 1996.
Vehicle ownership, purchases, and leasing: consumer survey data. —June 1997.
What does it mean to be poor in America?—May 1996.
Consumer Price Index
1989 price increase largest in eight years, The.—May 1990.
Addressing misconceptions about the Consumer Price Index. — Aug. 2008.
Adjusting VCR prices for quality change. — Sep. 1999.
Alternative CPI aggregations: two approaches. — Nov. 2000.
Analysis of Southern energy expenditures and prices, 1984–2006, An.—Apr. 2008.
Anatomy of price change. A special issue.—Dec. 1993.: The Consumer Price Index: underlying concepts and caveats.; Basic components of the CPI: estimation of price changes.; The commodity substitution effect in CPI data, 1982-91.; Quality adjustment of price indexes.
Comparison of the revised and the old CPI.—Nov. 1987.
Changing the item structure in the Consumer Price Index.—Dec. 1996.
Changing the treatment of homeownership in the CPI.—Jun. 1982.
Comparing U.S. and European inflation: the CPI and the HICP.—May 2006.
Consumer gasoline prices: an empirical investigation.—July 2003.
Consumer inflation higher in 2000.—Apr. 2001. Consumer inflation in 1997 at 11-year low.—May 1998.
Consumer inflation lower in 2001: energy and apparel prices declined. — Mar. 2002.
Consumer inflation remains modest in 1998. — Apr. 1999.
Consumer price index, 2004.—Apr. 2005.
Consumer prices rose less in 2006 than in 2005.—May 2007.
Consumer price slows in first half of 1991.—Oct. 1991.
Consumer prices during 2003.—Apr. 2004.
Consumer prices in the 1980's.—Aug. 1990.
Consumer prices in 1994.—June 1995.
Consumer prices in 1995.—June 1996.
Consumer prices rise sharply in 1990.—May 1991.
Consumer prices for energy and food accelerated in 1996.—Apr. 1997.
Consumer prices rose 3.4 percent in 2005, about the same as last year.—May 2006.
Consumer prices up slightly more in 2002, led by energy and hospital services.—Mar. 2003.
Core consumer prices in 1999: low by historical standards.—Apr. 2000
CPI for hospital services: concepts and procedures, The.—July 1996.
CPS revision improves pricing of medical care services.—April 1988.
Defining the rate of underlying inflation (PDF).—Sept. 1981.
Developing a hedonic model for Internet access service in the CPI.—Jul. 2008.
Domestic price rise in 1987 reflects swing of energy prices.—June 1988.
Effects of rounding on the Consumer Price Index, The.—Oct. 2006.
Empirical analysis of price transmission by stage of processing, An.—Nov. 2002.
Energy, food prices helped slow inflation in 1991.—May 1992.
Experimental consumer price index for elderly Americans (CPI-E): 1982–2007, The.—Apr. 2008.
Experimental Consumer Price Index for the poor, An.—Sept. 1996.
Experimental price index for elderly consumers.—May 1994.
Growth rate slows down in consumer prices, 1993.—May 1994. Half-year decline in inflation: its antecedents and structure, A. — Oct. 1986.
Hedonic regression models using in-house and out-of-house data.—Dec. 2004.
Incorporating a geometric mean formula into the CPI.—Oct. 1998.
Inflation continues to abate during the first quarter.—Jul. 1982.
Inflation cross-currents: energy, food, and homeownership (PDF).—Jun. 1981.
Inflation fueled by oil prices in first 9 months of 1987.—Dec. 1987.
Inflation holds steady during the first half.—Oct. 1988.
Inflation remained low during 1984.—Apr. 1985.
Inflation remained low in 1983 in face of strong recovery.—May 1984.
Inflation remained mild again during 1985.—Apr. 1986.
International comparisons of Harmonized Indexes of Consumer Prices.—Feb. 2007.
Lack of a disability measure in today's Current Population Survey, The.—Jun. 2001.
Large meat, grain supplies cut recent food price increases.—Jan. 1982.
New market basket for the Consumer Price Index.—Jan. 1987.
New methodology for selecting outlet samples.—Dec. 1996.
Overview of the 1998 revision of the Consumer Price Index.—Dec. 1996.
Prescription drug prices for the elderly.—Sep. 1998.
Price changes in 1980: double-digit inflation persists (PDF).—Apr. 1981.
Price changes in 1981: widespread slowing of inflation.—Apr. 1982.
Price highlights of 1988: rising pressures on consumer prices.—May 1989.
Price measurement in the United States: A decade after the Boskin Report.—May 2006.
Price measures of new vehicles: a comparison.—Jul. 2008.
Price transmission: from crude petroleum to plastics products.—Dec. 2006.
Publication strategy for the 1998 revised Consumer Price Index.—Dec. 1996. Quality adjustment in CPI housing sample (PDF 351K).—Nov. 1990.
Recent and planned improvements to Consumer Price Indexes.—May 2002. Reconciling the CPI and the PCE Deflator (PDF).—Sept. 1981.
Redesign of the CPI geographic sample, The.—Dec. 1996.
Revised Consumer Price Index: changes in coverage, The.—Jul. 1986.
Revision of the Consumer Price Index now under way.—Apr. 1985.
Revision of the CPI housing sample and estimators.—Dec. 1996.
Revision of the CPI hospital services component.—Dec. 1996.
Rising producer prices in 1999 dominated by energy goods.—Aug. 2000.
Some proposals to improve the Consumer Price Index (PDF).—Sept. 1981.
Using survey data to assess bias in the Consumer Price Index.—Apr. 1998.
Construction
Employment and unemployment in the first half of 1981 (PDF).—Aug. 1981.
Employment changes in construction : secular, cyclical, seasonal.—Mar. 1983.
Employment created by construction expenditures (PDF).—Dec. 1981.
Employment trends in the lumber and woods products industry.—Aug. 1983.
Fatal occupational injuries at road construction sites.—Dec. 2004.
Fatal work injuries among foreign-born Hispanic workers.—Oct. 2005.
How does rental assistance influence spending behavior?—May 1994.
Recent employment trends in residential and nonresidential construction.—Oct. 2006.
Two new construction employment series for specialty trade contractors.—Oct. 2006.

Cost of living
Planning ahead: consumer expenditure patterns in retirement.—Jul. 2002.
Scheduled wage increases and cost-of-living provisions in 1981 (PDF).—Jan. 1981.
Scheduled wage increases and cost-of-living provisions in 1982.—Jan. 1982.
Wages and compensation: 1990 negotiated adjustments.—May 1991.
What does it mean to be poor in America?—May 1996.
Work, poverty, and the working poor: a multifaceted problem.—Sept. 1986.
Current Population Survey
Analyzing CPS data using gross flows.—Sept. 2005.
At Issue: Gains in job security —Mar. 1998.
At Issue: Reasons for working multiple jobs—Oct. 2000.
Blacks in the 1970s: did they scale the job ladder?—Jun. 1982.
Cognitive testing of racial and ethnic questions for the CPS supplement.—Sept. 1996.
Current Population Survey: a historical view and the BLS role, The.—Jun. 1984.
Discouraged workers how strong are links to job market?—Aug. 1984.
Employment change by occupation, industry, and earnings quartile, 2000-05.—Dec. 2006.
Estimating gross flows consistent with stocks in the CPS.—Sept. 2005.
Involuntary part-time work: new information from the CPS (PDF).—Feb. 1981.
Labor force data from CPS to undergo revision in January 1983.—Nov. 1982.
Lack of a disability measure in today's Current Population Survey, The.—Jun. 2001.
Model-based seasonally adjusted estimates and sampling error.—Sept. 2005.
New household survey and the CPS: labor force differences.—Sept. 1985.
Overhauling the Current Population Survey: A special issue.—Sept. 1993.: Why is it necessary to change?; Redesigning the questionnaire.; Evaluating changes in the estimates.
Testing racial and ethnic origin questions in the CPS supplement.—Sept. 1996.
Understanding the employment measures from the establishment and household surveys.—Feb. 2006.
Youth labor force activity: alternative surveys compared (PDF).—Mar. 1981.

Czechoslovakia
Low unemployment in the Czech Republic: 'miracle' or 'mirage'?—Aug. 1998.
Report: Household incomes in the Czech and Slovak market economy—Nov. 1998.
Rise in Czech unemployment, 1998-2000, The—May 2001.

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