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Safety and health (See Occupational safety and health.)

Salaries (See
Earnings and wages.)

Scientists
Scientific and technical employment, 1990-2005.Feb. 1992. 

Seasonal employment
Seasonal employment falls over past three decades.July 1993. 

Self-employment
Characteristics of self-employed women in the United States.Mar. 1994. 
Measuring self-employment in the United States.Jan./Feb. 1996. 
On their own: the self-employed and others in private business.May 1987.
Role of entrepreneurship in U.S. and European  job growth, The.Jul. 2000. 
Role of self-employment in U.S. and Canadian job growth, The.Apr. 1999.
Self-employed individuals fatally injured at work.Aug. 1995. 
Self-employed workers: an update to 1983.Jul. 1984.
Self-employment, entrepreneurship, and the nlsy79.Feb. 2005.
Self-employment in the United States: an update.Jul. 2004. 
Self-employment among older U.S. workers.Jul. 2004. 
Work at home: data from the CPS.Feb. 1994. 
Work at home: new findings from the Current Population Survey.Nov. 1986.
Work schedules of Americans: an overview of new findings.Nov. 1986.
 
Service sector
Business services industry sets pace in employment growth, The.Apr. 1986.
Bureau seeks better measures of service employment.Nov. 1982.
Deindustrialization and the shift to services.Jun. 1986.
Differences in productivity growth: Canadian-U.S. business sectors, 1987–2000.Apr. 2003.
Difficulties in the measurement of service outputs.Mar. 1994. 
Employment in business services: a year of unprecedented decline.Apr. 2002.
Employment in services industries affected by recessions and expansions.Oct. 2001.
Employment shift to services: where did it come from, The?Apr. 1984.
Employment shifts in high-technology industries, 1988-96.June 1997.
Flexible labor: restructuring the American work force.Aug. 1997. 
Have employment patterns in recessions changed? (PDF)—Feb. 1981.
Health services industry: a decade of expansion, The (PDF).—May 1981.
Health services industry: still a job machine?Mar. 1999.
Measuring productivity in service industries.Jun. 1982.
Producer services: why are they growing so rapidly?Dec. 1987.
Productivity trends in two retail trade industries, 1987-95.July 1997. 
Service-producing sector: some common perceptions, The.Apr. 1983.
Services: business demand rivals consumer demand in driving job growth.Apr. 2002.
Services industry: is it recession-proof, The? (PDF).—Oct. 1981.
Services industry in the 'good' versus 'bad' jobs debate.Feb. 1998. 
 
 
Small business
Characteristics of small-business employees, The.Apr. 2000
On their own: the self-employed and others in private business.May 1987.
Small businesses and their employees.Oct. 1994. 

Social Security
Growth of fringe benefits: implications for social security, The (PDF).—Nov. 1981.
How social security payments affect private pensions.May 1984.
New survey data on pension benefits.Aug. 1991. 
On the disparity between private and public pensions.Apr. 1994. 
Supplementing retirement until Social Security begins.Feb. 1990.
 
State Government
Changes in Federal and State unemployment insurance legislation, 2006. Jan.2007.
Changes in Federal and State unemployment insurance legislation in 2004.Jan.2005.
Changes in State unemployment insurance legislation in 1995.Jan./Feb. 1996. 
Changes in State unemployment insurance legislation in 1996.Jan. 1997. 
Changes in State unemployment insurance legislation in 2003.Jan. 2004.
Changes in State unemployment insurance legislation in 2005.Jan. 2006.
Changes in State unemployment insurance legislation, 2007.Jan. 2008.
Changes in unemployment insurance legislation during 1984.Jan. 1985. 
Changes in unemployment insurance legislation during 1985.Jan. 1986. 
Changes in unemployment insurance legislation during 1986.Feb. 1987. 
Changes in unemployment insurance legislation in 1990.Jan. 1991. 
Changes in unemployment insurance legislation in 1991.Jan. 1992. 
Changes in unemployment insurance legislation in 1992.Jan. 1993. 
Changes in unemployment insurance legislation in 1993.Jan. 1994. 
Changes in unemployment insurance legislation in 1994.Jan. 1995. 
Changes in unemployment insurance legislation in 2001.Jan. 2002.
Changes in unemployment insurance legislation in 1997.Jan. 1998. 
Changes in unemployment insurance legislation in 2000.Jan. 2001.
Changes in unemployment insurance legislation in 2002.Jan. 2003.
Changes in workers' compensation laws during 2000.Jan. 2001.
Changes in workers' compensation laws during 2001.Jan. 2002.
Changes in workers’ compensation laws, 2002.Jan. 2003.
Changes in workers' compensation laws in 2003.Jan. 2004.
Changes in workers' compensation laws in 2004.Jan. 2005.
Collective bargaining in State and local government, 1994.June 1995. 
Evaluation of State projections of industry, occupational employment, An.Oct. 1987. 
Key worker's compensation laws enacted by States in 1985.Jan. 1986. 
Legislative revisions of unemployment insurance in 1980 (PDF).—Jan. 1981. 
Negotiated wage changes in government, 1992.June 1993.
Productivity in State Unemployment Insurance Service.Jan. 1983.
State labor legislation enacted in 1980 (PDF).—Jan. 1981.
State labor legislation enacted in 1981.Jan. 1982.
State labor legislation enacted in 1982.Jan. 1983.
State labor legislation enacted in 1983.Jan. 1984.
State labor legislation enacted in 1984.Jan. 1985.
State labor legislation enacted in 1985.Jan. 1986.
State labor legislation enacted in 1986.Jan. 1987.
State labor legislation enacted in 1990.Jan. 1991.
State labor legislation enacted in 1991.Jan. 1992. 
State labor legislation enacted in 1992.Jan. 1993. 
State labor legislation enacted in 1993.Jan. 1994. 
State labor legislation enacted in 1994.Jan. 1995. 
State labor legislation enacted in 1995.Jan./Feb. 1996.
State labor legislation enacted in 1996.Jan. 1997. 
State labor legislation enacted in 1997.Jan. 1998. 
State labor legislation enacted in 2000.Jan. 2001.
State labor legislation enacted in 2001.Jan. 2002.
State labor legislation enacted in 2002.Jan. 2003.
State labor legislation enacted in 2003.Jan. 2004.
State labor legislation enacted in 2004.Jan. 2005.
State labor legislation enacted in 2005.Jan. 2006.
State labor legislation enacted in 2006.Jan. 2007.
State labor legislation enacted in 2007.Jan. 2008.
State workers' compensation legislation enacted in 1990.Jan. 1991. 
Unemployment insurance laws: changes in 1981..—Feb. 1982.
Unemployment insurance laws: legislative revisions in 1982..—Jan. 1983.
Using statistics to manage a State safety and health program (PDF).—Mar. 1981.
Workers' compensation: 1984 State enactments.Jan. 1985. 
Workers' compensation: key legislation in 1981.Feb. 1982.
Workers' compensation: State enactments in 1991.Jan. 1992. 
Workers' compensation: State enactments in 1992.Jan. 1993. 
Workers' compensation in 1982: significant legislation enacted.Jan. 1983.
Workers' compensation in 1980: summary of major enactments (PDF).—Mar. 1981.
Worker's compensation laws: significant changes in 1993.Jan. 1994. 
Worker's compensation laws: Enactments in 1994.Jan. 1995. 
Workers' compensation laws enacted in 1995.Jan./Feb. 1996.
State and local government pay increases outpace gains in industry.Feb. 1987.
State workers' compensation legislation enacted in 1996.Jan. 1997. 
Workers' compensation legislation enacted in 1997.Jan. 1998. 

Statistical programs and methods
Accounting for missing data in the Employment Cost Index.Apr. 2006.
Addressing misconceptions about the Consumer Price Index.Aug. 2008.
Analyzing CPS data using gross flows.Sept. 2005.
Antecedents and predecessors of NLSY79: paving the course.Feb. 2005.
Apparel price indexes: effects of hedonic adjustment.May 1994.
Are producer prices good proxies for export prices?Oct. 1997. 
BLS and the economy: a centennial timetable.Nov. 1984.
BLS compensation programs: what will users need?Feb. 1990.
BLS completes major expansion of industry productivity series.Sep. 1998.
BLS introduces new range of alternative unemployment measures.Oct. 1995. 
BLS modernizes industry labor productivity program.July 1995. 
BLS prepares to broaden scope of its white-collar pay survey.Mar. 1987.
BLS regional offices: 50 years of Federal-State cooperation.Dec. 1992.
CE and the PCE: a comparison, The.Sept. 2006.
CE data: quintiles of income versus quintiles of outlays.Dec. 1994.
Census approach to counting fatal work injuries, A. (PDF 342K).—Dec. 1990.
Century of wage statistics: the BLS contribution, A.Nov. 1984.
Changing the item structure in the Consumer Price Index.Dec. 1996.
Changing the treatment of homeownership in the CPI.Jun. 1982.
Cognitive testing of racial and ethnic questions for the CPS supplement.Sept. 1996.
Consumer Expenditure Survey: quality control, The.Mar. 1987.
Consumer Expenditure Survey, The: a comparative analysis.Dec. 1994.
CPI for hospital services: concepts and procedures, The.July 1996. 
Current Population Survey: a historical view and the BLS role, The.Jun. 1984.
Data user's look back from 2015, A.Apr. 1990.
Developing a hedonic model for Internet access service in the CPI.Jul. 2008.
Developing statistics to meet society's needs.Oct. 1989.
Diffusion indexes: an economic barometer.Apr. 1990.
Effect of 1992 weights on Producer Price Indexes.July 1996. 
Effects of rounding on the Consumer Price Index, The.Oct. 2006.
Employment Cost Index rebased to June 1989 (PDF 149K).—Apr. 1990
Estimating gross flows consistent with stocks in the CPS.Sept. 2005.
First look at employment and wages using NAICS, A.Dec. 2001.
Hospital price inflation: what does the new PPI tell us?July 1996. 
Impact of business births and deaths in the payroll survey.May 2006. 
Implementing recommendations to improve labor statistics.Feb. 1985.
Implementing the North American Industry Classification System at BLS.Dec. 2001.
Improvements to the quarterly productivity measures.Oct. 1995. 
Improving estimation and benchmarking of State labor force statistics.May 2005. 
Improving the PPI sample for prescription pharmaceuticals.Oct. 1997. 
Imputing income in the Consumer Expenditure Survey.Dec. 1994.
Incorporating a geometric mean formula into the CPI.Oct. 1998.
Industry productivity trends under the North American Industry Classification system.Nov. 2004. 
Interarea price levels: an experimental methodology.Sept. 2006.
Introducing 2002 weights in the Employment Cost Index.Apr. 2006.
Introducing the North American Industry Classification System.July 1998.
Is the ECI sensitive to the method of aggregation? an update.Dec. 2002
Is the ECI sensitive to the method of aggregation?June 1997.
Labor force data in the next century.Apr. 1990.
Leontief-BLS partnership: framework for measurement, The.June 2001.
Measuring labor force flows: a conference examines the problems.Jul. 1985.
Measuring single-factor and multifactor productivity.Dec. 1986. 
Misclassification in an experimental poverty measure.Jun. 2006.
Model-based seasonally adjusted estimates and sampling error.Sept. 2005.
National Longitudinal Survey: development and uses (PDF 497K).—July 1990.
National Longitudinal Survey of Youth: 1979 cohort at 25, The.Feb. 2005.
New benchmarks, SIC codes for Establishment Survey (PDF 447K).—Nov. 1990.
New household survey and the CPS: labor force differences.Sept. 1985.
New international price series published by Nation and region.June 1992. 
New price index for the computer industry.Oct. 1990.
New measure of compensation cost adjustments.Aug. 1990.
New methodology for selecting outlet samples.Dec. 1996.
New occupational data improve replacement estimates.Mar. 1984.
Occupational injury and illness: new recordkeeping requirements.Dec. 2004.
Overhauling the Current Population Survey: A special issue.— Sept. 1993. 
Why is it necessary to change?
Redesigning the questionnaire.
Evaluating changes in the estimates.
Overview of the 1998 revision of the Consumer Price Index.Dec. 1996.
Pay relatives for metropolitan areas in the NCS.Mar. 2005.
Preliminary estimates of multifactor productivity growth.Jun. 2005.
Price and expenditure measures of petroleum products: a comparison.Dec. 2006.
Price measurement in the United States: A decade after the Boskin Report.May 2006.
Problem of respondent attrition: survey methodology is key, The.Feb. 2005.
Providing comparable international labor statistics.June 2002.
Publication strategy for the 1998 revised Consumer Price Index.Dec. 1996.
Quality adjustment in CPI housing sample (PDF 351K).—Nov. 1990.
Real compensation, 1979 to 2003: analysis from several data sources.May 2005.
Redesign of the CPI geographic sample, The.Dec. 1996.
Revising the Standard Occupational Classification system.May 1999.
Revision of the CPI hospital services component.Dec. 1996.
Revision of the CPI housing sample and estimators.Dec. 1996.
Seasonal adjustment of quarterly consumer expenditure series.Dec. 1994.
Seasonality: economic data and model estimation.Dec. 1994.
Some proposals to improve the Consumer Price Index (PDF).—Sept. 1981.
State space model-based method of seasonal adjustment, A.July 2001. 
Statistical needs in Eastern Europe.Mar. 1992. 
Testing racial and ethnic origin questions in the CPS supplement.Sept. 1996.
Transitional employment cost indexes for seasonal adjustment.Apr. 2008.
'underground economy' and BLS statistical data, The.Jan. 1984.
Unemployment insurance: measuring who receives it.July 1997.
Using gross flows to explore movements in the labor force.Apr. 1995. 
 
Strikes
AFL and a national BLS: labor's role is crystallized, The.Mar. 1982. 
Baseball strike of 1994-95, The.Mar. 1997. 
Baseball strike of 1990, The (PDF 1,039K)—Oct. 1990.
How do labor and management view collective bargaining?Oct. 1998.
Impact of strikes on current employment statistics, The.Aug. 2000.
Technical note: The impact of strikes on current employment statisticsAug. 2000.
                Strikes and employment
                Effect on hours and earnings estimates
                Secondary effects of a strike
                Replacement workers
                CES strike report
                Strike-adjusted employment data

Supplemental benefits
Employee participation in savings and thrift plans, 1993.Mar. 1996.
 
Survey methods (See also Statistical programs and methods.)
American Time Use Survey: cognitive pretesting, The.Feb. 2002.
Antecedents and predecessors of NLSY79: paving the course.Feb. 2005.
BLS and the economy: a centennial timetable.Nov. 1984.
BLS compensation programs: what will users need?Feb. 1990.
BLS introduces new range of alternative unemployment measures.Oct. 1995. 
BLS prepares to broaden scope of its white-collar pay survey.Mar. 1987.
Century of wage statistics: the BLS contribution, A.Nov. 1984.
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.
Data user's look back from 2015, A.Apr. 1990.
Diffusion indexes: an economic barometer.Apr. 1990.
Employment Cost Index rebased to June 1989 (PDF 149K).—Apr. 1990
Examining evidence on whether BLS undercounts workplace injuries and illnesses.Aug. 2008.
First look at employment and wages using NAICS, A.Dec. 2001.
Impact of business births and deaths in the payroll survey.May 2006. 
Implementing recommendations to improve labor statistics.Feb. 1985.
Implementing the North American Industry Classification System at BLS.Dec. 2001.
Income data quality issues in the CPS.Jun. 2006.
Incorporating a geometric mean formula into the CPI.Oct. 1998.
Internet collection at the Bureau of Labor Statistics: an option to report.Feb. 2006.
Introducing the North American Industry Classification System.July 1998.
Labor force data in the next century.Apr. 1990.
Lack of a disability measure in today's Current Population Survey, The.Jun. 2001.
Measuring intrahousehold allocation of time: response to Anne E. Winkler.Feb. 2002.
Multiyear nonfatal work injury rates.May 2006.
National Longitudinal Survey of Youth: 1979 cohort at 25, The.Feb. 2005.
New household survey and the CPS: labor force differences.Sept. 1985.
New survey measures demand for laborSept. 2000. 
New tools for labor market analysis: JOLTS.Dec. 2001.
Overestimated workweek, The? What time diary measures suggest.Aug. 1994.  11-23.
Overhauling the Current Population Survey: A special issue.—Sept. 1993.
Why is it necessary to change?
Redesigning the questionnaire.
Evaluating changes in the estimates.
Planning, designing, and executing the BLS American Time-Use Survey.Oct. 2004. 
Problem of respondent attrition: survey methodology is key, The.Feb. 2005.
Recent changes in the national Current Employment Statistics survey.June 2003.
Recent changes in the State and Metropolitan Area CES survey.June 2003.
Testing racial and ethnic origin questions in the CPS supplement.Sept. 1996. 
'underground economy' and BLS statistical data, The.Jan. 1984.
Understanding the employment measures from the establishment and household surveys.Feb. 2006.
 
Supreme Court  
Labor and the Supreme Court: significant decisions of 1979-80 (PDF).—Apr. 1981.
Labor and the Supreme Court: significant issues of 1989-90.Jan. 1990.
Labor and the Supreme Court: significant issues of 1990-91.Jan. 1991.
Labor and the Supreme Court: significant issues of 1991-92.Jan. 1992. 

Sweden
Comparative manufacturing productivity and unit labor costs.Feb. 1995. 
Employment change and sectoral distribution in 10 countries, 1970-90.Oct. 1993. 
Flexible and partial retirement in Norway and Sweden.Oct. 1985.
International comparisons of unemployment indicators.Mar. 1993. 
International unemployment indicators, 1983-93.Aug. 1995. 
Manufacturing productivity and labor costs in 14 economies.Dec. 1991.
Recent trends in unemployment and the labor force, 10 countries.Aug. 1985.
Sweden combats unemployment of young and older workers.Oct. 1982.
Trends in retirement age in four countries, 1965-95.—Aug. 1998.
U.S. and foreign productivity and unit labor costs.Feb. 1997. 
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