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Archived articles from The Editor's Desk
—Chronological archives: 1998

December 1998

• Workers with longer workweeks often earn more per hour (12/31/98)
• Majority of employees have unpaid family leave benefit (12/30/98)

• Professional and managerial occupations have higher wages (12/29/98)
• Injuries and illnesses with lost workdays declining (12/28/98)
• Consumer expenditures rise 3.0 percent in 1997 (12/24/98)
• Physicians work the longest weeks (12/23/98)
• Auto dealers are fewer, bigger, and employ more workers (12/22/98)

• Entrants concentrated in sales, clerical, and service occupations (12/21/98)
• Injury and illness incidence rate lowest on record (12/18/98)
• High income households allocate smaller expenditure shares to necessities (12/17/98)
• Share of workers experiencing unemployment at record low (12/16/98)
• Homeowner expenditures take more out of budgets in Northeast and West (12/15/98)

• Young workers more likely to try new occupations (12/14/98)
• Suburbanites enjoy better labor market outcomes (12/11/98)
• Quality changes bigger factor for light truck prices than for car prices in 1999 model year (12/10/98)
• More people are working year-round (12/09/98)
• Higher share of consumer expenditures going to homeowner expenses (12/08/98)

• Services industry has highest number of emerging occupations (12/07/98)
• Eight counties reported employment greater than 1 million in 1996 (12/04/98)
• Employment declined in 27 large counties in 1996 (12/03/98)
• Few of the Nation's largest counties recorded pay declines in 1996 (12/02/98)
• Nevada's Clark County reported largest percent increase in employment in 1996 (12/01/98)

November 1998 

• Average annual pay highest in New York County in 1996 (11/30/98)

• No TED articles were posted between 11/13/98 and 11/30/98 due to BLS review of procedures used to update the BLS Web site.
• Labor productivity increases in most industries from 1987 to 1996 (11/13/98)
• Education has positive impact on labor market activity of severely disabled (11/12/98)
• Five states account for majority of public sector work stoppages (11/10/98)
• New occupations emerging across industry lines (11/09/98)

• Majority of employment in industries with rising productivity (11/06/98)
• 3 of 10 persons with severe disabilities are active in the labor market (11/05/98)
• Compensation costs increase with establishment size (11/04/98)
• Many retail trade workers paid less than $10 per hour (11/03/98)
• Three factors led to 1996 grain price shock (11/02/98)

October 1998 

• About 1 in 6 college graduates earns less than high school graduates (10/30/98)

• Total compensation costs double from 1981 to 1997 (10/29/98)
• Abundant career opportunities projected in information technology (10/28/98)
• Securities and commodities brokers lead industries earning high wages (10/27/98)
• Consumer expenditure rise largely attributable to discretionary spending (10/26/98)
• Earnings increase substantially with additional education (10/23/98)

• International average of factory worker compensation falls relative to U.S. (10/22/98)
• Impact of grain price shocks may be lessening (10/21/98)
• Childcare benefits remain uncommon (10/20/98)
• More high school graduates enrolling in college (10/19/98)
• Consumer expenditures rise at highest rate since 1989 (10/16/98)

• Nonmanufacturing workers face increasing incidence of job displacement (10/15/98)
• Large employers provide more training for employees (10/14/98)
• People average 8.6 jobs from ages 18 to 32 (10/13/98)
• Highway fatalities on-the-job reach all-time high in 1997 (10/09/98)
• Defense-related employment decline projected to slow (10/08/98)

• Employer costs for employee compensation higher in goods-producing industries (10/07/98)
• Job tenure declines among men (10/06/98)
• Unit labor costs fall in broad range of countries (10/05/98)
• Fewer youths hired this summer (10/02/98)
• Jobs requiring low levels of educational attainment grow faster in U.S. than in Japan or Europe (10/01/98)

September 1998 

• Job-related deaths are less likely for women (09/30/98)
• Fewer medium and large private employers provide dental care for employees (09/29/98)
• General Motors strikes affect employment counts (09/28/98)