(The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)

Archived articles from The Editor's Desk
—Chronological archives: 2006

December 2006

• Prices of exported consumer goods higher in 2005 (12/29/06)
• Prices of imported capital goods down again in 2005 (12/28/06)
• Multiple jobholding in 2005 (12/27/06)
• Mass layoffs by region in November (12/26/06)
• Mass layoffs up in November (12/22/06)

• Cost of benefits for State and local government employees, September 2006 (12/21/06)
• PPI in November 2006 (12/20/06)
• Real earnings in November (12/19/06)
• CPI in November (12/18/06)
• Import prices in November (12/15/06)

• Employer costs for employee compensation, September 2006 (12/14/06)
• Job openings rates by industry in October 2006 (12/13/06)
• Payroll employment in November (12/12/06)
• Unemployment rates and demographic groups in November 2006 (12/11/06)
• Large increase in women's educational attainment (12/08/06)

• Manufacturing multifactor productivity in 2002, 2003, and 2004 (12/07/06)
• Productivity growth revised upward in the third quarter (12/06/06)
• Women in the professions (12/05/06)
• Labor force participation rate of mothers (12/04/06)
• Hourly compensation of production workers in the U.S. and selected countries, 2005 (12/01/06)

November 2006

• Employment trends in residential and nonresidential construction (11/30/06)
• Differences in women's earnings by educational level, 2005 (11/29/06)
• Differences between women’s and men’s unemployment rates over the decade (11/28/06)
• Mass layoffs in October 2006 (11/27/06)

• Quality changes in 2007 passenger cars and light trucks (11/24/06)
• Gross job gains and losses: first quarter 2006 (11/22/06)
• Real average weekly earnings in October 2006 (11/21/06)
• Sprains and strains again most common workplace injury (11/20/06)
• CPI in October 2006 (11/17/06)

• Reasons for extended layoff separations, third quarter of 2006 (11/16/06)
• Producer prices in October 2006 (11/15/06)
• Export prices in October 2006 (11/14/06)
• Import prices in October 2006 (11/13/06)
• Consumer expenditures in 2005 (11/09/06)

• Job openings rates by industry in September 2006 (11/08/06)
• Payroll employment by industry, October 2006 (11/07/06)
• Unemployment rate in October 2006 (11/06/06)
• Productivity in third quarter 2006 (11/03/06)
• State and local government employment costs up 1.4 percent from June to September (11/02/06)
• Compensation costs in private industry up 3.0 percent over the year (11/01/06)

October 2006

• Workplace violence prevention programs and policies (10/31/06)

• Workplace violence in 2005 (10/30/06)
• Most rapid growth and decline in employment by county, March 2005-March 2006 (10/27/06)
• Mass layoffs in September (10/26/06)
• Incidence rates of nonfatal occupational illnesses by industry, 2005 (10/25/06)
• International comparisons of harmonized indexes of consumer prices available monthly (10/24/06)

• Real earnings, September 2006 (10/23/06)
• Injuries and illnesses rates down again in 2005 (10/20/06)
• CPI in September 2006 (10/19/06)
• PPI in September 2006 (10/18/06)
• Earnings of second-generation Americans (10/17/06)

• Import prices in September 2006 (10/16/06)
• Unemployment of second- and third-and-higher-generation Americans (10/13/06)
• Job openings rate in August 2006 (10/12/06)
• Unemployment rate in September 2006 (10/11/06)
• Changes in payroll employment by industry, September 2006 (10/10/06)

• Second-generation Americans, age, and the labor force (10/06/06)
• The 'sandwich generation' (10/05/06)
• Men's and women's work hours, 2005 (10/04/06)
• Women's earnings as a percentage of men's, 1979-2005 (10/03/06)
• Differences in earnings by age and sex in 2005 (10/02/06)

September 2006

• Comparisons of pay between metropolitan areas, 2005 (09/29/06)
• Occupations with the most job openings for college graduates, 2004-14 (09/28/06)
• International factory productivity gains in 2005 (09/27/06)
• Healthcare employment for workers without a bachelor's degree (09/26/06)
• Employer costs for retirement and savings plans, June 2006 (09/25/06)

• Mass layoffs in August (09/22/06)
• Workers with at least ten years of employee tenure, 2006 (09/21/06)
• Producer prices in August 2006 (09/20/06)
• Real earnings in August 2006 (09/19/06)
• CPI in August 2006 (09/18/06)

• Import prices in August 2006 (09/15/06)
• Variation in worker earnings, June 2005 (09/14/06)
• Job openings by industry in July 2006 (09/13/06)
• Employee tenure by occupation, 2006 (09/12/06)
• Employee tenure, 2006 (09/11/06)

• Gross job gains and losses: fourth quarter 2005 (09/08/06)
• Productivity growth in the second quarter revised upward (09/07/06)
• Payrolls in August (09/06/06)
• Unemployment in August 2006 (09/05/06)
• Leave benefits in 2006 (09/01/06)

August 2006

• The labor market impact of Hurricane Katrina (08/31/06)
• Multifactor productivity, 1996-2005 (08/30/06)
• Youth unemployment, Summer 2006 (08/29/06)

• Summer 2006 labor force participation of youth (08/28/06)
• Retirement plans in 2006 (08/25/06)
• Mass layoffs in July (08/24/06)
• Productivity in trade and food services, 2005 (08/23/06)
• Displaced and reemployed workers by industry, January 2006 (08/22/06)

• Real earnings, July 2006 (08/21/06)
• Displaced workers, 2003-05: reason for job loss (08/18/06)
• CPI in July 2006 (08/17/06)
• PPI in July 2006 (08/16/06)
• Hurricanes and workplace fatalities, 2005 (08/15/06)

• Import prices in July 2006 (08/14/06)
• Fatal work injuries in 2005 (08/11/06)
• Hires and separations rates in June 2006 (08/10/06)
• Productivity growth in second quarter 2006 (08/09/06)
• Payroll employment by industry, July 2006 (08/08/06)

• Unemployment rates and demographics, July 2006 (08/07/06)
• Declines in prices received by domestic producers of cars and light trucks (08/04/06)
• Slower increase in food PPI last year (08/03/06)
• Counties with highest wage growth, fourth quarter 2005 (08/02/06)
• Decline in wages and salaries in constant dollars, June 2005-June 2006 (08/01/06)

July 2006

• Employment costs rise 0.8 percent from March to June (07/31/06)
• Working on the weekend (07/28/06)
• Most rapid growth and decline in employment by county, December 2004-December 2005 (07/27/06)
• Middle Atlantic division had highest earnings in June 2005 (07/26/06)
• Real earnings in June (07/25/06)

• Usual weekly earnings, second quarter 2006 (07/24/06)
• Mass layoffs by industry, June 2006 (07/21/06)
• Consumer prices in June 2006 (07/20/06)
• Producer prices in June 2006 (07/19/06)
• Export prices up in June (07/18/06)

• Import prices in June 2006 (07/17/06)
• Sharp drop in mining productivity (07/14/06)
• Productivity growth in information-sector industries, 2004 (07/13/06)
• Hires rates by region, May 2006 (07/12/06)
• Unemployment rates and demographic groups in June 2006 (07/11/06)

• Payroll employment in June 2006 (07/10/06)
• Service jobs most likely to pay minimum wage (07/07/06)
• Asian households and spending on food at home (07/06/06)
• Employment trends in hospitals (07/05/06)
• Workplace injuries and illnesses among nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (07/03/06)

June 2006

• Emergency management specialists (06/30/06)
• Working poor by occupation in 2004 (06/29/06)

• A new experimental consumer price index (06/28/06)
• Summer jobs: where teens work (06/27/06)
• Captioning and court reporting in the 21st century (06/26/06)
• Mass layoffs in May (06/23/06)
• Health benefit costs in private industry, March 2006 (06/22/06)

• Working poor and education in 2004 (06/21/06)
• Medical care inflation in 2005 (06/20/06)
• Rate of working poor up in 2004 (06/19/06)
• Real earnings in May 2006 (06/16/06)
• Consumer prices in May 2006 (06/15/06)

• Producer prices in May 2006 (06/14/06)
• Changes in prices for new and used vehicles (06/13/06)
• Import prices up again in May 2006 (06/12/06)
• Energy inflation in 2005 (06/09/06)
• Earnings of retail salespersons highest in metro areas in West (06/08/06)

• Hires and separations in April (06/07/06)
• Unemployment rate in May 2006 (06/06/06)
• Change in payroll employment, May 2006 (06/05/06)
• First-quarter productivity growth revised upward (06/02/06)
• Unemployment among Gulf War veterans (06/01/06)

May 2006

• Spending on apparel over the decades (05/31/06)
• Unemployment rates of veterans, 2005 (05/30/06)

• Spending on food: 1901 versus 2002-03 (05/26/06)
• Earnings of workers in occupations with the largest number of employees (05/25/06)
• Mass-layoff initial claims for unemployment insurance, April 2006 (05/24/06)
• Spending on necessities, 1901 and 2002-03 (05/23/06)
• Real earnings in April 2006 (05/22/06)

• Gross job gains and losses in the third quarter of 2005 (05/19/06)
• CPI in April 2006 (05/18/06)
• PPI in April 2006 (05/17/06)
• Spending on food in 2004 (05/16/06)
• Import prices in April 2006 (05/15/06)

• Extended mass layoffs, first quarter 2006 (05/12/06)
• Foreign-born workers by region (05/11/06)
• Job openings in March 2006 (05/10/06)
• April 2006 payroll employment (05/09/06)
• Unemployment rate in April 2006 (05/08/06)

• Productivity in first quarter 2006 (05/05/06)
• Families and unemployment, 2005 (05/04/06)
• Productivity in largest manufacturing industries (05/03/06)
• Fewer families with children under 18 have employed parent (05/02/06)
• Employment costs up 0.6 percent from December to March (05/01/06)

April 2006

• Employment in married-couple families (04/28/06)
• Weekly earnings in first quarter 2006 by demographics (04/27/06)
• Foreign born and earnings in 2005 (04/26/06)
• Real earnings in March 2006 (04/25/06)
• Educational attainment of foreign-born labor force, 2005 (04/24/06)

• Mass-layoff initial claims for unemployment insurance by State, March 2006 (04/21/06)
• CPI in March 2006 (04/20/06)
• PPI in March 2006 (04/19/06)
• Counties with fastest pay growth, third quarter 2005 (04/18/06)
• Foreign born and unemployment, 2005 (04/17/06)

• Import prices down again in March 2006 (04/14/06)
• Counties with most rapid employment growth and decline, September 2004-September 2005 (04/13/06)
• Layoffs and discharges rate, February 2006 (04/12/06)
• Unemployment in March 2006 (04/11/06)
• Employment up again in March (04/10/06)

• Over half of job separations are quits (04/07/06)
• Occupational changes: then and now (04/06/06)
• Payroll employment, 2000-2005 (04/05/06)
• Duration of unemployment in 2005 (04/04/06)
• Unemployment in 2005 (04/03/06)

March 2006

• Productivity in the engineering services industry (03/31/06)
• Productivity in the architectural services industry (03/30/06)
• Recent high school graduates and the work force (03/29/06)

• Unemployment rate 32.9 percent among recent dropouts (03/28/06)
• College enrollment of 2005 high school grads (03/27/06)
• Multifactor productivity, 1995-2004 (03/24/06)
• Mass layoffs by industry, February 2006 (03/23/06)
• PPI in February 2006 (03/22/06)

• Shifting to one-stop shopping (03/21/06)
• Over-the-year changes in average weekly earnings, February 2006 (03/20/06)
• CPI in February 2006 (03/17/06)
• Import prices down in February 2006 (03/16/06)
• Annual hires, total separations, and quits rates, 2001-2005 (03/15/06)

• Unemployment in February (03/14/06)
• Payroll employment in February 2006 (03/13/06)
• Trends in retirement plan coverage (03/10/06)
• Duration of major work stoppages beginning in 2005 (03/09/06)
• Revision of fourth-quarter productivity growth (03/08/06)

• 2004-2005 changes in State unemployment rates (03/07/06)
• States with highest unemployment rates in 2005 (03/06/06)
• Fewer workers idled by work stoppages in 2005 (03/03/06)
• Lowest State unemployment rate: Hawaii (03/02/06)
• Real earnings in January 2006 (03/01/06)

February 2006

• Long-term unemployment in recent recessions (02/28/06)
• Enlistment of youth in the Armed Forces (02/27/06)
• Mass layoffs in January (02/24/06)
• Consumer prices in January (02/23/06)

• Korea and Sweden record largest manufacturing productivity increases in 2004 (02/22/06)
• PPI in January 2006 (02/21/06)
• Import prices in January 2006 (02/17/06)
• Gross job gains and losses in the second quarter of 2005 (02/16/06)
• Reason for unemployment, 2005 (02/15/06)

• Absence rates and industry, 2005 (02/14/06)
• Extended mass layoff events, fourth quarter 2005 (02/13/06)
• Separations due to mass layoffs, 2005 (02/10/06)
• Unit labor costs in fourth quarter of 2005 (02/09/06)
• Job openings and labor turnover in 2005 (02/08/06)

• January 2006 payroll employment (02/07/06)
• Unemployment down in January (02/06/06)
• Productivity growth in 2005 (02/03/06)
• Compensation costs in State and local government (02/02/06)
• Compensation costs up 3.0 percent in private industry in 2005 (02/01/06)

January 2006

• Absence rates and occupation, 2005 (01/31/06)
• Health care plans and establishment size in 2005 (01/30/06)
• Mass layoffs in December (01/27/06)
• Mass layoffs in 2005 (01/26/06)
• Unionization rates by occupation in 2005 (01/25/06)

• Union membership by industry, 2005 (01/24/06)
• Union membership in 2005 (01/23/06)
• Real average weekly earnings, December 2004 – December 2005 (01/20/06)
• CPI up 3.4 percent in 2005 (01/19/06)
• Counties with fastest growth in employment, June 2004-June 2005 (01/18/06)

• PPI in December (01/17/06)
• Import prices in December 2005 (01/13/06)
• Counties with most rapid pay growth, second quarter 2005 (01/12/06)
• Hires rate in November 2005 (01/11/06)
• December unemployment rates of Hurricane Katrina evacuees (01/10/06)

• Payroll employment up by 2 million in 2005 (01/09/06)
• Multiple jobholding in 2004 (01/06/06)
• Top U.S. trading partners in 2004 (01/05/06)
• Occupational mobility and age (01/04/06)
• The labor force in 2014: race and Hispanic origin (01/03/06)