Recent BLS analyses of CPS data (Year 2000-present)

Subject areas

Annual labor market summary

  • Lower unemployment in 2005 (Article)
    by Emy Sok, March 2006
    (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF 99K)

  • Household survey indicators show some improvement in 2004 (Article)
    by Terri L. Morisi, March 2005
    (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF 80K)

  • The US labor market in 2003: signs of improvement by year’s end (Article)
    by Rachel Krantz, Marisa DiNatale, and Thomas J. Krolik, March 2004
    (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF 220K)

  • US labor market in 2002: continued weakness (Article)
    by Terence M. McMenamin, Rachel Krantz, and Thomas J. Krolik, February 2003
    (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF 164K)

  • US labor market in 2001: economy enters a recession (Article)
    by David S. Langdon, Terence M. McMenamin, and Thomas J. Krolik, February 2002
    (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF 246K)

  • The job market in 2000: slowing down as the year ended (Article)
    by Jennifer L. Martel and David S. Langdon, February 2001
    (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF 336K)

Computer and Internet use at work

  • News Release: Computer and Internet Use at Work
    (HTML) (PDF) (Archives)

  • Computer and Internet use at work in 2001 (Article)
    by Steven Hipple and Karen Kosanovich, February 2003
    (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF 59K)

Contingent and alternate work arrangements

  • News Release: Contingent and Alternative Employment Arrangements
    (HTML) (PDF) (Archives)

  • Contingent work in the late-1990s (Article)
    by Steven Hipple, March 2001
    (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF 160K)

  • Characteristics of and preference for alternative work arrangements, 1999 (Article)
    by Marisa DiNatale, March 2001
    (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF 139K)

Displaced workers

  • News Release: Worker Displacement
    (HTML) (PDF) (Archives)

  • Worker displacement in 1999–2000 (Article)
    by Ryan Helwig, June 2004
    (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF 94K)

  • Worker displacement in a strong labor market (Article)
    by Ryan T. Helwig, June 2001
    (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF 121K)

Earnings (including minimum wage)

  • News Release: Usual Weekly Earnings of Wage And Salary Workers
    (HTML) (PDF) (Archives)

  • Characteristics of Minimum Wage Workers in 2006
    March 2007
    (HTML) (PDF 88K)

  • Highlights of Women's Earnings in 2005 (Report)
    September 2006
    (PDF 290K)

  • Women Still Underrepresented Among Highest Earners (Issues Paper)
    by Sara Kline, March 2006
    (PDF 46K)

  • How does gender play a role in the earnings gap? an update (Article)
    by Stephanie Boraas and William M. Rodgers III, March 2003
    (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF 49K)

  • Earnings and employment trends in the 1990s (Article)
    by Randy E. Ilg and Steven E. Haugen, March 2000
    (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF 72K)

Education

  • News Release: College Enrollment and Work Activity of High School Graduates
    (HTML) (PDF) (Archives)

Employment

  • Change in employment by occupation, industry, and earnings quartile, 2000-05 (Article)
    by Randy Ilg, December 2006
    (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF 102K)

Families

  • News Release: Employment Characteristics of Families
    (HTML) (PDF) (Archives)

Flexible and shift schedules

  • News Release: Workers on Flexible and Shift Schedules
    (HTML) (PDF) (Archives)

  • Flexible schedules and shift work: replacing the '9-to-5' workday (Article)
    by Thomas M. Beers, June 2000
    (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF 48K)

Foreign-born workers

  • News Release: Labor Force Characteristics of Foreign-born Workers
    (HTML) (PDF) (Archives)

  • Labor force characteristics of second-generation Americans (Article)
    by Abraham T. Mosisa, September 2006
    (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF 72K)

  • Foreign-born workforce, 2004 (Visual Essay)
    by Abraham T. Mosisa, July 2006
    (Excerpt) (PDF 54K)

  • The role of foreign-born workers in the US economy (Article)
    by Abraham T. Mosisa, May 2002
    (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF 190K)

Gross flows

  • Analyzing CPS data using gross flows (Article)
    by Randy Ilg, September 2005
    (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF 83K)

  • Estimating gross flows consistent with stocks in the CPS (Article)
    by Harley J. Frazis, Edwin L. Robison, Thomas D. Evans, and Martha A. Duff, September 2005
    (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF 67K)

Hours

  • Are Managers and Professionals Really Working More? (Issues Paper)
    by Randy Ilg, May 2000
    (PDF 16K)

Household survey (CPS) and establishment survey (CES) differences

  • Understanding the employment measures from the establishment and household surveys (Article)
    by Mary K. Bowler and Teresa L. Morisi, February 2006
    (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF 114K)

Labor force

  • Trends in labor force participation of married mothers of infants (Article)
    by Sharon R. Cohany and Emy Sok, February 2007
    (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF 272K)

  • Trends in labor force participation in the United States (Article)
    by Abraham Mosisa and Steven Hipple, October 2006
    (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF 164K)

  • Labor Force Participation During Recent Labor Market Downturns (Issues Paper)
    by Steven Hipple, September 2003
    (PDF 27K)

  • Who Was Affected as the Economy Started to Slow (Issues Paper)
    by Randy E. Ilg, November 2001
    (PDF 85K)

  • Looking for a ‘better’ job: job-search activity of the employed (Article)
    by Joseph R. Meisenheimer II and Randy E. Ilg, September 2000
    (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF 60K)

  • Labor Supply in a Tight Labor Market (Issues Paper)
    by Steven E. Haugen, June 2000
    (PDF 29K)

Methodology

  • Recent trends in employment from the BLS household and payroll surveys
    (PDF 77K)

  • Collection and Coverage, Concepts and Definitions, Historical Comparability and Estimating Methods
    (PDF 102K)

  • Seasonal Adjustment
    (PDF 26K)

  • Labor force and employment estimates smoothed for population adjustments
    (PDF 18K)

  • Adjustments to Household Survey Population Estimates in January 2007 (Article)
    February 2007
    (PDF 43K)

  • Model-based seasonally adjusted estimates and sampling error (Article)
    by Richard Tiller and Marisa Di Natale, September 2005
    (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF 98K)

  • Creating Comparability in CPS Employment Series (Article)
    by Marisa L. Di Natale
    (PDF 25K)

  • Historical CPS employment for 1983-99 on the 2002 Census industry and occupational classifications
    (HTML)

Multiple job holders

  • Twenty-first Century Moonlighters (Issues Paper)
    by Jennifer L. Hallmartel, September 2002
    (PDF 169K)

Race and Hispanic ethnicity

  • Blacks, Asians, and Hispanics in the civilian labor force (Visual Essay)
    by Stella Cromartie, June 2004
    (Excerpt) (PDF 42K)

School enrollment

  • News Release: College Enrollment and Work Activity of High School Graduates
    (HTML) (PDF) (Archives)

Self-employed workers

  • Self-employment in the United States: an update (Article)
    by Steven Hipple, July 2004
    (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF 70K)

Tenure

Unemployment

  • News Release: Employment Situation Summary
    (HTML) (PDF) (Archives)

  • A Glance at Long-term Unemployment in Recent Recessions (Issues Paper)
    by Randy Ilg, January 2006
    (PDF 46K)

  • Unemployed Job Leavers: A Meaningful Gauge of Confidence in the Job Market? (Issues Paper)
    by Randy Ilg, October 2000
    (PDF 37K)

Union members

Veterans

Volunteering

  • News Release: Volunteering in the United States
    (HTML) (PDF) (Archives)

  • Volunteering in the United States, 2005 (Visual Essay)
    by Stephanie White, February 2006
    (Excerpt) (PDF 47K)

  • Volunteerism in the United States (Article)
    by Stephanie Boraas, August 2003
    (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF 184K)

Women

  • Women Still Underrepresented Among Highest Earners (Issues Paper)
    Sara Kline, March 2006
    (PDF 46K)

  • Women in the Labor Force: A Databook
    May 2005
    (HTML) (PDF 517K)

  • Highlights of Women's Earnings in 2005 (Report)
    September 2006
    (PDF 290K)

  • Women at work (Visual Essay)
    October 2003
    (Excerpt) (PDF 227K)

  • The labor force experience of women from ‘Generation X' (Article)
    by Marisa DiNatale and Stephanie Boraas, March 2002
    (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF 86K)

Work at home

Work experience

Working poor

  • A Profile of the Working Poor, 2004 (Report)
    May 2006
    (PDF 87K)

  • The working poor in 2001 (Article)
    by Abraham T. Mosisa, November 2003
    (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF 142K)

Youth

  • News Release: Summer Employment and Unemployment Among Youth
    (HTML) (PDF) (Archives)

  • News Release: College Enrollment and Work Activity of High School Graduates
    (HTML) (PDF) (Archives)

  • Declining teen labor force participation (Issues Paper)
    by Katie Kirkland, September 2002
    (PDF 71K)

  • Report on the Youth Labor Force
    November 2000
    (Table of Contents) (PDF 362K)

A complete list of articles can be found in the Monthly Labor Review.
A list of current reports and publications also can be found in Economic News Releases.

 

Last Modified Date: May 31, 2007