Health services industry: still a job machine? (ABSTRACT), Monthly Labor Review Online, Mar. 1998

Health services industry: still a job machine?

Cynthia Engel
Economist, Division of Monthly Industry Employment Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics

The accelerating employment growth in health services during the 1980s and early 1990s has slowed in recent years, but the industry continues to be a major source of new jobs in the United States. This article examines changes in the industry’s employment and earnings from 1987 to 1997 and in 1998.

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