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(The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Archived articles from The Editor's Desk—
Industry studies
- Multifactor productivity trends in 2010 (10/01/2012)
- Fatal work injuries decrease in construction, increase in transportation and warehousing in 2011 (09/26/2012)
- Employee tenure in January 2012 (09/20/2012)
- Payroll employment increases in August 2012 (09/10/2012)
- Productivity in wholesale trade, retail trade, and food services and drinking places, 2011 (08/31/2012)
- Atlanta's air transportation industry, 1990–2010 (08/27/2012)
- Extended mass layoffs, second quarter 2012 (08/10/2012)
- Productivity, output, and hours in the second quarter of 2012 (08/09/2012)
- Gross job gains and losses in the fourth quarter of 2011 (08/03/2012)
- Payroll employment continued to edge up in June 2012 (07/09/2012)
- Sector employment shifts around the world (07/06/2012)
- Multifactor productivity in manufacturing industries, 2010 (07/05/2012)
- Employer-provided health insurance in state and local government (06/27/2012)
- Employer costs for legally required benefits in March 2012 (06/08/2012)
- Productivity in selected service-providing and mining industries, 2010 (06/05/2012)
- The employment situation in May 2012 (06/04/2012)
- International air passenger fares (05/30/2012)
- Multifactor productivity in private nonfarm business (05/25/2012)
- The employment situation in April 2012 (05/07/2012)
- Gross job gains and losses, third quarter 2011 (05/02/2012)
- Average size of establishments: a look at industries (04/26/2012)
- Private business multifactor productivity up in 2010 (04/04/2012)
- Productivity in manufacturing industries, 2010 (04/03/2012)
- Employment in green goods and services, 2010 (03/27/2012)
- Employment Situation of Veterans — 2011 (03/23/2012)
- Employer costs for legally required benefits in December 2011 (03/22/2012)
- Payroll employment increases by 227,000 in February 2012 (03/12/2012)
- Workplace safety for security guards (03/09/2012)
- Unit labor costs and real hourly compensation, 2011 (03/08/2012)
- Output projections for major industries, 2010–2020 (03/05/2012)
- Productivity, output, and hours worked, fourth quarter 2011 (02/03/2012)
- Employment projections for major industries, 2010–20 (02/02/2012)
- Union membership, 2011 (01/30/2012)
- Job openings by industry, November 2011 (01/12/2012)
- Payroll employment increases by 200,000 in December 2011 (01/06/2012)
- Homicides in retail trade, 2003–2008 (01/04/2012)
- Recycling occupations (12/30/2011)
- Fatal occupational injuries in retail trade, 2003–2008 (12/13/2011)
- Construction employment and wages, May 2010 (12/12/2011)
- Employment and wage trends in high-tech industries in Massachusetts (12/07/2011)
- Payroll employment increases by 120,000 in November 2011 (12/02/2011)
- Nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses requiring days away from work in 2010 (11/17/2011)
- Employment of veterans, 2010 (11/10/2011)
- New York City's "pay premium" from 1990 to 2009 (11/08/2011)
- Employment trends upward in October (11/04/2011)
- Private industry workplace injuries and illnesses decline in 2010 (10/26/2011)
- Employment in Silicon Valley high-tech businesses, 2000–2009 (10/14/2011)
- Occupations in electric vehicle manufacturing (10/13/2011)
- Displaced workers by industry (10/12/2011)
- Payroll employment edges up in September 2011 (10/07/2011)
- Multifactor productivity in manufacturing, 2009 (09/28/2011)
- Retirement and savings benefit costs for employers in private industry, June 2011 (09/13/2011)
- Zero over-the-month change in payroll employment (09/07/2011)
- Productivity in wholesale trade, retail trade, and food services and drinking places, 2010 (08/31/2011)
- Careers in sales (08/16/2011)
- Payroll employment rises in July 2011 (08/09/2011)
- Careers in green construction (08/03/2011)
- 12-month private industry compensation costs, June 2011 (08/02/2011)
- Workplace fatalities in mining, 2004–2008 (08/01/2011)
- Payroll employment essentially unchanged in June 2011 (07/11/2011)
- Careers in solar power (06/29/2011)
- Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) occupations, May 2009 (06/15/2011)
- Occupational employment by ownership, May 2010 (06/13/2011)
- Job openings rates, by industry, April 2011 (06/09/2011)
- Payroll employment little changed in May 2011 (06/07/2011)
- Productivity in selected service-providing and mining industries, 2009 (05/31/2011)
- Extended mass layoffs, first quarter 2011 (05/13/2011)
- Productivity in the first quarter of 2011 (05/11/2011)
- Employment changes by industry, April 2011 (05/09/2011)
- Gross job gains and losses in the third quarter of 2010 (05/05/2011)
- 12-month private industry compensation costs, March 2010–March 2011 (05/03/2011)
- Three occupations in management, scientific, and technical consulting services (05/02/2011)
- Mass layoffs in March 2011 (04/26/2011)
- Employment in tax preparation services (04/15/2011)
- Employment changes by industry in March 2011 (04/05/2011)
- Multifactor productivity in private nonfarm business, 2009 (04/04/2011)
- Employment and wages in large U.S. counties, September 2009–September 2010 (03/31/2011)
- Productivity in manufacturing industries, 2009 (03/25/2011)
- Payroll employment up in February 2011 (03/07/2011)
- Nonfatal injuries and illnesses in State and local government industries, 2008 (03/03/2011)
- Mass layoff initial claims by industry, January 2011 (02/25/2011)
- Women's earnings and employment by industry, 2009 (02/16/2011)
- Employment changes by industry in January 2011 (02/08/2011)
- Unit labor costs and productivity in manufacturing, 2010 (02/07/2011)
- Union membership declines in 2010 (01/25/2011)
- Payroll employment up 1.1 million in 2010 (01/10/2011)
- The impact of the U.S. housing bubble and bust on employment, 2001–09 (01/03/2011)
- Mass layoff initial claims in manufacturing, November 2010 (12/29/2010)
- Careers in wind energy (12/22/2010)
- Insurance benefits costs for employers in private industry, September 2010 (12/13/2010)
- Fatal occupational injuries at road construction sites, 1995–2007 (12/08/2010)
- Job gains continue in temporary help services and health care in November (12/06/2010)
- Mass layoff events and initial claims by industry, October 2010 (12/02/2010)
- Nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses requiring days away from work decrease in 2009 11/18/2010
- Over-the-year declines in extended mass layoffs (11/16/2010)
- Payroll employment up in October 2010 (11/09/2010)
- Productivity gains in the third quarter of 2010 (11/08/2010)
- 12-month private industry compensation costs increase 2.0 percent (11/01/2010)
- Private industry workplace injuries and illnesses decline in 2009 (10/28/2010)
- Average weekly wages among large counties, March 2010 (10/21/2010)
- Employment decreases in government in September (10/12/2010)
- Multifactor productivity in manufacturing, 2008 (10/01/2010)
- Employee tenure, January 2010 (09/27/2010)
- Costs of retirement and savings benefits for employers in private industry, June 2010 (09/16/2010)
- Employment changes by industry in August 2010 (09/13/2010)
- Productivity in wholesale trade, retail trade, and food services, 2009 (09/07/2010)
- Reemployment rates of displaced workers, January 2010 (09/02/2010)
- Multifactor productivity in private nonfarm business, 2008 (08/30/2010)
- Mass layoff initial claimants for unemployment insurance, July 2010 (08/25/2010)
- Hires and separation rates, government and private industry, June 2010 (08/16/2010)
- Payroll employment declines in July 2010 (08/10/2010)
- Largest occupations in private and government sectors, May 2009 (08/03/2010)
- Supplemental pay in the healthcare industry, 2007–10 (07/29/2010)
- Mass layoff initial claimants in manufacturing, June 2010 (07/28/2010)
- Job openings in May 2010 (07/15/2010)
- Multifactor productivity in nonmanufacturing industries, 1987–2006 (07/13/2010)
- Employment changes in the largest counties, December 2009 (07/12/2010)
- Payroll employment declines in June 2010 (07/06/2010)
- Manufacturing, mining, and service-providing productivity, 2008 (06/24/2010)
- Museum occupations: skills on exhibit (06/16/2010)
- Health insurance benefit costs in private industry, March 2010 (06/14/2010)
- Employment changes by industry in May 2010 (06/09/2010)
- Compensation costs for nonresidential construction workers are rising (05/17/2010)
- Job openings by industry, March 2010 (05/13/2010)
- Employment changes by industry in April 2010 (05/11/2010)
- Supplemental pay in the finance and insurance industry (04/27/2010)
- Mass layoff initial claimants for unemployment insurance, March 2010 (04/26/2010)
- Average hourly earnings for all employees and for production and nonsupervisory employees, by industry, 2009 (04/08/2010)
- Job openings in February (04/07/2010)
- Paid leave benefit costs in private industry, March 2009 (03/16/2010)
- Hires and separations by industry, 2009 (03/11/2010)
- Job openings rate, December 2009 (02/18/2010)
- Payroll employment in January 2010 (02/16/2010)
- Union membership declines in 2009 (02/01/2010)
- Manufacturing industries and productivity, 2007 (01/07/2010)
- Employment projections for major industries, 2008-18 (01/04/2010)
- Industries with the most new jobs, 2008-18 (12/17/2009)
- Job openings rate in October 2009 (12/10/2009)
- Payroll employment in November 2009 (12/07/2009)
- Manhattan business employment dynamics: net change in jobs, 1992–2007 (11/12/2009)
- Employment changes by industry in October 2009 (11/09/2009)
- Nonfarm business labor productivity up 9.5 percent in third quarter 2009 (11/06/2009)
- Illnesses and injuries among State and local government workers in 2008 (11/04/2009)
- Job opening, hires, and total separations rates in August 2009 (10/13/2009)
- Demographics of New York City health care employment (10/07/2009)
- Careers in auto racing (09/15/2009)
- Job openings rates, by industry, July 2008 and July 2009 (09/10/2009)
- High-tech employment in Silicon Valley, 2001 and 2008 (09/08/2009)
- Productivity and costs by selected industries in 2008 (09/01/2009)
- Hires rate at low point in June 2009 (08/14/2009)
- Productivity gains in the second quarter of 2009 (08/12/2009)
- Employment changes by industry in July 2009 (08/11/2009)
- 12-month private industry compensation costs increase in June: 1.5 percent (08/03/2009)
- Access to medical care benefits: private industry vs. State and local government (07/29/2009)
- Employment changes in the largest counties, December 2008 (07/22/2009)
- Employment and wages of environmental engineers (06/12/2009)
- Productivity growth in selected service-providing industries, 2007 (05/22/2009)
- Decline in mining productivity (05/21/2009)
- Number of job openings at new low (05/13/2009)
- Multifactor productivity in private business, 2008 (05/07/2009)
- Job losses in temporary help services (04/14/2009)
- Multifactor productivity in nonfarm business, 2007 (03/26/2009)
- Mass layoffs by industry in January 2009 (02/26/2009)
- Concentration of employment in higher education in metropolitan areas (02/13/2009)
- Job openings, hires, and total separations rates in November 2008 (01/14/2009)
- Women and employment by industry (01/07/2009)
- Not-for-profit sector and employment (12/31/2008)
- Working in the electric power industry (12/03/2008)
- Job openings by industry, September 2008 (11/14/2008)
- Airline employment: takeoff and descent (11/13/2008)
- Wages in the nonprofit and private sectors, 2007 (11/06/2008)
- Workplace injury and illness rates by industry in 2007 (10/27/2008)
- Changes in payroll employment by industry, September 2008 (10/06/2008)
- Employee tenure by industry, 2008 (10/01/2008)
- Multifactor productivity in detailed manufacturing industries, 1987-2006 (09/02/2008)
- Employment in the residential framing contractors industry (06/24/2008)
- Productivity growth in selected service-providing industries, 2006 (05/27/2008)
- Job openings by industry, March 2008 (05/20/2008)
- Office and administrative occupations in 2007 (05/12/2008)
- Multifactor productivity in private business, 2007 (05/07/2008)
- Trends in industry employment in 2007 (04/21/2008)
- State and local government workers' access to quality-of-life benefits (04/04/2008)
- Employer premiums for medical care plans in State and local government (04/03/2008)
- Multifactor productivity in nonfarm business, 2006 (03/28/2008)
- Retirement benefits of State and local government workers (03/26/2008)
- Manufacturing industries and productivity, 2006 (03/21/2008)
- Job openings and labor turnover in 2007 (02/13/2008)
- Union membership by industry, 2007 (02/11/2008)
- Industries losing the most jobs, 2006-16 (01/10/2008)
- Payroll employment up by 1.3 million in 2007 (01/07/2008)
- Industries with the most new jobs, 2006-16 (12/19/2007)
- Job openings by industry, October 2007 (12/12/2007)
- Creative arts employment in New York and Los Angeles (11/29/2007)
- Job losses and gains by industry, first quarter of 2007 (11/20/2007)
- Quits rates in September 2006 and September 2007 (11/07/2007)
- Employment of women, by industry (10/31/2007)
- Occupational injuries and illnesses and establishment size (10/26/2007)
- Decline in injuries and illnesses rates continued in 2006 (10/17/2007)
- Earnings in air travel jobs (10/05/2007)
- Employment in air travel jobs (10/04/2007)
- Security guard employment after 2001 (09/14/2007)
- Hires and separations in July 2007 (09/12/2007)
- Payroll employment in August 2007 (09/10/2007)
- Productivity growth in wholesale trade, retail trade, and food services and drinking places, 2006 (08/29/2007)
- Multifactor productivity in detailed manufacturing industries (08/22/2007)
- Job openings by industry, June 2007 (08/09/2007)
- Payroll employment in July (08/06/2007)
- Employment in managing offices, June 2006 (07/12/2007)
- Job openings in May 2007 (07/11/2007)
- June 2007 payroll employment (07/10/2007)
- Variation in worker earnings by establishment size and industry, June 2006 (07/05/2007)
- Industry employment trends in 2006 (06/21/2007)
- Productivity growth in selected service-providing industries, 2005 (06/11/2007)
- Payroll employment by industry, May 2007 (06/04/2007)
- Employment in office and administrative support occupations, 2006 (05/29/2007)
- Multifactor productivity, 1996-2006 (05/25/2007)
- Job openings by industry in March (05/09/2007)
- Initial claims for unemployment insurance due to mass layoffs, March 2007 (04/23/2007)
- Productivity in manufacturing industries, 2005 (04/20/2007)
- March 2007 payroll employment (04/10/2007)
- Employer costs for legally required benefits, December 2006 (04/06/2007)
- Multifactor productivity in nonfarm business, 2005 (03/26/2007)
- Job openings rates by industry in January 2007 (03/14/2007)
- Payroll employment, February 2007 (03/12/2007)
- Union membership by industry, 2006 (02/09/2007)
- Job openings and labor turnover in 2006 (02/07/2007)
- Payroll employment in January 2007 (02/05/2007)
- Fairfax County and growth of professional and business services jobs in Washington, DC area (01/31/2007)
- Payroll employment up by 1.8 million in 2006 (01/08/2007)
- Job openings rates by industry in October 2006 (12/13/2006)
- Women in the professions (12/05/2006)
- Employment trends in residential and nonresidential construction (11/30/2006)
- Reasons for extended layoff separations, third quarter of 2006 (11/16/2006)
- Job openings rates by industry in September 2006 (11/08/2006)
- Payroll employment by industry, October 2006 (11/07/2006)
- Incidence rates of nonfatal occupational illnesses by industry, 2005 (10/25/2006)
- Injuries and illnesses rates down again in 2005 (10/20/2006)
- Changes in payroll employment by industry, September 2006 (10/10/2006)
- Multifactor productivity, 1996-2005 (08/30/2006)
- Productivity in trade and food services, 2005 (08/23/2006)
- Displaced and reemployed workers by industry, January 2006 (08/22/2006)
- Payroll employment by industry, July 2006 (08/08/2006)
- Mass layoffs by industry, June 2006 (07/21/2006)
- Sharp drop in mining productivity (07/14/2006)
- Productivity growth in information-sector industries, 2004 (07/13/2006)
- Employment trends in hospitals (07/04/2006)
- Summer jobs: where teens work (06/27/2006)
- Productivity in largest manufacturing industries (05/03/2006)
- Productivity in the engineering services industry (03/31/2006)
- Productivity in the architectural services industry (03/30/2006)
- Multifactor productivity, 1995-2004 (03/24/2006)
- Mass layoffs by industry, February 2006 (03/23/2006)
- Shifting to one-stop shopping (03/21/2006)
- Absence rates and industry, 2005 (02/14/2006)
- Job openings and labor turnover in 2005 (02/08/2006)
- January 2006 payroll employment (02/07/2006)
- Union membership by industry, 2005 (01/24/2006)
- Payroll employment up by 2 million in 2005 (01/09/2006)
- Industries with the most new jobs, 2004-14 (12/30/2005)
- Service-providing sector and job growth to 2014 (12/19/2005)
- Injury and illness rate up in the utilities industry (11/28/2005)
- Injury and illness rates down in 2004 (11/22/2005)
- Payroll employment in September (10/11/2005)
- Wholesale-trade productivity in 2004 (10/05/2005)
- Productivity in retail trade, 2004 (09/29/2005)
- Restaurant productivity growth in 2004 (09/28/2005)
- Productivity growth in information-sector industries (08/29/2005)
- Payroll employment advanced in July (08/09/2005)
- Alternative employment arrangements and worker preferences (08/04/2005)
- Temporary help agency workers (08/02/2005)
- Jobs in the green industry (07/26/2005)
- Athletic trainers work in a variety of settings (07/20/2005)
- Pricing commercial air travel (06/28/2005)
- Initial claims for unemployment insurance due to layoffs, May 2005 (06/24/2005)
- New business establishments: survival and longevity (06/14/2005)
- Job openings rates by industry, April 2005 (06/08/2005)
- Job openings rates in March 2005 (05/11/2005)
- Industries and employment growth in 2004 (04/29/2005)
- Temporary help trends (04/14/2005)
- Unionization rates by industry, 2004 (01/28/2005)
- Comparing old and new statistics on workplace injuries and illnesses (01/25/2005)
- Payroll growth tops 2 million in 2004 (01/10/2005)
- Days away from work, job transfer, or restriction due to injuries and illnesses, 2003 (01/03/2005)
- Industries with fastest productivity growth (12/30/2004)
- Occupational injuries and illnesses by industry, 2003 (12/15/2004)
- Multiple-fatality rate highest in government (12/14/2004)
- Job openings by industry, October 2004 (12/09/2004)
- Change in payroll employment in November 2004 (12/07/2004)
- Government employment and the 2001 recession (11/16/2004)
- October 2004 payroll employment (11/08/2004)
- Mass layoffs in September (10/22/2004)
- Shrinking employment in the information sector by State, March 2003–04 (10/19/2004)
- Payroll employment in September 2004 (10/12/2004)
- Fatal occupational injuries by industry, 2003 (09/30/2004)
- Productivity in retail trade, 2003 (09/27/2004)
- Productivity growth in travel agencies (09/14/2004)
- Change in payroll employment, August 2004 (09/08/2004)
- Self-employment rates, 1948-2003 (08/24/2004)
- Self-employment rates by industry, 2003 (08/23/2004)
- June job openings rates (08/12/2004)
- Real wages by industry, June 2003 - June 2004 (07/20/2004)
- Compensation in private industry, March 2004 (06/25/2004)
- Mass layoffs lower in May 2004 (06/24/2004)
- Productivity rises in most information-sector industries (06/17/2004)
- Mass layoffs in April 2004 (05/27/2004)
- Gross job gains and losses in the third quarter of 2003 (05/24/2004)
- Mass layoffs in March 2004 (04/26/2004)
- Events causing occupational injuries (03/26/2004)
- Mass layoffs down in February 2004 (03/25/2004)
- Fastest growing industries (03/24/2004)
- Employment projections for the goods-producing sector, 2002-12 (03/10/2004)
- Employment growth in the service-providing sector, 2002-12 (03/04/2004)
- Mass layoffs up in January 2004 (02/26/2004)
- Payroll employment up in January (02/10/2004)
- Mass layoffs in December 2003 (01/23/2004)
- Days away from work, job transfer, or restriction due to injuries and illnesses, 2002 (01/02/2004)
- Productivity up in most of largest retail trade industries (12/31/2003)
- Mass layoffs by industry sector, November 2003 (12/30/2003)
- Workplace injuries by industry, 2002 (12/22/2003)
- Productivity growth in information-sector industries (10/09/2003)
- Fatal occupational injuries by industry, 2002 (10/02/2003)
- Productivity up in just over half of industries in 2001 (09/23/2003)
- Extended mass layoffs and the 9/11 attacks (09/10/2003)
- Substantial layoffs in 2002 (09/04/2003)
- July mass layoff events by industry sector (09/03/2003)
- New and emerging occupations by industry, 2000 (09/02/2003)
- Employee retirement and savings benefits higher for union workers (08/28/2003)
- Employment and wages in elementary and secondary schools (08/20/2003)
- Composition of new information supersector (07/31/2003)
- Wage gains through the fourth quarter of 2002 (07/16/2003)
- Wage gains in the third quarter of 2002 (04/24/2003)
- Employment gains in real estate in 2002 (04/03/2003)
- Health services had biggest employment gain in 2002 (03/27/2003)
- First NAICS-based monthly State and area employment numbers (03/21/2003)
- Union membership in private industry, 2002 (02/26/2003)
- Most doctoral grads work outside of academia (02/25/2003)
- Productivity growth slower in two-thirds of newly measured service industries (02/20/2003)
- Rapid productivity growth in prepackaged software industry (02/19/2003)
- Contributions to wholesale-trade productivity growth (02/13/2003)
- Largest establishments most common in education and health services, manufacturing (01/24/2003)
- Consumer-related jobs most important to farming and nondurables among goods producers (01/10/2003)
- Wage gains in the second quarter of 2002 (01/08/2003)
- Most cases of repeated-trauma disorder are in manufacturing (01/07/2003)
- Computer use most prevalent in finance industry (10/31/2002)
- Management of companies and enterprises has top pay (10/09/2002)
- Job openings rates by industry (08/01/2002)
- Labor costs in wholesale trade (07/05/2002)
- New wholesale-trade productivity series (06/21/2002)
- Worker fatalities in eating and drinking places (06/18/2002)
- On-the-job injuries in eating and drinking places (06/17/2002)
- Slowdown in computer-services employment growth (06/12/2002)
- Fast growth in services to business (06/05/2002)
- Falling employment in personnel services (06/04/2002)
- High-tech productivity gains in 1990s (05/14/2002)
- January 2002 layoff figures based on new industry classification (03/01/2002)
- Headquarters jobs for 1.8 million (02/12/2002)
- Employment continued to decline in January (02/05/2002)
- Information sector employs 3.7 million (01/31/2002)
- Labor productivity in apparel stores in 1990s (01/23/2002)
- Union membership in private industry, 2001 (01/18/2002)
- First glimpse at NAICS data (01/16/2002)
- Faster retail productivity growth in second half of 1990s (01/15/2002)
- Most new jobs to be in services or retail trade (01/09/2002)
- Industries on the wane, 2000-2010 (12/12/2001)
- Fastest growing industries, 2000-2010 (12/06/2001)
- Some service industries grow faster in recessions (11/30/2001)
- Services in recession (11/29/2001)
- Financial sector had biggest raise in 2000 (09/26/2001)
- Displaced workers reemployed in the same industry, 2000 (07/24/2001)
- Two-thirds of temporary workers employed in services or manufacturing (05/02/2001)
- Job losses continue in manufacturing (03/12/2001)
- Finance industry led the way in earnings in 1990s (02/14/2001)
- Government and financial industry workers use Internet most (01/11/2001)
- Mining industry continues to be highest paid, retail trade lowest (11/27/2000)
- Small number of industries involved in largest strikes (10/06/2000)
- Changes in average weekly hours, 1964-99 (09/06/2000)
- Eating and drinking places industry hire the most 15-year-olds (08/08/2000)
- Productivity rose fastest in computer factories (06/02/2000)
- Growth in air transport jobs (05/11/2000)
- Speedy growth of air courier industry (05/09/2000)
- Highest risk of falls in construction (04/18/2000)
- Wage differences among industries (04/06/2000)
- Industries with highest percentages of college grads (04/03/2000)
- Transportation equipment makers added the most overtime (03/31/2000)
- Overtime contributes to factory recovery (03/24/2000)
- Truckdriver highway fatalities most common in summer (02/04/2000)
- Pay increase largest in finance again (01/05/2000)
- Fast-growing industries vs. fast-going industries (12/27/1999)
- Service sector dominant source of new jobs (12/03/1999)
- Employment in electric services industry drops in 1990s (11/22/1999)
- Industries with the most cases of occupational stress (10/27/1999)
- Rate of occupational injuries and illnesses in construction drops by 38 percent in 1976-97 (10/21/1999)
- Working in manufacturing safer over the past two decades (10/18/1999)
- Incidence of displaced workers becoming reemployed in the same industry (10/12/1999)
- Communications workers get the most paid leave (10/06/1999)
- Shifts within and across occupations drive changes in skill levels (09/17/1999)
- Hospitals have highest number of occupational injuries (08/18/1999)
- Meat packing plants have the highest rate of repeated-trauma disorders (08/05/1999)
- Concentration of high-tech employment (08/03/1999)
- High tech doesn't always mean high growth (07/29/1999)
- Workdays lost to injury in manufacturing (07/27/1999)
- High tech, high pay (07/21/1999)
- Pay increase largest in finance in 1997 (07/01/1999)
- Employment advances on narrower industry front in 1998 (04/19/1999)
- Manufacturing leads industries in nonfatal injuries and illnesses (04/16/1999)
- 1998 services industry job growth strong, but still off 1993-97 average (04/13/1999)
- 1998 job growth in several major industries outpaces 5-year average (04/06/1999)
- Computer ownership up sharply in the 1990s (04/05/1999)
- Manufacturing, mining report employment declines during 1998 (03/31/1999)
- Largest employment share is in services industry (03/26/1999)
- Transportation spending brakes in 1997 (03/23/1999)
- Medical care spending climbs again in 1997 (03/16/1999)
- Factory unit labor costs rise for first time in five years (02/18/1999)
- Productivity gains led by durables manufacturing (02/10/1999)
- Finance and manufacturing industries report highest weekly wages in 1997 (02/04/1999)
- Services industry has highest number of emerging occupations (12/07/1998)
- New occupations emerging across industry lines (11/09/1998)
- Many retail trade workers paid less than $10 per hour (11/03/1998)
- Abundant career opportunities projected in information technology (10/28/1998)
- Securities and commodities brokers lead industries earning high wages (10/27/1998)
- Nonmanufacturing workers face increasing incidence of job displacement (10/15/1998)
- Employer costs for employee compensation higher in goods-producing industries (10/07/1998)
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