Industry and occupational employment projections overview and highlights, 2024â34
Total employment is projected to grow 3.1 percent between 2024 and 2034, increasing from 170.0 million to 175.2 million, for a total…
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Is manufacturing productivity recovering? Evidence from the past and present
Manufacturing is often looked at to determine how efficient the economy is at producing goods and services. Long-term productivity growth from the…
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Occupational employment and wages in oil and gas industries, May 2024
Employment in industries related to oil and gas extends well beyond extracting the natural resources from the ground. They must also be…
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Plug into employment trends in electric power generation, 2000â25
This article uses Current Employment Statistics (CES) data to examine trends in electric power generation employment between 2000 and 2025. In particular…
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Private-sector estimates of unemployment in the 1930s and the development of official labor force statistics
Various private-sector organizations developed their own estimates of unemployment and the labor force during the Great Depression because official government statistics for…
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Relative importance: putting the Employment Cost Index (ECI) into perspective
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) publishes the Employment Cost Index (ECI), which measures changes in the cost of labor services…
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Skills savvy: a skills-based look at occupational data
This article uses information from the Employment Projections (EP) and Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) programs at the U.S. Bureau of…
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The cost of doing business: input shares and trends in input-related price indexes
This article analyzes input shares data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) productivity program to compare how reliant different sectors…
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The value of transactional data to a consumer spending survey
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) regularly explores ways to integrate alternative data sources and evaluate the fitness for use of…
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Turning thrifty: incorporating secondhand apparel into the Consumer Price Index
The secondhand clothing market has become a booming industry driven by consumers’ economic and sustainability concerns. This article discusses why and how…
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Using industry-specific cost indexes to monitor sources of pressure on inflation
This article constructs industry-specific cost indexes at the highest disaggregation level using input–output (I–O) tables for Mexico from January 2005 to July…
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What makes a job better? Survey evidence from job changers
This article uses Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking (SHED) data to explore the role of changes in job characteristics in determining…
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Why is candy so expensive these days?
Candy, often considered an everyday luxury, has gotten more expensive in recent years. Multiple BLS measures, including the Producer Price Index (PPI)…