Projections overview and highlights, 2020â30
Employment and real output are projected to grow faster during the 2020–30 decade than in previous projection periods. This expectation largely reflects…
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Teleworking and lost work during the pandemic: new evidence from the CPS
To measure the effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics added questions to the Current Population…
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What happened to temps? Changes since the Great Recession
The temporary help services (THS) industry has grown in absolute and relative terms since 1990, and also since the Great Recession, from…
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The U.S. productivity slowdown: an economy-wide and industry-level analysis
Labor productivity—defined as output per labor hour—has grown at a below-average rate since 2005, representing a dramatic reversal of the above-average growth…
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Unemployment rises in 2020, as the country battles the COVID-19 pandemic
Total civilian employment fell by 8.8 million over the year, as the COVID-19 pandemic brought the economic expansion to a sudden halt…
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Alternative capital asset depreciation rates for U.S. capital and total factor productivity measures
The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) use estimates of depreciation rates for structures…
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Automotive dealerships 2007â19: profit-margin compression and product innovation
From the 2007–09 Great Recession to the onset of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, the new-vehicle market in the United States changed…
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Challenges in calculating occupational fatality rates
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics produces data on occupational injuries and fatalities. Calculating these data is generally straightforward. However, some occupations…
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CPI outlet samples from the CE: a new life for the Point-of-Purchase Survey
In 2016, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) began testing the collection of consumer shopping location data in the Consumer Expenditure…
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Diffusion indexes of state and metropolitan area employment changes
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes eight diffusion index series that measure the dispersion of employment change across either all 50…
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Does part-time work offer flexibility to employed mothers?
Using data from the 2017-18 American Time Use Survey Leave and Job Flexibilities Module, we evaluate the relationship between part-time work and…
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Empirical evidence for the âGreat Resignationâ
This article empirically assesses the observed increase in job resignations during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and examines the pandemicâs uniqueness…
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Employment recovery continues in 2021, with some industries reaching or exceeding their prepandemic employment levels
Total nonfarm employment in the United States continued to recover in 2021, with some industries fully recovering and subsequently expanding amid the…
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Examining employment and diversity in the protective service occupations
Asians, Hispanics or Latinos, and women have been underrepresented in protective service occupations relative to their shares of total employment, despite increases…
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Expected pandemic-driven employment changes: a comparison of 2019â29 and 2020â30 projection sets
In September 2020, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) published its 2019–29 employment projections. Because these projections did not reflect the…
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Growth trends for selected occupations considered at risk from automation
Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics have led to substantial concern that large-scale job losses are imminent. Selected occupations are often…
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Has the pandemic permanently changed job requirements?
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Requirements Survey publishes information on job requirements in four areas: education and training, cognitive and…
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Improving estimates of hours worked for U.S. productivity measurement
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) will introduce a new method for estimating hours worked for its major-sector productivity measures with…
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Introducing Modeled Wage Estimates by grouped work levels
The Modeled Wage Estimates (MWE) provide annual estimates of average hourly wages for occupations by job characteristics and within a given geographical…
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Job openings and quits reach record highs in 2021, layoffs and discharges fall to record lows
Estimates from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) highlighted large increases in job openings and quits throughout 2021. Job openings…
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Jobs, jobs, jobs: whatâs an analyst to do?
Analysts and economists often face the task of using employment metrics to characterize industries of interest. Some key challenges can be understanding…
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Noncompete agreements, bargaining, and wages: evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997
We examine the use of noncompete agreements (NCAs) and their relationship with wage bargaining and wage outcomes using new data from the…
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Occupational licensing and interstate migration in the United States
The empirical evidence regarding the effects of state occupational licensing practices on interstate migration in the United States is mixed. This article…
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Oil, budgets, migration, and retirees: Alaskaâs 2015â18 recession
Alaska experienced a local recession from March 2015 to April 2018. Falling oil prices combined with the state government’s dependence on oil…