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Industry studies

• Nonfarm business labor productivity up 9.5 percent in third quarter 2009 (11/06/09)
• Illnesses and injuries among State and local government workers in 2008 (11/04/09)
• Job opening, hires, and total separations rates in August 2009 (10/13/09)
• Demographics of New York City health care employment (10/07/09)
• Careers in auto racing (09/15/09)
• Job openings rates, by industry, July 2008 and July 2009 (09/10/09)
• High-tech employment in Silicon Valley, 2001 and 2008 (09/08/09)
• Productivity and costs by selected industries in 2008 (09/01/09)
• Hires rate at low point in June 2009 (08/14/09)
• Productivity gains in the second quarter of 2009 (08/12/09)
• Employment changes by industry in July 2009 (08/11/09)
• 12-month private industry compensation costs increase in June: 1.5 percent (08/03/09)
• Access to medical care benefits: private industry vs. State and local government (07/29/09)
• Employment changes in the largest counties, December 2008 (07/22/09)
• Employment and wages of environmental engineers (06/12/09)
• Productivity growth in selected service-providing industries, 2007 (05/22/09)
• Decline in mining productivity (05/21/09)
• Number of job openings at new low (05/13/09)
• Multifactor productivity in private business, 2008 (05/07/09)
• Job losses in temporary help services (04/14/09)
• Multifactor productivity in nonfarm business, 2007 (03/26/09)
• Mass layoffs by industry in January 2009 (02/26/09)
• Concentration of employment in higher education in metropolitan areas (02/13/09)
• Job openings, hires, and total separations rates in November 2008 (01/14/09)
• Women and employment by industry (01/07/09)
• Not-for-profit sector and employment (12/31/08)
• Working in the electric power industry (12/03/08)
• Job openings by industry, September 2008 (11/14/08)
• Airline employment: takeoff and descent (11/13/08)
• Wages in the nonprofit and private sectors, 2007 (11/06/08)
• Workplace injury and illness rates by industry in 2007 (10/27/08)
• Changes in payroll employment by industry, September 2008 (10/06/08)
• Employee tenure by industry, 2008 (10/01/08)
• Multifactor productivity in detailed manufacturing industries, 1987-2006 (09/02/08)
• Employment in the residential framing contractors industry (06/24/08)
• Productivity growth in selected service-providing industries, 2006 (05/27/08)
• Job openings by industry, March 2008 (05/20/08)
• Office and administrative occupations in 2007 (05/12/08)
• Multifactor productivity in private business, 2007 (05/07/08)
• Trends in industry employment in 2007 (04/21/08)
• State and local government workers' access to quality-of-life benefits (04/04/08)
• Employer premiums for medical care plans in State and local government (04/03/08)
• Multifactor productivity in nonfarm business, 2006 (03/28/08)
• Retirement benefits of State and local government workers (03/26/08)
• Manufacturing industries and productivity, 2006 (03/21/08)
• Job openings and labor turnover in 2007 (02/13/08)
• Union membership by industry, 2007 (02/11/08)
• Industries losing the most jobs, 2006-16 (01/10/08)
• Payroll employment up by 1.3 million in 2007 (01/07/08)
• Industries with the most new jobs, 2006-16 (12/19/07)
• Job openings by industry, October 2007 (12/12/07)
• Creative arts employment in New York and Los Angeles (11/29/07)
• Job losses and gains by industry, first quarter of 2007 (11/20/07)
• Quits rates in September 2006 and September 2007 (11/07/07)
• Employment of women, by industry (10/31/07)
• Occupational injuries and illnesses and establishment size (10/26/07)
• Decline in injuries and illnesses rates continued in 2006 (10/17/07)
• Earnings in air travel jobs (10/05/07)
• Employment in air travel jobs (10/04/07)
• Security guard employment after 2001 (09/14/07)
• Hires and separations in July 2007 (09/12/07)
• Payroll employment in August 2007 (09/10/07)
• Productivity growth in wholesale trade, retail trade, and food services and drinking places, 2006 (08/29/07)
• Multifactor productivity in detailed manufacturing industries (08/22/07)
• Job openings by industry, June 2007 (08/09/07)
• Payroll employment in July (08/06/07)
• Employment in managing offices, June 2006 (07/12/07)
• Job openings in May 2007 (07/11/07)
• June 2007 payroll employment (07/10/07)
• Variation in worker earnings by establishment size and industry, June 2006 (07/05/07)
• Industry employment trends in 2006 (06/21/07)
• Productivity growth in selected service-providing industries, 2005 (06/11/07)
• Payroll employment by industry, May 2007 (06/04/07)
• Employment in office and administrative support occupations, 2006 (05/29/07)
• Multifactor productivity, 1996-2006 (05/25/07)
• Job openings by industry in March (05/09/07)
• Initial claims for unemployment insurance due to mass layoffs, March 2007 (04/23/07)
• Productivity in manufacturing industries, 2005 (04/20/07)
• March 2007 payroll employment (04/10/07)
• Employer costs for legally required benefits, December 2006 (04/06/07)
• Multifactor productivity in nonfarm business, 2005 (03/26/07)
• Job openings rates by industry in January 2007 (03/14/07)
• Payroll employment, February 2007 (03/12/07)
• Union membership by industry, 2006 (02/09/07)
• Job openings and labor turnover in 2006 (02/07/07)
• Payroll employment in January 2007 (02/05/07)
• Fairfax County and growth of professional and business services jobs in Washington, DC area (01/31/07)
• Payroll employment up by 1.8 million in 2006 (01/08/07)
• Job openings rates by industry in October 2006 (12/13/06)
• Women in the professions (12/05/06)
• Employment trends in residential and nonresidential construction (11/30/06)
• Reasons for extended layoff separations, third quarter of 2006 (11/16/06)
• Job openings rates by industry in September 2006 (11/08/06)
• Payroll employment by industry, October 2006 (11/07/06)
• Incidence rates of nonfatal occupational illnesses by industry, 2005 (10/25/06)
• Injuries and illnesses rates down again in 2005 (10/20/06)
• Changes in payroll employment by industry, September 2006 (10/10/06)
• Multifactor productivity, 1996-2005 (08/30/06)
• Productivity in trade and food services, 2005 (08/23/06)
• Displaced and reemployed workers by industry, January 2006 (08/22/06)
• Payroll employment by industry, July 2006 (08/08/06)
• Mass layoffs by industry, June 2006 (07/21/06)
• Sharp drop in mining productivity (07/14/06)
• Productivity growth in information-sector industries, 2004 (07/13/06)
• Employment trends in hospitals (07/04/06)
• Summer jobs: where teens work (06/27/06)
• Productivity in largest manufacturing industries (05/03/06)
• Productivity in the engineering services industry (03/31/06)
• Productivity in the architectural services industry (03/30/06)
• Multifactor productivity, 1995-2004 (03/24/06)
• Mass layoffs by industry, February 2006 (03/23/06)
• Shifting to one-stop shopping (03/21/06)
• Absence rates and industry, 2005 (02/14/06)
• Job openings and labor turnover in 2005 (02/08/06)
• January 2006 payroll employment (02/07/06)
• Union membership by industry, 2005 (01/24/06)
• Payroll employment up by 2 million in 2005 (01/09/06)
• Industries with the most new jobs, 2004-14 (12/30/05)
• Service-providing sector and job growth to 2014 (12/19/05)
• Injury and illness rate up in the utilities industry (11/28/05)
• Injury and illness rates down in 2004 (11/22/05)
• Payroll employment in September (10/11/05)
• Wholesale-trade productivity in 2004 (10/05/05)
• Productivity in retail trade, 2004 (09/29/05)
• Restaurant productivity growth in 2004 (09/28/05)
• Productivity growth in information-sector industries (08/29/05)
• Payroll employment advanced in July (08/09/05)
• Alternative employment arrangements and worker preferences (08/04/05)
• Temporary help agency workers (08/02/05)
• Jobs in the green industry (07/26/05)
• Athletic trainers work in a variety of settings (07/20/05)
• Pricing commercial air travel (06/28/05)
• Initial claims for unemployment insurance due to layoffs, May 2005 (06/24/05)
• New business establishments: survival and longevity (06/14/05)
• Job openings rates by industry, April 2005 (06/08/05)
• Job openings rates in March 2005 (05/11/05)
• Industries and employment growth in 2004 (04/29/05)
• Temporary help trends (04/14/05)
• Unionization rates by industry, 2004 (01/28/05)
• Comparing old and new statistics on workplace injuries and illnesses (01/25/05)
• Payroll growth tops 2 million in 2004 (01/10/05)
• Days away from work, job transfer, or restriction due to injuries and illnesses, 2003 (01/03/05)
• Industries with fastest productivity growth (12/30/04)
• Occupational injuries and illnesses by industry, 2003 (12/15/04)
• Multiple-fatality rate highest in government (12/14/04)
• Job openings by industry, October 2004 (12/09/04)
• Change in payroll employment in November 2004 (12/07/04)
• Government employment and the 2001 recession (11/16/04)
• October 2004 payroll employment (11/08/04)
• Mass layoffs in September (10/22/04)
• Shrinking employment in the information sector by State, March 2003–04 (10/19/04)
• Payroll employment in September 2004 (10/12/04)
• Fatal occupational injuries by industry, 2003 (09/30/04)
• Productivity in retail trade, 2003 (09/27/04)
• Productivity growth in travel agencies (09/14/04)
• Change in payroll employment, August 2004 (09/08/04)
• Self-employment rates, 1948-2003 (08/24/04)
• Self-employment rates by industry, 2003 (08/23/04)
• June job openings rates (08/12/04)
• Real wages by industry, June 2003 - June 2004 (07/20/04)
• Compensation in private industry, March 2004 (06/25/04)
• Mass layoffs lower in May 2004 (06/24/04)
• Productivity rises in most information-sector industries (06/17/04)
• Mass layoffs in April 2004 (05/27/04)
• Gross job gains and losses in the third quarter of 2003 (05/24/04)
• Mass layoffs in March 2004 (04/26/04)
• Events causing occupational injuries (03/26/04)
• Mass layoffs down in February 2004 (03/25/04)
• Fastest growing industries (03/24/04)
• Employment projections for the goods-producing sector, 2002-12 (03/10/04)
• Employment growth in the service-providing sector, 2002-12 (03/04/04)
• Mass layoffs up in January 2004 (02/26/04)
• Payroll employment up in January (02/10/04)
• Mass layoffs in December 2003 (01/23/04)
• Days away from work, job transfer, or restriction due to injuries and illnesses, 2002 (01/02/04)
• Productivity up in most of largest retail trade industries (12/31/03)
• Mass layoffs by industry sector, November 2003 (12/30/03)
• Workplace injuries by industry, 2002 (12/22/03)
• Productivity growth in information-sector industries (10/09/03)
• Fatal occupational injuries by industry, 2002 (10/02/03)
• Productivity up in just over half of industries in 2001 (09/23/03)
• Extended mass layoffs and the 9/11 attacks (09/10/03)
• Substantial layoffs in 2002 (09/04/03)
• July mass layoff events by industry sector (09/03/03)
• New and emerging occupations by industry, 2000 (09/02/03)
• Employee retirement and savings benefits higher for union workers (08/28/03)
• Employment and wages in elementary and secondary schools (08/20/03)
• Composition of new information supersector (07/31/03)
• Wage gains through the fourth quarter of 2002 (07/16/03)
• Wage gains in the third quarter of 2002 (04/24/03)
• Employment gains in real estate in 2002 (04/03/03)
• Health services had biggest employment gain in 2002 (03/27/03)
• First NAICS-based monthly State and area employment numbers (03/21/03)
• Union membership in private industry, 2002 (02/26/03)
• Most doctoral grads work outside of academia (02/25/03)
• Productivity growth slower in two-thirds of newly measured service industries (02/20/03)
• Rapid productivity growth in prepackaged software industry (02/19/03)
• Contributions to wholesale-trade productivity growth (02/13/03)
• Largest establishments most common in education and health services, manufacturing (01/24/03)
• Consumer-related jobs most important to farming and nondurables among goods producers (01/10/03)
• Wage gains in the second quarter of 2002 (01/08/03)
• Most cases of repeated-trauma disorder are in manufacturing (01/07/03)
• Computer use most prevalent in finance industry (10/31/02)
• Management of companies and enterprises has top pay (10/09/02)
• Job openings rates by industry (08/01/02)
• Labor costs in wholesale trade (07/05/02)
• New wholesale-trade productivity series (06/21/02)
• Worker fatalities in eating and drinking places (06/18/02)
• On-the-job injuries in eating and drinking places (06/17/02)
• Slowdown in computer-services employment growth (06/12/02)
• Fast growth in services to business (06/05/02)
• Falling employment in personnel services (06/04/02)
• High-tech productivity gains in 1990s (05/14/02)
• January 2002 layoff figures based on new industry classification (03/01/02)
• Headquarters jobs for 1.8 million (02/12/02)
• Employment continued to decline in January (02/05/02)
• Information sector employs 3.7 million (01/31/02)
• Labor productivity in apparel stores in 1990s (01/23/02)
• Union membership in private industry, 2001 (01/18/02)
• First glimpse at NAICS data (01/16/02)
• Faster retail productivity growth in second half of 1990s (01/15/02)
• Most new jobs to be in services or retail trade (01/09/02)
• Industries on the wane, 2000-2010 (12/12/01)
• Fastest growing industries, 2000-2010 (12/06/01)
• Some service industries grow faster in recessions (11/30/01)
• Services in recession (11/29/01)
• Financial sector had biggest raise in 2000 (09/26/01)
• Displaced workers reemployed in the same industry, 2000 (07/24/01)
• Two-thirds of temporary workers employed in services or manufacturing (05/02/01)
• Job losses continue in manufacturing (03/12/01)
• Finance industry led the way in earnings in 1990s (02/14/01)
• Government and financial industry workers use Internet most (01/11/01)
• Mining industry continues to be highest paid, retail trade lowest (11/27/00)
• Small number of industries involved in largest strikes (10/06/00)
• Changes in average weekly hours, 1964-99 (9/06/00)
• Eating and drinking places industry hire the most 15-year-olds (8/8/00)
• Productivity rose fastest in computer factories (6/2/00)
• Growth in air transport jobs (5/11/00)
• Speedy growth of air courier industry (5/9/00)
• Highest risk of falls in construction (4/18/00)
• Wage differences among industries (4/6/00)
• Industries with highest percentages of college grads (4/3/00)
• Transportation equipment makers added the most overtime (3/31/00)
• Overtime contributes to factory recovery (3/24/00)
• Truckdriver highway fatalities most common in summer (2/4/00)
• Pay increase largest in finance again (1/5/00)
• Fast-growing industries vs. fast-going industries (12/27/99)
• Service sector dominant source of new jobs (12/3/99)
• Employment in electric services industry drops in 1990s (11/22/99)
• Industries with the most cases of occupational stress (10/27/99)
• Rate of occupational injuries and illnesses in construction drops by 38 percent in 1976-97 (10/21/99)
• Working in manufacturing safer over the past two decades (10/18/99)
• Incidence of displaced workers becoming reemployed in the same industry (10/12/99)
• Communications workers get the most paid leave (10/6/99)
• Shifts within and across occupations drive changes in skill levels (9/17/99)
• Hospitals have highest number of occupational injuries (8/18/99)
• Meat packing plants have the highest rate of repeated-trauma disorders (8/5/99)
• Concentration of high-tech employment (8/3/99)
• High tech doesn't always mean high growth (7/29/99)
• Workdays lost to injury in manufacturing (7/27/99)
• High tech, high pay (7/21/99)
• Pay increase largest in finance in 1997 (7/1/99)
• Employment advances on narrower industry front in 1998 (4/19/99)
• Manufacturing leads industries in nonfatal injuries and illnesses (4/16/99)
• 1998 services industry job growth strong, but still off 1993-97 average (4/13/99)
• 1998 job growth in several major industries outpaces 5-year average (4/6/99)
• Computer ownership up sharply in the 1990's (4/5/99)
• Manufacturing, mining report employment declines during 1998 (3/31/99)
• Largest employment share is in services industry (3/26/99)
• Transportation spending brakes in 1997 (3/23/99)
• Medical care spending climbs again in 1997 (3/16/99)
• Factory unit labor costs rise for first time in five years (2/18/99)
• Productivity gains led by durables manufacturing (2/10/99)
• Finance and manufacturing industries report highest weekly wages in 1997 (2/4/99)
• Services industry has highest number of emerging occupations (12/7/98)
• New occupations emerging across industry lines (11/9/98)
• Many retail trade workers paid less than $10 per hour (11/3/98)
• Abundant career opportunities projected in information technology (10/28/98)
• Securities and commodities brokers lead industries earning high wages (10/27/98)
• Nonmanufacturing workers face increasing incidence of job displacement (10/15/98)
• Employer costs for employee compensation higher in goods-producing industries (10/7/98)