Issues in Labor Statistics are succinct, up-to-the-minute, background papers on current topics. Issues in Labor Statistics are online in PDF format, with the file size in parentheses following each Issues title below.

Issues in Labor Statistics PDF Library

2003

• Labor Force Participation During Recent Labor Market Downturns (27K)

2002

• Twenty-first Century Moonlighters (169K)
• Declining Teen Labor Force Participation (71K)
• Consumer Spending Patterns Differ by Region (86K) 
• Housing Expenditures (132K)
• Certification Can Count: The Case of Aircraft Mechanics (90K)

2001

• New and Emerging Occupations (85K)
• Who Was Affected as the Economy Started to Slow? (85K)
• Characteristics and Spending Patterns of Consumer Units in the Lowest 10 Percent of the Expenditure Distribution (23K)

2000

• Unemployed Job Leavers: A Meaningful Gauge of Confidence in the Job Market?(37K)
• Spending Patterns By Age (33K)
• When One Job is Not Enough (33K)
• A Comparison of the Characteristics and Spending Patterns of Food Stamp Recipients and Nonrecipients (33K)
• Labor Supply in a Tight Labor Market (29K)
• Are Managers and Professionals Really Working More? (16K)

1999

• Occupational Stress (20K)
• Expenditures on Public Transportation (16K)
• Consumer Spending on Traveling for Pleasure (21K)
• What the Nation Spends on Health Care: A Regional Comparison (20K)
• What Women Earned in 1998 (30K)
• Computer Ownership Up Sharply in the 1990s (30K)
• The Southeast is Maintaining its Share of Textile Plant Employment (33K)
• Auto Dealers are Fewer, Bigger, and Employ More Workers (86K)

1998

• Labor-Market Outcomes for City Dwellers and Suburbanites (63K)
• Spending Patterns of High-income Households (72K)
• New Occupations Emerging Across Industry Lines (35K)
• Employer-sponsored Childcare Benefits (30K)
• Women Experience Fewer Job-related Injuries and Deaths than Men (193K)
• Employment Growth Among Sectors in the United States, Japan, and Europe Based Upon Educational Attainment (28K)
• Persons Overboard/Sunk Vessels: Fishing Jobs Continue to Take Deadly Toll (27K)
• Are Workers More Secure? (26K)
• Who's Not Working (35K)
• Employee Medical Care Contributions on the Rise (34K)

1997

• Looking for a Job while Employed (26K)
• Serious Injuries Befall Workers Struck by Objects (30K)
• Health Expenditures and the Aging Population (35K)
• Electricity-related Injuries at Work (35K)
• Warm Areas Continue Hottest Job Growth (51K)
• Injuries to Caregivers Working in Patients' Homes (47K)
• Workers Are on the Job More Hours Over the Course of a Year (62K)
• How Long is the Workweek? (44K)

1996

• Deadly Highway Accidents Outnumber Other Fatal Work Incidents (36K)
• A Different Look at Part-time Employment (31K)
• Older Workers' Injuries Entail Lengthy Absences from Work (56K)

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