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November 2017
Full employment: an assumption within BLS projections
A look at how BLS defines full employment and how this affects BLS projections.
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Labor in the U.S. empire: a historical perspective
This collection of 13 essays surveys the history of labor systems used by the United States throughout the world, offering a unique perspective on the concept of U.S. empire.
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The unexplainable, growing black-white wage gap
The increased importance of unexplained factors in the black-white wage gap.
Retirement-claiming decisions: a survey
Why people don’t wait longer before claiming Social Security retirement benefits
Explaining the black–white gap in returns to education: it’s not a black-and-white issue
Why does the net wealth of college-educated Blacks decline while that of college-educated Whites rises?
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A quarterly benchmarking procedure for the Current Employment Statistics program
Benchmarking the Current Employment Statistics survey: perspectives on current research
Benchmarking the Current Employment Statistics state and area estimates
Benchmarking the Current Employment Statistics national estimates
Benchmarking the Current Employment Statistics survey: the past, present, and future
Projections overview and highlights, 2016–26
Flashback
Good health and skilled health practitioners are important to most people, as it was in March 1999 when an MLR article reported on the status of the healthcare job market.
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