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June 2018
Consumer Expenditure Surveys Methods Symposium and Microdata Users’ Workshop, July 18–21, 2017
The Consumer Expenditure Survey program held its annual Survey Methods Symposium and Microdata User’s Workshop from July 18–21, 2017.
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Counting strike threats
A reader offers recommendations on tracking strike activity, and BLS responds.
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Labor’s new challenge—securing the rights of informal workers
This book offers a global perspective on the various forms of informal work and the difficulties informal workers face in securing recognition and rights.
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Can a housing wealth shock stifle the creative output of workers?
Three economists examine the effects of economic insecurity on worker innovation.
Older workers—are they aging successfully?
This article examines the factors that help older workers age successfully at work.
Men’s declining labor force participation
What is causing the plummeting labor force participation among men?
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What is the impact of recoding travel activities in the American Time Use Survey?
Employment growth moderates in 2017, continuing a lengthy expansionary period
Occupational separations: a new method for projecting workforce needs
Job market continued to improve in 2017 as the unemployment rate declined to a 17-year low
Great Recession, great recovery? Trends from the Current Population Survey
Who chooses part-time work and why?
Flashback
Graduations are many this month—read in a September 1982 MLR article about other students who graduated between 1960 and 1981.
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