Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics 2015: Employment, Earnings, Prices, Productivity, and Other Labor Data (U.S. DataBook Series) - Hardcover

9781598887631: Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics 2015: Employment, Earnings, Prices, Productivity, and Other Labor Data (U.S. DataBook Series)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1598887637 ISBN 13: 9781598887631

Publisher: Bernan Press, 2015

The Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics is recognized as an authoritative resource on the U.S. labor force. It continues and enhances the Bureau of Labor Statistics's (BLS) discontinued publication, Labor Statistics. The eighteenth edition allows the user to understand recent developments as well as to compare today's economy with past history.

The Handbook is a comprehensive reference providing an abundance of data on a variety of topics including:

employment and unemployment;
earnings;
prices;
productivity;
consumer expenditures;
occupational safety and health;
union membership;
international labor comparisons;
and much more!

Features of the publication
In addition to over 225 tables that present practical data, the Handbook provides:

introductory material for each chapter that contains highlights of salient data and figures that call attention to noteworthy trends in the data;
notes and definitions, which contain concise descriptions of the data sources, concepts, definitions, and methodology from which the data are derived;
references to more comprehensive reports which provide additional data and more extensive descriptions of estimation methods, sampling, and reliability measures.

New in the 18th edition of Handbook of U.S Labor Statistics:

A section on worker displacement in Chapter 1 as well as a new section on local area unemployment statistics in Chapter 7
Several new tables on occupational safety and health in Chapter 14 along with new information on employee benefits in Chapter 6
Figures on a variety of topics including productivity, labor-management relations, prices, and workplace fatalities

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About the Author:

Mary Meghan Ryan is a senior research editor for Bernan Press. She is also the editor for State Profiles: The Population and Economy of Each U.S. State; Employment, Hours, and Earnings: States and Areas; and Vital Statistics of the United States: Births, Life Expectancy, Deaths, and Selected Health Data. In addition, she serves as the associate editor for Business Statistics of the United States: Patterns of Economic Change.

Review:

The Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics: Employment, Earnings, Prices, Productivity, and Other Labor Data continues and enhances the Bureau of Labor Statistics's (BLS) discontinued publication, Labor Statistics. It brings authoritative data from the BLS and other government agencies together into a convenient, single-volume source of labor data. The Handbook is the most comprehensive source of labor data available. It provides data on variety of topics including employment, earnings, prices, productivity, consumer expenditures, and related topics. This popular resource also includes data on international labor comparisons, union affiliation, and occupational safety and health.

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