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• Manufacturers' Outsourcing To Employment Services

  BNET - 2006-12-01

  This paper estimates the effects of manufacturers' use of employment services - comprised primarily of temporary help and professional employer organizations - on measured employment and labor productivity in manufacturing between 1989 and 2004. A major contribution of the paper is the construction of panel data on employment by occupation...

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• The Bureau of Labor Statistics.(MARKET TRACKING)

  - 2006-03-01

  THE BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS WASHINGTON ... reports that manufacturing productivity grew by an average of 4.8 percent in 2005. ... THE BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS WASHINGTON ... reports that manufacturing productivity grew by an average of 4.8 percent in 2005. Durable-goods manufacturing...

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• 1915: the July review

  - 2005-07-01

  "With this issue the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor begins the publication of its MONTHLY REVIEW." Thus the editors began Volume I--Number 1 of this periodical 90 years ago. The first feature was a very short note, "'Conciliation work of the Department of Labor,"...

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• Food Manufacturing

  BNET - 2004-03-18

  This report focuses on the food manufacturing industry where there is high incidence of injury and illness; meat packing plants have the highest incidence among all food manufacturing industries. The industry's production workers account for more than half of all jobs. Most jobs in this industry require little formal education...

  Tags: Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Food, Food & Beverage, Management, Manufacturing, Strategy

• U.S. economic performance relative to other group of seven members

  - 2004-01-01

  Economic Growth The real gross domestic product GDP of the United States--the output of goods and services produced in the United States measured in 1996 prices--increased at an annual rate of 4.0 percent in the fourth quarter of 2003, compared with 8.2 percent growth in the third quarter, according...

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• Anchorage consumer prices up in 2003

  - 2003-11-01

  Consumer prices in the Anchorage metropolitan area advanced 1.3 percent in the first half of 2003, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor. Increases in transportation and housing led the advance in the overall index. Prices paid for food and beverages rose 1...

  Tags: beverage, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Manufacturing, Transportation, U.S. Department of Labor

• U.S. Economic Reports Show Continued Productivity Gains in Second Quarter.

  - 2003-08-12

  By Allister Heath, Sunday Business, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 12--Corporate America's extraordinary resilience in the face of adversity was confirmed yet again last week, with new figures showing that the US productivity miracle continued apace during the second ...uarter....

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• Manufacturing workers earning more. (Industry News). (in 2002, Bureau of Labor Statistics).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

  - 2002-05-01

  Manufacturing workers in nonsupervisory roles are making more money this year than last. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor, manufacturing workers made an average of $15.15 an hour in February this year. That Manufacturing workers in nonsupervisory roles...

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• 1990s AD - Decade

  - 2000-03-01

  Aviation employment and business activities increased massively for decades, but growth slowed in the '90s Commercial air transportation has grown rapidly in the United States since 1938 or earlier.(1) The most significant reason for such growth is probably that air travel has become almost continuously more affordable. Ticket prices...

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• The accuracy of the BLS productivity measures - Bureau of Labor Statistics

  - 1999-02-01

  Overall productivity growth may be somewhat underestimated; despite continued progress, measurement and conceptual barriers remain The Bureau of Labor Statistics has made sustained efforts to improve its productivity measures. The goals of these efforts have been to enhance the reliability of the measures; to facilitate analysis of economic performance;...

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