Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics 2024 - Employment, Earnings, Prices, Productivity, and Other Labor Data

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. It allows the user to understand recent developments as well as to compare today's economy with that of the past.
This publication includes several tables throughout the book examining the extensive effect that coronavirus (COVID-19) has had on the labor market since 2020. In addition, it includes a completely updated chapter on prices and the most current employment projections through 2032.
The Handbook is a comprehensive reference providing an abundance of information on a variety of topics. In addition to providing statistics on employment, unemployment, and prices, it includes information on topics such as:
Earnings;Productivity;Consumer expenditures;Occupational safety and health;Union membership;Working poorRecent trends in the labor forceAnd much more!
Features of the publication:

In addition to over 215 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 dataNotes and definitions, which contain concise descriptions of the data sources, concepts, definitions, and methodology from which the data are derivedReferences to more comprehensive reports which provide additional data and more extensive descriptions of estimation methods, sampling, and reliability measures

About the author

Mary Meghan Ryan is an executive editor for Bernan Press. She has also been the editor for State Profiles: The Population and Economy of Each U.S. State; Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics:Employment, Earnings, Prices, Productivity, and Other Labor Data ; 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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Mary Meghan Ryan (Editor), Ryan Mary Meghan (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2024
• EAN: 9798892050340
• ISBN: 979-8-89205-034-0
• No. of pages: 456
• Dimensions: 224 mm x 287 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 1284 g
• Illustrations: 19 BW Photos, 215 Tables
• Series: U.S. DataBook Series
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