by Mary Meghan Ryan
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. A chapter titled “The Impact of Coronavirus
(COVID-19) on the Labor Force” includes new information on hazard pay,
safety measures businesses enforced during the pandemic, vaccine
incentives, and compressed work schedules. In addition, there are
several other tables within the book exploring its impact on
employment, telework, and consumer expenditures.
This
edition of Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics also includes a
completely updated chapter on prices and the most current employment
projections through 2030.
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 poor
- Recent trends in the labor force
- And 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 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
