Discusses cyclical and noncyclical components of unemployment. Examines demographic, occupational, industrial, and other sources of changes in the unemployment rate. (SK)

As the baby-boom generation ages, the median age of the work force will rise to a new record in 2006. The Hispanic labor force could exceed that of blacks. (Author)

Indicates that impact of slowdown fell unevenly among major industries and labor force groups. (Editor)

Special Labor Force Report examines demographic characteristics of workers responding to questions about their usual" weekly earnings. (Editor)

With the aging of the baby-boom generation, the growth of the labor force will slow, but its diversity will increase. (Author)

Small businesses employ slightly more than half of the private sector work force. In many ways, such as education, race, origin, age, and part-time status, the small business work force differs from that of larger enterprises (Author)

This article estimates to what extent changes in the unemployment rate over the past two decades have reflected basic cyclical factors in the demand for labor and to what extent they may stem from noncyclical factors. (BM)

In a look ahead at the 1995 labor force, all three projections--high, middle, and low--indicate that women will account for two-thirds of the growth, most of which will occur in the prime working-age group; the Black labor force will grow twice as fast as the White. (CT)

The author argues that one answer to the criticism that the variation in demographic composition of the labor force leads to misinterpretations of unemployment statistics is to display the time series of unemployment rates for various demographic groups. (BM)

The 1970s were marked by an increase in the level of education attainment of the average worker. By 1979 thirty-six per cent of all workers over 18 completed at least one year of college, and the percentage of workers not completing high school declined considerably. While the proportion of men participating in the labor force continued to fall,…

This article reports on the nature of and reasons for the forthcoming changes in presentation, classification, and estimating procedures in labor force data derived from the Current Population Survey. Changes involve resident armed forces, new occupational classifications, conversion to Black-only data, and revision of first-stage ratio estimator.…

Analyzes the relationship between education and labor market activity and examines differences in educational attainment among the various demographic groups in the labor force as well as among the major regions of the country. (TA)

This special labor force report, focusing on children of working mothers, summarizes findings from the 1977 annual survey of marital and family characteristics of workers in the population who are 16 years old and over. Data are given on: the numbers of children of various ages with working mothers, the percentages of black and white children…