This paper aims to provide metro, state, and national policy makers with a better sense of the specific problems facing metropolitan labor markets. First, the analysis examines trends in the demand for educated labor and how a gap between education supply and demand is related to unemployment. Next, it attempts to distinguish between cyclical and…

The U.S. system of employment and unemployment statistics is fundamentally sound, but needs many significant expansions and refinements of the data. This article reports on the National Commission on Employment and Unemployment Statistics' recommendations and the secretary of labor's response. (CT)

Discusses the debate over whether lowering youth wages would materially help the young unemployed to find jobs. The author sets out some of the theoretical and factual background to the debate, and gives references to the few serious inquiries made in the last three or four years. (CT)

Discusses the procedures for collecting unemployment statistics. Criticisms of and alternatives to this method are explored. The youth unemployment rate is discussed in relation to these problems and to the goals of vocational and technical education. (CT)

Suggests both the need and the methods for disaggregating the goal of full employment. Analyzes the categories of age, sex, race, and marital and economic status in determining the composition of unemployment. Stresses the need for measures that would reduce unacceptably high unemployment rates. Statistical tables examine the distribution of…

Data from both the 1970 and the 1980 Census are used to determine changes and trends in artist occupations and in the numbers of artists. The effects of changes in methods utilized to count artists in the 1980 Census are outlined, and estimated rates of growth by artist occupations are provided. The percentage of women artists, the ethnic…

Farm and farm-related industries account for almost 18 percent of total U.S. employment in 1988. This share is based on a broad definition of the agricultural sector, including not only farm production but also industries that mine, manufacture, and sell farm inputs; process commodities; and sell consumer goods. Many jobs in industries that…

Over 20.7 million jobs, or 19 percent of total U.S. employment, were classified as farm and farm related in 1987, but many were only peripherally related to agriculture. Almost 71 percent of these jobs were in metropolitan areas. Gains in total agricultural employment were limited to farm-related industries, whereas farm production jobs continued…

Discusses the use of statistical analysis to identify patterns of discrimination in employment. Analyzes the effects of job segregation on women and minorities at the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. (FMW)