Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Tweet[IWS] BLS: MONTHLY LABOR REVIEW, March 2009, Vol. 132, No. 3 [31 March 2009]
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Monthly Labor Review Online
March 2009
Vol. 132, Number 3
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/home.htm
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
Monthly Labor Review Online
March 2009
Vol. 132, Number 3
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/home.htm
- U.S. labor market in 2008: economy in recession
- James Marschall Borbely
- http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2009/03/art1full.pdf
- [full-text, 17 pages]
- CPS data show that the labor market weakness that began
- during the second half of 2007 worsened during 2008 as the U.S. economy
- entered a recession; unemployment rose sharply, both employment
- and the employment-population ratio declined, and median
- weekly earnings grew at about the same rate as inflation in 2008
- Substantial job losses in 2008: weakness broadens and deepens across industries
- Laura A. Kelter
- http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2009/03/art2full.pdf
- [full-text, 14 pages]
- Employment losses in 2008 accelerated by year's end
- as continued weakness in construction, manufacturing,
- and professional and business services spread
- into consumer-driven industries
- James Marschall Borbely
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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