Friday, April 28, 2006
Month Labor Review, April 2006
Monthly Labor Review Online
April 2006Vol. 129, Number 4
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/mlrhome.htm
Changes affecting the Employment Cost Index: an overview Richard E. Caroll
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/04/art1full.pdf
With the release of March 2006 data, BLS has updated the ECI to reflect the new industry and occupational classifications systems; rebased the index to 2005; and implemented new procedures to account for missing data and to compute seasonal adjustments
Employment Cost Index publication plans Fehmida Sleemi
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/04/art2full.pdf
The Employment Cost Index has gone through changes that affected publication series; some series were unchanged, some new series were introduced, while others have a break in continuity or are being discontinued
Seasonal adjustments in the Employment Cost Index E. Raphael Branch and Lowell Mason http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/04/art3full.pdf
As part of the conversion of ECI industry and occupation classifications to NAICS and SOC, the Bureau of Labor Statistics used the converted classifications to estimate the seasonally adjusted ECI; in addition, the Bureau improved the methodology and processing of seasonally adjusted estimates
Accounting for missing data in the Employment Cost Index Song Yi
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/04/art4full.pdf
Employers do not always provide all the information needed to compile the Employment Cost Index (ECI); new ECI procedures have improved the methods for dealing with missing values
Introducing 2002 weights in the Employment Cost Index Stephanie L. Costo
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/04/art5full.pdf
Beginning in March 2006, ECI estimates were modified to reflect 2002 employment counts; disruptions to the most-aggregated historical series from this change alone were slight
Report
A visual essay: international labor market comparisons
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/04/ressum.pdf
April 2006Vol. 129, Number 4
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/mlrhome.htm
Changes affecting the Employment Cost Index: an overview Richard E. Caroll
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/04/art1full.pdf
With the release of March 2006 data, BLS has updated the ECI to reflect the new industry and occupational classifications systems; rebased the index to 2005; and implemented new procedures to account for missing data and to compute seasonal adjustments
Employment Cost Index publication plans Fehmida Sleemi
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/04/art2full.pdf
The Employment Cost Index has gone through changes that affected publication series; some series were unchanged, some new series were introduced, while others have a break in continuity or are being discontinued
Seasonal adjustments in the Employment Cost Index E. Raphael Branch and Lowell Mason http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/04/art3full.pdf
As part of the conversion of ECI industry and occupation classifications to NAICS and SOC, the Bureau of Labor Statistics used the converted classifications to estimate the seasonally adjusted ECI; in addition, the Bureau improved the methodology and processing of seasonally adjusted estimates
Accounting for missing data in the Employment Cost Index Song Yi
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/04/art4full.pdf
Employers do not always provide all the information needed to compile the Employment Cost Index (ECI); new ECI procedures have improved the methods for dealing with missing values
Introducing 2002 weights in the Employment Cost Index Stephanie L. Costo
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/04/art5full.pdf
Beginning in March 2006, ECI estimates were modified to reflect 2002 employment counts; disruptions to the most-aggregated historical series from this change alone were slight
Report
A visual essay: international labor market comparisons
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/04/ressum.pdf
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