{"title":"Federal government wage indexes","authors":"Travis A. Cyronek, Theodore To To","doi":"10.21916/mlr.2023.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21916/mlr.2023.9","url":null,"abstract":"For nearly 50 years, the Employment Cost Index (ECI) has been providing the public with estimates of the change in employer labor costs. We explore the practicality of constructing federal wage indexes, in the spirit of the ECI, using Office of Personnel Management (OPM) salary data. To accomplish this task, we aggregate OPM records into occupation and industry groups. Although these salary data have a crosswalk for mapping OPM occupation codes into the Standard Occupational Classification system, no corresponding crosswalk exists for industries. A key hurdle, therefore, involves creating a crosswalk that assigns industry codes to OPM establishments. We create this crosswalk by developing an algorithm that uses Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages data and machine-learning tools to match agencies with a unique industry. With this agency-North American Industry Classification System crosswalk, we calculate annual Laspeyres, Paasche, and Fisher wage indexes for several aggregations. The resulting wage inflation rates are plausible and do not deviate substantially from the corresponding private industry and state and local wage inflation rates.","PeriodicalId":47215,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Labor Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43661596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alison Aughinbaugh, J. Groen, M. Loewenstein, D. Rothstein, Hugette Sun
{"title":"Employment, telework, and child remote schooling from February to May 2021: evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997","authors":"Alison Aughinbaugh, J. Groen, M. Loewenstein, D. Rothstein, Hugette Sun","doi":"10.21916/mlr.2023.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21916/mlr.2023.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47215,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Labor Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47583585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
John Bieler, Caleb Sungwoo Cho, JD Gayer, Brett Matsumoto, Brian T. Parker, Daniel Wang
{"title":"Incorporating medical claims data in the Consumer Price Index","authors":"John Bieler, Caleb Sungwoo Cho, JD Gayer, Brett Matsumoto, Brian T. Parker, Daniel Wang","doi":"10.21916/mlr.2023.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21916/mlr.2023.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47215,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Labor Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42109874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on workers with a criminal history","authors":"D. Schwam, S. Bushway, J. Wenger","doi":"10.21916/mlr.2023.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21916/mlr.2023.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47215,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Labor Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43779245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jobs, jobs, jobs: what’s an analyst to do?","authors":"Gavin C. Pickenpaugh, Justin M. Adder","doi":"10.21916/mlr.2022.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21916/mlr.2022.31","url":null,"abstract":"Analysts and economists often face the task of using employment metrics to characterize industries of interest. Some key challenges can be understanding where to find employment metrics, the differences in various employment metrics, and when each metric should be used. This article analyzes a variety of publicly available employment data for the United States and compares these data. A detailed description of the intricacies of each data source is provided, which covers factors such as regionality, industry breakout, periodicity, and the types of jobs included. This article provides several case study examples, using the oil and gas extraction, coal mining, and chemical manufacturing sectors to portray challenges data users may face when developing employment estimates that suit their needs. Data users should be aware of a variety of data sources to understand alternative analysis options when data limitations are present and to determine which data source best meets their needs. Instances may occur in which information from one dataset may be used to help impute missing values.","PeriodicalId":47215,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Labor Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46362814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}