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Title: Existing Labor Market Data: Current and Potential Research Uses
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1. Manser, Marilyn E.
Existing Labor Market Data: Current and Potential Research Uses
Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 1995
Cohort(s): NLS General
Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor
Keyword(s): Data Quality/Consistency; Employment; Labor Economics; Unemployment

Major new research questions and policy issues concerning labor markets have arisen in recent years. An overriding set of issues involves the perception that many jobs have become less secure and newly-created jobs may not be "good jobs" on a number of dimensions. Analysis of these issues requires understanding of contingent work and other non-traditional work arrangements, the pattern of individual job changes and career growth, the process of job destruction and creation, the structure of compensation, and what happens within firms. At the same time that there appear to be major changes in the labor market, there has been little change in the concepts used, the types of information collected, the surveys employed, or the way in which the data are processed and made available. The purpose of this paper is to set the stage for addressing the current needs for labor market information. The first part provides background for the conference by describing existing government data on employment, unemployment, and compensation and the major purposes of these data and by analyzing their uses in recent labor economics research. The second part of the paper is interpretive and more forward looking: it examines other possible uses of the data and problems in responding to changing needs for data.
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Manser, Marilyn E. "Existing Labor Market Data: Current and Potential Research Uses." Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 1995.