The Employment Situation: Hearings Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, February 3, 1995 |
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1993 annual averages 5.7 percent Abraham activities agencies Allocation Date asked average hourly earnings Award Barron Bureau of Labor Census Central Oversight Committee Central Oversight Group Chairman Civilian labor force Civilian noninstitutional population Commissioner Congress Congressional Connie Mack Current Population Survey Dalton Department of Labor Employment-population ratio establishment survey Federal minimum wage funding Grant hearings HOUSEHOLD DATA Table household survey increase industries January JIM SAXTON job growth Joint Economic Committee Labor Department labor market MAC THORNBERRY Manzullo memo million minimum wage month NAFTA-TAA nonfarm payroll number of persons Numbers in thousands OASPB paid hourly rates payroll employment percentage point PETE STARK Plewes political politicalization poverty poverty line prevailing Federal minimum questions Representative Ewing Representative Saxton Representative Stark request sample seasonally adjusted Secretary Reich Senator Mack Thank Thornberry Total U.S. Department Unemployment rate wage and salary Washington werkers Women workers paid hourly
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Page 34 - People are classified asemployedif they did any work at all as paid employees during the reference week; worked in their own business. profession, or on their own farm, or worked without pay at least 15 hours in a family business or farm...
Page 34 - They had no employment during the reference week; they were available for work at that time; and they made specific efforts to find employment sometime during the 4-week period ending with the reference week. Persons laid off from a job and expecting recall need not be looking for work to be counted as unemployed.
Page 20 - Thornberry. OPENING STATEMENT OF REPRESENTATIVE MAC THORNBERRY Representative Thornberry. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Page 35 - The 90-percent confidence interval on the monthly change would range from -276,000 to 476,000 (100,000 +/- 376,000). These figures do not mean that the sample results are off by these magnitudes, but rather that there is about a 90percent chance that the "true" over-the-month change lies within this interval. Since this range includes values of less than zero, we could not say with confidence that employment had, in fact, increased. If, however, the reported employment rise was half a million, then...
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Page 33 - Survey Data) The average workweek for production or nonsupervisory workers on private nonfarm payrolls...
Page 34 - Establishment survey. The sample establishments are drawn from private nonfarm businesses such as factories, offices, and stores, as well as Federal, 5late, and local government entities.
Page 4 - OPENING STATEMENT OF REPRESENTATIVE PETE STARK, RANKING MINORITY MEMBER Representative Stark. Thank you, Chairman Bennett, for holding this hearing, and welcome Mr.