Reply to Bishop and Carter on the Worsening Shortage of College-Graduate Workers

1991 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald E. Kutscher
Keyword(s):  
College Graduates ◽  
Returns To Education ◽  
Primary Reason ◽  
College Graduate ◽  
Labor Statistics ◽  
Education Support ◽  
Bureau Of Labor Statistics

In my reply to Bishop and Carter, I concede the point that there was a bias in the projections that the Bureau of Labor Statistics prepared for 1990, but not for the primary reason they noted. Also, I provide data which question the claims of Bishop and Carter that there is a shortage of college graduates although data on returns to education support their shortage thesis.

scholarly journals The Worsening Shortage of College-Graduate Workers

1991 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
John H. Bishop ◽  
Shani Carter
Keyword(s):  
College Graduates ◽  
Employment Growth ◽  
Relative Wage ◽  
College Graduate ◽  
Wage Premiums ◽  
Labor Statistics ◽  
Bureau Of Labor Statistics ◽  
College Educated ◽  
Occupational Employment

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projections of occupational employment growth have consistently underpredicted the growth of skilled occupations. BLS currently projects that professional, technical, and managerial jobs will account for 44.5% of employment growth between 1988 and 2000, while we project they will account for 70% of employment growth. Between March 1988 and March 1991 these occupations, in fact, accounted for 87% of employment growth. The BLS’s projections of the supply/demand balance for college graduates have also been off the mark—predicting a surplus for the 1980s when, in fact, a shortage developed, and relative wage ratios for college graduates rose to all-time highs. We project that the supply of college educated workers will grow more slowly during the 1990s and that there will be a continuing escalation of wage premiums for college graduates.

Response to Kutscher’s Comment

1991 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
John H. Bishop ◽  
Shani Carter
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Teachers ◽  
College Graduates ◽  
High School Graduates ◽  
Relative Wage ◽  
Real Wages ◽  
Nontraditional Occupations ◽  
Wage Rates ◽  
Labor Statistics ◽  
Bureau Of Labor Statistics

Recent studies of trends in relative wage rates and unemployment rates are reviewed. These studies conclude that real wages of recent college graduates rose substantially during the 1980s while the wages of recent high school graduates fell, contradicting the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) claim that college graduates were oversupplied during the 1980s. The BLS approach to measuring the supply–demand balance for college graduates by counting the number of college graduates who say they are working in “nontraditional” occupations is dismissed as invalid because of the unreliability of Current Population Survey coding of occupation and education and the lack of attention to mismatches of the opposite kind such as the more than 5% of physicians, lawyers, and high school teachers who report having fewer than 16 years of schooling.

[Food Prices and the Bureau of Labor Statistics]: Rejoinder

1960 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 285
Author(s):  
William H. Kruskal ◽  
Lester G. Telser
Keyword(s):  
Food Prices ◽  
Labor Statistics ◽  
Bureau Of Labor Statistics

A framework for the evaluation and use of alternative data in the Consumer Expenditure Surveys

1915 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Erhard ◽  
Brett McBride ◽  
Adam safir
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Plan ◽  
Consumer Expenditure ◽  
Quality Of Data ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Complementary Role ◽  
Labor Statistics ◽  
Weighting Procedures ◽  
Bureau Of Labor Statistics ◽  
The U.S

As part of the implementation of its strategic plan, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has increasingly studied the issue of using alternative data to improve both the quality of its data and the process by which those data are collected. The plan includes the goal of integrating alternative data into BLS programs. This article describes the framework used by the BLS Consumer Expenditure Surveys (CE) program and the potential these data hold for complementing data collected in traditional formats. It also addresses some of the challenges BLS faces when using alternative data and the complementary role that alternative data play in improving the quality of data currently collected. Alternative data can substitute for what is presently being collected from respondents and provide additional information to supplement the variables the CE program produces or to adjust the CE program’s processing and weighting procedures.

scholarly journals Preventing Young Worker Fatalities

AAOHN Journal ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 50 (11) ◽  
pp. 508-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doloris N. Higgins ◽  
Jeanette Tierney ◽  
Lawrence Hanrahan
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Young Worker ◽  
Regulatory Agencies ◽  
Young Workers ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Labor Statistics ◽  
Control Evaluation ◽  
And Control ◽  
Bureau Of Labor Statistics

During the period between 1992 through 1998, the Bureau of Labor Statistics identified an average of 67 work related deaths of individuals younger than 18 each year. This article describes the Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) program and summarizes indepth data collected on 59 young worker fatalities in 26 states. These investigations were conducted between May 1986 and February 2002. Young workers ranged in age from 9 to 17 years, with a mean age of 15.3 years: 21 were working in the agriculture, forestry, and fishing industry; 12 in construction; 10 in manufacturing; 8 in services; and 8 in the retail industry. The majority worked as laborers. Ninety-three percent were young men. Each investigation resulted in the formulation and dissemination of strategies to help prevent future similar occurrences. As an example of state FACE activities, the article describes the Wisconsin FACE program's efforts to foster collaboration between regulatory agencies, researchers, educators, and occupational safety and health professionals, and to integrate efforts aimed at improving safety for young workers.

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