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BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1998:
TODAY'S NEWS RELEASE: "Number of Jobs, Labor Market Experience, and Earnings Growth: Results from a Longitudinal Survey" indicates that the average person in the United States holds 8.6 different jobs from the ages of 18 to 32. The majority of the job changes take place between the ages of 18 and 27. These findings are from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, a survey of 9,964 young men and women who were 14 to 22 years of age when first interviewed in 1979 and 31 to 39 when last interviewed in 1996.
Despite an increasingly tight labor market, fewer small business are offering health care and retirement benefits, according to a new survey released by Don & Bradstreet Corp. Only 39 percent of the 503 small businesses surveyed say they offer health care benefits, down from 46 percent in 1996. The number providing retirement plans is down even more sharply, 19 percent from 28 percent in 1996. The numbers seem to defy conventional wisdom that employers are being forced to offer better perks to attract employees as the unemployment rate drops to levels not seem since the 1960s. Almost all businesses surveyed by Dun & Bradstreet had 25 employees or fewer (The Wall Street Journal, page B2).
The jobless rate for seven industrial nations, last quarter, 1997, is shown in a graph in The Washington Post (page C12). France has a 12.6 percent unemployment rate; Canada, 8.9 percent; Sweden, 8.6 percent; Germany, 7.8 percent; Britain, 6.6 percent, United States, 4.7 percent; and Japan, 3.5 percent. Source of the data given is BLS.
The number of temporary professional managers has risen sharply since 1991, from less than 0.5 percent of total payrolls in 1991 to over 2.5 percent in 1997. In 1997, among a total of 2.5 million temporary workers, 7.0 percent were professional managers, 13.4 percent technical workers, 34.4 percent industrial workers, 36.8 percent office/clerical workers, 3.5 percent health care workers; and 4.9 percent "other", according to the National Association of Temporary and Staffing Services. As companies downsized managers and professional staff over the last decade, they often hired replacements on a temporary basis for these midlevel positions. And in the fast-paced industries of computers and high technology, hired guns with specialized skills are commonplace (The New York Times, page D1).
"Where the new jobs are" is a list in Parade Magazine, Sunday supplement for The Washington Post and other publications, June 21, page 11. Its information is attributed to BLS. Growth in computers and health care means there will be more jobs in those fields in the future. Database-administrators and computer-support specialists are predicted to move up 118 percent in the period 1996-2006. The growth of computer engineers is predicted to be 109 percent. Systems analysts will move up 103 percent, according to the Parade feature.
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