This report covers large-scale layoff events and characteristics of laid off workers for the year 2000.

Several new items were released this week by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, and this one resource of the four (available in .pdf format) might be particularly interesting to researchers. A summary of the employment situation (including employment status by race, sex, and age, reasons and duration of unemployment) is available at the last link in text format, and a link to a .pdf file of the...

This division of Science Resource Studies of the US National Science Foundation Report discusses the "factors affecting unemployment among individuals with U.S. doctoral degrees in science and engineering in 1993." It looks at who is most likely to be unemployed, the predictability of unemployment rates, and factors affecting unemployment over time. The report studies trends from 1973-1993.

Thirty-three million workers were displaced from jobs they had held for at least three years, from January 1997 through December 1999. This number is roughly equivalent to the level of job losses covered in a survey that measured worker displacement from January 1995 through December 1997.