Labor

Labor

The body of persons, or the human physical and mental effort, engaged in the production of goods and services.

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base period

Labor; Labor statistics

A point in time used as a reference point for comparison with some later period.

employer

Labor; Labor statistics

A person or business employing one or more persons for wages or salary; the legal entity responsible for payment of quarterly unemployment insurance taxes or for reimbursing the ...

industry

Labor; Labor statistics

A group of establishments that produce similar products or provide similar services. For example, all establishments that manufacture automobiles are in the same industry. A given ...

life insurance

Labor; Labor statistics

A contract that pays the beneficiary a set sum of money upon the death of the policyholder. These plans pay benefits usually in the form of a lump sum, but they may be distributed ...

import

Labor; Labor statistics

A good or service that is sold to a U. S. Resident from a foreign resident. Imports include government and nongovernment goods and services; however they exclude goods and ...

series report

Labor; Labor statistics

A form-based application that uses BLS time series identifiers as input in extracting data from each survey-specific database according to a specified set of date ranges and ...

producer price index (PPI)

Labor; Labor statistics

A family of indexes that measure the average change over time in selling prices received by domestic producers of goods and services. PPIs measure price change from the ...