Employment in services industries affected by recessions and expansions

Monthly Labor Review

Volumn 124, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 3-11

  Goodman, William C ^a  

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References (11)

1. Jay Berman and Janet Pfleeger, "Which industries are sensitive to business cycles?" Monthly Labor Review, February 1997, pp. 19-25.
2. Recessions are determined by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
3. Sales data in this article are from the Office of Occupational Statistics and Employment Projections, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
4. David R. H. Hiles, "Health services: the real jobs machine," Monthly Labor Review, November 1992, p. 13.
5. Christopher J. Ruhm, "Are Recessions Good for your Health?" Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1, 2000.
6. John Andrews, "Labor shortages plague hospitals A shrinking labor pool is forcing hospitals to get creative," Materials Management in Health Care, Feb. 2001. See also Che Parker, "AHA report shows staffing shortages threaten access to quality health care," AHA News (American Hospital Association), June 11, 2001.
7. John Andrews, "Labor shortages plague hospitals A shrinking labor pool is forcing hospitals to get creative," Materials Management in Health Care, Feb. 2001. See also Che Parker, "AHA report shows staffing shortages threaten access to quality health care," AHA News (American Hospital Association), June 11, 2001.
8. Joan Conroy, past president of the Maryland chapter of the National Association of Directors of Nursing in Long Term Care, is quoted in Diana K. Sugg and staff, "Nursing staffs shrink; quality, availability of medical care suffer," The Baltimore Sun, Mar. 19, 2000.
9. Hiles, pp. 3-16, and Cynthia Engel, "Health services industry: still a job machine?" Monthly Labor Review, March 1999, pp. 3-14.
10. See the website of the Children's Defense Fund http:// navigation.helper.realnames.com/framer/1/112/ default.asp?realname=Children%27s+Defense+Fund&url=http%3A%2F% 2Fwww%2Echildrensdefense%2Eorg&frameid=1&providerid=112&uid =30008170 (visited July 18, 2001) and, as one example of a newspaper account, "Miss, day-care centers face downside of good economy," Baton Rouge Advocate, Dec. 29, 1998. Quote is from latter source.
11. Berman and Pfleeger, Monthly Labor Review, pp. 19-25.