Gulf Coast unemployment trends, 2000 to 2010: Hurricanes, recessions, oil spills

Monthly Labor Review

Volumn 135, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 11-18

  Coughlan, John A ^a  

^a BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS   (United States)

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References (10)

1. See "Local Area Unemployment Statistics" (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, updated monthly and annually), http://www.bls.gov/lau.
2. See "What's Hot in Labor Market Information" (Louisiana Workforce Commission, updated monthly), http://voshost.com/analyzer/ default.asp.
3. Steven G. Wilson and Thomas R. Fischetti, "Coastline Population Trends in the United States: 1960 to 2008" (U.S. Census Bureau, May 2010), p. 3, http://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/p25-1139.pdf.
4. See "U.S. Business Cycle Expansions and Contractions" (Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Sept. 20, 2010), http://www. nber.org/cycles/cyclesmain.html.
5. See "BLS Information: Effects of Hurricane Katrina on Local Area Unemployment Statistics" (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Oct. 20, 2005), http://www.bls.gov/katrina/lausquestions.htm.
6. For a complete list of the counties and parishes affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, see "Labor Market Statistics Prior to Disaster for Areas Affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita" (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Jan. 27, 2006), http://www.bls.gov/katrina/data.htm#5.
7. See the agency's home page, http://www.laworks.net.
8. See "BLS information: Effects of Hurricane Katrina"
9. The unemployment rate is equal to the number of unemployed divided by the labor force. (See "Local Area Unemployment Statistics: Estimation Methodology" (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Sept. 11, 2009), http://www.bls.gov/lau/laumthd.htm.)
10. County-level unemployment data from 1990 on are available. See Local Area Unemployment Statistics.