Evaluating BLS labor force, employment, and occupation projections for 2000
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H.O. Stekler is a research professor in—and Rupin Thomas, a graduate of—the Department of Economics, George Washington University. E-mail: [email protected] In 1989, BLS first projected estimates for the year 2000 of the labor force, employment, and occupations; in most cases, the accuracy of BLS projections were comparable to estimates from naïve extrapolated models Evaluating BLS labor force, employment, and occupation projections for 2000
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