Accession Rate –
The number of additional employees hired during a specific period, expressed as a percentage of total employment. The additions cover all types of employees, including both new and rehired workers on either a permanent or a temporary basis.
Additional Claim –
An additional claim is a notice of new unemployment filed at the beginning of a second or subsequent series of claims within a benefit year or within a period of eligibility when there had been intervening employment. This is one of three types of initial claims.
Affirmative Action – A program that became law with the passage of the Equal Economic Opportunity Act of 1972, whereby employers, labor unions, employment agencies, and labor-management apprenticeship programs must actively seek to eliminate discrimination against and increase employment of females and minorities. Although Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 had outlawed future discrimination in employment practices, it had done nothing to redress already existing imbalances. The 1972 law, later strengthened by executive orders, required employers to draw up a detailed written plan for equalizing economic opportunity with respect to hiring, promotion, transfers, wages and salaries, training programs, fringe benefits, and other conditions of employment. These plans include definite numerical goals and timetables for achieving such changes.
[See also
-
Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission (EEOC)]
Aggregate Demand –
The total effective demand for the nation’s total output of goods and services.
Aggregate Supply – The total amount of goods and services available from all industries in the economy.
Agribusiness –
The sector of the economy concerned with the production, processing, and distribution of agricultural products and farm supplies (machinery, fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides). It also includes businesses that provide agricultural services and economic agencies and financial institutions that serve agricultural producers (credit institutions, marketing associations, etc.).
Agricultural Employment
–
This includes the total of farmers, their families and hired
workers who receive wages, salaries, or commissions for work
performed on farms for the pay period including the 12th of the
month.
Alien Labor Certification
– Prior to bringing foreign workers into
the U.S., employers must demonstrate their attempts to recruit U.S.
workers through advertising, the State Employment Security System and
by other means. Iowa Workforce Development (IWD) assists in this
process, and provides wage information, as required by federal
statutes. Information gathered by IWD assists the Department of
Labor’s Certifying Officer in determining whether to grant or deny
labor certifications.
All Other Nonagricultural Employment – This includes self-employed, unpaid family workers, and domestics in private households.
American Community Survey (ACS) –
The ACS is
an on-going survey that the Census Bureau plans to use to replace
the long form census survey done every ten years, starting with the
2010 Census. Data will be provided every year instead of every
ten years. Full implementation is under way in every county of
the United States.
[See also -
Census
Bureau]
America’s Job Bank (AJB) – This computerized network links the 2,000 state employment service offices. It provides job seekers with the largest pool of active job opportunities available anywhere. For employers, it provides rapid, national exposure for job openings. The nationwide listings in America’s Job Bank contain information on approximately 100,000 jobs. America’s Job Bank is available on computer systems in public libraries, colleges and universities, high schools, shopping malls, and other places of public access. AJB also is available at transition offices on military bases worldwide.
America’s Labor Market Information System (ALMIS) – This system provides comprehensive economic and occupational data to job seekers, employers, students, counselors, economic development staff and other users.
Applicant
– A person legally qualified to work and
who has either a partial or a full application for services on file
with and One Stop Career Center.
Area of Substantial Unemployment (ASU)
–
A specific
geographical area, with a population of 10,000 or more, which is
defined in the JTPA legislation as being characterized by an average
unemployment rate of 6.5 percent or more for the most recent twelve
month period.
Area Sample –
A method used in statistics to sample on a geographic basis (e.g., all the residents of a given county).
Auxiliary Establishment – In the Standard Industrial
Classification (SIC) coding system, a unit that is primarily engaged in
performing services for other units of the same company rather than
for other companies or the general public. Examples of auxiliary
establishments are central administrative offices, research,
development or testing labs, warehouses, and power plants.
Average
–
The numerical result obtained by dividing the sum of two or more
quantities by the number of quantities.
[See also -
Mean,
Median,
Mode]
Average Annual Wage
– The average annual wage is calculated
by taking the total wages (payroll) and dividing by the average annual
employment.
Average Hourly Earnings –
Average hourly
earnings are on a "gross" basis. They reflect not only changes
in basic hourly and incentive wage rates, but also such variable
factors as premium pay for overtime and late–shift work and changes in
output of workers paid on an incentive plan. They also reflect
shifts in the number of employees between relatively high–paid and
low–paid work and changes in workers' earnings in individual
establishments. Averages for groups and divisions further
reflect changes in average hourly earnings for individual industries.
[See also -
Employment Cost Index
(ECI)]
Average Weekly Earnings –
These estimates
are derived by multiplying average weekly hours estimates by average
hourly earnings estimates. Therefore, weekly earnings are
affected not only by changes in average hourly earnings but also by
changes in the length of the workweek. Monthly variations in
such factors as the proportion of part-time workers, stoppages for
varying reasons, labor turnover during the survey period, and
absenteeism for which employees are not paid may cause the average
workweek to fluctuate.
Long-term trends of average weekly earnings can be
affected by structural changes in the makeup of the workforce.
For example, persistent long-term increases in the proportion of
part-time workers in retail trade and many of the services industries
have reduced average workweeks in these industries and have affected
the average weekly earnings series.
Average Weekly Hours
(Manufacturing CES-790) –
The workweek
information relates to the average hours for which pay was received
and is different from standard or scheduled hours. Such factors
as unpaid absenteeism, labor turnover, part-time work, and stoppages
cause average weekly hours to be lower than scheduled hours of work
for an establishment. Group averages further reflect changes in
the workweek of component industries.
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