Established in 1915, Monthly Labor Review (MLR) is the principal journal of fact, analysis, and research from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, an agency within the U.S. Department of Labor. Each month, economists, statisticians, and experts from the Bureau join with private sector professionals and state and local government specialists to provide a wealth of research in a wide variety of fields—the labor force, the economy, employment, inflation, productivity, occupational injuries and illnesses, wages, prices, and more.

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Departments

The following departments appear in the Monthly Labor Review with varying frequencies:

        • Book reviews analyze the merits of today's hottest books for the MLR audience.

         • Beyond BLS briefly summarizes articles, newsletter items, reports, working papers, etc., from the tremendous amount of information that passes across                    the MLR editors’ desks.

         • Flashback may present a subject of interest or a link to a historic MLR article on a relevant topic.

         • Letters to the editor provide an opportunity to learn about other readers’ opinions.

Lawrence R. Klein Award

Each year since 1969, the Lawrence R. Klein Award has honored the best articles appearing in the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Monthly Labor Review. The award was established in honor of Lawrence R. Klein, who retired in 1968 after 22 years as editor-in-chief of the Review and established a fund to encourage articles that exhibit

        • originality of ideas or methods on analysis,       

        • adhere to the principles of scientific inquiry, and

        • are well written.

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