Labor Economics

Labor and Employment Statistical Resources on the Web - A directory of mainly U.S. statistical resources.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/steclab.html

Labor Institutes and Research Centers in the World - A directory maintained by Christian Zimmermann.
http://edirc.repec.org/laborecon.html

Labor Links - A George Washington University based directory of sites that address general labor economics issues and selected policy issues including affirmative action, child care and welfare reform.
http://www.gwu.edu/~labor/resources.html

Entropy and Inequality - A comparison of different measures of income and wealth inequality, with a focus on entropy measures. Shows changes in the global disparity of income using these measures.
http://poorcity.richcity.org/

The Principles of Scientific Management - Fredrick Winslow Taylor's influential 1911 text on work organization.
http://www.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/taylor/sciman

United States Bureau of Labor Statistics - Links of interest to labor economists
http://www.bls.gov/

How the United States Government Measures Unemployment - Bureau of Labor Statistics report explains methodology, definitions, and seasonal fluctuations.
http://stats.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm

Inequality.org - News, information and expertise on the divide in income, wealth and health.
http://www.inequality.org/

Losing Work, Moving On: Worker Displacement in International Perspective - A collection of papers edited by Peter Kuhn
http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~pjkuhn/DW_Int/DWIndex.html

The Low-Wage Labor Market - A volume of papers prepared at the Urban Institute in 1999.
http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/lwlm99/index.htm#contents

International Labour Organization - The UN specialized agency which seeks the promotion of social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights.
http://www.ilo.org/

European Association of Labour Economists - Newsletter, and membership and conference information.
http://www.eale.nl/

The labour market - interactive Java applet - Features an interactive Java applet with a guided exercise. Designed to familiarize undergraduate students with labor demand, labor supply and unemployment.
http://www.fgn.unisg.ch/eurmacro/tutor/labourmarket.html

Introduction to Labor Economics - The theory of labor supply and demand from a neoclassical economics perspective.
http://www.oswego.edu/~kane/eco350.htm

Workers Compensation Research Institute - An independent, not-for-profit research organization providing objective information about public policy issues involving workers' compensation systems.
http://www.wcrinet.org/