Lukol Directory: Science: Social Sciences: Economics: Labor Economics

Industrial Relations Research Association Home Page
The Industrial Relations Research Association is a singular organization of professionals interested in industrial relations and human resources.
http://www.irra.uiuc.edu/

Labour Economics Gateway
Links to research centers, economists, journals, documents, and data sources.
http://labour.ceps.lu/

Labor Institutes and Research Centers in the World
A directory maintained by Christian Zimmermann.
http://ideas.uqam.ca/EDIRC/laborecon.html

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

International Labour Organization [ILO]
Promotes social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights. Includes information resources, publications, meetings and contact details.
http://www.ilo.org/

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

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

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/

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

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

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/lab...

WebEc Labor and Demographics Resources
Links of interest to labor economists
http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/webecj.html

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

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

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

The Society of Labor Economists
A labor economics bulletin board, membership information, annual meetings.
http://gsbwww.uchicago.edu/labor/sole.htm

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

Bureau of Labor Statistics
Principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics. Collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates essential statistical data to the American public, the U.S. Congress, other Federal agencies, State and local governments, business, and labor.
http://www.bls.gov/

Sub Topics:
Work
Inequality
Poverty
Labor Unions
Labor Issues
Organization Science
Minimum Wage
Labor Activism
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