WebEc Labor and Demographics Resources
Links of interest to labor economists

European Association of Labour Economists
Newsletter, and membership and conference information.

Labour Economics Gateway
Links to research centers, economists, journals, documents, and data sources.

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.

International Labour Organization
The UN specialized agency which seeks the promotion of social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights.

Introduction to Labor Economics
The theory of labor supply & demand from a neoclassical economics perspective.

Inequality.org
News, information and expertise on the divide in income, wealth and health.

Workindex
An extensive directory of workplace-related Web sites.

International Association for the Economics of Participation
Members research areas such as employee ownership, cooperatives, labor-management decision-making, co-determination, profit-sharing, non-profit organizations, and economic democracy.

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.

The Principles of Scientific Management
Fredrick Winslow Taylor's influential 1911 text on work organization.

The Low-Wage Labor Market
A volume of papers prepared at the Urban Institute in 1999.

The Society of Labor Economists
A labor economics bulletin board, membership information, annual meetings.

National Labor Management Association
Includes articles and links on industrial relations and human resource management in the U.S.

Labor and Employment Statistical Resources on the Web
A directory of mainly U.S. statistical resources.

Labor Institutes and Research Centers in the World
A directory maintained by Christian Zimmermann.

Losing Work, Moving On: Worker Displacement in International Perspective
A collection of papers edited by Peter Kuhn

Industrial Relations Research Association (IRRA)
Publications, news, meetings, links, and membership information for practitioners and researches in industrial relations and human resources.

What is the Labor Theory of Value?
Frequently asked questions and references.

How the United States Government Measures Unemployment
Bureau of Labor Statistics report explains methodology, definitions, and seasonal fluctuations.

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.

United States Bureau of Labor Statistics