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Economics: Labor

Databases and Search Engines

Econlit. Most comprehensive database to scholarly journal articles in economics. Also lists books and dissertations, and articles within collective works.

IDEAS. Free database on economics with full-text working papers, books, book chapters, and articles from peer-reviewed journals.

Labordoc. International Labour Organization (ILO) database on work, sustainable livelihoods, and work-related aspects of development, human rights & technology.

Labor Economists Gateway.  Links to labor economists' web sites, research centers, institutes, statistics and datasets, journals, e-books, documents, and working papers.

NATLEX. ILO database of national labor, social security and human rights law.

NORMLEX. ILO database of international labor standards and national labor and social security law.

NBER Labor Studies Program. NBER program studying issues of employment, compensation, determinants of unemployment, effects of labor unions, and benefits.

US Bureau of International Labor Affairs. Includes publications on child and forced labor.

Selected Data Sources - International

AEA Data and Code Repository at ICPSR. Data sets deposited in American Economic Association (AEA) journal articles.

CEIC Global. Global economic and financial data. National Accounts, Industries,  Demography, Trade, Banking, Monetary, Forex, Investment, and more.

Eurostat. Publications and statistics from the EU. See especially the Labour Market section and EU Labour Force Survey

ILOSTAT. International labor statistics from 1979 to the present on employment, earnings, wages, migration, strikes and more, from the International Labour Organization.

International Labor Comparisons. From the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Labor statistics derived from the foreign countries, the International Labour Office (ILO), Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and the EU.

IPUMS International. Harmonized International Census microdata from countries around the world from National Statistical Offices.

Luxembourg Income Database. Largest income database of harmonized microdata collected from countries in Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Australia, spanning five decades.

Occupational Wages Around the World (OWW). Wages data derived by the NBER from the ILO. 

OECD Data Explorer. Employment, benefits, earnings, and labor protections data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

UN Data. Wide range of economic, social, cultural, and demographic indicators for most countries and territories of the world.

World Development Indicators. Primary World Bank collection of development indicators.

Labor

Static partial equilibrium with a single monopsony employer

"Static partial equilibrium with a single monopsony employer" (CC BY-SA.30) by SilverStar at English Wikipedia

Selected Data Sources - United States

Data.Census.Gov. Data from the decennial Census and the American Community Survey about households, education, income, businesses, home ownership, and more.

Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research(ICPSR). Data repository that hosts data from researchers and governments. See also the American Economic Review Open ICPSR repository.

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS). From the Minnesota Population Center. Provides census and survey microdata from around the world integrated across time and space. Registration is required and is free. Includes:

  • IPUMS USA, U.S. census microdata. Data includes decennial censuses from 1790 to 2010 and American Community Surveys (ACS) from 2000 to the present. Includes complete count data for several censuses up to 1940.
  • IPUMS CPS. Microdata from the monthly U.S. labor force survey, the Current Population Survey (CPS), from 1962 to the present. Demographic and employment data as well as special topics such as fertility, tobacco use, volunteer activities, voter registration, internet use, food security, etc.

Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics. Data products that characterize workforce dynamics for specific groups. See the Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI), LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES), Job-to-Job Flows (J2J), and Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO).

National Longitudinal Surveys. Set of surveys gathering information at multiple points in time on the labor activities and other significant life events for individuals. For access to the microdata also see the NLS Investigator.

Neighborhood Change Database. (NOTE: Calnet ID Login is enabled no password needed). US tract-level data and maps from the 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000 and 2010 decennial censuses with tract boundaries that are consistently defined across census years.

Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Longest running longitudinal household survey in the world, from University of Michigan with data on employment, income, wealth, expenditures, health, marriage, childbearing, child development, and other topics.

United States Census Bureau. The principal source of periodic U.S demographic data. Major programs include the Census of Population and Housing and the American Community Survey.

United States Bureau of Labor Statistics.(BLS). Data on inflation and prices, unemployment, productivity, wages, and much more. The BLS manages the following surveys and statistics portals:

Organizations

Center for Labor Economics. UC Berkeley center promoting research in labor market issues and policies.

Economic Policy Institute.  Think tank seeking "to broaden the public debate about strategies to achieve a prosperous and fair economy". 

Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. Institute at UC Berkeley supporting multidisiciplinary research on labor and employment relations.

Hamilton Project. Puts forward ideas from leading economic thinkers to inject new policy options into the national economic debate.

NBER Labor Studies Program. NBER program studying issues of employment, compensation, determinants of unemployment, effects of labor unions, and benefits.

Society of Labor Economists. Primary academic association of U.S. labor economists, publisher of the Journal of Labor Economics.