Quick Index

• General Economics and Labor Economics Resources
• Affirmative Action Resources
• Child Care Resources
• Living Wages and Minimum Wages
• Population Economics Resources
• Welfare Reform Resources
• Graduate and Summer Support
• Our Labor Link of the Weak

General Economics and Labor Economics Resources:

• Department and University links:
• The Department of Economics has a web page with links to general economics resources including government pages, on-line journals and publications, professional associations, and on-line data sets.
• Gelman library also has web page with links to general economics resources.
• Federal Government links:
• Department of Commerce
• Bureau of Economic Analysis
• On-line edition of its Survey of Current Business
• Census Bureau
• Center for Economic Studies, "a research unit of the Office of the Chief Economist, U.S. Bureau of the Census, established to encourage and support the analytic needs of researchers and policy makers throughout government, academia, and business."
• The Bureau's on-line publications
• Statistical Abstract of the United States
• State and Metropolitan Area Data Book
• County and City Data Book
• Department of Education
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Department of Labor
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Compensation and Working Conditions Online
• Monthly Labor Review Online
• Occupational Outlook Handbook
• Employment and Training Administration
• Employment Standards Administration
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
• Women's Bureau
• FEDSTATS, "More than 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government produce statistics of interest to the public. The Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy maintains this site to provide easy access to the full range of statistics and information produced by these agencies for public use"
• House of Representatives
• Committee on Education and the Workforce
• Committee on Ways and Means; search the Committee's 1996, 1998 and 2000 Green Books
• Joint Economic Committee (Majority)
• National Labor Relations Board
• U.S. Senate
  • Committee on Labor and Human Resources
• Social Security Administration
• White House
• Economic Statistics Briefing Room
• Social Statistics Briefing Room
• Economic Report of the President
• State and local government links:
• District of Columbia
  • Department of Employment Services
  • Department of Human Services
• Maryland
  • Department of Human Resources
  • Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation
• Virginia
  • Department of Labor and Industry
  • Department of Social Services
  • Virginia Employment Commission
• Academic links:
• University of Bonn, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) -- "a private, independent research institute, which conducts nationally and internationally oriented labor market research."
• Columbia University, National Center for Children in Poverty
• Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations
  • workindex.com, "a gateway to the best workplace-oriented web sites on the Internet"
• The Northwestern University / University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research
• University of California at Berkeley, Institute of Industrial Relations Library Internet Labor Resources
• University of Wisconsin, Institute for Research on Poverty
• Other links:
• The Coalition on Human Needs "is an alliance of national organizations working together to promote public policies which address the needs of low-income and other vulnerable populations." It maintains a comprehensive issues and resources page organized by topic.
• The Economic Policy Institute "is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that seeks to broaden the public debate about strategies to achieve a prosperous and fair economy."
• The Employment Policies Institute "is a non-profit research organization dedicated to studying public policy issues surrounding employment growth. In particular, EPI focuses on issues that affect entry level employment."
• The Heritage Foundation's Labor Home Page
• Institute for Global Communications, "a unique, global community of progressive individuals and organizations"
  • WomensNet
• The International Labor Organization (ILO) "is the UN specialized agency which seeks the promotion of social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights." Publications of the ILO are available at this link.
• Gary Johnson's BraveNewWorkWorld and NewWork News
• LaborLink, "a gateway to several institutions and comprehensive reference sources related to Organized Labor, Employment Law, Labor Relations, and Workplace Issues"
• The Labour Economics Gateway, collects "resources on the Internet that are of interest to labour economists" (maintained by Jacques Brosius).
• LaborNET, "global online communication for a democratic, independent labor movement."
• Labor Policy Association, "a public policy advocacy organization of the senior human resource executives of America's major corporations whose purpose is to ensure that U.S. employment policy supports the competitive goals of its member companies and their employees"
• National Bureau of Economic Research
• National Labor Committee, "an independent not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting and defending human and worker rights in the global economy."
• Society of Labor Economists
• Speakout.com's Issues Library on labor and poverty.
• W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, "an independent, nonprofit research organization devoted to finding, evaluating, and promoting solutions to employment-related problems."
• WebEc (World Wide Web Resources in Economics, U.S. mirror site), "WebEc is an effort to categorize free information in economics on the WWW"
• XPDNC Suitable Solutions labor union resources page -- a VERY comprehensive set of links to labor related materials

Affirmative Action Resources:

• Government links:
• Employment Standards Administration Description of Nondiscrimination and Affirmative Action Requirements Applicable to Employers Receiving Government Contracts, Grants, or Financial Assistance
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• Minority Business Development Agency
• Academic links:
• The Affirmative Action and Diversity Project at the University of California at Santa Barbara and its page on the Economics of Affirmative Action
• Other links:
• American Association for Affirmative Action
• Brookings Institute Policy Brief on "Racial and Ethnic Preference in College Admissions"
• Heritage Foundation Issues Brief
• National Center for Policy Analysis Issues Page
• National Organization for Women page on Affirmative Action
• Urban Institute recent reports on Civil Rights / Affirmative Action

Child Care Resources:

• Government links:
• Census Bureau Child Care Statistics
• Child Care Bureau
• Children's Bureau
• Head Start Bureau
• National Child Care Information Center
• National Institute on Early Childhood Development and Education
• Academic links:
• AskERIC at Syracuse University
• Other links:
• National Child Care Information Center list of organizations serving child care and related professions
• NCCIC index of State Child Care Profiles

Living Wages and Minimum Wages:

• Government links:
• Employment Standards Administration page on the minimum wage
• Academic links:
• David Neumark's minimum wage data
• Other links:
• The Coalition on Human Needs maintans a page with links to news, information and studies that support the minimum wage.
• Issue Briefs from the Economic Policy Institute:
  • Issue guide for Living Wage policies
  • Issue guide for Minimum Wage policies
  • "The Impact of the Minimum Wage: Policy lifts wages, maintains floor for low-wage labor market" (June 2000)
  • "The Minimum Wage Increase: A Working Woman's Issue" (Sept. 1999)
• The Employment Policies Institute maintains a collection of studies and and information that are critical of the minimum wage.
• March 31, 2002 article in Time on "How Much is a Living Wage?
• The Welfare Information Network maintains a comprehensive page with links to numerous studies that are both favorable and unfavorable to minimum and living wage proposals.
  
  

Population Economics Resources:

• Academic Links:
• The Pennsylvania State University's Population Research Institute
• Organizations and Associations:
• European Society for Population Economists
• Population Association of America
• Population Reference Bureau
  • AmeriStat -- "a one-stop source for U.S. population data"
  • PopNet -- "presents information on population topics such as Demographic Statistics, Economics, Education, Environment, Gender, Policy and Reproductive Health. Its resources include Web sites produced by Government and International Organizations, Non-governmental Organizations, University Centers, and Associations and Listserves.
• Publications:
• Journal of Population Economics

Welfare Reform Resources:

• Federal Government links:
• DHHS Administration for Children and Families welfare reform information
• Employment and Training Administration Welfare-to-Work Initiative
• Food and Nutrition Service description of implications of welfare reform for the Food Stamp Program
• The Health Care Financing Administration's Welfare Reform and Medicaid page
• State Government links:
• National Governors Association Best Practices Center information on welfare reform
• A Summary of Maryland's State Plan under Federal Human Services Reform March, 1997
• Description of Virginia Independence Program
• Academic links:
• Harvard Family Research Project
• Other links:
• American Public Human Services Association
• The Center for Law and Social Policy and its State Policy Documentation Project page
• The Electronic Policy Network's Links for Poverty and Income Distribution.
• The Heritage Foundation
• Policy.com's Issues Library on Welfare.
• Speakout.com's Issues Library on welfare.
• The Urban Institute's "Assessing the New Federalism" project
• Welfare Policy Center of the Hudson Institute
• Welfare Information Network

Graduate and Summer Support:

• Federal Government programs:
• Summer Internships at the Economic Research Service of the USDA.
• Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program
• National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships
• National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Proposal
• Private Foundation programs:
• Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowships for Research Related to Education

And Finally ... Our Labor Link of the Weak:

This link goes to a web page which (in the Webmaster's humble opinion) has set the study of labor economics back at least a week.

 
Finally, an economic analysis with a peel. (Added 6/28/02, thanks to Genevieve in our office who found this).

Anticipating how wildly popular this feature will become (could a limited edition collector's set of commemorative weak link plates from the Franklin Mint be far off?), we have already set up an archive of links from past weaks, er weeks.

To go to the Department of Economics home page.
To go to the Program in Labor Studies home page.

Labor Studies Resource Page / comments to dcr7@gwu.edu / revised January 13, 2004 / usage: