Labor Economics: Principles in Practice
DATA LINKS
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
http://www.bls.gov/home.htm
Bureau of Labor Statistics Surveys
American Time Use Survey (ATUS)
Consumer Price Index (CPI)
Current Employment Statistics (CES)
Current Population Survey (CPS)
Employee Benefits Survey (EBS)
International Labor Comparisons (ILC)
Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS)
National Compensation Survey
National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS)
Workplace Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities
http://www.bls.gov/tus/
http://www.bls.gov/cpi/
http://www.bls.gov/ces/
http://www.bls.gov/cps/
http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ebs/
http://www.bls.gov/fls/
http://www.bls.gov/jlt/
http://www.bls.gov/ncs/
http://www.bls.gov/nls/
http://www.bls.gov/fls/
Bureau of Labor Statistics Summary Tables
CPI
CPS Employment Status, Hours, Earnings, etc.
Job Openings, Hires, and Total Separations
American Time Use
Workplace Injuries and Illnesses
Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries
Employer Costs of Employee Compensation (ECEC)
http://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables.htm
http://www.bls.gov/cps/tables.htm#annual
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.a.htm
http://www.bls.gov/tus/#tables
http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshsum.htm
http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshcfoi1.htm
http://www.bls.gov/ncs/#tables
Other Summary Tabulations
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA):
-- National Income and Product Account tables
http://www.bea.gov/iTable/iTable.cfm?ReqID=9&step=1#reqid=9&step=1&isuri=1
U.S. Census Bureau:
-- Historical Income Tables: People
-- Migration/Geographic Mobility
https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/data/historical/people/
https://www.census.gov/hhes/migration/data/cps.html
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD):
-- International Labor Comparisons
http://stats.oecd.org
The Conference Board:
-- International Labor Comparisons
https://www.conference-board.org/ilcprogram/
Unionstats.com:
-- Union Membership and Coverage
http://unionstats.com
Penn World Tables (PWT):
-- International Data on Output, Population,
Employment, Capital, and Productivity
http://www.rug.nl/research/ggdc/data/pwt/
Barro-Lee International Education Data:
-- Attainment and Enrollment Rates, 1870-
http://barrolee.com
Source Data
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER):
-- monthly CPS data files since January 1976
-- CPS merged outgoing rotation group files, 1979-- CPS May supplements, 1969-1987
-- CPS supplements, including March CPSs, 1962-
http://www.nber.org/data/cps_basic.html
http://www.nber.org/morg/annual/
http://www.nber.org/data/cps_may.html
http://www.nber.org/data/current-population-survey-data.html
National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS), 1979-
http://www.nlsinfo.org/investigator/
Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), 1968-
http://simba.isr.umich.edu/Zips/ZipMain.aspx
Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM):
-- international data on entrepreneurship, 1999-
http://gemconsortium.org/data
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Database
-- international income and wealth data
http://www.lisdatacenter.org/our-data/lis-database/
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
-- CPS, 1962-- Census, 1850-2010
https://cps.ipums.org/cps/
https://usa.ipums.org/usa/index.shtml