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.
Entropy and Inequality - A comparison of different measures of income and wealth inequality, with a focus on entropy measures. Shows changes in the global disparity of income using these measures.
Inequality.org - News, information and expertise on the divide in income, wealth and health.
International Labour Organization - The UN specialized agency which seeks the promotion of social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights.
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.
Workers Compensation Research Institute - An independent, not-for-profit research organization providing objective information about public policy issues involving workers' compensation systems.
Addressing the Extremes of Wealth and Poverty - Outlines a proposals to reduce the disparity in wealth between poor and wealthy nations and individuals, through taxation and redistribution.
A Brief Look at Postwar U.S. Income Inequality - Census Bureau 1996 paper pointing out the sharp decline in the percentage of income of the bottom 80% of American since the late 1960's, taking the whole thirty years as a block.
United for a Fair Economy - U.S. national, independent, nonpartisan organization concerned about the growing income, wage and wealth inequality in the United States. Specific issues include wage inequalities and "tax cuts for the rich".
The University of Texas Inequality Project (UTIP) - The UTIP is a research group concerned with measuring and explaining movements of inequality in wages and earnings and patterns of industrial changes around the world. Techniques are applied to data from the United States, the OECD, and UNIDO, with interesting results for both developed and developing countries.
Helena Norberg-Hodge - An interview with Helena Norberg-Hodge, founder of the International Society for Ecology and Culture, regarding globalism, new world economics, and their effects on the consumerist society. (May 27, 2000)
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