Economics 750: Labor Economics



John Kennan
September, 2000

Syllabus
Readings

The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

The Division of Labor (Plato)

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964



Pictures Numbers
Real Wages (1999) Earnings by Education, Age and Sex, 1997
Age-Earnings Profiles, 1998 Earnings by Education, Age and Sex, 1998
The Real Minimum Wage (1999) Wages by Occupation and City
Real Household Income, 1972-98 Usual Weekly Earnings
The Employment Situation (BLS)


Economics Links Other Links
Resources for Economists Google (A good way to search the web)
Bureau of Labor Statistics Foreign Labor Statistics Altavista (Another way to search the web)
U.S. Census Bureau Income New York Times Navigator (Lots of links)
Bureau of Economic Analysis Survey of Current Business
OECD
National Bureau of Economic Research Data
The Dismal Scientist
Acrobat Reader (to read pdf files)
Paul Krugman Ghostscript (to read postscript files)