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Economics , Fifth Edition
William Boyes, Arizona State University
Michael Melvin, Arizona State University
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Chapter 8: Unemployment and Inflation


Bureau of Labor Statistics - Most Requested Series
The most requested labor market statistics (including statistics for local and regional areas).

Comparative Civilian Labor Force Statistics: Ten Countries, 1959-1999
On this page, the BLS provides comparative labor market statistics for 10 major developed economies.

Consumer Price Index Conversion Tables (provided by Robert Sahr)
A listing of conversion factors needed to convert prices from any year between 1800 and 1999 into 1999 dollars.

Consumer Price Index Home Page
This page, provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, provides information about the construction of the CPI.

Economagic Time Series Page
This page, provided by Ted Bos, contains links to online sources of economic data (including much financial market data).

Economic Report of the President 2001
The Economic Report of the President contains a good discussion of recent U.S. macroeconomic performance. The site listed above contains a searchable version of the 5 most recent reports. If you prefer, you may also browse through the full text of the Economic Report of the President, 2001.

Employment and Unemployment Statistics: Most Recent Release
This site, provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, contains the most recent statistical information on U.S. labor market conditions.

The Inflation Calculator (by S. Morgan Friedman)
This online inflation calculator converts nominal prices from any year between 1800 and 2000 into a price measured in terms of any base year (in this same time period). All conversions are based on CPI data.

Inflation Calculator (NASA)
This Java Script based calculator uses the implicit GDP deflator to perform conversions from nominal prices to real prices (for any year between 1940 and the present -- in fact, estimated values of the implicit GDP deflator can be used to convert prices up until the year 2004). The use of this site, however, requires a JavaScript enabled browser.

Macroeconomic data sites
An extensive collection of links to sources of current and historical macroeconomic data.



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