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INTERNET RESOURCES:
Chapter 12: Labor Markets
Web assignments:
- The Market Price of an
Economist.
- Who Pays for Mandated Health
Insurance?
- Should all Baseball Teams be
Competitive?
Web materials related to topics discussed in Chapter 12
- AFL-CIO
- The home page of the largest U.S. association of
trade and industrial unions.
- Bureau of Labor
Statistics
- A source of extensive data on U.S. labor market
conditions.
- Dunlop
Commission Report
- A report on a range of issues related to
labor-management relations.
- Labor-Oriented
Internet Resources
- An extensive collection of links to labor-oriented
resources on the internet (provided by the Institute of
Industrial Relations Library at the University of
California, Berkeley).
Collective Bargaining Agreements
This BLS page contains statistics on strike activity and information on collective bargaining agreements.
- National Labor
Relations Board
- This site contains information about the government
agency charged with conducting union certification
elections and investigating unfair labor practices.
- Value
of the Federal Minimum Wage, 1954-1996
- An examination of the real minimum wage during this
period (expressed in 1996 dollars). The chart and table
on this page provides a good illustration of the
difference between nominal and real wages.
Related resources:
- Other economic resources
- This page contains a set of links to economic
resources that may be of interest to introductory
economics students.
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