Internet resources
Chapter 31: Wage Differentials: Race, Gender, Age, and Unionization


Web assignments:

  1. Earnings Differences Between Men and Women
  2. Should All Baseball Teams be Competitive?
  3. U.S. Discrimination Law

Web materials related to topics discussed in Chapter 31

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).

Labor-Management Data
Statistics on strikes, union membership, and other measures of the state of labor-management relations.

National Labor Relations Board
This site contains information about the government agency charged with conducting union certification elections and investigating unfair labor practices.

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
This commission is charged with promoting and enforcing equal employment opportunities. This web site contains links to the text of U.S. equal employment opportunities law and a description of the EEOC's programs.

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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