Internet resources
Chapter 31: Wage Differentials: Race, Gender, Age, and Unionization
Web assignments:
- Earnings Differences Between Men and Women
- Should All Baseball Teams be Competitive?
- 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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