LibGuides: Finding Data & Statistics: Labor, Employment, Wages

Employment and Wages Statistics

California Division of Labor Statistics & Research
Includes occupational injuries & illnesses, California Consumer Price Index, the prevailing wage rate, etc.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Current and historical labor statistics for the U.S.; links to sources of international statistics.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics - Databases, Tables & Calculators
Includes the Consumer Price Index (CPI), and statistics on employment & unemployment statistics, pay & compensation cost data, spending, time use, productivity, workplace injuries, etc.
FRED Regional Data (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
Over 11,000 labor force and unemployment rate time series for every state, county, and metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the United States.
Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey
Includes detailed occupation statistics by gender and race.
Personal Income and Outlays, Wage and Salary Dispursements by Industry. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Statistical Abstract of the U.S. -Income Expenditures. Povery and Wealth-
Short Term Indicators of the Labour Market (ILO)
Contains selected indicators for some 70 countries and territories that gather infra-annual information for the current year. In addition, 40 indicators are available disaggregated by sex. Excel download and interactive map.
International Labour Organization, Bureau of Statistics
Provides access to various cross-national statistical databases.
OECD iLibrary
Under Statistics see OECD Employment and Labour Markets Statistics. Provide employment, unemployment, and income taxation data for 35 OECD and non-OECD countries.
OECD Employment and Labour Market Statistics
Employment statistics by age group, hours worked, part-time workers, trade unions, employment protection legislation and more. Statistics generally go back at least 10 years for OECD countries.
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OECD COUNTRIES: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States.
OECD Tax Statistics
Taxing wages.

Labor Datasets

Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), begun in 1968, is a longitudinal study of a representative sample (more than 7,000 families and 65,000 indivuduals)of U.S. individuals that emphasizes the dynamic aspects of economic and demographic behavior. The data content is broad, including sociological and psychological measures.
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Note: There are two ways to download data: the Data Center, and packaged data. In the Data Center you can create customized extracts and codebooks. Alternatively, if you want to download the entire PSID archive for a specific year or every year since 1968, you can do so as a packaged data file. Full questionnaires and additional documentation are available under the packaged data option.
International Data Service Center (IDSC) - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Includes many European economic and labor datasets