UCB Libraries

Labor and Employment

• Department of Labor
• Americans with Disabilities Act Home Page
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
  Provides access to monthly publications, reference materials, and data including
• Monthly Labor Review
• Compensation and Working Conditions
• Career Guide to Industries has information about occupations, training, advancement, earnings, and job prospects in different industries.
• Consult the Surveys & Programs menu for labor-related data such as employment and unemployment, working conditions, and compensation.
• Office of Labor Management Standards
• LMRDA Reporting and Disclosure features an online order form for reports filed under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959. The site includes an explanation of the form types and a Register of Reporting Labor Organizations that can be accessed by state or affiliation.
• Consult the Overview of BLS Statistics on Inflation and Prices for price indices such as the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Producer Price Index (PPI).
• Occupational Outlook Handbook "Revised every 2 years, the Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations."
• Occupational Outlook Quarterly
• National, state, and metropolitan area wage and employment data is available from Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates.
• Congressional Research Service (CRS)
  CRS is the research arm of Congress, prepares reports (usually under 20 pages long) on topics of interest to members of Congress. Search these CRS Reports CU through LexisNexis. Enter "employment", "employment services", "labor", "labor unions", "public welfare programs", "social security", "unemployment", or "vocational education and training" as search terms.
• Current Population Surveys (CPS)
  A joint project of the Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics. The CPS surveys about 50,000 households on a monthly basis. "Estimates obtained from the CPS include employment, unemployment, earnings, hours of work, and other indicators. They are available by a variety of demographic characteristics including age, sex, race, marital status, and educational attainment. They are also available by occupation, industry, and class of worker."
• Davis-Bacon Wage Determinations
  "The Davis-Bacon Act as amended, requires that each contract over $2,000 to which the United States or the District of Columbia is a party for the construction, alteration, or repair of public buildings or public works shall contain a clause setting forth the minimum wages to be paid to various classes of laborers and mechanics employed under the contract. Under the provisions of the Act, contractors or their subcontractors are to pay workers employed directly upon the site of the work no less than the locally prevailing wages and fringe benefits paid on projects of a similar character." The database provides prevailing county-level wage and fringe benefit determinations for individual occupations in general building, heavy and highway construction, and residential construction trades. Search or browse by state and county.
• HUD User Datasets
  Provides access to housing related data such as State of the Cities, a database which contains 1970-1990 Census data for 542 metropolitan areas and their surrounding suburbs, labor force data, and special extracts from County Business Patterns on the number of jobs, establishments, and average pay by economic sector.
• Income
  Information from the Census Bureau from the Census, Current Population Survey, American Community Survey, and other surveys tracking income. Includes tables such as
• Earnings by Occupation and State
• Historical Income Inequality Tables
• Earnings Distribution of U.S.Year-Round Full-Time Workers by Occupation: 1999 (PHC-T-33)
• Jobs
• USAJobs U.S. Government's official site for jobs and employment information provided by the United States Office of Personnel Management. Includes a database of current job openings and online application forms.
• Federal Jobs Digest includes a job search, job descriptions, resume service.
• Labor Force Statistics from Census Bureau
• Mine Safety and Health Administration
• National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
  "NIOSH is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and is the only federal Institute responsible for conducting research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related illnesses and injuries." Includes safety information sheets for individual chemicals, publications, notices from the Federal Register, and other information.
• National Labor Relations Board
• National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience Annotated Bibliography (1968-present)
  This is a searchable, browsable bibliography about the U.S. labor market.
• Occupational Outlook Handbook
• Regional Economic Accounts
  This site from Bureau of Economic Analysis includes estimates of personal income and per capita personal income by type and earnings by industry, full and part time employees by industry, regional economic profiles, transfer payments by type, and farm income and expenses for 1969-present.
• Women's Bureau Statistics & Data

• International Labour Organization
• SourceOECD CU
  This database from the Organisation for Economic and Cooperative Development (OECD) contains publications and statistics on labor issues for its member countries. Including:
• Employment Books CU
• Employment Statistics CU
• Taxing Wages Statistics CU
• United Nations Statistics Division
  This international organization collects statistics on issues such as: Distribution of income and consumption; wealth and poverty, Economic activity, and Social Security and Welfare.
• World Development Indicators CU
  This database contains indicators on labor force and employment for 226 countries.

• America's Career InfoNet
  This site provides data on wages and employment by state. Data compiled from state and federal sources. In addition, the site provides basic information (address, phone, industry) on over 10 million public and private sector employers in the United States.
• Analyst Resource Center
  Includes projections of employment by occupation or state. ARC is funded by the Department of Labor and administered by a consortia of states.
• Dictionary of Occupational Titles 4th ed. (Note: The DOT has been replaced by O*Net).
• Key Workplace Documents
  This database "is a unique repository for materials which encompass aspects of the employer-employee relationship. Access to key government documents, public policy position papers, and statistics is offered free of charge." (formally the Electronic Archive)
• Employment Law
• freeERISA.com
  "The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) requires U.S. employers to file annual reports on their employee pension plans and health/welfare plans with the Department of Labor and the Internal Revenue Service." Use this service to find and view 5500 filings, 11k filings, public pension funds and terminating pension plans. The site also provides access to a list of collective bargaining agreements, a register of labor unions, and other information. This free service requires registration for use.
• Labor Contracts Database
  This database from the Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California Berkeley, is an "One-stop public on-line clearinghouse for cataloged and digitized complete text of union contracts". The database is not searchable yet. It can be browsed by state, union, or represented occupations.
• O*NET, the Occupational Information Network
  A "comprehensive database system for collecting, organizing, describing and disseminating data on job characteristics and worker attributes. O*NET replaces the outmoded Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT)". The database includes a search for occupations by keyword or job family. The search results include a snapshot of an occupation with links to detailed information on the characteristics of an occupation, the necessary skills, experience and education, the job outlook and wages, and other information. You can also search for occupations by skills that a person has or plans to acquire and find the occupations that best match those skills.
• Salary Expert
  Providing salary, bonus, cost-of-living, and benefits data for over 31,000 jobs in over 45,000 U.S. and Canadian cities.
• Salary Surveys
  A page of links to over 300 salary surveys.
• Salary Wizard
  A"proprietary compensation database, which contains salary information on thousands of job titles. The Salary Wizard calculates salaries based on job title and geographic location."

• Affirmative Action & Civil Rights
• Economic Crisis and Stimulus
• Gender Equality
• Income and Poverty
• Labor Statistics
• Occupational Safety and Health