Finding Data & Statistics: Labor, Employment, Wages

Includes occupational injuries & illnesses, California Consumer Price Index, the prevailing wage rate, etc.

Current and historical labor statistics for the U.S.; links to sources of international statistics.

Includes the Consumer Price Index (CPI), and statistics on employment & unemployment statistics, pay & compensation cost data, spending, time use, productivity, workplace injuries, etc.

Over 11,000 labor force and unemployment rate time series for every state, county, and metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the United States.

Includes detailed occupation statistics by gender and race.

The Elder Economic Security Standard™ Index (Elder Index), was developed by the Gerontology Institute at the University of Massachusetts Boston. The Elder Index is a measure of the income that older adults need to meet their basic needs and age in place with dignity. The Elder Index is specific to household size, location, housing tenure, and health status and includes the cost of: Housing, Health Care, Transportation, Food, and Miscellaneous Essentials.

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.

View and download statistics and metadata for over 200 countries or territories from LABORSTA, an International Labour Office database on labour statistics operated by the ILO Bureau of Statistics

Under Statistics see OECD Employment and Labour Markets Statistics. Provide employment, unemployment, and income taxation data for 35 OECD and non-OECD countries.

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.

Taxing wages.

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.

Includes many European economic and labor datasets