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WebEc Labor and Demographics Resources  - http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/webecj.html  Links of interest to labor economists  European Association of Labour Economists  - http://www.eale.nl/  Newsletter, and membership and conference information.  Labour Economics Gateway  - http://labour.ceps.lu/  Links to research centers, economists, journals, documents, and data sources.  Entropy and Inequality  - http://poorcity.richcity.org/  A comparison of different measures of income & wealth inequality, with a focus on entropy measures. Shows changes in the global disparity of income using these measures.  International Labour Organization  - http://www.ilo.org/  The UN specialized agency which seeks the promotion of social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights.  Introduction to Labor Economics  - http://www.oswego.edu/~kane/eco350.htm  The theory of labor supply & demand from a neoclassical economics perspective.  Inequality.org  - http://www.inequality.org/  News, information and expertise on the divide in income, wealth and health.  Workindex  - http://www.workindex.com/  An extensive directory of workplace-related Web sites.  International Association for the Economics of Participation  - http://ocean.st.usm.edu/~mklndnst/  Members research areas such as employee ownership, cooperatives, labor-management decision-making, co-determination, profit-sharing, non-profit organizations, and economic democracy.  Labor Links  - http://www.gwu.edu/~labor/resources.html  A George Washington University based directory of sites that address general labor economics issues and selected policy issues including affirmative action, child care and welfare reform.  The Principles of Scientific Management  - http://www.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/taylor/sciman  Fredrick Winslow Taylor's influential 1911 text on work organization.  The Low-Wage Labor Market  - http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/lwlm99/index.htm#contents  A volume of papers prepared at the Urban Institute in 1999.  The Society of Labor Economists  - http://gsbwww.uchicago.edu/labor/sole.htm  A labor economics bulletin board, membership information, annual meetings.  Labor and Employment Statistical Resources on the Web  - http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/steclab.html  A directory of mainly U.S. statistical resources.  Labor Institutes and Research Centers in the World  - http://ideas.uqam.ca/EDIRC/laborecon.html  A directory maintained by Christian Zimmermann.  Losing Work, Moving On: Worker Displacement in International Perspective  - http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~pjkuhn/DW_Int/DWIndex.html  A collection of papers edited by Peter Kuhn  Industrial Relations Research Association (IRRA)  - http://www.irra.uiuc.edu/  Publications, news, meetings, links, and membership information for practitioners and researches in industrial relations and human resources.  How the United States Government Measures Unemployment  - http://stats.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm  Bureau of Labor Statistics report explains methodology, definitions, and seasonal fluctuations.  The labour market - interactive Java applet  - http://www.fgn.unisg.ch/eurmacro/tutor/labourmarket.html  Features an interactive Java applet with a guided exercise. Designed to familiarize undergraduate students with labor demand, labor supply and unemployment.  United States Bureau of Labor Statistics  - http://www.bls.gov/    Workers Compensation Research Institute  - http://www.wcrinet.org/  An independent, not-for-profit research organization providing objective information about public policy issues involving workers' compensation systems.