What do you need?

• Contact information
• Syllabus (pdf)
  
• Schedule of topics (with links to readings)
  
• Handouts and Homework
• Data sets
• Labor links

Note:  Many of the files are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.  To download the free Acrobat reader, click here.

Contact information

Office: Kenna Hall 300N
Phone and voice-mail: 408-554-6892
Fax: 408-554-2331
E-mail: wsundstrom@scu.edu
Sundstrom home page
Fall office hours: Tues. 3:30-4:30, Wed. 10:30-12:00

Links to labor economics sites, data

• U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (standard government source for labor statistics)
  
• Statistical Abstract of the United States (on-line version, lots of labor statistics)
• U.S. Census Bureau (many statistics on income, employment, and labor-force)
• International Labour Organization (international labor statistics, studies)
• Upjohn Institute (policy-oriented labor think tank)
• Economic Policy Institute (liberal think tank: click on "datazone" for carefully constructed statistics on wages and working conditions)
• Employment Policy Foundation (labor think tank with free-market orientation)
• National Bureau of Economic Research working papers on labor topics (these are often quite technical)
• Bay Area Labor Links
• California Labor Market (official site of state Employment Development Department)