Let us know if you discover some links that should be listed here. Numerous publications based on this survey are issued each year by the Bureaus of Labor Statistics and Census. Click here for detailed instructions on how to obtain and use these data . Barry Schachter's list is a new and comprehensive list of working papers that has pointers to current working papers organized by topic, university or college, and by author. This may give you a head start on finding an IS topic, especially in the finance area.
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T he Bureau of Labor Statistics site has a variety of labor economcs data and liks to other US and international sites. The Current Population Survey is a monthly survey of about 50,000 households conducted by the Bureau of the Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The survey has been conducted for more than 50 years. It is the primary source of information on the labor force characteristics of the U.S. population. The EconData page of InfoForum contains data to download under the categories, US National Accounts, Labor, Price, Business and Industry, and consumer finances.