ECO 312 ~ Labor Economics

Professor Schmitz
Spring 2007

The following are selected resources available in the library and on the Internet.

Finding Books

You can locate books owned by the library using I-Share.

The library has some book versions of the kind of data you will be looking for. Here are a couple of examples:

Handbook of U.S. labor statistics (ebook available through NetLibrary). Databook series from 2003. Contains tables.
Demographics USA (County ed.) R 330.973 D383

If a book appears in the catalog, but is not available at Elmhurst, you can request the item directly in I-Share. Please ask a librarian if you need assistance. Books not available through Illinet may be ordered through our online Interlibrary Loan book request form.

Helpful Web Resources

• CIA World Factbook

• Census Bureau

  • American FactFinder ~ Provides data on a variety of topics, including demographic information about individual communities in the U.S.
  • 2002 Economic Census ~ Includes reports on retail and wholesale trade, industry and manufacturing, and economic activity by state.
  • Business and Industry Facts ~ Look here for U.S. economic and business information on the local and national levels.
  • Statistical Abstract of the United States ~ Provides commonly sought statistics about the United States.
    
    
• Bureau of Labor Statistics

• Stat-USA
• Bureau of Economic Analysis ~ information from the Department of Commerce
• Economic Resources on the Internet ~ from CBE's web site
• Internet resources ~ some other ways--besides Google--of searching the Internet
• OECD National Accounts ~ from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

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Documenting Your Sources

• APA Style: Electronic References
• Bibliography Styles Handbook: APA Format ~ from the University of Illinois
• Citing Sources ~ from Duke University, a concise guide to documenting sources in several styles: MLA, APA, Turabian, and Chicago
• Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. 5th edition. 2001. A.C. Buehler Library, Reference R808.06615 P976 2001.
• Using APA Format ~ from Purdue University

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This page was created February, 2002, by Donna Goodwyn, Associate Librarian
Last updated February 8th, 2007, by Peg Cook Assistant Reference Librarian
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