https://www.bls.gov/cex/

The Consumer Expenditure Surveys (CES) are a pair of nationwide household surveys conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to find out how consumers in the United States spend their money. It is the only federal government survey that provides information on the complete range of consumers’ expenditures as well as their incomes and demographic characteristics. BLS publishes 12-month estimates of consumer expenditures twice a year with the estimates summarized by various income levels and household characteristics.

Data Provider: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

https://comtradeplus.un.org

The United Nations Comtrade database aggregates detailed global annual and monthly trade statistics by product and trading partner. Data compiled by the United Nations Statistics Division covers approximately 200 countries and represents more than 99% of the world’s merchandise trade. Information can be extracted in a variety of formats, including API developer tools for integration into enterprise applications and workflows. Subscribers receive access to additional functionality to improve efficiency and specificity.

Data provider: United Nations

https://www.oecd.org/els/mig/dioc.htm

The Database on Immigrants in OECD Countries and non-OECD Countries (DIOC) includes information on demographic characteristics (age and gender); duration of stay; labour market outcomes (labour market status; occupations; sectors of activity); fields of study; educational attainment and the place of birth.DIOC contains information for the 34 OECD countries (destinations) and more than 200 countries of origin in the years 2000; 2005 and 2010. DIOC-E contains information for 100 destination countries and more than 200 countries of origin in the years 2000 and 2010.

Data Provider: OECD

 

 

The annual EIB Group Survey on Investment and Investment Finance (EIBIS) is an EU-wide survey that gathers qualitative and quantitative information on investment activities by small and medium-sized businesses and larger corporates, their financing requirements and the difficulties they face.The survey covers approximately 12 000 firms across the EU27 and 800 firms in the United States. It covers a wide spectrum of questions on corporate investment and investment finance. The survey’s data provide a wealth of unique firm-level information about investment decisions and investment finance choices.

Data provider: EIB

https://www.oecd.org/employment/emp/oecdindicatorsofemploymentprotection.htm

The OECD indicators of employment protection legislation evaluate the regulations on the dismissal of workers on regular contracts and the hiring of workers on temporary contracts. They cover both individual and collective dismissals. The indicators have been compiled using the Secretariat’s own reading of statutory laws, collective bargaining agreements and case law as well as contributions from officials from OECD member countries and advice from country experts.
Employment protection refers to only one dimension of the complex set of factors that influence worker security and firm adaptability. For information on other labour market policies and institutions.

Data Provider: OECD

 

https://ess-search.nsd.no

The European Social Survey (ESS) is cross-national survey that has been conducted across Europe since 2001. Every two years, face-to-face interviews are conducted with newly selected, cross-sectional samples.The survey measures the attitudes, beliefs and behaviour patterns of diverse populations in more than thirty nations.

Data provider: the Centre for Comparative Social Surveys (City University, London) in partnership with the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium); GESIS (Germany); NSD (Norway); SCP (Netherlands) and the University of Amsterdam

EUKLEMS & INTANProd

The EUKLEMS – INTANProd database provides detailed data for 27 EU Member States, the US, Japan and the United Kingdom, across 40 industries (although coverage may vary over time and across countries), 23 industry aggregates, over the period 1995-2020. The database includes information on key variables for studying productivity including output, intermediate inputs, gross value added, employment, compensation of employees, as well as investment in capital stocks across both tangible and intangible assets.

Data provider: the Luiss Lab of European Economics at Luiss University in Rome

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/lfs

The European Union Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) is a large household sample survey providing quarterly results on labour participation of people aged 15 and over and on people outside the labour force. The EU labour force survey (EU-LFS) is conducted in all EU countries, 4 candidate countries, and 3 European Free Trade Association (EFTA). The data collection provides data from 1983 to the present. The lenght of the time series for countries depends on when they joined the EU.

Data provider: Eurostat

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/microdata/european-union-statistics-on-income-and-living-conditions

EU-SILC is a cross-sectional and longitudinal sample survey, coordinated by Eurostat, based on data from the European Union member states. EU-SILC provides data on income, poverty, social exclusion and living conditions in the European Union. EU-SILC stands for ‘European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions.’ EU-SILC was updated in May 2023.

Data provider: Eurostat

https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/surveys/european-working-conditions-surveys-ewcs

The European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) provides an overview of working conditions in Europe.The main objectives of the survey are to: assess and quantify working conditions of both employees and the self-employed across Europe on a harmonised basis; analyse relationships between different aspects of working conditions;identify groups at risk and issues of concern as well as of progress; monitor trends by providing homogeneous indicators on these issues; contribute to European policy development on quality of work and employment issues.

Data provider: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions