Business & finance
IZA World of Labor
wol.iza.org
Business & financefree
Short evidence summaries on labor economics questions — each article weighs pros and cons and ends with a policy takeaway, with a downloadable PDF.
Each article is written by an economist to summarize what the academic literature says on one labor-market question, weighing the evidence for and against before landing on a policy conclusion, which makes it a fast way to ground a notebook question in research without reading the underlying papers yourself. It works well as a starting point for a policy-focused notebook rather than the last word. Because each piece compresses a body of literature into a few pages, a notebook wanting deeper nuance on a subtopic still needs the primary studies it cites.
Import into Gemini Notebook
- 1Copy the link above (or a specific page from the site).
- 2In your notebook, click Add source → Website.
- 3Paste the link and confirm — several links can be pasted at once, one per line.
Company and market research pages often sit behind a login — the free report PDF or public blog post is usually the importable version.
More business & finance sources
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- CB InsightsSubscription research on startups, venture funding, and tech markets. The free newsletter and public report PDFs are the importable part.
- CrunchbaseFunding rounds, investor lists and acquisition histories for startups. Company profile pages import cleanly as Website sources for market research notebooks.
- FactSetInstitutional-grade market data, company financials and portfolio analytics. Subscription platform — exported reports can be uploaded as PDF sources.
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- Harvard Business ReviewManagement and strategy articles grounded in academic research. Paste article URLs as Website sources; the paywall limits free reads per month.
- IBISWorldSubscription industry reports covering market size, competitive structure, and forecasts. Report PDFs make strong grounding for market-entry notebooks.
- ILOSTATILO statistics on employment, wages, and working conditions for most countries. Indicator descriptions and country profiles import well as web sources.
- Maddison Project DatabaseLong-run GDP per capita estimates stretching back two millennia. Download the Excel release and upload it when a notebook needs hard numbers on economic history.
- McKinsey Global InstituteLong-form reports on productivity, technology, and the global economy. The PDF downloads work well as grounded sources for market and strategy notebooks.
- Mergent OnlineSubscription database of company financials, filings, and executive data. Export report PDFs through a library login to feed company-research notebooks.
- Nasdaq Data LinkMarket, economic, and alternative data feeds for quant work. Export CSVs from the free tier and upload them to ground financial analysis notebooks.
- National Bureau of Economic ResearchWorking papers from leading economists, often years ahead of journal publication. Paper PDFs are ideal grounded sources for economics notebooks.
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- PitchBookVC, PE and M&A deal data behind a subscription. Its free blog and annual reports are still worth importing for private-market context.
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- UNIDO Industrial StatisticsCountry-by-industry series on manufacturing output, value added, and employment. A subscription is required for full data downloads.
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