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Institute for Workplace Studies                 Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations          Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
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16 East 34th Street, 4th floor                  Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016                      Director, IWS News Bureau
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IWS Weekly Bulletin,  8 December 2004


Academic Research

Inter-American Development Bank

The Impact of Training Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Case of Programa Joven

http://www.iadb.org/res/publications/pubfiles/pubR-483.pdf

[full-text, 49 pages]

R-483

Published: December 2004

Language: English

Abstract:

http://www.iadb.org/res/index.cfm?fuseaction=Publications.View&pub_id=R-483

An Investigation of the Effects of Alcohol Policies on Youth STDs

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w10949.pdf

[full-text, 34 pages]

Michael Grossman, Robert Kaestner, Sara Markowitz

NBER Working Paper No. w10949

Issued in December 2004

---- Abstract -----

http://papers.nber.org/papers/W10949

Government Reports/Press - International, Federal, State, Local


International

European Commission

Employing people with disabilities [30 November 2004]

http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/news/2004/nov/disabilities_en.html

See also BACKGROUND INFORMATION at-

http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/disability/index_en.html

ILO: Biometric ID for seafarers ready to be issued New ILO Convention for maritime workers will come into force in February [3 December 2004]

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/index.htm

[This will appear at the above URL soon]

See convention -- C185 Seafarers' Identity Documents Convention (Revised), 2003:

www.ilo.org/ilolex/cgi-lex/convde.pl?C185

OECD Economic Outlook No. 76 - Country summaries [30 November 2004]

http://www.oecd.org/document/52/0,2340,en_2649_201185_19726196_1_1_1_1,00.html

Click on the country name. Each summary is in the form of  a PDF file (approximately 9 Kb per file).

See related document

OECD Economic Outlook No. 76

Preliminary Edition

November 2004

http://www.oecd.org/document/18/0,2340,en_2649_201185_20347538_1_1_1_1,00.html

Federal

BLS: Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2003 [1 December 2004]

U.S. Department of Labor

Elaine L. Chao, Secretary

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Kathleen Utgoff, Commissioner

September 2004

Bulletin 2567

http://www.bls.gov/oes/oes_pub_2003_m.htm

Census: County Business Patterns 2002 [2 December 2004]

http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/cbptotal.html

DOL: GovBenefits.gov Helps Make Holidays Brighter for Those in Need

Website Helps Citizens Determine Possible Eligibility for Benefits [1 December 2004]

http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/oasam/OASAM20042439.htm

Health, United States, 2004  [3 December 2004]

With Chartbook on

Trends in the Health of Americans with Special Feature on Drugs

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus.htm

[The above URL is preferred -- sections of book broken into separate PDF documents - section below]

or

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus04.pdf

[full-text,  513 pages -- LOADS VERY SLOWLY large file 14.4 MB]

Press Release at-

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/04news/hus04.htm

State

Employment in New York State Newsletter, October 2004 [6 December 2004]

http://www.labor.state.ny.us/labor_market/LMI_business/newsletr/current/index.htm

or

http://www.labor.state.ny.us/pdf/enys1004.pdf

[full-text, 4 pages]

Institutes/Associations/Commercial

The Segal Company:

2005 Reporting & Disclosure Calendar for Multiemployer Plans [24 November 2004]

http://www.segalco.com/publications/r&dcalendar/multi2005.pdf

[full-text, 23 pages]

See Press Release

http://www.segalco.com/corporate/pub-corporate.cfm?ID=557

Prudential Relocation White Paper Series

From Children to Adults: The Effects of Relocation

http://www.presentationselect.com/prudential/archive/ref/tips/ChildrenOfRelocation.pdf

[full-text, 5 pages]

Law

SIXTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2003

http://www.nlrb.gov/nlrb/shared_files/brochures/Annual%20Reports/Entire2003AnnualReportreduced.pdf

[full-text, 199 pages]

[Please note : Statistical Tables for Fiscal Year 2003 begin on page 123]

Statistical Reports

BLS: LABOR FORCE CHARACTERISTICS OF FOREIGN-BORN WORKERS IN 2003 [1 December 2004]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/forbrn.nr0.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/forbrn.pdf

[full-text, 13 pages]

BLS: TIME OF LOST-WORKDAY INJURIES AND ILLNESSES, 2002 ­ FIRST RESULTS ANNOUNCED BY BLS [2 December 2004]

http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/osh/os/osnr0020.pdf

[full-text, 12 pages]

BLS: METROPOLITAN AREA EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT:  OCTOBER 2004 [1 December 2004]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/metro.nr0.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/metro.pdf

[full-text, 18 pages]

and

Supplemental Files Table of Contents

http://www.bls.gov/web/metro.supp.toc.htm

BLS: THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION:  NOVEMBER 2004 [3 December 2004]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf

[full-text, 24 pages]

and

Supplemental Files Table of Contents

http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit.supp.toc.htm

Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts

Fact Sheet

December 1, 2004

Study: Changes in Motorcycle-Crash Mortality Rates, by Blood Alcohol Concentration and Age --- United States, 1983-2003

http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/fs041201.htm

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