Wednesday, September 28, 2005

[IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 28 September 2005

IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies                   Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations           Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor                    Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016                        Director, IWS News Bureau
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IWS Weekly Bulletin,  28 September 2005


Academic Research

The Effect of Minimum Wages on the Employment and Earnings of South Africa's Domestic Service Workers,
http://www.upjohninst.org/publications/wp/05-120.pdf
[full-text, 60 pages]
Upjohn Institute Working Paper 05-120
Tom Hertz , 2005. [15 August 2005]
Abstract
http://www.upjohninst.org/publications/wp/05120wp.html



Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
Political Institutions, Policymaking Processes, and Policy Outcomes in Mexico
http://www.iadb.org/res/publications/pubfiles/pubR-512.pdf
[full-text, 68 pages]
R-512
Author: Lehoucq, Fabrice - Negretto, Gabriel - Aparicio, Francisco - Nacif, Benito - Benton, Allyson
Published: September 2005


Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Re-Assessing the Revisionists [12 September 2005]
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w11627.pdf
[full-text, 60 pages]
David H. Autor, Lawrence F. Katz, Melissa S. Kearney
NBER Working Paper No. 11627
Issued in September 2005
---- Abstract -----
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w11627


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


International

European Monitoring Centre on Change (EMCC)
EMCC dossier on the European construction sector [28 September 2005]
http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/content/source/eu05017a.html


European Monitoring Centre on Change (EMCC)
The knowledge-intensive business services sector: Towards visions for the future and policy implications [28 September 2005]
http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/content/source/eu05016a.html
or
http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/publications/2005/ef0559en.pdf (1 Mb) [full text, 28 pages]

International Labour Office (ILO)
Working Paper
Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour
DECLARATION/WP/42/2005
Forced Labour and Human Trafficking: Estimating the Profits [March 2005, online September 2005]
by Patrick Belser
http://www.ilo.org/dyn/declaris/DECLARATIONWEB.DOWNLOAD_BLOB?Var_DocumentID=5081
[full-text, 32 pages]

International Labour Organization (ILO)
MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Information folder on Decent Work and the Millennium Development Goals [14 September 2005]
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/exrel/mdg/briefs/index.htm


World Bank
World Development Report 2006: Equity and Development [20 September 2005]
http://wdsbeta.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/IW3P/IB/2005/09/20/000112742_20050920110826/Rendered/PDF/322040World0Development0Report02006.pdf
[full-text, 340 pages]
Overview
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1127230817535/WDR2006overview.pdf
[full-text, 17 pages]
Download by Chapter
http://econ.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64165259&theSitePK=469372&piPK=64165421&menuPK=64166093&entityID=000112742_20050920110826
Background Papers
http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EXTWDRS/EXTWDR2006/0,,contentMDK:20232899~menuPK:477651~pagePK:64167689~piPK:64167673~theSitePK:477642,00.html
Press Release, 20 September 2005
http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EXTWDRS/EXTWDR2006/0,,contentMDK:20232719~menuPK:477649~pagePK:64167689~piPK:64167673~theSitePK:477642,00.html


Federal

BLS: Hurricane Information: Katrina and Rita [26 September 2005]
http://www.bls.gov/katrina/home.htm


BLS: Presented at the EU-US Seminar on �Offshoring of Services in ICT and Related Services,� Brussels,
Belgium, December 13-14, 2004.
Mass Layoff Statistics Data in the United States and Domestic and Overseas Relocation*
Sharon P. Brown
Chief, Division of Local Area Unemployment Statistics
Bureau of Labor Statistics
U.S. Department of Labor
http://www.bls.gov/mls/mlsrelocation.pdf
[full-text, 13 pages]


BLS: U.S. Department of Labor
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
September 2005
Report 989
Extended Mass Layoffs in 2004
http://www.bls.gov/mls/mlsreport989.pdf
[full-text, 47 pages]

Congressional Budge Office (CBO)
The Risk Exposure of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
15 September 2005
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/66xx/doc6646/09-15-PBGC.pdf
[full-text, 44 pages]

CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES
CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE (CBO)
A Guide to Understanding the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation [24 September 2005]
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/66xx/doc6657/09-23-GuideToPBGC.pdf
[full-text, 32 pages]

Congressional Research Service (CRS)
Foreign Outsourcing: Economic Implications and Policy Responses
Updated June 21, 2005
Craig K. Elwell
Specialist in Macroeconomics
Government and Finance Division
http://opencrs.cdt.org/rpts/RL32484_20050621.pdf
[full-text, 28 pages]


Department of Labor (DOL) Telephone CONTACTS BY TOPIC
http://www.dol.gov/dol/contact/contact-phone-topics.htm


U.S. Department of Labor Extends Disaster Unemployment Assistance Eligibility for Jobless in Hurricane Rita-Affected Region [26 September 2005]
http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/eta/ETA20051833.htm


Small Business Administration (SBA)
Small Business Research Summary
The Impact of Regulatory Costs on Small Firms
by
W. Mark Crain
Lafayette College, Easton, PA
funder contract number SBHQ-03-M-0522
Release Date: September 2005
http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs264tot.pdf
[full-text, 95 pages]

Small Business Administrtion (SBA)
State Economic Profiles 2001-2005
http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/profiles/
example:
Small Business Profile: NEW YORK
http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/profiles/05ny.pdf
[full-text, 2 pages]

Small Business Administration (SBA)
September 2005 -  SBA Working Paper
U.S. Sole Proprietorships: A Gender Comparison, 1985-2000,
submitted by Ying Lowery
http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs263tot.pdf
[full-text, 62 pages]
Research Summary
http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs263.pdf


Institutes/Associations/Commercial

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP)
BENEFIT LEVELS FOR UNEMPLOYED HURRICANE VICTIMS ARE TOO LOW [27 September 2005]
by Isaac Shapiro
http://www.cbpp.org/9-27-05ui.htm
or
http://www.cbpp.org/9-27-05ui.pdf
[full-text, 3pp.]


SHRM/Rutgers
Number of Jobs in U.S. Manufacturing Sector Climbs As Wage Increases Slow
Manufacturing Job Market Was Stronger This Month Than Last, But May Soften in October
http://www.shrm.org/press_published/CMS_014223.asp#P-4_0


Law

EEOC
CARMIKE CINEMAS TO PAY $765,000 TO SETTLE RARE CASE OF MALE-ON-MALE TEEN HARASSMENT
EEOC Says Male Supervisor Groped Young Men, Made Advances and Requested Sexual Favors [27 September 2005]
http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-27-05.html


Statistical Reports

BEA: State Personal Income: Second Quarter 2005 [28 September 2005]
http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrel/sqpinewsrelease.htm
or
http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrelarchive/2005/spi0905.pdf
[full-text, 9 pages]
or
http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrelarchive/2005/spi0905.xls
[spreadsheet]
or
Highlights
http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrelarchive/2005/spi0905_fax.pdf


BLS: PRODUCTIVITY AND COSTS BY INDUSTRY: WHOLESALE TRADE, RETAIL TRADE, AND FOOD SERVICES AND DRINKING PLACES, 2004 [27 September 2005]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/prin.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/prin.pdf
[full-text, 10 pages]


BLS: Unemployment rates in nine countries, civilian labor force basis,approximating U.S. concepts, seasonally adjusted, 1995-2005 [2 September 2005]
ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ForeignLabor/flsjec.txt


BLS: Unemployment rates in the European Union and selected member countries, civilian labor force basis (1), seasonally adjusted, 1995-2005 [2 September 2005]
ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ForeignLabor/flseur.txt


BLS: Consumer price indexes in nine countries, percent change from same period of previous year, 1995-2005 [2 September 2005]
ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ForeignLabor/flscpim.txt


BLS: WORK AT HOME IN 2004 [22 September 2005]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/homey.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/homey.pdf
[full-text, 14 pages]


BLS: EMPLOYER COSTS FOR EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION - JUNE 2005 [21 September 2005]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ecec.pdf
[full-text, 26 pages]


BLS: MASS LAYOFFS IN AUGUST 2005 [23 September 2005]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/mmls.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/mmls.pdf
[full-text, 10 pages]


Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts

Census
The International Data Base (IDB) is a computerized data bank containing statistical tables of demographic and socioeconomic data for 227 countries and areas of the world.
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbnew.html


Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics
Measuring the Formation and Dissolution of Marital and Cohabiting Unions in Federal Surveys
http://childstats.gov/union.asp

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