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
International
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
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
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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]
- 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
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
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Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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