Wednesday, October 12, 2005
[IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 12 October 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, 12 October 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, 12 October 2005
Academic Research
- DISABILITY STATUS REPORTS [First Annual]
- http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/ped/disabilitystatistics/
- or
- http://www.DisabilityStatistics.org
- Go to bottom center of this home page and use the pull-down menus to access full-text reports
- See story at-
- Oct. 5, 2005
- Gap widens between working-age people with and without disabilities in the workforce, reports shows
- By Linda Myers
- http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct05/Disab.work.rpt.html
- Gilles Mourre (Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs)
- Wage compression and employment in Europe: First evidence from the structure of earnings survey 2002
- (EUROPEAN ECONOMY. ECONOMIC PAPERS. No. 232. September 2005. European Commission. Brussels. 35pp. Tab. Free.) KC-AI-05-232-EN-C; ISBN 92-894-8871-9; ISSN 1725-3187
- http://europa.eu.int/comm/economy_finance/publications/economic_papers/2005/ecp232en.pdf
- [full-text, 30 pages]
- The Labor Market and Macro Volatility: A Nonstationary General-Equilibrium Analysis
- http://papers.nber.org/papers/w11684.pdf
- [full-text, 38 pages]
- Robert E. Hall
- NBER Working Paper No. 11684
- Issued in October 2005
- ---- Abstract -----
- http://www.nber.org/papers/w11684
- Working Paper #504
- The Mid-1990s EITC Expansion: Aggregate Labor Supply Effects and Economic Incidence
- Jesse Rothstein
- Princeton University, Industrial Relations Section
- September 1, 2005
- http://www.irs.princeton.edu/pubs/pdfs/504.pdf
- [full-text, 57 pages]
- Princeton University, Industrial Relations Section
- Working Paper #502
- Layoffs as Part of an Optimal Incentive Mix: Theory and Evidence
- Anders Frederiksen. and El½od Takáts
- September 19, 2005
- http://www.irs.princeton.edu/pubs/pdfs/502a.pdf
- [full-text, 31 pages]
International
- European Commission (EC)
- European Industry A Sectoral Overview [5 October 2005]
- http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/enterprise_policy/industry/com_2005/sec_2005_1216.pdf
- [full-text, 106 pages]
- Press Release-
- A new integrated industrial policy: to create the conditions for manufacturing to thrive [5 October 2005]
- http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/enterprise_policy/industry/index_en.htm
- European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
- EurLife Database [Statistics]
- http://www.eurofound.eu.int/areas/qualityoflife/eurlife/index.php
- The following report is available via SourceOECD
- OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2005 - Towards a knowledge-based economy [11 October 2005]
- http://www.sourceoecd.org/scoreboard
- Press Release
- Globalisation driving increase in international offshoring of research and development centres, finds OECD report [11 October 2005]
- http://www.oecd.org/document/25/0,2340,en_2649_201185_35471385_1_1_1_1,00.html
- OECD:
- Living longer must mean working longer, says OECD [10 October 2005]
- http://www.oecd.org/document/48/0,2340,en_2649_201185_35466736_1_1_1_1,00.html
- See the following charts at-
- http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/60/16/35466761.pdf
- Chart 1. Work becomes much less common after the age of 50 but with large country differences
- Percentage of the population aged either 25-49 or 50-64 who are employed, 2004
- Chart 2. Effective age of retirement and the official age
- Chart 3. Proportion of workers who participated in training during the past four weeks, 2004
- OECD Policy Brief:
- Economic Survey of the United Kingdom 2005 [12 October 2005]
- http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/18/34/35473312.pdf
- [full-text, 8 pages]
- see also-
- Economic Survey of the United Kingdom 2005
- http://www.oecd.org/document/43/0,2340,en_2649_201185_35456619_1_1_1_1,00.html
- Executive Summary
- http://www.oecd.org/document/40/0,2340,en_2649_201185_35461544_1_1_1_1,00.html
- BLS: Monthly Labor Review Online [11 October 2005]
- September 2005
- Vol. 128, Number 9
- http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/mlrhome.htm
- Estimating gross flows consistent with stocks in the CPS
- Harley J. Frazis, Edwin L. Robison, Thomas D. Evans, and Martha A. Duff
- http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/09/art1full.pdf
- [full-text, 7 pages]
- Analyzing CPS data using gross flows
- Randy Ilg
- http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/09/art2full.pdf
- [full-text, 9 pages]
- Nonprofit organizations: new insights from QCEW data
- Lester M. Salamon and S. Wojciech Sokolowski
- http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/09/art3full.pdf
- [full-text, 8 pages]
- Model-based seasonally adjusted estimates and sampling error
- Richard Tiller and Marisa Di Natale
- http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/09/art4full.pdf
- [full-text, 11 pages]
- Report
- Variations in time use at stages of the life cycle
- http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/09/ressum.pdf
- [full-text, 8 pages]
- CONGRESSIONAL-EXECUTIVE COMMISSION ON CHINA (CECC)
- [CHINA] ANNUAL REPORT 2005 [11 October 2005]
- http://www.cecc.gov/pages/annualRpt/annualRpt05/index.php
- or
- http://www.cecc.gov/pages/annualRpt/annualRpt05/CECCannRpt2005.pdf?PHPSESSID=451e72c71f621d3e92a4e725edc99ecd
- [full-text, 193 pages]
- CHINA: U.S. Commercial Service Web Site
- http://www.buyusa.gov/china/en/
- Designed as "one stop shopping" for information necessary to conducting business in China including leads and contacts.
- A few brief examples are listed below.
- CHINA: Country Information
- http://www.export.gov/china/country_information/index.asp?dName=country_information
- CHINA: Information by INDUSTRY (and Contacts)
- http://www.buyusa.gov/china/en/industry.html
- Standardization Administration of China
- http://www.sac.gov.cn/english/home.asp
- Useful Links
- http://www.buyusa.gov/china/en/links.html
- Frequently Asked Questions (Exporting to China)
- http://www.export.gov/china/exporting_to_china/faq.asp
- Visitor's Guide
- http://www.buyusa.gov/china/en/visitorsguide.html
- Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Testimony
- Statement of Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Director
- Macroeconomic and Budgetary Effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
- before the Committee on the Budget U.S. House of Representatives
- October 6, 2005
- http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/66xx/doc6684/10-06-Hurricanes.pdf
- [full-text, 23 pages]
- U.S. Department of Labor
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Highlights of Women's Earnings in 2004 [online October 2005]
- September 2005
- Report 987
- http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswom2004.pdf
- [full-text, 40 pages]
- Social Security Bulletin, Vol. 66 No. 1
- (released September 2005) [online October 2005]
- http://www.socialsecurity.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v66n1/
- or
- http://www.socialsecurity.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v66n1/v66n1.pdf
- [full-text, 124 pages]
- Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)
- BALLPARK (estimate for a comfortable retirement) -- Free and updated
- http://www.choosetosave.org/ballpark/
- Press Release [6 October 2005]
- Updated Ballpark E$timate® Appears in Two Formats
- http://www.ebri.org/pdf/PR_714_6Oct05.pdf
- [full-text, 2 pages]
- Hudson
- Worker Confidence Slips Further as Hudson Employment Index Drops to 96.8 [3 October 2005]
- http://www.hudson-index.com/node.asp?SID=5256
- or
- http://www.hudson-index.com/documents/us-hudson-index-release-100505.pdf
- [full-text, 3 pages]
- PROFIT SHARING/401(k) COUNCIL OF AMERICA (PSCA)
- New survey helps plan sponsors benchmark and shows industry trends [11 October 2005]
- http://www.psca.org/PRESS/P2005/oct11-survey.html
- (UK) The Work Foundation -- Latest Publications
- http://www.theworkfoundation.com/research/publications.jsp
- U.S. Government Manual, 2005-06 [11 October 2005]
- http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gmanual/index.html
- or
- Browse at-
- http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gmanual/browse-gm-05.html
- Examples:
- Department of Labor
- http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2005_government_manual&docid=201944tx_xxx-45
- or
- http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2005_government_manual&docid=201944tx_xxx-45.pdf
- [full-text, 15 pages]
- National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
- http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2005_government_manual&docid=201944tx_xxx-83
- or
- http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2005_government_manual&docid=201944tx_xxx-83.pdf
- [full-text, 5 pages]
- Findlaw.com
- Arbitration & Mediation (ADR)
- http://public.findlaw.com/adr/
- BLS: JOB OPENINGS AND LABOR TURNOVER: AUGUST 2005 [12 October 2005]
- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.nr0.htm
- or
- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/jolts.pdf
- [full-text, 13 pages]
- BLS: THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION: SEPTEMBER 2005 [7 October 2005]
- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
- or
- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
- [full-text, 25 pages]
- and
- Supplemental Files Table of Contents
- http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit.supp.toc.htm
- EuroStat: 124/2005 - 4 October 2005
- August 2005
- Euro-zone unemployment up to 8.6%
- EU25 up to 8.7%
- http://epp.eurostat.cec.eu.int/pls/portal/docs/PAGE/PGP_PRD_CAT_PREREL/PGE_CAT_PREREL_YEAR_2005/PGE_CAT_PREREL_YEAR_2005_MONTH_10/3-04102005-EN-BP.PDF
- [full-text, 5 pages]
- Census 2000 Special Report
- Residential Finance Survey: 2001 [5 October 2005]
- http://www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/censr-27.pdf
- [full-text, 368 pages]
- Congressional Pictorial Directory: 109th Congress [6 October 2005]
- http://www.gpoaccess.gov/pictorial/109th/index.html
- European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC)
- Comparative Report: Policing Racist Crime and Violence [29 September 2005]
- http://eumc.eu.int/eumc/material/pub/PRCV/PRCV-Final.pdf
- [full-text, 52 pages]
- See press release at-
- Police need to do more to tackle racist crime in Europe
- A new EUMC report finds police forces in many EU Member States to be ill-equipped to respond to racist violence
- http://eumc.eu.int/eumc/material/pub/PRCV/MR-194-03-05-04-EN.pdf
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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