IWS Documented News WEEKLY BULLETIN

INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LABOUR STUDIES (IILS)

Discussion paper

DP/160/2005

Decent Work Research Programme

Institutional determinants of unemployment in OECD countries: A time series cross-section analysis (1960-98)

by Lucio Baccaro and Diego Rei

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inst/download/dp16005.pdf

or

http://www-ilo-mirror.cornell.edu/public/english/bureau/inst/download/dp16005.pdf

[full-text, 67 pages]

Industrial Relations Research Unit

University of Warwick

WARWICK PAPERS IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS  NUMBER 77

How are employers and unions responding to the Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations?

by Mark Hall

April 2005

http://users.wbs.warwick.ac.uk/cms_attachment_handler.cfm?f=c808e01b-6633-4025-9ee2-ba9c49d87d1b&t=wpir77.pdf

[full-text, 21 pages]

For additional Warwick Papers in Industrial Relations, see--

http://users.wbs.warwick.ac.uk/group/irru/publications/warwick_papers

Employment and Disability Institute (EDI)

Cornell Rehabilitation Research and Training Center for Economic Research on Employment Policy for Persons with Disabilities

Policy Brief

Has the Employment Rate of People with Disabilities Declined? [December 2004]

David C. Stapleton

Cornell University Institute for Policy Research

Richard V. Burkhauser

Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University

Andrew J. Houtenville

Employment and Disability Institute, Cornell University

The Urban Institute

Go to--

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/edi/publications/PB_EmpDecline.pdf

[full-text, 10 pages]

or

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/edi/publications/PB_EmpDecline.txt

[text format]

Employment and Disability Institute (EDI)

FEDERAL PROGRAM EXPENDITURES FOR WORKING-AGE PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES [December 2004]

Research Report, December 2004

Nanette Goodman, Cornell University Institute for Policy Research

David C. Stapleton, Cornell University Institute for Policy Research

Go to:

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/edi/publications/FederalProgramExpenditures.pdf

[full-text, 22 pages]

or

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/edi/publications/FederalProgramExpenditures.txt

[text format]

New from Cornell University Press

The Defeat of Solidarity: Anger and Politics in Postcommunist Europe

David Ost

Cornell University Press

Cloth ISBN 0-8014-4318-0 $39.95 £ 21.95  €31.50

256 pages

http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_catalog.taf?_function=detail&Title_ID=4288&_UserReference=E034E673818910324281024D

European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO) Online

COMPARATIVE STUDY

Changes in National Collective Bargaining Systems since 1990 [17 May 2005]

http://www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int/2005/03/study/tn0503102s.html

European Restructuring Monitor

Fact Sheets (DATABASE)

http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/erm/index.php?template=searchfactsheets

European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)

European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)

ERM quarterly (Spring 2005)

http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/erm/index.php?template=quarterly

ILO

A Global Alliance Against Forced Labour [11 May 2005]

REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL

Global Report under the Follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work 2005

http://www.ilo.org/dyn/declaris/DECLARATIONWEB.DOWNLOAD_BLOB?Var_DocumentID=5059

[full-text, 94 pages]

see press release at -  http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/2005/22.htm

International Labour Office Geneva

International Labour Conference, 93rd Session, 2005

Report of the Director-General

Appendix

The situation of workers of the occupied Arab territories

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/relm/ilc/ilc93/pdf/rep-i-ax.pdf

[full-text, 49 pages]

Press Release

Situation of workers in occupied Arab territories continues to deteriorate

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/2005/23.htm

ILO

Social protection  -   Social Security Policy and Development Branch

STEP (Strategies and Tools against social Exclusion and Poverty)

3  NEW PUBLICATIONS:

-The role of social health protection in reducing poverty: the case of Africa [2005]

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/socsec/step/reslib/publ.php?idpubl=811&lang=EN

or

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/socsec/step/download/811sp1.pdf

or

http://www-ilo-mirror.cornell.edu/public/english/protection/socsec/step/download/811sp1.pdf

[full-text, 54 pages

-Insurance products provided by insurance companies to the disadvantaged groups in India [2005]

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/socsec/step/reslib/publ.php?idpubl=823&lang=EN

or

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/socsec/step/download/823p1.pdf

or

http://www-ilo-mirror.cornell.edu/public/english/protection/socsec/step/download/823p1.pdf

[full-text, 211 pages]

-Inventory of Micro-Insurance Schemes in the Philippines [2005]

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/socsec/step/reslib/publ.php?idpubl=827&lang=EN

or

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/socsec/step/download/827p1.pdf

or

http://www-ilo-mirror.cornell.edu/public/english/protection/socsec/step/download/827p1.pdf

[full-text, 154 pages]

Babies and Bosses: OECD Recommendations to help families balance work and family life [27 May 2005]

http://www.oecd.org/document/10/0,2340,en_2649_201185_34930826_1_1_1_1,00.html

For details about the OECD's policy recommendations, see the country notes on

Canada

http://www.oecd.org/document/35/0,2340,en_2649_201185_34916387_1_1_1_1,00.html

Finland

http://www.oecd.org/document/0/0,2340,en_2649_201185_34916736_1_1_1_1,00.html

Sweden

http://www.oecd.org/document/62/0,2340,en_2649_201185_34916798_1_1_1_1,00.html

United Kingdom

http://www.oecd.org/document/39/0,2340,en_2649_201185_34916903_1_1_1_1,00.html

For a SELECTION OF TABLES & GRAPHS see-

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/57/40/34906050.xls

OECD Policy Brief:

Economic Survey of Austria, 2005 [31 May 2005]

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/40/46/34919633.pdf

[full-text, 8 pages]

See also-

Economic Survey of Austria, 2005 [31 May 2005]

http://www.oecd.org/document/24/0,2340,en_2649_201185_34930968_1_1_1_1,00.html

Executive Summary

http://www.oecd.org/document/12/0,2340,en_2649_201185_34932556_1_1_1_1,00.html

BLS: LABOR FORCE CHARACTERISTICS OF FOREIGN-BORN WORKERS IN 2004 [12 May 2005]

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

or

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

[full-text, 12 pages]

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

The Effects of Reserve Call-Ups on Civilian Employers

11 May 2005

http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=6351&sequence=0

or

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/63xx/doc6351/05-11-Reserves.pdf

[full-text, 39 pages]

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Recent Social Security Analyses

http://www.cbo.gov/SocialSecurity.cfm

[Scroll Down this page to find relevant publications full-text]

See also -

ALL PUBLICATIONS

http://www.cbo.gov/byclasscat.cfm?cat=11

Documentation of Social Security Models

http://www.cbo.gov/SocialSecurityModels.cfm

Cost Estimates Research

http://www.cbo.gov/CESearch.htm

Office of Personnel Management (OPM)

Federal Human Capital Survey 2004:

What Do Federal Employees Say?  Results from the Federal Human Capital Survey 2004 [19 May 2005]

http://www.fhcs2004.opm.gov/FHCS_2004_Report.pdf

[full-text, 48 pages]

Women's Bureau

20 Leading Occupations of Employed Women, 2004

http://www.dol.gov/wb/factsheets/20lead2004.htm

or

http://www.dol.gov/wb/factsheets/20lead2004_txt.htm

Nontraditional Occupations for Women in 2004

http://www.dol.gov/wb/factsheets/nontra2004.htm

Quick Stats 2004

http://www.dol.gov/wb/stats/main.htm

Amnesty International Report 2005 [25 May 2005]

http://web.amnesty.org/report2005/index-eng

The following are available for free viewing -

Secretary General's message

http://web.amnesty.org/report2005/message-eng

Responsibilities have no borders

http://web.amnesty.org/report2005/intro-index-eng

What does AI do?

http://web.amnesty.org/report2005/about-index-eng

Regional overview

Africa

http://web.amnesty.org/report2005/2af-index-eng

Americas

http://web.amnesty.org/report2005/2am-index-eng

Asia and the Pacific

http://web.amnesty.org/report2005/2as-index-eng

Europe and Central Asia

http://web.amnesty.org/report2005/2eu-index-eng

Middle East and North Africa

http://web.amnesty.org/report2005/2md-index-eng

List of countries

http://web.amnesty.org/report2005/countrylist-eng

Press Release-

http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGPOL100062005

Brookings Trade Forum 2005:

Offshoring White-Collar Work The Issues and the Implications

Co-chairs Lael Brainard and Susan M. Collins

May 12-13, 2005

http://www.brookings.edu/es/commentary/journals/tradeforum/about2005.htm

· Agenda and Papers

http://www.brookings.edu/es/commentary/journals/tradeforum/agenda2005.htm

[full-text papers are available at this URL]

THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TRAINING, EMPLOYABILITY AND EMPLOYMENT

22-23 September 2005

http://www.monash.edu.au/cmo/CTEE05/

CALL FOR PAPERS

http://www.monash.edu.au/cmo/CTEE05/paper.htm

INFORMATION FOR DELEGATES

http://www.monash.edu.au/cmo/CTEE05/INFO_LETTER.pdf

European Professional Women's Network

DEVELOPING YOUR POLITICAL COMPETENCE

An interview with Professor Samuel B. Bacharach by Daniela Gherghe.

http://www.europeanpwn.net/tht_career/articles_indiv_career/political_competence.html

VACATION CRISIS?

Press Release [17 May 2005]

AMERICA IN A "VACATION CRISIS"

http://media.universalorlando.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=55

16 May 2005

UNIVERSAL ORLANDO RESORT'S "ALL WORK AND NO PLAY" STUDY

http://media.universalorlando.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=56

Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)

3/3/05 9:00 AM

2005 to see less vacation carryover, experts predict

By Kathy Gurchiek

http://www.shrm.org/hrnews_published/archives/CMS_011555.asp

From the HayGroup

(The following is also found in- Selection & Development Review, Vol. 20, No. 6, December 2004 (pages 13-17))

The resilience inventory:Seven essential skills for overcoming life’s obstacles and determining happiness [online 26 May 2005]

http://www.haygroup.com/download.asp?file=r242&url=pa_the_resilience_inventory.pdf

[full-text, 5 pages]

[It might be necessary to register - FREE - to see this document]

INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES (IPS)

Launch of new "virtual map" to connect political progressives nationwide

"Cities for Progress is one more step to put progressive ideas back in power in the United States.

The 'Map of Progressive Leadership' is a communication tool to take back America."

--Karen Dolan, Project Director, Cities for Progress

Take Back America 2005

Press Conference--Wednesday, June 1, Noon--Washington Hilton

http://www.citiesforprogress.org/pdfs/CFP_LaunchPR052405.pdf

[full-text, 2 pages]

[PriceWaterhouseCoopers]

Saratoga & Michigan Business School

by Richard W. Beatty

White Paper

Workforce Agility: The New Frontier for Competitive Advantage [December 2004]

http://www.pwc.com/us/eng/tax/hrs/saratoga/Workforce-Agilility.pdf

[full-text, 16 pages]

Towers Perrin U.S. Legislative Tracking Charts Health and Welfare

United States 24 May 2005

http://www.towersperrin.com/hrservices/webcache/towers/United_States/publications/Periodicals/Leg_Tracking_Charts/2005_03_21/LTC_HW_2005_05_24.pdf

[full-text, 17 pages]

Towers Perrin U.S. Legislative Tracking Charts Human Resources

United States 24 May 2005

http://www.towersperrin.com/hrservices/webcache/towers/United_States/publications/Periodicals/Leg_Tracking_Charts/2005_03_21/LTC_HR_2005_05_24.pdf

[full-text, 6 pages]

Towers Perrin U.S. Legislative Tracking Charts Retirement

United States 24 May 2005

http://www.towersperrin.com/hrservices/webcache/towers/United_States/publications/Periodicals/Leg_Tracking_Charts/2005_03_21/LTC_RET_2005_05_24.pdf

[full-text, 12 pages]

REMARKS OF ROBERT J. BATTISTA

CHAIRMAN, NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD

58th NYU ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON LABOR

NEW YORK, NY

MAY 20, 2005

THE NLRB AT 70:  ITS PAST AND ITS FUTURE [online 23 May 2005]

http://www.nlrb.gov/nlrb/press/releases/chairman_052005_nyu_speech.htm

or

http://www.nlrb.gov/nlrb/press/releases/chairman_052005_nyu_speech.pdf

[full-text, 23 pages]

Facts for Features from the Census Bureau

15th Anniversary of Americans with  Disabilities Act: July 26, 2005 [online 26 May 2005]

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/004998.html

or

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2005/cb05ff-10.pdf

[full-text, 3 pages]

BEA: PERSONAL INCOME AND OUTLAYS:  APRIL 2005 [27 May 2005]

http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrel/pinewsrelease.htm

or

http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrelarchive/2005/pi0405.pdf

[full-text, 12 pages]

or

http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrelarchive/2005/pi0405.xls

[spreadsheet]

BEA: GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT:  FIRST QUARTER 2005 (PRELIMINARY) [26 May 2005]

CORPORATE PROFITS:  FIRST QUARTER 2005 (PRELIMINARY)

http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrelarchive/2005/gdp105p.htm

or

http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrelarchive/2005/gdp105p.pdf

[full-text, 16 pages]

or

http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrelarchive/2005/gdp105p.xls

[spreadsheet]

and

Highlights

http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrelarchive/2005/gdp105p_fax.pdf

BLS: MASS LAYOFFS IN APRIL 2005 [27 May 2005]

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

or

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

[full-text, 10 pages]

BLS: OCCUPATIONAL EMPLOYMENT AND WAGES, MAY 2004 [26 May 2005]

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

or

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

[full-text, 18 pages]

BLS: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT DYNAMICS:  THIRD QUARTER 2004 [24 May 2005]

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

or

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

[full-text, 11 pages]

EuroStat: 68/2005 - 30 May 2005

Earnings in industry and services in 2002

Average annual earnings varied significantly across the EU25

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_05/3-30052005-EN-AP.PDF

Census Bureau

Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2004

http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/voting.html

DETAILED TABLES

http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/voting/cps2004.html

HISTORICAL TABLES

http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/voting.html#hist

Press Release [26 May 2005]

U.S. Voter Turnout Up in 2004, Census Bureau Reports

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/voting/004986.html

Census Bureau

Detailed tables [MEDIAN HOUSING VALUES]

- State ranking

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2005/2003value_state.pdf

- County ranking

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2005/2003value_county.pdf

- Place ranking

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2005/2003value_city.pdf

- Million-dollar ranking

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2005/homes.pdf

Press Release

Median Housing Values Continue to Rise, Census Bureau Reports [24 May 2005]

Percentage of Million-Dollar Homes Nearly Doubles Since 2000

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/american_community_survey_acs/004974.html

European Commission

Women & Science: Statistics and Indicators [24 May 2005]

http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/science-society/women/wssi/index_en.html

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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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