IWS Documented News WEEKLY BULLETIN: September 2005

IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
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
________________________________________________________________________

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

_____________________________
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.

****************************************
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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# posted by SBasefsky : 9:03 AM

IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
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
________________________________________________________________________

IWS Weekly Bulletin, 21 September 2005

Academic Research

Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS)

U.S. Call Center Industry Report 2004 [July 2005]

National Benchmarking Report

Strategy, HR Practices & Performance

Rosemary Batt, Virginia Doellgast, Hyunji Kwon

CAHRS Working Paper 05 06

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/depts/cahrs/downloads/PDFs/WorkingPapers/WP05-06-CAHRS-USCallCenterReport.pdf

[full-text, 62 pages]

Does Social Security Privatization Produce Efficiency Gains?

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w11622.pdf

[full-text, 41 pages]

Shinichi Nishiyama, Kent Smetters

NBER Working Paper No. 11622

Issued in September 2005

---- Abstract -----

http://www.nber.org/papers/w11622

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

International

European Agency for Safety and Health at Work

GLOBAL NETWORK HOMEPAGE

http://osha.eu.int/OSHA

Press Release

EU launches new global safety and health portal [14 September 2005]

http://osha.eu.int/press_room/050914_GlobalPortal

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

Impact of training on peoples employability

http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF05110EN.pdf

[full-text, 72 pages]

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

19 of 41 CASE STUDIES on EUROPEAN WORKS COUNCILS -- more to appear at

http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/bysubject/listindustrialrelations2005.htm

The following are consolidated in the 2004 report-

European Works Councils in Practice

http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF04109EN.pdf

[full-text, 154 pages]

European Works Councils case studies: British Airways (BA)

http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF05711EN.pdf

[full-text, 8 pages]

European Works Councils case studies: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)

http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF05712EN.pdf

[full-text, 8 pages]

European Works Councils case studies: HSBC

http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF05713EN.pdf

[full-text, 7 pages]

European Works Councils case studies: Amersham

http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF05719EN.pdf

[full-text, 6 pages]

European Works Councils case studies: The BOC

http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057110EN.pdf

[full-text, 7 pages]

European Works Councils case studies: The British American Tobacco Company

http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057111EN.pdf

[full-text, 5 pages]

European Works Councils case studies: The Royal and Sun Alliance Group

http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057112EN.pdf

[full-text, 9 pages]

European Works Councils case studies: Allianz Group

http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057113EN.pdf

[full-text, 9 pages]

European Works Councils case studies: Bayer Group

http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057114EN.pdf

[full-text, 5 pages]

European Works Councils case studies: The DaimlerChrysler Group

http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057115EN.pdf

[full-text, 7 pages]

European Works Councils case studies: Deutsche Bank

http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057116EN.pdf

[full-text, 5 pages]

European Works Councils case studies: Kraft Foods

http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057117EN.pdf

[full-text, 6 pages]

European Works Councils case studies: Assa Abloy

http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057118EN.pdf

[full-text, 8 pages]

European Works Councils case studies: Atlas Copco

http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057119EN.pdf

[full-text, 8 pages]

European Works Councils case studies: Electrolux AB

http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057120EN.pdf

[full-text, 9 pages]

European Works Councils case studies: Securitas AB

http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057121EN.pdf

[full-text, 9 pages]

European Works Councils case studies: SKF

http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057122EN.pdf

[full-text, 7 pages]

European Works Councils case studies: Swedish Match

http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057123EN.pdf

[full-text, 7 pages]

European Works Councils case studies: IKEA

http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057124EN.pdf

[full-text, 9 pages]

The Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JILPT)

Labor Situation in Japan and Analysis : Detailed Exposition 2005/2006 [July 2005]

http://www.jil.go.jp/english/laborinfo/library/documents/20052006LaborSituation.pdf

[full-text, 57 pages]

ILO

(The following is to be presented at the World Congress on Safety and Health at Work, Orlando, Florida 18-22 September)

FOOD AT WORK: Workplace Solutions for Malnutrition, Obesity, and Chronic Diseases

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/download/foodatwork.pdf

[full-text, 12 pages]

Press Release

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/2005/34.htm

Produced for the XVIIth World Congress on Safety and Health at Work (Orlando, 18-22 Sep. 2005)

Introductory Report: Decent Work Safe Work

by

Dr. J. Takala, Director, SafeWork

International Labour Office, Geneva

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/wdcongrs17/intrep.pdf

[full-text, 50 pages]

See Press Release-

Global workplace deaths vastly under-reported, says ILO 18 September 2005

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/2005/36.htm

[Please note: this is the first Economic Survey of China produced by the OECD]

OECD Policy Brief:

Economic Survey of China 2005 [16 September 2005]

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/10/25/35294862.pdf

[full-text, 8 pages]

See also-

Economic Survey of China 2005

http://www.oecd.org/document/21/0,2340,en_2649_201185_35331797_1_1_1_1,00.html

Executive Summary

http://www.oecd.org/document/45/0,2340,en_2649_201185_35344877_1_1_1_1,00.html

Press Release, 16 September 2005

China could become worlds largest exporter by 2010

http://www.oecd.org/document/15/0,2340,en_2649_201185_35363023_1_1_1_1,00.html

UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)

Progress of the World's Women 2005: Women, Work & Poverty [31 August 2005]

http://www.unifem.org/resources/item_detail.php?ProductID=48

or

http://www.unifem.org/attachments/products/PoWW2005_eng.pdf

[full-text, 116 pages]

Press Release [31 August 2005]

UNIFEM Report Calls for Increased Focus on Women's Informal Employment in Efforts to Combat Poverty and Gender Inequality

http://www.unifem.org/news_events/story_detail.php?StoryID=295

Federal

Congressional Research Service (CRS)

Older Workers: Employment and Retirement Trends - 14 September 2005

http://opencrs.cdt.org/rpts/RL30629_20050914.pdf

[full-text, 19 pages]

Congressional Research Service (CRS)

Unemployment and Employment Programs Available to Workers from Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi Affected by Hurricane Katrina

September 15, 2005

Julie M. Whittaker

Analyst in Applied Microeconomics, Domestic Social Policy Division

Ann Lordeman

Specialist in Social Legislation, Domestic Social Policy Division

http://opencrs.cdt.org/rpts/RL33084_20050915.pdf

[full-text, 16 pages]

EEOC

BURGER CHAIN TO PAY $150,000 TO RESOLVE EEOC RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION SUIT

Suit Says Red Robin Fired Employee for Religious Tattoos, Saying It Wanted 'All-American Kid' [16 September 2005]

http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-16-05.html

GAO: Federal Employees Health Benefits Program: Competition and Other Factors Linked to Wide Variation in Health Care Prices. GAO-05-856, August 15. [online 14 September 2005]

http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-05-856

or

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05856.pdf

[full-text, 80 pages]

and

Highlights -

http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d05856high.pdf

Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS)

Number: 16-05

September 15, 2005

Form LM-2, LM -3 and LM -4 Advisory for Labor Organizations in Areas Affected by Hurricane Katrina

http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/compliance/olms/Katrina.htm

State

NY STATE'S AUGUST PRIVATE SECTOR JOB GROWTH MATCHES NATION

State's Unemployment Rate Lower Than Nation for Seventh Month in 2005 [15 September 2005]

http://www.labor.state.ny.us/workforceindustrydata/PressReleases/pruistat.htm

Institutes/Associations/Commercial

Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)

EBRI Notes, September 2005, Vol. 26, No. 9

Retirement Plan Participation: Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) Data , p. 2

New Publications and Internet Sites, p. 12

http://www.ebri.org/pdf/EBRI_Notes_09-2005.pdf

[full-text, 16 pages]

Press Release --

New Research From EBRI:

Study Shows Slight Gains in Retirement Plan Participation [21 September 2005]

http://www.ebri.org/pdf/PR_712_21Sept05.pdf

Hewitt Study Shows Base Pay Increases Flat for 2006 With Variable Pay Plans Picking Up the Slack

Health Care and Energy Cost Increases Threaten Salary Gains [31 August 2005]

http://was4.hewitt.com/hewitt/resource/newsroom/pressrel/2005/08-31-05.htm

CHARTS

(1) Summary of Overall Salary Increases by City Location

(2) U.S. Salary Increases (1995 - 2006)

(3) Percentage of U.S. Companies With at Least One Type of Variable Pay Plan (1995 - 2005)

(4) U.S. Company Spending on Variable Pay Awards for Salaried Exempt Employees (as a % of Payroll)

http://was4.hewitt.com/hewitt/resource/newsroom/pressrel/2005/08-31-05_charts.pdf

Hudson

Why Employees Walk: 2005 Retention Initiatives Report [14 September 2005]

http://www.hudson-index.com/node.asp?SID=5060

COMPLETE DATA RESULTS

http://www.hudson-index.com/documents/us-hudson-index-data-091405.xls

Press Release, 14 September 2005

http://www.hudson-index.com/node.asp?SID=5059

[excerpts]

Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS)

Where in the World Is Your Job Going?

by Maralyn Edid, Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS)

http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/briefs/7/

Full-text report at -

http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=briefs

[full-text, 7 pages]

More IWS Issue Briefs by Maralyn Edid can be found at -

http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/briefs/

Kaiser Family Foundation

Employer Health Benefits 2005 Annual Survey

http://www.kff.org/insurance/7315/index.cfm

or

Summary of Findings

http://www.kff.org/insurance/7315/sections/upload/7316.pdf

[full-text, 8 pages]

or

Full Report

http://www.kff.org/insurance/7315/sections/index.cfm

(broken into sections)

Law

Congressional Research Service (CRS)

Prevailing Wage Requirements and the Emergency Suspension of the Davis-Bacon Act [16 September 2005]

John R. Luckey and Jon O. Shimabukuro

Legislative Attorneys

American Law Division

http://opencrs.cdt.org/rpts/RS22265_20050916.pdf

[full-text, 4 pages]

EEOC

Commission Appellate and Amicus Briefs

http://www.eeoc.gov/litigation/appbriefs.html

Statistical Reports

BLS: AMERICAN TIME USE SURVEY--2004 RESULTS ANNOUNCED BY BLS [20 September 2005]

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

or

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

[full-text, 25 pages]

BLS: CONSUMER PRICE INDEX: AUGUST 2005 [15 September 2005]

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

or

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

[full-text, 18 pages]

BLS: REAL EARNINGS IN AUGUST 2005 [15 September 2005]

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

or

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

[full-text, 5 pages]

Census: County Business Patterns 1993-2003 [19 September 2005]

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

Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts

The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University

The Importance of Family Dinners II

http://www.casacolumbia.org/Absolutenm/articlefiles/380-2005_family_dinners_ii_final.pdf

[full-text, 21 pages]

Press Release, 13 September 2005

http://66.135.34.236/absolutenm/templates/PressReleases.asp?articleid=405&zoneid=56

Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Trends in the International Telecommunications Industry: Summary through 2003 [14 September 2005]

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-261024A2.pdf

[full-text, 53 pages]

Press Release at-

FCC RELEASES "TRENDS IN THE INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY" REPORT

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-261024A1.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.

****************************************
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                  *
****************************************

# posted by SBasefsky : 8:04 AM

IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
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
________________________________________________________________________

IWS Weekly Bulletin, 14 September 2005

Academic Research

Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS)

The Indian Call Centre Industry: National Benchmarking Report Strategy, HR Practices, & Performance (CAHRS Working Paper 05 - 07)

Rosemary Batt, Virginia Doellgast, Hyunji Kwon, Mudit Nopany, Priti Nopany, Anil da Costa

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/depts/cahrs/downloads/PDFs/WorkingPapers/WP05-07.pdf

[full-text, 26 pages]

The Intergenerational Effect of Worker Displacement

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w11587.pdf

[full-text, 44 pages]

Philip Oreopoulos, Marianne Page, Ann Huff Stevens

NBER Working Paper No. 11587

Issued in August 2005

---- Abstract -----

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w11587

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

International

International Labour Office

Economic and Social Analysis Unit

Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok

Labour and Social Trends in Asia and the Pacific 2005 [12 September 2005]

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/region/asro/bangkok/download/14tharm/rep_trends.pdf

[full-text, 78 pages]

Press Release 12 September 2005

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/region/asro/bangkok/public/releases/yr2005/pr05_24.htm

International Labour Organization (ILO)

Report of the Director-General for

Fourteenth Asian Regional Meeting

Busan, Republic of Korea, October 2005 (Postponed)

Decent work in Asia Reporting on results 2001-2004, Volume I

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/relm/rgmeet/14asrm/dgrep1.pdf

[full-text, 154 pages]

and

Making Decent Work and Asian Goal, Volume II

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/relm/rgmeet/14asrm/dgrep2.pdf

[full-text, 88 pages]

ILO issues new publication on international labour standards

Tuesday 30 August 2005 (ILO/05/33)

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/2005/33.htm

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION (ILO)

BETTER FACTORIES CAMBODIA

KINGDOM OF CAMBODIA

TWELFTH SYNTHESIS REPORT ON THE WORKING CONDITIONS IN CAMBODIA'S GARMENT SECTOR

8 AUGUST 2005

http://www.betterfactories.org/content/documents/1/12th%20Synthesis%20Report%20(En).pdf

[full-text, 42 pages]

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE GENEVA

Conditions of Work and Employment Programme

Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 2

Sexual harassment at work: National and international responses [2005]

Deirdre McCann

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/condtrav/pdf/2cws.pdf

[full-text, 74 pages]

International Labour Office - Geneva

Social Dialogue, Labour Law and Labour Administration Department

Informal Economy, Undeclared Work and Labour Administration

José Luis Daza June 2005

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/dialogue/ifpdial/downloads/papers/informal.pdf

[full-text, 73 pages]

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE GENEVA

Conditions of Work and Employment Programme

Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 11

Working time in transition: The dual task of standardization and flexibilization in China

Xiangquan Zeng, Liang Lu, Saad Umar Idris

School of Labor and Human Resources

Renmin University of China

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/condtrav/pdf/11cws.pdf

[full-text, 41 pages]

OECD

EDUCATION AT A GLANCE 2005 [13 September 2005]

Press Release

http://www.oecd.org/document/13/0,2340,en_2649_201185_35341645_1_1_1_1,00.html

or

Overview

http://www.oecd.org/document/34/0,2340,en_2649_34515_35289570_1_1_1_1,00.html

or

Executive Summary

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/20/25/35345692.pdf

[full-text, 64 pages]

Federal

BLS DATA on UNIONS [10 August 2005]

http://www.bls.gov/bls/blsuniondata.htm

BLS: MONTHLY LABOR REVIEW Online [9 September 2005]

August 2005

Vol. 128, Number 8

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/mlrhome.htm

Mass layoff data indicate outsourcing and offshoring work

Sharon P. Brown and Lewis B. Siegel

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/08/art1full.pdf

[full-text, 8 pages]

Restructuring information technology: is offshoring a concern?

Robert W. Bednarzik

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/08/art2full.pdf

[full-text, 11 pages]

Manufacturing earnings and compensation in China

Judith Banister

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/08/art3full.pdf

[posted soon]

See, in the meantime, -

http://www.bls.gov/fls/chinareport.pdf

[full-text, 90 pages]

The female share of weekend employment: a study of 16 countries

Harriet B. Presser and Janet C. Gornick

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/08/art4full.pdf

[full-text, 13 pages]

BLS: MONTHLY LABOR REVIEW Online, July 2005

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/07/contents.htm

Manufacturing Employment in China

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/07/art2full.pdf

[full-text, 16 pages]

See also,

Manufacturing Employment and Compensation in China

http://www.bls.gov/fls/chinareport.pdf

BLS: National Compensation Survey:

Occupational Wages in the United States, July 2004

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

August 2005

Summary 05-02

http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/sp/ncbl0727.pdf

[full-text, 16 pages]

BLS: National Compensation Survey:

Employee Benefits in Private Industry in the United States, March 2005 [24 August 2005]

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

August 2005

Summary 05-01

http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ebs/sp/ebsm0003.pdf

[full-text, 32 pages]

Census Bureau

Household Economic Studies

Current Population Reports

Issued September 2005

P70-98

What It's Worth: Field of Training and Economic Status in 2001[13 September 2005]

http://www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/p70-98.pdf

[full-text, 16 pages]

Census Bureau

Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2004 (30 August 2005)

http://www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/p60-229.pdf

[full-text, 85 pages

Census Bureau

Income, Earnings, and Poverty From the 2004 American Community Survey (30 August 2005)

http://www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/acs-01.pdf

[full-text, 24 pages]

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Comparing the Pay of Federal and Nonfederal Law Enforcement Officers, August 2005 [23 August 2005]

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/66xx/doc6619/08-23-LawEnforcementPay.pdf

[full-text, 33 pages]

and

Supplemental Data

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/66xx/doc6619/SuppleData.pdf

[full-text, 24 pages]

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Analysis of H.R. 3304, Growing Real Ownership for Workers Act of 2005

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/66xx/doc6645/09-13-BaucusLetter.pdf

[full-text, 65 pages]

Congressional Research Service (CRS)

RL30122

Pension Sponsorship and Participation: Summary of Recent Trends (September 08, 2005)

http://www.opencrs.com/rpts/RL30122_20050908.pdf

[full-text, 18 pages]

National Science Foundation (NSF)

InfoBrief

Graduate Enrollment in Science and Engineering Programs Up in 2003, but Declines for First-Time Foreign Students [10 August 2005]

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf05317/

or

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf05317/nsf05317.pdf

[full-text, 6 pages]

White House

(DAVIS BACON suspended in New Orleans area. Workers will be paid less for reconstruction).

Proclamation by the President: To Suspend Subchapter IV of Chapter 31 of Title 40, United States Code, Within a Limited Geographic Area in Response to the National Emergency Caused by Hurricane Katrina

A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/09/20050908-5.html

or

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/09/print/20050908-5.html

Institutes/Associations/Commercial

The Commonwealth Fund

Issue Brief

Health and Productivity Among U.S. Workers (August 2005)

Karen Davis, Sara R. Collins, Michelle M. Doty,

Alice Ho, and Alyssa L. Holmgren

http://www.cmwf.org/usr_doc/856_Davis_hlt_productivity_USworkers.pdf

[full-text, 12 pages]

Press Release and related sources at-

http://www.cmwf.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=294176

Cornell online course series teaches higher education leaders how to manage organizational change [13 September 2005]

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept05/highered.ecornell.html

Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)

FFE #06, Sept 13, 2005

Who Are the Uninsured? Study Offers Clues

http://www.ebri.org/publications/facts/index.cfm?fa=fastfacts

[soon to appear at the URL above]

MDRC

Does Making Work Pay Still Pay?

An Update on the Effects of Four Earnings Supplement Programs on Employment, Earnings, and Income [19 August 2005]

By Charles Michalopoulos

http://www.mdrc.org/publications/414/overview.html

or

FULL REPORT

http://www.mdrc.org/publications/414/full.pdf

[full-text, 92 pages]

or

Executive Summary

http://www.mdrc.org/publications/414/execsum.html

and

Technical Resources (Data)

http://www.mdrc.org/publications/414/techresources.pdf

[full-text, 24 pages]

Mercer

Employee benefits most generous in US government, education, and nonprofit sectors

United States

New York, 29 August 2005

http://www.mercerhr.com/pressrelease/details.jhtml/dynamic/idContent/1191625

Mercer

Survey - HRs involvement in mergers and acquisitions

United Kingdom

London, 8 August 2005

http://www.mercerhr.com/pressrelease/details.jhtml/dynamic/idContent/1188905;jsessionid=HEH0FXQHSM03SCTGOUGCHPQKMZ0QYI2C

San Francisco Chronicle

We Need You To Manage, Mr. President

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/09/EDGT5EK1R81.DTL&hw=bacharach&sn=001&sc=1000

or

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/09/09/EDGT5EK1R81.DTL&type=printable

Samuel B. Bacharach

Friday, September 9, 2005

Towers Perrin

Global Capital Markets Update - 2nd Quarter Results of Defined Benefits Pension Plans in Selected Countries [11 August 2005]

http://www.towersperrin.com/hrservices/webcache/towers/United_States/publications/Periodicals/Capital_mkt/2005_08/GCMU2005Q2.pdf

[full-text, 8 pages]

Towers Perrin

New Role of Pension Trustees in a Global Company [13 September 2005]

http://www.towersperrin.com/hrservices/webcache/towers/United_States/publications/Article_Reprints/Pension_Trustees/Groves.pdf

[full-text, 5 pages]

Watson Wyatt [August 2005]

Asia Pacific - China

The yuan revaluation: what does it mean for your China business?

http://www.watsonwyatt.com/news/globalnews2.asp?ID=14909&nm=Asia%20Pacific%20-%20China

Law

International Labour Office -- Geneva

WORKING TIME LAWS: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE [2005]

Findings from the ILO's Conditions of Work and Employment Database

Deirdre McCann

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/condtrav/pdf/wtwo-dm-05.pdf

[full-text, 85 pages]

Statistical Reports

BLS: EXTENDED MASS LAYOFFS IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF 2005 [11 August 2005]

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

or

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

[full-text, 21 pages]

BLS: JOB OPENINGS AND LABOR TURNOVER: JUNE 2005 [10 August 2005]

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

or

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

[full-text, 13 pages]

Federal Reserve Board (FRB)

INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION AND CAPACITY UTILIZATION [14 September 2005]

http://www.federalreserve.gov/Releases/G17/Current/default.htm

or

http://www.federalreserve.gov/Releases/G17/Current/g17.pdf

[full-text, 19 pages]

and

Supplemental Tables

http://www.federalreserve.gov/Releases/G17/Current/g17_sup.pdf

[full-text, 9 pages]

Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts

FACT for FEATURES from the CENSUS

CB05-FFSE.04-2

September 12, 2005 (reissued)

i Special Edition i

Unmarried and Single Americans Week September 18-24, 2005

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/005384.html

or

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2005/cb05ffse04-2.pdf

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IWS Weekly Bulletin, 14 September 2005

Academic Research

Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS)

The Indian Call Centre Industry: National Benchmarking Report Strategy, HR Practices, & Performance (CAHRS Working Paper 05 - 07)

Rosemary Batt, Virginia Doellgast, Hyunji Kwon, Mudit Nopany, Priti Nopany, Anil da Costa

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/depts/cahrs/downloads/PDFs/WorkingPapers/WP05-07.pdf

[full-text, 26 pages]

The Intergenerational Effect of Worker Displacement

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w11587.pdf

[full-text, 44 pages]

Philip Oreopoulos, Marianne Page, Ann Huff Stevens

NBER Working Paper No. 11587

Issued in August 2005

---- Abstract -----

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w11587

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

International

International Labour Office

Economic and Social Analysis Unit

Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok

Labour and Social Trends in Asia and the Pacific 2005 [12 September 2005]

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/region/asro/bangkok/download/14tharm/rep_trends.pdf

[full-text, 78 pages]

Press Release 12 September 2005

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/region/asro/bangkok/public/releases/yr2005/pr05_24.htm

International Labour Organization (ILO)

Report of the Director-General for

Fourteenth Asian Regional Meeting

Busan, Republic of Korea, October 2005 (Postponed)

Decent work in Asia Reporting on results 2001-2004, Volume I

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/relm/rgmeet/14asrm/dgrep1.pdf

[full-text, 154 pages]

and

Making Decent Work and Asian Goal, Volume II

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/relm/rgmeet/14asrm/dgrep2.pdf

[full-text, 88 pages]

ILO issues new publication on international labour standards

Tuesday 30 August 2005 (ILO/05/33)

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/2005/33.htm

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION (ILO)

BETTER FACTORIES CAMBODIA

KINGDOM OF CAMBODIA

TWELFTH SYNTHESIS REPORT ON THE WORKING CONDITIONS IN CAMBODIA'S GARMENT SECTOR

8 AUGUST 2005

http://www.betterfactories.org/content/documents/1/12th%20Synthesis%20Report%20(En).pdf

[full-text, 42 pages]

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE GENEVA

Conditions of Work and Employment Programme

Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 2

Sexual harassment at work: National and international responses [2005]

Deirdre McCann

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/condtrav/pdf/2cws.pdf

[full-text, 74 pages]

International Labour Office - Geneva

Social Dialogue, Labour Law and Labour Administration Department

Informal Economy, Undeclared Work and Labour Administration

José Luis Daza June 2005

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/dialogue/ifpdial/downloads/papers/informal.pdf

[full-text, 73 pages]

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE GENEVA

Conditions of Work and Employment Programme

Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 11

Working time in transition: The dual task of standardization and flexibilization in China

Xiangquan Zeng, Liang Lu, Saad Umar Idris

School of Labor and Human Resources

Renmin University of China

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/condtrav/pdf/11cws.pdf

[full-text, 41 pages]

OECD

EDUCATION AT A GLANCE 2005 [13 September 2005]

Press Release

http://www.oecd.org/document/13/0,2340,en_2649_201185_35341645_1_1_1_1,00.html

or

Overview

http://www.oecd.org/document/34/0,2340,en_2649_34515_35289570_1_1_1_1,00.html

or

Executive Summary

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/20/25/35345692.pdf

[full-text, 64 pages]

Federal

BLS DATA on UNIONS [10 August 2005]

http://www.bls.gov/bls/blsuniondata.htm

BLS: MONTHLY LABOR REVIEW Online [9 September 2005]

August 2005

Vol. 128, Number 8

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/mlrhome.htm

Mass layoff data indicate outsourcing and offshoring work

Sharon P. Brown and Lewis B. Siegel

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/08/art1full.pdf

[full-text, 8 pages]

Restructuring information technology: is offshoring a concern?

Robert W. Bednarzik

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/08/art2full.pdf

[full-text, 11 pages]

Manufacturing earnings and compensation in China

Judith Banister

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/08/art3full.pdf

[posted soon]

See, in the meantime, -

http://www.bls.gov/fls/chinareport.pdf

[full-text, 90 pages]

The female share of weekend employment: a study of 16 countries

Harriet B. Presser and Janet C. Gornick

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/08/art4full.pdf

[full-text, 13 pages]

BLS: MONTHLY LABOR REVIEW Online, July 2005

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/07/contents.htm

Manufacturing Employment in China

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/07/art2full.pdf

[full-text, 16 pages]

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