Wednesday, June 07, 2006
[IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 7 June 2006
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, 7 June 2006
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----------------- 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, 7 June 2006
Academic Research
- Korea Labor Institute (KLI)
- Issue Paper
- Human Resource Development for the Auto Industry [1 June 2006]
- Cho, Seong-Jae
- http://www.kli.re.kr/kli/html_eng/08_mail/webzineboard/upfile/54_Human%20Resource%20Development%20for%20the%20Auto%20Industry.pdf
- [full-text, 11 pages]
- DUKE JOURNAL OF GENDER LAW & POLICY, Volume 13, Spring 2006
- Women in the Workplace
- http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/djglp/
- ARTICLES
- Foreword: Looking for a Miracle? Women, Work, and Effective Legal Change
- Catherine L. Fisk 1
- http://www.law.duke.edu/shell/cite.pl?13+Duke+J.+Gender+L.+&+Pol%27y+1
- Women in the Workplace: Which Women, Which Agenda?
- Michael Selmi, Naomi Cahn 7
- http://www.law.duke.edu/shell/cite.pl?13+Duke+J.+Gender+L.+&+Pol%27y+7
- Deconstructing the Maternal Wall: Strategies for Vindicating the Civil Rights of "Carers" in the Workplace
- Joan C. Williams, Elizabeth S. Westfall 31
- http://www.law.duke.edu/shell/cite.pl?13+Duke+J.+Gender+L.+&+Pol%27y+31
- Re-Defining Superwoman: An Essay on Overcoming the "Maternal Wall" in the Legal Workplace
- Nicole Buonocore Porter 55
- http://www.law.duke.edu/shell/cite.pl?13+Duke+J.+Gender+L.+&+Pol%27y+55
- Acknowledging Informal Power Dynamics in the Workplace: A Proposal for Further Development of the Vicarious Liability Doctrine in Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment Cases
- Susan D. Carle 85
- http://www.law.duke.edu/shell/cite.pl?13+Duke+J.+Gender+L.+&+Pol%27y+85
- Sexual Harassment, Misconduct, and the Atmosphere of the Laboratory: The Legal and Professional Challenges Faced by Women Physical Science Researchers at Educational Institutions
- Ellen Sekreta 115
- http://www.law.duke.edu/shell/cite.pl?13+Duke+J.+Gender+L.+&+Pol%27y+115
- Joe Camel Explains it to the Board: Corporate Law, Women in the Workforce, and the Exploitation of Children
- Theresa A. Gabaldon 203
- http://www.law.duke.edu/shell/cite.pl?13+Duke+J.+Gender+L.+&+Pol%27y+203
- Love at Work
- Sharon Rabin-Margalioth 237
- http://www.law.duke.edu/shell/cite.pl?13+Duke+J.+Gender+L.+&+Pol%27y+237
- Work Sanctions Under Welfare Reform: Are They Helping Women Achieve Self-Sufficiency?
- Vicki Lens 255
- http://www.law.duke.edu/shell/cite.pl?13+Duke+J.+Gender+L.+&+Pol%27y+255
- Call for Papers
- IIRA 8th EUROPEAN REGIONAL CONGRESS 4th 7th September 2007
- http://buira.org.uk/component/option,com_docman/Itemid,/task,doc_download/gid,31/
- ILR Press (an Imprint of Cornell University Press)
- NURSES ON THE MOVE
- Migration and the Global Health Care Economy
- by Mireille Kingma
- http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4395
- Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
- GENDER DISCRIMINATION AND ECONOMIC OUTCOMES IN CHILE
- First Draft (Incomplete, please dont quote)
- Research Team.:
- David Bravo, Claudia Sanhueza, Sergio Urzúa
- Centro de Microdatos, Departamento de Economía, Universidad de Chile
- May 30, 2006
- http://www.iadb.org/res/laresnetwork/projects/pr270finaldraft.pdf
- [full-text, 56 pages]
- Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
- Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID)
- Research Department
- Departamento de Investigación
- Working Paper #562
- Gender Wage Gap in Chile 1992-2003 from a Matching Comparisons Perspective - WP-562
- http://www.iadb.org/res/publications/pubfiles/pubWP-562.pdf
- [full-text, 43 pages]
- Author: Ñopo, Hugo
- Published: May 2006
- Language: English
International
- European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
- Foundation seminar on worker mobility
- Riga, 7 June 2006
- Too much or too little long-distance mobility in Europe? EU policies to promote and restrict mobility
- Hubert Krieger and Enrique Fernandez
- http://www.eurofound.eu.int/docs/areas/populationandsociety/mobility3paper2006.pdf
- [full-text, 16 pages]
- INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCE [31 May - 16 June, 2006]
- 95th Session 2006
- Report I (C)
- INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE (ILO) GENEVA
- CHANGING PATTERNS IN THE WORLD OF WORK
- http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/relm/ilc/ilc95/pdf/rep-i-c.pdf
- [full-text, 85 pages]
- Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JILPT)
- [JAPAN] MAIN LABOR ECONOMIC INDICATORS [2 June 2006]
- http://www.jil.go.jp/english/estatis/eshuyo/200606/index.htm
- Korea Labor Institute (KLI)
- [KOREA] LABOR TRENDS, May 2006 [1 June 2006]
- http://www.kli.re.kr/kli/html_eng/08_mail/webzineboard/view_trends.asp?seq=59&rseq=41&tseq=42
- Employment Trends
- < http://www.kli.re.kr/kli/html_eng/08_mail/webzineboard/view_trends.asp?seq=59&rseq=41&tseq=42&vmode=0 >
- Wage Trends
- < http://www.kli.re.kr/kli/html_eng/08_mail/webzineboard/view_trends.asp?seq=59&rseq=41&tseq=42&vmode=1 >
- Industrial Relations
- < http://www.kli.re.kr/kli/html_eng/08_mail/webzineboard/view_trends.asp?seq=59&rseq=41&tseq=42&vmode=3 >
- World Bank
- Global Development Finance 2006:
- The Development Potential of Surging Capital Flows [30 May 2006]
- http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTGDF2006/Resources/GDF06_complete.pdf
- [full-text, 221 pages]
- Also available by chapter at
- http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTDECPROSPECTS/EXTGDF/EXTGDF2006/0,,contentMDK:20925051~menuPK:2344934~pagePK:64167689~piPK:64167673~theSitePK:2344908,00.html
- and
- Statistical Appendix:
- http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTGDF2006/Resources/GDF06_statapp.pdf
- [full-text, 36 pages]
- Press Release
- Global Development Finance 2006
- The Development Potential of Surging Capital Flows
- http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTDECPROSPECTS/EXTGDF/EXTGDF2006/0,,menuPK:2344945~pagePK:64167702~piPK:64167676~theSitePK:2344908,00.html
- BLS: Employment from the BLS household and payroll surveys: summary of recent trends [2 June 2006]
- http://www.bls.gov/web/ces_cps_trends.pdf
- [full-text, 16 pages]
- BLS: Monthly Labor Review Online [31 May 2006]
- May 2006
- Vol. 129, Number 5
- http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/mlrhome.htm
- Consumer prices rose 3.4 percent in 2005, about the same as last year
- Todd Wilson
- http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/05/art1full.pdf
- [full-text, 16 pages]
- Price measurement in the United States: A decade after the Boskin Report
- David S. Johnson, Stephen B. Reed, and Kenneth J. Stewart
- http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/05/art2full.pdf
- [full-text, 10 pages]
- Comparing U.S. and European inflation: the CPI and the HICP
- Walter Lane and Mary Lynn Schmidt
- http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/05/art3full.pdf
- (full-text, 8 pages)
- Impact of business births and deaths in the payroll survey
- Kirk Mueller
- http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/05/art4full.pdf
- (full-text, 7 pages)
- Multiyear nonfatal work injury rates
- Michael R. Pergamit and Parvati Krishnamurty
- http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/05/art5full.pdf
- (full-text, 4 pages)
- Census
- E-Stats
- http://www.census.gov/eos/www/ebusiness614.htm
- E-Commerce 2004 [25 May 2006]
- http://www.census.gov/eos/www/papers/2004/2004reportfinal.pdf
- [full-text, 26 pages]
- See also
- 2004 E-COMMERCE MULTI-SECTOR DATA TABLES
- http://www.census.gov/eos/www/all2004tables.html
- and
- 2004 FORMS
- http://www.census.gov/eos/www/2004forms.html
- Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
- A CBO Paper
- A Series on Immigration
- Projections of Net Migration to the United States [6 June 2006]
- JUNE 2006
- http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/72xx/doc7249/06-06-Immigration.pdf
- [full-text, 18 pages]
- Congressional Research Service (CRS)
- Order Code RL30922
- Retirement Savings and Household Wealth: Trends from 2001 to 2004
- Updated May 22, 2006
- Patrick Purcell, Specialist in Social Legislation, Domestic Social Policy Division
- http://opencrs.cdt.org/rpts/RL30922_20060522.pdf
- [full-text, 21 pages]
- EEOC ON WEDNESDAY TO HOST EMPLOYER ROUNDTABLE ON EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES [5 June 2006]
- http://www.eeoc.gov/press/6-05-06.html
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Health Resources and Services Administration
- Bureau of Health Professions (BHP)
- National Center for Health Workforce Analysis: Area Resource File
- http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/healthworkforce/data/arf.htm
- National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
- The Condition of Education [1 June 2006]
- http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/
- or
- http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2006/2006071.pdf
- [full-text, 409 pages]
- State Department
- Trafficking in Persons Report 2006 [5 June 2006]
- http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2006/
- and
- http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/66086.pdf
- [full-text, 295 pages]
- Press Release
- Release of the Sixth Annual Trafficking in Persons Report
- Secretary Condoleezza Rice
- Washington, DC
- June 5, 2006
- http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2006/67551.htm
- Prepared for the Office of Medicaid Management,
- New York State Department of Health
- by Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations
- Disaster Relief Medicaid: Evaluation Project [online 31 May 2006]
- December 2005
- http://www.health.state.ny.us/health_care/medicaid/related/docs/drm_report.pdf
- [full-text, 214 pages]
- New York State
- Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance
- 2006 Monthly Temporary & Disability Statistics
- http://www.otda.state.ny.us/bdma/
- RECENT BOOKS from ILR PRESS
- Joan Fitzgerald, Moving up in the New Economy
- http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4405
- Clayton Sinyai, Schools of Democracy
- http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4472
- John Budd, The Ethics of Human Resources
- http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4450
- Robert Weiss, The Experience of Retirement
- http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4387
- Dan Zuberi, Differences that Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada
- http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4483
- Steven McKay, Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands? The Politics of High-Tech Production in the Philippines
- http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4433
- Asaf Darr, Selling Technology: The Changing Shape of Sales in an Information Economy
- http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4443
- Ellen Dannin, Taking Back the Workers' Law
- http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4465
- Kris Paap, Working Construction
- http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4487
- For additional books, see --
- http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_listsearch.taf?_function=list&imprint=An%20ILR%20Press%20Book
- The Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard University
- African American Men Survey [4 June 2006]
- http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/upload/7526.pdf
- [full-text, 39 pages]
- Press Release --
- Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard African-American Men Survey
- http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/7526.cfm
- Royal & SunAlliance
- Tuesday May 30 2006
- One in six Britons under the influence at work
- http://www.royalsunalliance.com/royalsun/uploads/press/24hourdrinking-consumerFINAL.doc
- [full-text, 4 pages]
- From the TELEWORKOTHERS list from the General Services Administration (GSA)
- "Security for Telecommuting and Broadband Communications," Special Publication 800-46, issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
- http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-46/sp800-46.pdf
- [full-text, 113 pages]
- "Telework Center Survey," conducted by the Washington (DC) Metropolitan Telework Centers.
- http://www.gsa.gov/gsa/cm_attachments/GSA_DOCUMENT/TELEWORK%20CENTER%20CLIENT%20SURVEY%20MARCH%202006_R25-u8R_0Z5RDZ-i34K-pR.pdf
- [full-text, 23 pages]
- or
- http://www.gsa.gov/gsa/cm_attachments/GSA_DOCUMENT/teleworkcenterclientsurveymarch2006_R25-u8R_0Z5RDZ-i34K-pR.doc
- Telework Bench Marking Study: Best Practices for Large Scale Implementation in Public and Private Sector Organizations, conducted by the Telework Coalition.
- http://www.telcoa.org/id311.htm for the Executive Summary
- or
- http://www.telcoa.org/id312.htm
- or
- http://www.telcoa.org/HTMLobj-1130/03_09_06_telework_benchmarking_study_FINAL_no_intel.pdf for the full report.
- [full-text, 26 pages]
- "Exploring Telework as a Business Continuity Strategy," issued by WorldatWork/ITAC. The chapter on Technology Solutions provides information about preventing laptop theft and keeping the network secure.
- http://www.workingfromanywhere.org/telework/twaresearch.htm
- Watson Wyatt
- Few Multinationals Have Implemented a Health and Productivity Strategy Outside United States [30 May 2006]
- Companies Plan to Add Programs to Combat Rising Health Care Costs, Watson Wyatt Survey Finds
- http://www.watsonwyatt.com/news/press.asp?ID=16116
- United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)
- Senator Chuck Hagel, Chairman | Representative Jim Leach, Co-Chairman
- CHINA HUMAN RIGHTS and RULE OF LAW UPDATE--June 2006 [3 June 2006]
- http://www.cecc.gov/pages/general/newsletters/CECCnewsletter20060602.pdf?PHPSESSID=2e276821f7a9835893578f2ba826e675
- [full-text, 18 pages]
- Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
- Foreign Direct Investors' Outlays to Acquire or Establish U.S. Businesses Changed Little in 2005 (1 June 2006)
- http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrel/fdinewsrelease.htm
- or
- http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrelarchive/2006/fdi05.pdf
- [full-text, 8 pages]
- or
- http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrelarchive/2006/fdi05.xls
- [spreadsheet]
- BEA: REAL TOURISM OUTPUT GREW 5.5 PERCENT IN FIRST QUARTER 2006 [7 June 2006]
- http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrel/tournewsrelease.htm
- or
- http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrelarchive/2006/tour106.pdf
- [full-text, 6 pages]
- or
- http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrelarchive/2006/tour106.xls
- [spreadsheet]
- and
- BACKGROUND on Tourism Satellite Accounts
- http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrel/tourbackground.htm
- BEA: WESTERN STATES LED ECONOMIC GROWTH IN 2005 [6 June 2006]
- Advance 2005 and Revised 19982004 Gross State Product (GSP) Estimates
- http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrel/gspnewsrelease.htm
- or
- http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrelarchive/2006/gsp0606.pdf
- [full-text, 8 pages]
- or
- http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrelarchive/2006/gsp0606.xls
- [spreadsheet]
- and
- Highlights
- http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrelarchive/2006/gsp0606_fax.pdf
- BLS: Consumer price indexes in nine countries, percent change from same period of previous year, 1995-2006 [2 June 2006]
- ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ForeignLabor/flscpim.txt
- BLS: JOB OPENINGS AND LABOR TURNOVER: APRIL 2006 [6 June 2006]
- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.nr0.htm
- or
- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/jolts.pdf
- [full-text, 14 pages]
- BLS: THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION: MAY 2006 [2 June 2006]
- 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
- BLS: PRODUCTIVITY AND COSTS First Quarter 2006, revised [1 June 2006]
- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/prod2.nr0.htm
- or
- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/prod2.pdf
- [full-text, 15 pages]
- and
- Supplemental Files Table of Contents
- http://www.bls.gov/web/prod2.supp.toc.htm
- BLS: METROPOLITAN AREA EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT: APRIL 2006 [31 May 2006]
- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/metro.nr0.htm
- or
- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/metro.pdf
- [full-text, 21 pages]
- and
- Supplemental Files Table of Contents
- http://www.bls.gov/web/metro.supp.toc.htm
- Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
- Jail incarceration rates by race and ethnicity, 1990-2005
- http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/jailrair.htm
- Jail population by race and ethnicity, 1990-2005
- http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/jailrace.htm
- Jail population by age and gender, 1990-2005
- http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/jailag.htm
- For all three items above, see also -- http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pubalp2.htm#pjmidyear
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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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
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