Wednesday, June 07, 2006

[IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 7 June 2006

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
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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 don’t 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


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


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


Federal

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


State

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/


Institutes/Associations/Commercial

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


Law

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]


Statistical Reports

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


Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts

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

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