Wednesday, August 16, 2006
[IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 16 August 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
________________________________________________________________________
IWS Weekly Bulletin, 16 August 2006
Academic Research
International
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ppi.nr0.htm or http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ppi.pdf [full-text, 20 pages] and Supplemental Files Table of Contents http://www.bls.gov/web/ppi.supp.toc.htm
BLS: EXTENDED MASS LAYOFFS IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF 2006 [10 August 2006] http://www.bls.gov/news.release/mslo.nr0.htm or http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/mslo.pdf [full-text, 21 pages]
BLS: NATIONAL CENSUS OF FATAL OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES IN 2005 [10 August 2006] http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.nr0.htm or http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cfoi.pdf [full-text, 16 pages]
BLS: Consumer price indexes in nine countries, percent change from same period of previous year, 1995-2006 [4 August 2006] ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ForeignLabor/flscpim.txt
Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts
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
****************************************
_______________________________
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, 16 August 2006
Academic Research
- Upjohn Institute Staff Working Paper 06-129
- Complementarity and Custom in Wage Contract Violation [in Russia]
- John S. Earle and Klara Sabirianova Peter,
- (Revised July 2006).
- http://www.upjohninst.org/publications/wp/06129wp.html
- or
- http://www.upjohninst.org/publications/wp/06-129.pdf
- [full-text, 48 pages]
- Upjohn Institute Staff Working Paper 06-128
- Retiree Health Benefits and Retirement,
- James Marton and Stephen A. Woodbury
- (Revised July 2006)
- http://www.upjohninst.org/publications/wp/06128wp.html
- or
- http://www.upjohninst.org/publications/wp/06-128.pdf
- [full-text, 36 pages]
- Complementarity and Custom in Wage Contract Violation [in Russia]
International
- European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO) Online
- Working time developments - 2005 [10 August 2006]
- http://www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int/2006/08/update/tn0608101u.html
- European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO) Online
- Collective dispute resolution in an enlarged European Union [28 July 2006]
- http://www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int/thematicfeature15.html
- or
- http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/htmlfiles/ef0642.htm
- or
- http://www.eurofound.eu.int/pubdocs/2006/42/en/1/ef0642en.pdf
- [full-text, 21 pages]
- European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO) Online
- Key themes in global industrial relations: Minimum wages and relocation of production [28 July 2006]
- http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/htmlfiles/ef05138.htm
- or
- http://www.eurofound.eu.int/pubdocs/2005/138/en/1/ef05138en.pdf
- [full-text, 50 pages]
- European Working Conditions Observatory (EWCO)
- News Update -- for more news updates, see -- http://www.eurofound.eu.int/ewco/newsupdates.htm
- GERMANY: Study analyses labour costs in manufacturing and services [14 August 2006]
- SUMMARY in ENGLISH
- http://www.eurofound.eu.int/ewco/2006/07/DE0607019I.htm
- or
- http://www.boeckler.de/pdf/p_imk_report_11_2006.pdf
- [full-text, 18 pages --- in GERMAN]
- European Working Conditions Observatory (EWCO)
- Earnings Disparities in Europe [11 July 2006]
- http://www.eurofound.eu.int/ewco/2006/07/EU0607NU05.htm
- Refers to --
- European Commission > Employment & Social Affairs > Employment Analysis
- Chapter 4
- Earnings disparities and determinants of the earnings distribution in the EU
- http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/employment_analysis/eie/eie2005_chap4_en.pdf
- [full-text, 48 pages]
- in
- Employment in Europe 2005
- http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/employment_analysis/employ_2005_en.htm
- International Labour Office (ILO)
- Subregional Office for Central and Eastern Europe Budapest
- Pension Reform in the Baltic States
- Editor, Elaine Fultz
- http://www3.ilo.org/public/english/protection/secsoc/downloads/1183sp1.pdf
- [full-text, 424 pages -- in ENGLISH]
- or
- http://www3.ilo.org/public/english/protection/secsoc/downloads/1182sp1.pdf
- [full-text, 461 pages -- in FRENCH]
- ILO
- European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Vienna
- STEP Portugal,
- Strategies and Tools against social Exclusion and Poverty (STEP)
- Working Paper
- Social Exclusion in Central-Eastern Europe.
- Concept, measurement and policy interventions
[2006]- Orsolya Lelkes
- http://www3.ilo.org/public/english/protection/secsoc/downloads/1173p1.pdf
- [full-text, 56 pages]
- ILO
- Global Campaign on Social Security and Coverage for All
- ESS (Extension of Social Security)
- ESS Paper No. 24 (2006)
- What is the impact of social health protection on access to health care, health expenditure and impoverishment?
- A comparative analysis of three African countries
- http://www3.ilo.org/public/english/protection/secsoc/downloads/1165sp1.pdf
- [full-text, 26 pages]
- Countries included are Kenya, Senegal and South Africa
- Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JILPT)
- Reports by Visiting Researchers
- http://www.jil.go.jp/english/reports/visiting.html
- Japan's innovation system and "cool" industries: What does game software case teach us?
- Cornelia Storz, Professor of Japanese Economy
- Department of Business Administration and Economics & Centre for Japanese Studies
- University of Marburg
- http://www.jil.go.jp/profile/documents/Storz.pdf
- [full-text, 18 pages]
- Working time developments - 2005 [10 August 2006]
- BLS: Occupational Projections and Training Data, 2006-07 Edition [26 July 2006]
- http://www.bls.gov/emp/optd/home.htm
- or
- http://www.bls.gov/emp/optd/optd.pdf
- [full-text, 216 pages]
- BLS Working Paper 396
- August 2006
- Discussion and Presentation of the Disability Test Results from the Current Population Survey
- By
- Terence McMenamin, Stephen M. Miller and Anne E. Polivka
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- http://www.bls.gov/ore/pdf/ec060080.pdf
- [full-text, 33 pages]
- BLS: Monthly Labor Review Online [7 August 2006]
- July 2006
- Vol. 129, Number 7
- http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/mlrhome.htm
- Price highlights 2005: higher energy prices again dominate producer prices
- Joseph Kowal, Antonio Lombardozzi, William Snyders, and Jonathan Weinhagen
- http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/07/art1full.pdf
- [full-text, 12 pages]
- Jobs in 2005: How do they compare with their March 2001 counterparts?
- Julie Hatch Maxfield
- http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/07/art2full.pdf
- [full-text, 12 pages]
- Cutting the cord: telecommunications employment shifts toward wireless
- Christopher C. Carbone
- http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/07/art3full.pdf
- [full-text, 7 pages]
- Earnings mobility and low-wage workers in the United States
- Brett Theodos and Robert Bednarzik
- http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/07/art4full.pdf
- [full-text, 14 pages]
- Joseph Kowal, Antonio Lombardozzi, William Snyders, and Jonathan Weinhagen
- BLS: Compensation and Working Conditions (CWC) Online [26 July 2006]
- http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/home.htm
- Charts: Emerging Benefits: Access to Health Promotion Benefits in the United States, Private Industry, 1999 and 2005 (07/26/2006)
- by Eli Stoltzfus
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/cm20060724ch01.htm
- A Different Approach to Measuring Workplace Safety: Injuries and Fatalities Relative to Output (07/26/2006)
- by Maury Gittleman and Brooks Pierce
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/sh20060724ar01p1.htm
- by Eli Stoltzfus
- Census Bureau
- Nonemployer Statistics: 2004 [27 July 2006]
- http://www.census.gov/prod/2006pubs/ns0400a01.pdf
- [full-text, 465 pages]
- Census
- American Community Survey (ACS)--2005 [15 August 2006]
- 15 Largest and Smallest Cities [Excel]
- http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2006/cb06cn05_table.xls
- [spreadsheet]
- 2005 Data User Guide
- http://www.census.gov/acs/www/Products/users_guide/index.htm
- ACS Media Tool Kit Page
- http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2004/NewsMediaKit.html
- Overview Video
- http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/broadcast/video/census_operations/007273.html
- Detailed tables
- http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DatasetMainPageServlet?_program=ACS&_submenuId=datasets_2&_lang=en
- Press Release
- Census Bureau Data Show Key Population Changes Across Nation
- American Community Survey Provides First Data for Many Cities Since 2000
[15 August 2006]- http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/american_community_survey_acs/007287.html
- Census Bureau Data Show Key Population Changes Across Nation
- Congressional Research Service (CRS)
- Order Code RS21954
- Updated August 9, 2006
- Automatic Enrollment in 401(k) Plans
- Patrick Purcell, Specialist in Social Legislation, Domestic Social Policy Division
- http://www.opencrs.com/rpts/RS21954_20060809.pdf
- [full-text, 6 pages]
- Congressional Research Service (CRS)
- Order Code RL33534
- China's Economic Conditions
- July 12, 2006
- Wayne M. Morrison, Specialist in International Trade and Finance, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division
- http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/70319.pdf
- [full-text, 17 pages]
- EEOC
- Questions and Answers about Deafness and Hearing Impairments in the Workplace and the Americans with Disabilities Act [26 July 2006]
- http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/deafness.html
- Press Release
- NEW EEOC PUBLICATION ADDRESSES EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS OF PEOPLE WITH HEARING LOSS
- Latest Q&A Fact Sheet Coincides with Anniversary of Landmark Disabilities Act
- http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-26-06.html
- NEW EEOC PUBLICATION ADDRESSES EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS OF PEOPLE WITH HEARING LOSS
- Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics
- Older Americans Update 2006: Key Indicators of Well-Being [10 July 2006]
- http://www.agingstats.gov/update2006/default.htm
- or
- http://www.agingstats.gov/update2006/OA_2006.pdf
- [full-text, 75 pages]
- Press Release
- http://www.agingstats.gov/update2006/pressroom.html
- Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics (Forum)
- America's Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2006 [July 2006]
- http://www.childstats.gov/americaschildren/index.asp
- or
- http://www.childstats.gov/pubs.asp
- General Accountability Office (GAO)
- [CONTINGENT WORKERS]
- Employment Arrangements: Improved Outreach Could Help Ensure Proper Worker Classification, GAO-06-656, July 11, 2006
- http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06656.pdf
- [full-text, 66 pages]
- and
- Highlights
- http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d06656high.pdf
- General Accountability Office (GAO)
- Human Trafficking: Better Data, Strategy, and Reporting Needed to Enhance U.S. Anti-trafficking Efforts Abroad. GAO-06-825, July 18.
- http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-825
- or
- http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06825.pdf
- [full-text, 69 pages]
- and
- Highlights -
- http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d06825high.pdf
- National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
- Digest of Education Statistics, 2005 [10 August 2006]
- http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2006030
- National Center for Health Statistics
- Summary Health Statistics for the U.S. Population: National Health Interview Survey, 2004 [August 2006]
- http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_10/sr10_229.pdf
- [full-text, 113 pages]
- Office of Immigration Statistics (OIS)
- Annual Flow Report, July 2006
- Temporary Admissions of Nonimmigrants to the United States: 2005
- ELIZABETH M. GRIECO
- http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/shared/statistics/publications/2005_NI_rpt.pdf
- [full-text, 8 pages]
- For additional information, see --
- Office of Immigration Statistics
- http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/shared/statistics/index.htm
- Office of Immigration Statistics
- Social Security Administration (SSA)
- Trends in the Social Security and Supplemental Security Income Disability Programs
- (released August 2006)
- http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/chartbooks/disability_trends/index.html
- or
- http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/chartbooks/disability_trends/trends.pdf
- [full-text, 120 pages]
- http://www.bls.gov/emp/optd/home.htm
- Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)
- EBRI Notes
- 'Britains Answer for Future Retirement Income: Possible Lessons for the United States,' and 'An American Perspective on the Chinese Pension System'
- August 2006, Vol. 27, No. 7
- Paperback, 12 pp.
- http://www.ebri.org/publications/notes/index.cfm?fa=notesDisp&content_id=3654
- or
- http://www.ebri.org/pdf/notespdf/EBRI_Notes_08-200641.pdf
- [full-text 12 pages]
- Press Release at
- http://www.ebri.org/pdf/PR_744_01Aug06.pdf
- Hay Group
- 15 August 2006
- New Executive Pay Disclosure Rules
- Addressing the Challenge of the Required Compensation Discussion and Analysis
- http://www.haygroup.com/downloads/us/Hay_Group_New_Executive_Pay_Disclosure_Rules.pdf
- [full-text, 6 pages]
- Pew Hispanic Center
- Growth in the Foreign-Born Workforce and Employment of the Native Born [10 August 2006]
- Rakesh Kochhar
- Associate Director for Research, Pew Hispanic Center
- http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/69.pdf
- [full-text, 56 pages]
- and
- Executive Summary
- http://pewhispanic.org/files/execsum/69.pdf
- [full-text, 4 pages]
- The Work Foundation (UK)
- Defining The Knowledge Economy
- by Ian Brinkley
- http://www.theworkfoundation.com/products/publications/azpublications/definingtheknowledgeeconomy.aspx
- or
- http://www.theworkfoundation.com/Assets/PDFs%5Cdefining_knowledge_economy.pdf
- [full-text, 31 pages]
- Press Release
- Knowledge economy debate needs to move beyond platitudes
- 28 July 2006
- The debate about the 'knowledge economy' is full of 'slovenly thinking and careless assumptions', The Work Foundation alleges today.
- http://www.theworkfoundation.com/aboutus/media/pressreleases/definingtheknowledgeeconomy.aspx
- Knowledge economy debate needs to move beyond platitudes
- The Work Foundation (UK)
- Who's Afraid of Labour Market Flexibility?
- by David Coats, Associate Director - Policy
- http://www.theworkfoundation.com/products/publications/azpublications/whosafraidoflabourmarketflexibility.aspx
- or
- http://www.theworkfoundation.com/Assets/PDFs/labour_market%20_flexibility.pdf
- [full-text, 87 pages]
- See Press Release 12 June 2006
- New study exposes flexibility myths
- http://www.theworkfoundation.com/aboutus/media/pressreleases/newstudyexposesflexibilitymyths.aspx
- New study exposes flexibility myths
- EBRI Notes
- A report by The ABA Commission on Women in the Profession
- VISIBLE INVISIBILITY: WOMEN OF COLOR IN LAW FIRMS [11 August 2006]
- http://www.abanet.org/media/nosearch/VisibleInvisibility.pdf
- [full-text, 141 pages]
- Press Release 3 August 2006
- HARASSMENT, EXCLUSION AND NEGLECT KEEP WOMEN OF COLOR FROM REACHING HIGHEST RANKS IN LAW FIRMS, ABA STUDY SHOWS
- http://www.abanet.org/media/releases/news080306.html
- HARASSMENT, EXCLUSION AND NEGLECT KEEP WOMEN OF COLOR FROM REACHING HIGHEST RANKS IN LAW FIRMS, ABA STUDY SHOWS
- VISIBLE INVISIBILITY: WOMEN OF COLOR IN LAW FIRMS [11 August 2006]
- BLS: Producer Price Indexes -- July 2006
Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts
- Produced by the Statistics of Income Division and Other Areas of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
- Tax Statistics
- http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/index.html
- Editor's Note about GOOGLEBOMBS -- see -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb
- That search engines can be manipulated is common knowledge. When they are made to express political statements, these public utilities lose their charm regardless of whether the intent is humorous or not.
- One example is the following: Go to Google and enter the word FAILURE. The first result will be a link to GEORGE BUSH.
- This result was still evident at 10:25 this morning (August 11, 2006). See link at -- http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=failure
- One will either laugh or be incensed. From an information perspective, however, this entire concept is troubling.
- Google's response at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/googlebombing-failure.html
- only makes the situation worse. It indicates that groups or teams of people can (and will) distort facts, results, and ultimately confidence in what is perceived to be a public utility.
- Tax Statistics
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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