Wednesday, November 15, 2006

[IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 15 November 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, 15 November 2006


Academic Research

Upjohn Institute Staff Working Paper 06-131
Local Market Scale and the Pattern of Job Changes Among Young Men
http://www.upjohninst.org/publications/wp/06-131.pdf
[full-text, 36 pages]
Christopher H. Wheeler
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
e-mail: christopher.h.wheeler@stls.frb.org
November 7, 2006
Abstract
http://www.upjohninst.org/publications/wp/06131wp.html


INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LABOUR STUDIES (IILS) at the ILO
Discussion paper
DP/168/2006
Decent Work Research Programme
Policy concertation in Europe: Explaining government choice
Lucio Baccaro, Marco Simoni
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inst/download/dp16806.pdf
[full-text, 35 pages]


ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press)
UNEXPECTED POWER
Conflict and Change among Transnational Activists
Shareen Hertel
2006, 176 pages
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4584


ILR Impact Briefs
BRIEF #14 /  November 2006 / WWW.ILR.CORNELL.EDU
Diversity and Inclusion: Is There Really a Difference?
by QUINETTA M. ROBERSON
Professor of Human Resource Studies (ILR)
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/briefs/23/
[full-text, 3 pages]


ILR Impact Briefs
BRIEF #13 /  October 2006 / WWW.ILR.CORNELL.EDU
Diversity at Work: Cross-Racial Bonds on the Job
by SAMUEL B. BACHARACH
McKelvey-Grant Professor (ILR)
PETER A. BAMBERGER
Professor, Technion: Israel Institute of Technology
DANA V ASHDI
Technion: Israel Institute of Technology
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/briefs/22/
[full-text, 3 pages]

For additional ILR IMPACT BRIEFS, see http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/impactbrief/


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


International

International Labour Organization (ILO)
International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC)
IPEC action against child labour: Highlights 2006
October 2006
http://www.ilo.org/iloroot/docstore/ipec/prod/eng/20061019_Implementationreport_eng_Web.pdf
[full-text, 101 pages]

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Human Development Report 2006
Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty, and the Global Water Crisis [9 November 2006]
http://hdr.undp.org/hdr2006/
or
http://hdr.undp.org/hdr2006/pdfs/report/HDR06-complete.pdf
[full-text, 440 pages]

World Health Organization (WHO)
Gender equality, work and health: A review of the evidence [6 November 2006]
http://www.who.int/occupational_health/publications/genderwork/en/index.html
or
http://www.who.int/gender/documents/Genderworkhealth.pdf
[full-text, 57 pages]


Federal

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
CBO�s Economic Forecasting Record
An evaluation of the economic forecasts CBO made from January 1976 through January 2004
November 2006
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/76xx/doc7680/11-09-EconForecast.pdf
[full-text, 46 pages]

Congressional Research Service (CRS)
Order Code RL33703
Summary of the Pension Protection Act of 2006
October 23, 2006
Patrick Purcell, Specialist in Social Legislation, Domestic Social Policy Division
http://www.opencrs.com/rpts/RL33703_20061023.pdf
[full-text, 25 pages]

U.S. Department of Labor
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
OSHA 3323-10N
2006
Guidance for Protecting Employees Against Avian Flu [14 November 2006]
http://www.osha.gov/dsg/guidance/avian-flu.html
or
OSHA Guidance Update on Protecting Employees from Avian Flu (Avian Influenza) Viruses [14 November 2006]
http://www.osha.gov/OshDoc/data_AvianFlu/avian_flu_guidance_english.pdf
[full-text, 76 pages]

Social Security Administration (SSA)
Income of the Aged Chartbook, 2004 [September 2006]
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/policy/docs/chartbooks/income_aged/2004/index.html
or
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/policy/docs/chartbooks/income_aged/2004/iac04.html
or
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/policy/docs/chartbooks/income_aged/2004/iac04.pdf
[full-text, 34 pages]


Institutes/Associations/Commercial

Question of the Month [Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University]
November 2006
Question:
How many unions are there in the United States?
How many of these unions are for relatively small labor organizations of say 200 or less members?
Has this changed over time?
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/research/questionOfTheMonth/nov06.html


Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU)
http://kctu.org/
KCTU Launches a General Strike! [14 November 2006]
http://kctu.org/maybbs/pdsview.php?db=kctuinfo2&code=eng_action&n=36


RAND
Benchmarking of the use of personal advisers in Jobcentre Plus [14 November 2006]
http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR374/
or
http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2006/RAND_TR374.pdf
[full-text, 84 pages]
and
Summary
http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2006/RAND_TR374.sum.pdf
[full-text, 11 pages]
By: Christian van Stolk, Jennifer Rubin, Jonathan Grant


Watson Wyatt
Companies in Singapore forecasting a 4% average salary increase in 2007 [14 November 2006]
http://www.watsonwyatt.com/news/press.asp?ID=16720


Law

NLRB Press Releases R-2608
NLRB REPORTS ON CASE PRODUCTION IN FY 2006 [6 November 2007]
http://www.nlrb.gov/nlrb/press/releases/r2608.htm
or
http://www.nlrb.gov/nlrb/press/releases/r2608.pdf


Statistical Reports

BEA: U.S. INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN GOODS AND SERVICES September 2006 [9 November 2006]
http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrel/tradnewsrelease.htm
or
http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrelarchive/2006/trad0906.pdf
[full-text, 47 pages]
or
http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrelarchive/2006/trad0906.xls
[spreadsheet]
and
Highlights
http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrelarchive/2006/trad0906_fax.pdf


BLS: Producer Price Indexes - October 2006 [14 November 2006]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ppi.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ppi.pdf
[full-text, 18 pages]
and
Supplemental Files Table of Contents
http://www.bls.gov/web/ppi.supp.toc.htm


BLS: CONSUMER EXPENDITURES IN 2005 [8 November 2006]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cesan.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cesan.pdf
and
DETAILED TABLES will be found at
http://www.bls.gov/cex/


BLS: HOURLY  COMPENSATION  COSTS  FOR  PRODUCTION  WORKERS  IN  MANUFACTURING [Revised 6 November 2006]
32  COUNTRIES  OR  AREAS
22  MANUFACTURING  INDUSTRIES, 1992-2004
http://www.bls.gov/fls/flshcindnaics.htm
or
ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ForeignLabor/industrynaics.txt


Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts

BNA's Web Watch
Climate Change/Global Warming
http://www.bna.com/webwatch/climatechange.htm


Benetech
Bookshare.org
http://www.bookshare.org/web/Welcome.html
[For people with visual or other print disabilities]

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