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