Thursday, June 29, 2006

[IWS] Special Edition: EUROPEAN FOUNDATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVING & WORKING CONDITIONS--DATA & INFORMATION

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
________________________________________________________________________

SPECIAL EDITION


European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (often referred to as the Dublin Foundation)
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/index.htm

The Foundation is a European Union body, one of the first to be established to work in specialised areas of EU policy. Specifically, it was set up by the European Council (Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1365/75 of 26 May 1975), to contribute to the planning and design of better living and working conditions in Europe.
Role: To provide information, advice and expertise – on living and working conditions, industrial relations and managing change in Europe – for key actors in the field of EU social policy on the basis of comparative information, research and analysis.
Themes: Employment and working conditions; Work–life balance; Industrial relations and partnership;  Social cohesion
Target Audience: Employers; EU policymakers;  Governments;  Trade unions
Three main tasks: monitoring and understanding change; research and exploring what works; communicating and sharing ideas and experience
 

Material and data can be searched by –

• subject -- http://www.eurofound.eu.int/bysubject/index.htm
• sector -- http://www.eurofound.eu.int/bysector/index.htm
• language -- http://www.eurofound.eu.int/bylanguage/index.htm
• country -- http://www.eurofound.eu.int/bycountry/index.htm
 
There are four main divisions of information:
 
(1)  European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO)
      http://www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int/ which includes­
 

 Comparative Information -- http://www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int/comparative_index.html
 

Annual Reviews (by country) -- http://www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int/annualreports.html
Comparative Studies -- http://www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int/comparativestudies.html
Thematic Features -- http://www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int/thematicfeature.html
Other EIRO reports -- http://www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int/others.html
 

        EU Level Developments (1997-) -- http://www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int/eu_developments.html
 
            EU Level -- http://www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int/2006/country/eu.level.html
            Transnational -- http://www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int/2006/country/trans.national.html
 

        By Country (1997-) -- http://www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int/country_index.html
 

By Sector (1997-) -- http://www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int/sectors/1_2006.html
 

        By Date (1997-) -- http://www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int/date_index.html
 

European Industrial Relations Dictionary
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/areas/industrialrelations/dictionary/
 

European Industrial Relations Links
http://www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int/relatedsites.html
 

Advanced Text Search -- http://www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int/search/adv_search.php
 
 
(2)  European Monitoring Centre on Change (EMCC)
         http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/    which includes--
 
EMCC identifies, assesses and processes relevant information on the driving forces of change in the European economy, which can be searched by a browsing feature --
By Matrix -- http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/browse.htm
By Topic  -- http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/topic.htm
By Sector -- http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/sector.htm
By Country -- http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/country.htm
 
There are specific resources and/or databases such as
 

European Restructuring Monitor (ERM) -- http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/erm/
The European Restructuring Monitor is a tool designed to provide a quick overview of restructuring activities in Europe and their employment consequences. It provides information on individual restructuring cases and allows for the compilation of statistics comparing countries, sectors and types of restructuring. All information is based on the analysis of daily newspapers and the business press in the EU25 and the two acceding countries: Bulgaria and Romania.
 

Included are –
Fact Sheets (includes nearly 5000 restructuring cases)
http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/erm/index.php?template=searchfactsheets
 

ERM Quarterly -- http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/erm/index.php?template=quarterly
 

Statistics -- http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/erm/index.php?template=stats
 

Sector Futures -- http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/sector_futures.htm
Focusing on the trends and drivers of change in selected sectors of the economy, EMCC presents a series of forward-looking features. Three separate articles are published for each sector. The first paints a broad picture of the changing dynamic of the sector, the second presents future scenarios and the third draws out key policy issues.
 

EMCC Dossier -- http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/indexes/emcc_dossier.html
EMCC dossiers highlight specific issues and events relevant to the major economic changes, and to the European social and political agenda. Each dossier places the issue in context, gathers information from different sources and enables the user to consider the wider picture. The dossiers are published on a regular basis.
 
 
Sort by date -- http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/indexes/emcc_dossier_date.html
Sort Alphabetically – http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/indexes/emcc_dossier.html
 
 
EMCC Publications -- http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/indexes/publications/ef_publication.html
 
Sort by date -- http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/indexes/publications/ef_publication_bydate.html
Sort Alphabetically – http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/indexes/publications/ef_publication.html
 
 
(3)  European Working Conditions Observatory (EWCO)
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/ewco/  which includes­
 
EWCO News Updates (2003-)
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/ewco/newsupdates.htm
News updates are short articles based on newsworthy developments in the area of quality of work at national level. Each national correspondent provides 4-6 such articles each year.
 

Survey Data Reports (2003-)
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/ewco/surveys/surveyreports.htm
Survey data reports are summaries of national working conditions survey findings in countries covered by the EWCO network. Results from these surveys provide an interesting complement to the results of the Foundation's own working conditions surveys.
 

Topic Reports (2004-)
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/ewco/topicreports.htm
Topic reports are significant pieces of comparative analysis covering developments at EU and national level on a pre-selected theme. They are based on structured contributions from the national correspondents, each covering their own country. A synthesis 'topic report' is prepared by a lead correspondent and the national contributions are also published.
 

List of National Correspondents
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/ewco/network.htm
The network of national/EU correspondents provide regular news updates on working conditions throughout Europe, in addition to reports on national surveys and on particular topics.
 

Annual Reviews of European Working Conditions (2004-)
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/ewco/annualreports.htm
 
 
(4)  EurLIFE -- an interactive database of statistical indicators
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/areas/qualityoflife/eurlife/index.php

EurLife is an interactive database on living conditions and quality of life in Europe, offering data drawn from the Foundation's own surveys and from other published sources.
The data provided deals with the objective living conditions and subjective well-being of European citizens. It covers the 25 current EU Member States and three candidate countries: Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey.
 
Indicators are categorized into the following areas­
Health | Employment | Income deprivation | Education | Family | Social participation | Housing | Environment | Transport | Safety | Leisure | Life satisfaction
 

______________________________
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                  
****************************************


Wednesday, June 28, 2006

[IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 28 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
________________________________________________________________________

IWS Weekly Bulletin, 28 June 2006


Academic Research

A Comparative Analysis of the Labor Market Impact of International Migration: Canada, Mexico, and the United States
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w12327.pdf
[full-text, 66 pages]
Abdurrahman Aydemir, George J. Borjas
NBER Working Paper No. 12327
Issued in June 2006
---- Abstract -----
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w12327


New Evidence on Gender Difference in Promotion Rates: An Empirical Analysis of a Sample of New Hires
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w12321.pdf
[full-text, 42 pages]
Francine D. Blau, Jed DeVaro
NBER Working Paper No. 12321
Issued in June 2006
---- Abstract -----
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w12321


ILR Press
Schools of Democracy: A Political History of the American Labor Movement
by Clayton Sinyai
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/ilrpress/titles/4472.html
or
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4472


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


International

European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)

Childcare for school children: Employment development in the EU [21 June 2006]
http://www.eurofound.eu.int//areas/labourmarket/childcare.htm


European Monitoring Centre on Change (EMCC)
Childcare services in the EU - what future? [8 June 2006]
http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/content/source/eu06015a.html?p1=ef_publication&p2=null


Employment developments in childcare services for school-age children: infosheet [20 June 2006]
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/htmlfiles/ef0645.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/pubdocs/2006/45/en/1/ef0645en.pdf
[full-text, 2 pages]


ILO (International Labour Organization)
Library and Information Services

WorkGate
http://www.ilo.org/dyn/workgate/wg.main?lng=en


Subject Map
http://www.ilo.org/dyn/workgate/wg.subjMap?lng=en


Subject List
http://www.ilo.org/dyn/workgate/wg.alphaLst?lng=en


Featured Topics
http://www.ilo.org/dyn/workgate/wg.showFTs?lng=en


SEARCH WorkGate at
http://www.ilo.org/dyn/workgate/wg.srchFrm?lng=en


About WorkGate
http://www.ilo.org/dyn/workgate/wg.aboutWg?lng=en


Federal

Prepared by: U.S. Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Office of Productivity and Technology
http://www.bls.gov/fls/
June 16, 2006
Comparative Real Gross Domestic Product Per Capita and Per Employed Person
Fifteen Countries 1960-2005
ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ForeignLabor/flsgdp.txt
or
http://www.bls.gov/fls/flsgdp.pdf
[full-text, 15 pages]


BLS: Occupational Outlook Quarterly Online [21 June 2006]
Summer 2006
Vol. 50, Number 2
http://www.bls.gov/opub/ooq/ooqhome.htm


Careers in homeland security: Many jobs, one mission
Elka Jones
Summer, Vol 50, Number 2
http://www.bls.gov/opub/ooq/2006/summer/art01.pdf
[full-text, 14 pages]
 

Internships: Previewing a profession
Elka Jones
http://www.bls.gov/opub/ooq/2006/summer/art02.pdf
[full-text, 3 pages]


Project managers stay in charge and out front
Tom DiVincenzo
http://www.bls.gov/opub/ooq/2006/summer/art03.pdf
[full-text, 7 pages]


From court reporting to Web casting: Captioning in the new millennium
Tamara Dillon
http://www.bls.gov/opub/ooq/2006/summer/art04.pdf
[full-text, 6 pages]


CDC, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
Early Release of Selected Estimates Based on Data From the 2005 National Health Interview Survey
(Released 6/21/2006)
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/nhis/released200606.htm
or
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/earlyrelease200606.pdf
[full-text, 105 pages]
and
Health Insurance Coverage: Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, 2005
by Robin A. Cohen, Ph.D., and Michael E. Martinez, M.P.H., Division of Health Interview Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/insur200606.pdf
[full-text, 19 pages]


Press Release
Health Insurance for Children Improved in 2005; Overall Coverage Varies by State [21 June 2006]
http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/r060621.htm


Congressional Research Service (CRS)
CRS Report for Congress
Order Code RL33482
Saving Incentives: What May Work, What May Not
June 20, 2006
Thomas L. Hungerford, Specialist in Public Sector Economics, Government and Finance Division
http://www.opencrs.com/rpts/RL33482_20060620.pdf
[full-text, 19 pages]

United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Office of Federal Operations
Annual Report on the Federal Work Force Fiscal Year 2005 [22 June 2006]
http://www.eeoc.gov/federal/fsp2005/index.html


EEOC OFFERS TIPS TO COMPANIES THAT EMPLOY TEENS [20 June 2006]
Millions of Young Adults Preparing to Join Labor Force this Summer
http://www.eeoc.gov/press/6-20-06.html


Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)
How to Protect Your Employees When Purchasing Health Insurance [Fact Sheet]
http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/newsroom/fshlthinstips.html
The above is important in light of --
EBSA News Release: [06/21/2006]
Labor Department Obtains Court Order Barring Idaho Company and Executives from Service to Employee Benefit Plans
http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/ebsa/ebsa20060981.htm


GAO: H-1B Visa Program:  More Oversight by Labor Can Improve Compliance with Program Requirements, by Sigurd R. Nilsen, director, education, workforce, and income security, before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims, House Committee on the Judiciary. GAO-06-901T, June 22.  (2 p.m.)
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-901T
or
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06901t.pdf
[full-text, 20 pages]
and
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d06901thigh.pdf


Institutes/Associations/Commercial

Catherwood Library, School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR)
CURRENT UNION PERIODICALS
A-E
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/subjectGuides/usLaborUnions/UnionPer/CurrPer/UnionNamesAE.html
F-J
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/subjectGuides/usLaborUnions/UnionPer/CurrPer/UnionNamesFJ.html
K-O
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/subjectGuides/usLaborUnions/UnionPer/CurrPer/UnionNamesKO.html
P-T
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/subjectGuides/usLaborUnions/UnionPer/CurrPer/UnionNamesPT.html
U-Z
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/subjectGuides/usLaborUnions/UnionPer/CurrPer/UnionNamesUZ.html


CUErgo
Cornell University Ergonomics Web
http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/
Please note that there is a variety of useful material relating to workplace issues found at this site. See for example:
ERGONOMICS INFORMATION
http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/CUEHinfo.html


Society for Human Resource Management
HRMagazine, July 2006, Vol. 51, No. 7
50 Best Small and Medium Places to Work
The 2006 Edition
http://www.shrm.org/hrmagazine/articles/0706/0706cover.asp


Law

LLRX.com
Comparative and Foreign Law Guides
http://www.llrx.com/comparative_and_foreign_law.html


LLRX.com
State & Federal Legislation
http://www.llrx.com/resources7.htm


Statistical Reports

BEA: State Personal Income: First Quarter 2006 [22 June 2006]
http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrel/SQPINewsRelease.htm
or
http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrelarchive/2006/spi0606.pdf
[full-text, 7 pages]
or
http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrelarchive/2006/spi0606.xls
[spreadsheet]
and
Highlights
http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrelarchive/2006/spi0606_fax.pdf


BLS: EMPLOYER COSTS FOR EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION-MARCH 2006 [21 June 2006]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ecec.pdf
[full-text, 27 pages]


BLS: MASS LAYOFFS IN MAY 2006 [22 June 2006]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/mmls.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/mmls.pdf
[full-text, 10 pages]


Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts

Religion in a Free Market: Religious and Non-Religious Americans -- Who, What, Why, and Where [June 2006]
by Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar
http://www.paramountbooks.com/prodpage.cfm?cat_selected=&product_selected=203


Facts for Features from the Census Bureau
CB06-FF.09
The Fourth of July 2006
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/006825.html
or
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2006/cb06ff-09.pdf
[full-text, 4 pages]

______________________________
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                  
****************************************


Wednesday, June 21, 2006

[IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 21 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
________________________________________________________________________

IWS Weekly Bulletin, 21 June 2006


Academic Research

Hans Boeckler Stiftung
WSI-Discussion paper  145:
"Monitoring flexicurity policies in Europe from three different viewpoints" [June 2006]
Andranik Tangian
http://www.boeckler.de/pdf/p_wsi_diskp_145_e.pdf
[full-text, 31 pages]


OECD: Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers
www.oecd.org/els/workingpapers


No. 36. From Inactivity to Work: The Role of Active Labour Market Policies
Stéphane Carcillo and David Grubb (June 2006)
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/44/8/36945194.pdf
[full-text, 75 pages]

No. 35. Employment Patterns in OECD Countries: Reassessing the Role of Policies and Institutions
Andrea Bassanini and Romain Duval (June 2006)
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/47/61/36888714.pdf
[full-text, 130 pages]

No. 34.  An Age Perspective on Economic Well-Being and Social Protection in Nine OECD Countries
Thai-Thanh Dang, Herwig Immervoll, Daniela Mantovani, Kristian Orsini, Holly Sutherland (June 2006)
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/5/10/36890154.pdf
[full-text, 56 pages]


ILR Impact Briefs
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/impactbrief/


BRIEF #7  /  June 2006  / WWW.ILR.CORNELL.EDU
Pathways to Success: Human Resource Practices Do Matter
by Christopher J. Collins, Cornell University
Ken G. Smith, University of Maryland
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/impactbrief/7/
[full-text, 3 pages]

BRIEF #8 /  June 2006 / WWW.ILR.CORNELL.EDU
The Privatization of Public Higher Education: Can We Afford It?
by Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Cornell University
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/impactbrief/8/
[full-text, 3 pages]


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


International

European Monitoring Centre on Change (EMCC)
Economic development agencies: Fostering business champions [16 June 2006]
http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/content/source/eu06018a.html


ILO (International Labour Organization)
Partnership for Productivity: ILS and Management (in Modules as below) [online 15 June 2006]
by Emily Sims, Senior Specialist, ILO Enterprise Development Department,
2005, ISBN 92-2-117730-0
Introduction
[ http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/multi/download/part-intro.pdf ]

Module 1: Globalization and the high road to productivity
[ http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/multi/download/part-mod1.pdf ]

Module 2: Introduction to the ILO and International Labour Standards: Origin, Principles and Purpose
[ http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/multi/download/part-mod2.pdf ]

Module 3: Principles of International Labour Standards and Productivity: Making the Link
[ http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/multi/download/part-mod3.pdf ]

Module 4: Effective Communication for Productivity Improvement
[ http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/multi/download/part-mod4.pdf ]

Module 5: Safe Work
[ http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/multi/download/part-mod5.pdf ]

Module 6: Investing in People
[ http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/multi/download/part-mod6.pdf ]

Module 7: Diversity at Work
[ http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/multi/download/part-mod7.pdf ]

Module 8: A solid foundation for building partnership
[ http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/multi/download/part-mod8.pdf ]

Module 9: Collective Bargaining
[ http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/multi/download/part-mod9.pdf ]


International Labour Organization (ILO)
Employment Strategy Papers
Labour market flexibility and employment and income security in Ethiopia: Alternative considerations [online June 2006]
Maria Sabrina De Gobbi, International Labour Office, Employment Policy Unit, Employment Strategy Department
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/strat/download/esp2006-1.pdf
[full-text, 69 pages]

International Labour Organization (ILO)
Employment Policy Unit
Employment Strategy Department
Globalization, economic policy and employment: Poverty and gender implications
By James Heintz
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/strat/download/esp2006-3.pdf
[full-text, 91 pages]


OECD Employment Outlook 2006: Boosting Jobs and Incomes [13 June 2006]
http://www.oecd.org/document/38/0,2340,en_2649_34731_36261286_1_1_1_1,00.html

STATISTICAL ANNEX
http://www.oecd.org/document/23/0,2340,en_2649_34731_36786071_1_1_1_1,00.html
or
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/53/15/36900060.pdf
[full-text, 32 pages]


OECD: International Migration Outlook 2006 [8 June 2006]
http://www.oecd.org/document/6/0,2340,en_2649_33931_36770438_1_1_1_1,00.html

See Press Release --
http://www.oecd.org/document/8/0,2340,en_2649_201185_36855048_1_1_1_1,00.html

Selected Tables and Graphs
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/34/36/36850633.pdf


Federal

U.S. Department of Labor
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
May 2006
Report 994
A Profile of the Working Poor, 2004 [9 June 2006]
http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2004.pdf
[full-text, 14 pages]

Census
County Business Patterns: 2004 [15 June 2006]
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/cbptotal.html
Press Release 15 June 2006
County Business Patterns: 2004
More Than 1 Million Jobs Added in Retail, Other Industries, New Census Report Finds
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/county_business_patterns/006985.html


2002 Economic Census
Survey of Business Owners
Company Statistics Series
American Indian- and Alaska Native-Owned Firms: 2002 [20 June 2006]
http://www.census.gov/prod/ec02/sb0200csaian.pdf
[full-text, 391 pages]

Press Release
Revenues for American Indian- and Alaska Native-Owned Businesses Near $27 Billion, Census Bureau Reports [20 June 2006]
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/business_ownership/007013.html


Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Updated Long-Term Projections for Social Security [14 June 2006]
June 2006
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/72xx/doc7289/06-14-LongTermProjections.pdf
[full-text, 26 pages]

Supplemental Data
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/72xx/doc7289/06-14-SupplementalData.xls
[spreadsheet]



Congressional Research Service (CRS)
CRS Report for Congress
Order Code RL31932
TRADE AGREEMENTS: IMPACT ON THE U.S. ECONOMY
Updated June 1, 2006
James K. Jackson, Specialist in International Trade and Finance, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division
http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/67843.pdf
[full-text, 25 pages]


General Accountability Office (GAO)
Equal Employment Opportunity:  Improved Coordination Needed Between EEOC and OPM Needed in Leading Federal Workforce EEO.  GAO-06-214, June 16.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-214
or
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06214.pdf
[full-text, 96 pages]
and
Highlights -
http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d06214high.pdf


GAO: Immigration Enforcement:  Weaknesses Hinder Employment Verification and Worksite Enforcement Efforts, by Richard M. Stana, director, homeland security and justice, before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Citizenship, Senate Committee on the Judiciary.  GAO-06-895T, June 19.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-895T
or
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06895t.pdf
[full-text, 27 pages]
and
Highlights -
http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d06895thigh.pdf


National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
Documentation for the NCES Comparable Wage Index Files [15 June 2006]
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2006865
or
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2006/2006865.pdf
[full-text, 39 pages]
NCES Comparable Wage Index Data Files & Published Papers on Cost of Education Indices:
http://nces.ed.gov/edfin/prodsurv/data.asp


National Library of Medicine
[This search engine is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED]
ToxSeek
http://toxSeek.nlm.nih.gov
About ToxSeek
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/abouttoxseek.html


State/City

Los Angeles Labor Negotiations Study [online 29 May 2006]
http://www.lacity.org/ctr/audits/FINAL_CONSOL_REPORT_%20MAY_17_LM.pdf
[full-text, 92 pages]


Institutes/Associations/Commercial

Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)
EBRI Issue Brief #294
The Tax Treatment of Health Insurance and Employment-Based Health Benefits [15 June 2006]
June 2006
http://www.ebri.org/pdf/briefspdf/EBRI_IB_06-20061.pdf
[full-text, 32 pages]
Executive Summary
http://www.ebri.org/publications/ib/index.cfm?fa=ibDisp&content_id=3642


Giving USA Foundation
Press Release
Charitable Giving Rises 6 Percent to More than $260 Billion in 2005 [19 June 2006]
Disaster relief tops all records and totals 3 percent of all giving
http://www.aafrc.org/press_releases/trustreleases/0606_PR.pdf
[full-text, 4 pages]

Hazards Magazine (The Workers' Health & Safety Magazine)
April/June 2006, Number 94
ILO to promote global asbestos ban
http://www.hazards.org/asbestos/ilo.htm


Mercer
Pay for pharmacy professionals is increasing at a strong pace
United States
New York, 14 June 2006
http://www.mercerhr.com/pressrelease/details.jhtml/dynamic/idContent/1230120


Pew Charitable Trust
PEW Global Attitudes Project
15-Nation Pew Global Attitudes Survey [13 June 2006]
No Global Warming Alarm in the U.S., China
AMERICA’S IMAGE SLIPS, BUT ALLIES SHARE U.S. CONCERNS OVER IRAN, HAMAS
http://www.pewtrusts.org/pdf/PAG_report_2006.pdf
[full-text, 62 pages]
For more information about the PEW GLOBAL ATTITUDES PROJECT, see-
http://pewglobal.org/


Watson Wyatt
UK leads the way for cash alternative to cars [14 June 2006]
http://www.watsonwyatt.com/news/press.asp?ID=16168


Work Foundation (UK)
Who’s afraid of labour market flexibility? [12 June 2006]
by David Coats
http://www.theworkfoundation.com/research/labour_market_flex.jsp
or
http://www.theworkfoundation.com/pdf/labour_market%20_flexibility.pdf
[full-text, 87 pages]

Executive Summary
http://www.theworkfoundation.com/pdf/labour_flex_summary.pdf

Press Release 12-06-2006
New study exposes flexibility myths
http://www.theworkfoundation.com/newsroom/pressreleases.jsp?ref=195


Law

Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JILPT)
JILPT REPORT No. 3
2006
— 2006 JILPT Comparative Labor Law Seminar —
Decentralizing Industrial Relations and the Role of Labor Unions and Employee Representatives
http://www.jil.go.jp/english/documents/JILPTRNo3.pdf
[full-text, 153 pages]
This report is a compilation of papers provided to the Eighth Comparative Labor Law Seminar held on February 21, 2006, in Tokyo.


Statistical Reports

BEA: U.S. International Transactions: First Quarter 2006 [16 June 2006]
http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrel/transnewsrelease.htm
or
http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrelarchive/2006/trans106.pdf
[full-text, 10 pages]
or
http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrelarchive/2006/trans106.xls
[spreadsheet]
and
Highlights
http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrelarchive/2006/trans106_fax.pdf


BLS: REGIONAL AND STATE EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT: MAY 2006 [16 June 2006]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/laus.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/laus.pdf
[full-text, 19 pages]
and
Supplemental Files Table of Contents
http://www.bls.gov/web/laus.supp.toc.htm


BLS: CONSUMER PRICE INDEX: MAY 2006 [14 June 2006]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cpi.pdf
[full-text, 24 pages]


BLS: REAL EARNINGS IN MAY 2006 [14 June 2006]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/realer.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/realer.pdf
[full-text, 5 pages]


BLS: Producer Price Indexes -- May 2006 [13 June 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


EuroStat: 80/2006 - 16 June 2006
First quarter 2006 compared to first quarter 2005
Euro area labour cost up by 2.2%
EU25 up by 2.4%
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/pls/portal/docs/PAGE/PGP_PRD_CAT_PREREL/PGE_CAT_PREREL_YEAR_2006/PGE_CAT_PREREL_YEAR_2006_MONTH_06/3-16062006-EN-AP.PDF
[full-text, 4 pages]


FRB: INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION AND CAPACITY UTILIZATION [15 June 2006]
http://www.federalreserve.gov/Releases/g17/Current/default.htm
or
http://www.federalreserve.gov/Releases/g17/Current/g17.pdf
[full-text, 18 pages]


Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts

Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Paper
Factors That May Increase Future Spending from the Universal Service Fund [16 June 2006]
June 2006
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/72xx/doc7291/06-16-UniversalService.pdf
[full-text, 48 pages]


European Commission (EC)
SECTORAL ISSUES in EU TRADE
http://ec.europa.eu/comm/trade/issues/sectoral/index_en.htm


______________________________
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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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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Tuesday, June 20, 2006

[IWS] Special Edition: ILO DATABASES

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
________________________________________________________________________

International Labour Organization (ILO)


ILO Databases
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/support/lib/dblist.htm

ILO databases are available in the following subject areas and nearly all of them are free and unrestricted.

 
• Country and regional information
 

GLOBAL COMPACT (Country Information)
http://www.unglobalcompact.org/
Country information system on human rights, labour standards, and environmental protection. (Maintained by the United Nations Global Compact Network with the participation of the ILO and UNEP)
 
 
• Labour legislation
 

APPLIS 
http://webfusion.ilo.org/public/db/standards/normes/appl/index.cfm?lang=EN
A database on the application of international labour standards
 
 
Conditions of Work and Employment database 
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/condtrav/database/index.htm
Includes comprehensive legal information from countries around the world. Covers maternity protection, minimum wages, working time
 
 
Corenit 
http://www.oit.org.pe/corenit/
Base de datos del Control Regular de Normas (in Spanish) 
 
 
e.quality@work 
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/gems/eeo/index.htm
compilation of basic information on gender equality laws, policies and programmes, including international labour standards as well as national legislation, policies, practices and institutional arrangements introduced by governments, trade unions and public and private sector enterprises
 
 
ILOLEX 
http://www.ilo.org/ilolex/english/index.htm
A database on international labour standards containing ILO Conventions and Recommendations
Quick database search of: 
ILO Conventions
http://www.ilo.org/ilolex/english/convdisp1.htm
and
ILO Recommendations 
http://www.ilo.org/ilolex/english/recdisp1.htm
 
 
NATLEX 
http://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/natlex_browse.home?p_lang=en
A database of national labour law 
 
 
QVILIS 
http://www.oit.org.pe/qvilis_world/index.php
A database on complaints and violatons of trade union rights 
 
 
TRIBLEX 
http://www.ilo.org/dyn/triblex/triblex_browse.home
Thematic analysis of the case law of the ILO Administrative Tribunal 
 
 
• Labour statistics
 
 
KILM 
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/strat/kilm/index.htm
Key Indicators of the Labour Market
 
 
LABORSTA 
http://laborsta.ilo.org/
The labour statistics database operated by the ILO Bureau of Statistics 
 
 
ILM 
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/migrant/ilmdb/ilmdb.htm
International Labour Migration Database 
 
 
• Occupational safety
 
 
CISDOC
http://www.ilo.org/dyn/cisdoc/index_html?p_lang=e
Occupational safety and health, safety standards, chemical and physical hazards 
 
 
CIS Network
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/cis/products/dbs.htm
CIS Centres and other institutions of occupational health and safety 
 
 
ICSC
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/cis/products/icsc/dtasht/index.htm
database for finding international chemical safety cards 
 
 
Substance Abuse and Tobacco in the Workplace Database
http://www.ccsa.ca/ilo/ilotop.htm
Provides key information on issues related to alcohol, tobacco and other drugs in the workplace. 
 
 
• Social security 
 

Social Security Worldwide (SSW) 
http://www.issa.int/ssw
[access restricted]
Covers six different databases on social protection: Scheme Description, Complementary and Private Pensions, Reforms, Legislation, Bibliography and Thesaurus. Produced by the International Social Security Association (ISSA) with the support of the ILO. ILO staff at HQ: available through the ISSA Intranet: http://issa.intranet/ssw. Outside the ILO: www.issa.int/ssw. A userid and a password are needed; for information about access contact: issadoc@ilo.org  For alternative, but reliable information source, see --
Social Security Programs Throughout The World
http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/progdesc/ssptw/index.html
 
 
 
• Terminology 
 
 
ILOTERM 
http://www.ilo.org/iloterm/
An invaluable working tool for linguists, provides English, French, Spanish and German equivalents of terms in the social and labour fields 
 
 
• Vocational training and rehabilitation [Disabilities]
 
 
INFOR 
http://www.cinterfor.org.uy/public/english/region/ampro/cinterfor/sid/index.htm
Bibliographic database of the Inter-American Vocational Training Research and Documentation Centre (CINTERFOR) 
In Spanish at
http://www.cinterfor.org.uy/public/spanish/region/ampro/cinterfor/sid/index.htm
 
 
GLADNET
http://www.gladnet.org/
InfoBase  Global Applied Disability Research and Information Network on Employment and Training (produced with the collaboration of the ILO) 
The publications of the GLADNET Infobase are now held by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. Please click the link below to search the GLADNET collection of publications in the Catherwood Library's Digital Commons online repository.
Search GLADNET Collection in DigitalCommons@ILR at
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/gladnetcollect/
 
 
 
• World of work
 
 
ASISTDOC 
http://www.ilo.org/dyn/asist/asistdocs.home
A bibliographic database on labour-based technology 
 
 
BASI
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/multi/basi.htm
Business and Social Initiatives database 
 
 
BDS
http://www.bdsknowledge.org/dyn/bds/bdssearch.home?
Business Development Service database 
 
 
e.quality@work 
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/gems/eeo/main.htm
compilation of basic information on gender equality laws, policies and programmes, including international labour standards as well as national legislation, policies, practices and institutional arrangements introduced by governments, trade unions and public and private sector enterprises
 
 
ILO Photo Gallery 
http://www.ilo.org/dyn/media/mediasearch.home?p_lang=en
an ever-increasing collection of photos available to the public free of charge. 
 
 
ILO Publications Website
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/support/publ/intro/index.htm
a comprehensive selection of new and recent ILO publications in the areas of labour, employment, social protection, women at work, occupational safety and health, child labour, management and training, labour statistics and more. 
 
 
Informal Economy Resource Database 
http://www.ilo.org/dyn/dwresources/iebrowse.home
covers ILO activities and research related to the informal economy and tools which are relevant for this area. 
 
 
LABORAL 
http://www.oit.org.pe/spanish/260ameri/info/biblio/isis/frquery.html
the bibliographic database operated by the ILO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean 
 
 
Labordoc 
http://labordoc.ilo.org/
The ILO's largest bibliographic database; provides international coverage of labour topics including employment, labour relations, labour law, working conditions, vocational training, social security, occupational safety and health, women workers, child labour, migrant workers, economic and social rights and all labour-related aspects of social and economic development. 
 
 
Labour force surveys 
http://www.ilo.org/dyn/lfsurvey/lfsurvey.home
Labour Force Survey is a standard survey of work-related statistics. The following countries and territories make their Labour Force Surveys available online... 
 
 
Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work 
http://www.ilo.org/dyn/dwresources/dwbrowse.home
This Resource Database contains more than 200 tools and resources that directly or indirectly focus on poverty from a macro-level perspective and/or from a local development perspective within the ILO's decent work framework. 
 
 
SI-PROMICRO 
http://www.sipromicro.com/index.php
information and documentation on microenterprises in Central America (produced with the collaboration of the ILO) (in Spanish) 

______________________________
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                  
****************************************


Thursday, June 08, 2006

[IWS] NO MESSAGES until 21 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
________________________________________________________________________


NO MESSAGES will be sent until 21 June 2006

______________________________
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                  
****************************************


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
________________________________________________________________________

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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