IWS Documented News WEEKLY BULLETIN: January 2007

IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________

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______________________________
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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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, 31 January 2007

Academic Research

Upjohn Institute Working Paper 07-132

Manufacturers' Outsourcing to Employment Services

http://www.upjohninst.org/publications/wp/07-132.pdf

Matthew Dey, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Susan Houseman, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Anne Polivka, Bureau of Labor Statistics

December 2006

Abstract

http://www.upjohninst.org/publications/wp/07132wp.html

Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w12860.pdf

David H. Autor, William R. Kerr, Adriana D. Kugler

NBER Working Paper No. 12860

Issued in January 2007

---- Abstract -----

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w12860

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

International

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

Employment and labour market policies for an ageing workforce and initiatives at the workplace - National overview reports by COUNTRY [24 January 2007]

Employment and labour market policies for an ageing workforce and initiatives at the workplace - National overview report: United Kingdom

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2007/051/en/1/ef07051en.pdf

[full-text, 14 pages]

Employment and labour market policies for an ageing workforce and initiatives at the workplace - National overview report: Spain

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2007/0510/en/1/ef070510en.pdf

[full-text, 8 pages]

Employment and labour market policies for an ageing workforce and initiatives at the workplace - National overview report: Finland

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2007/054/en/1/ef07054en.pdf

[full-text, 12 pages]

Employment and labour market policies for an ageing workforce and initiatives at the workplace - National overview report: France

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2007/055/en/1/ef07055en.pdf

[full-text, 10 pages]

Employment and labour market policies for an ageing workforce and initiatives at the workplace - National overview report: Germany

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2007/056/en/1/ef07056en.pdf

[full-text, 17 pages]

Employment and labour market policies for an ageing workforce and initiatives at the workplace - National overview report: Greece

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2007/057/en/1/ef07057en.pdf

[full-text, 13 pages]

Employment and labour market policies for an ageing workforce and initiatives at the workplace - National overview report: Italy

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2007/058/en/1/ef07058en.pdf

[full-text, 11 pages]

Employment and labour market policies for an ageing workforce and initiatives at the workplace National overview report: The Netherlands

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2007/059/en/1/ef07059en.pdf

[full-text, 10 pages]

International Labour Organization (ILO)

Global Employment Trends 2007 [25 January 2007]

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/strat/stratprod.htm

or

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/strat/global.htm

Brief of Report

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/strat/download/getb07en.pdf

[full-text, 12 pages]

Press Release 25 January 2007

Global Employment Trends 2007

Global unemployment remains at historic high despite strong economic growth

Modest gains in reducing working poverty

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/2007/2.htm

OECD

CHINA (Reports, Documents, & Other Items)

http://www.oecd.org/infobycountry/0,2981,en_2649_201185_1_70342_1_1_1,00.html

OECD Policy Brief:

Economic Survey of Spain 2007 [23 January 2007]

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/6/17/37916699.pdf

[full-text, 12 pages]

See also

Economic survey of Spain 2007

http://www.oecd.org/document/9/0,2340,en_2649_201185_37919177_1_1_1_1,00.html

OECD

OECD SOCIAL, EMPLOYMENT AND MIGRATION WORKING PAPERS NO. 46

MINIMUM WAGES, MINIMUM LABOUR COSTS AND THE TAX TREATMENT OF LOW-WAGE EMPLOYMENT [18 January 2007]

Herwig Immervoll

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/30/34/37930738.pdf

[full-text, 24 pages]

OECD

Worldwide Statistical Sources

http://stats.oecd.org/source/

Federal

BLS: Compensation and Working Conditions Online

http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/home.htm

Change Comes to the National Compensation Survey Locality Wage Bulletins [24 January 2007]

by James E. Smith and Robert W. Van Giezen

http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/cm20070122ar01p1.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/print/cm20070122ar01p1.htm

BLS: Monthly Labor Review Online [26 January 2007

December 2006

Vol. 129, Number 12

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/mlrhome.htm

Industry dynamics in the Washington, DC, area: has a second job core emerged?

Gerald Perrins and Diane Nilsen

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/12/art1full.pdf

[full-text, 18 pages

Employment change by occupation, industry, and earnings quartile, 2000-05

Randy Ilg

(Coming soon)

Price transmission: from crude petroleum to plastics products

Jonathan C. Weinhagen

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/12/art3full.pdf

[full-text, 10 pages]

Price and expenditure measures of petroleum products: a comparison

Abby L. Duly, Jeffrey A. Harris, Ara M. Khatchadourian, Rozi T. Ulics, and Melissa C. Wolter

(Coming soon)

Report

Item replacements and hedonic quality adjustments in apparel price indexes

Craig Brown and Anya Stockburger

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/12/art5full.pdf

[full-text, 11 pages]

Report

Proportion of workers in selected pay ranges by region and State, 2005

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/12/ressum.pdf

[full-text, 4 pages]

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2008 to 2017 [24 January 2007]

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdoc.cfm?index=7731&type=1

or

http://mirror1.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/77xx/doc7731/01-24-BudgetOutlook.pdf

[full-text, 191 pages]

Also

Mandatory Programs

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/77xx/doc7731/MandatoryPrograms.pdf

[full-text, 21 pages]

Order Code RS22583

Congressional Research Service (CRS)

January 26, 2007

Executive Compensation: SEC Regulations and Congressional Proposals

Michael V. Seitzinger, Legislative Attorney, American Law Division

http://www.opencrs.com/rpts/RS22583_20070126.pdf

[full-text, 4 pages]

Order Code RL33777

Congressional Research Service (CRS)

Privatization and the Federal Government: An Introduction

December 28, 2006

Kevin R. Kosar, Analyst in American National Government, Government and Finance Division

http://www.opencrs.com/rpts/RL33777_20061228.pdf

[full-text, 36 pages]

Institutes/Associations/Commercial

Population Reference Bureau

CHINA [Materials, documents, reports, links...]

http://www.prb.org/Countries/China.aspx

Law

EEOC

TARGET CORP. TO PAY $775,000 FOR RACIAL HARASSMENT [26 January 2007]

EEOC Settles Suit for Class of African American Employees; Remedial Relief Included

http://www.eeoc.gov/press/1-26-07.html

Legal Information Institute (LII)

Labor and Employment Laws of the Fifty States, District of Columbia and Puerto Rico

http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/Table_Labor.htm

Statistical Reports

BLS: UNION MEMBERS IN 2006 [25 January 2007]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/union2.pdf

[full-text, 12 pages]

METROPOLITAN AREA EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT: DECEMBER 2006 [30 January 2007]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/metro.nr0.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/metro.pdf

[full-text, 22 pages]

and

Supplemental Files Table of Contents

http://www.bls.gov/web/metro.supp.toc.htm

Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts

Order Code RL33832

Congressional Research Service (CRS)

Genetic Testing: Scientific Background for Policymakers

January 26, 2007

Amanda K. Sarata, Analyst in Genetics, Domestic Social Policy Division

http://www.opencrs.com/rpts/RL33832_20070126.pdf

[full-text, 13 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
****************************************

# posted by SBasefsky : 11:08 AM

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, 24 January 2007

Academic Research

Institute for the Study of labor

Discussion Paper Series

IZA DP No. 2545

David Neumark, Junfu Zhang, Stephen Ciccarella:

The Effects of Wal-Mart on Local Labor Markets [January 2007]

http://ftp.iza.org/dp2545.pdf

[full-text, 54 pages]

The Farm, the City, and the Emergence of Social Security

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w12854.pdf

[full-text, 43 pages]

Elizabeth M. Caucutt, Thomas F. Cooley, Nezih Guner

NBER Working Paper No. 12854

Issued in January 2007

---- Abstract -----

http://www.nber.org/papers/w12854

CAHRS Working Paper 06 15

Globalisation of HR at Function Level: Exploring the Issues Through International Recruitment, Selection and Assessment Processes

Paul R. Sparrow

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/depts/cahrs/downloads/PDFs/WorkingPapers/WP06-15.pdf

[full-text, 35 pages]

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

International

European Commission

Eurobarometer [Special]

Discrimination in the European Union [6 January 2007]

[Full Report]

Fieldwork: June July 2006

Publication: January 2007

http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_263_en.pdf

[full-text, 172 pages]

Summary

Fieldwork: June July 2006

Publication: January 2007

http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_263_sum_en.pdf

[full-text, 36 pages]

European Commission > 2007 European Year of Equal Opportunities for All > Welcome

New Website!

2007 European Year of Equal Opportunities for All!

http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/eyeq/index.cfm

Press Release 23 January 2007

European Year for Equal Opportunities for All gears up to fuel the debate on diversity

http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/emplweb/news/news_en.cfm?id=203

EUROPA> European Commission> Enterprise and Industry> e-Business W@tch> Home

New e-Business W@tch Sector Studies [17 January 2007]

http://www.ebusiness-watch.org/Sector-Studies-06.htm

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

Programme of work 2007 [19 January 2007]

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef0675.htm

or

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2006/75/en/1/ef0675en.pdf

[full-text, 16 pages]

European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions [Dublin Foundation]

First European Quality of Life Survey: Participation in civil society [11 January 2007]

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef0676.htm

or

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2006/76/en/1/ef0676en.pdf

[full-text, 83 pages]

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

European Works Councils and transnational restructuring [11 January 2007]

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef0683.htm

or

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2006/83/en/1/ef0683en.pdf

[full-text, 96 pages]

ILO, Lima

Panorama Laboral 2006: America Latina el Caribe [December 2006]

http://www.oit.org.pe/portal/documentos/pl_2006_esp_final.pdf

[full-text, 87 pages]

Press Release

PANORAMA LABORAL DE AMÉRICA LATINA Y EL CARIBE 2006: BAJA EL DESEMPLEO Y MEJORAN LOS SALARIOS REALES. OIT PROPONE APROVECHAR LA COYUNTURA FAVORABLE PARA ENFRENTAR CON TRABAJO DECENTE LA PERSISTENCIA DE LA POBREZA Y LA DESIGUALDAD

6 de diciembre 2006

http://www.oit.org.pe/portal/noticias.php?docCodigo=587

OECD

WOMEN and MEN in OECD COUNTRIES [19 January 2007]

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/44/52/37962502.pdf

[full-text, 33 pages]

Press Release [19 January 2007]

Women and Men in OECD Countries

http://www.oecd.org/LongAbstract/0,2546,en_2649_201185_37443380_119690_1_1_1,00.html

Federal

Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)

Virtual Academy

PRC e-Government Directory

http://www.cecc.gov/pages/prcEgovDir/dirEgovPRC.php

Congressional Research Service (CRS)

Order Code RS22568

Updated January 16, 2007

Stafford Loan Interest Rate Reduction: Background and Issues

David P. Smole, Specialist in Social Legislation, Domestic Social Policy Division

http://www.opencrs.com/rpts/RS22568_20070116.pdf

[full-text, 6 pages]

U.S. Department of Labor

Employment Standards Administration

Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS)

2006 Annual Report

Office of Labor-Management Standards [19 January 2007]

January 2007

http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/compliance/olms/highlights_06.htm

For other earlier annual reports see -- http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/compliance/olms/OLMS_Annual_Reports.htm

Federal Reserve Board (FRB)

January 17, 2007

THE BEIGE BOOK:

Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions by Federal Reserve District

http://www.federalreserve.gov/fomc/beigebook/2007/20070117/default.htm

or

http://www.federalreserve.gov/fomc/beigebook/2007/20070117/FullReport.htm

FirstGov.gov is Now USA.gov [18 January 2007]

New name; same great services!

http://www.usa.gov/About/New-Name.shtml

USA.gov offers Web Chat at --

http://answers.usa.gov/cgi-bin/gsa_ict.cfg/php/enduser/live.php?p_sid=BYsZ1_ri&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPSZwX3NvcnRfYnk9JnBfZ3JpZHNvcnQ9JnBfcm93X2NudD0yMTUzJnBfcHJvZHM9JnBfY2F0cz0mcF9wdj0mcF9jdj0mcF9wYWdlPTE *

Health & Human Resources (HHS)

The 2007 HHS Poverty Guidelines [24 January 2007]

http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/07poverty.shtml

State Department

Released by the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons

http://www.state.gov/g/tip/

Trafficking in Persons Interim Assessment

January 19, 2007

http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/rpt/78948.htm

Institutes/Associations/Commercial

Conference Board

2006 Corporate Contributions Report [Charity] [17 January 2007]

http://www.conference-board.org/publications/describe.cfm?id=1261

[for purchase]

Press Release / News

Corporate Contributions Rise Again [17 January 2007]

http://www.conference-board.org/utilities/pressDetail.cfm?press_ID=3044

or

http://www.conference-board.org/utilities/pressPrinterFriendly.cfm?press_ID=3044

Foundation for Child Development (FCD)

http://www.fcd-us.org/

19 January 2007

For the decline in qualifications and compensation among workers in early childhood education programs.

Losing Ground in Early Childhood Education

Declining Workforce Qualifications in an Expanding Industry, 1979-2004

< http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=zohcp8bab.0.98mcz8bab.b9yowzaab.11179&ts=S0218&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.epi.org%2Fcontent.cfm%2Fece >

For the role that policy played in the decline of qualifications and compensation among teachers and administrators in early childhood programs.

Roots of Decline:

How Government Policy Has De-Educated Teachers of Young Children

< http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=zohcp8bab.0.58mcz8bab.b9yowzaab.11179&ts=S0218&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iir.berkeley.edu%2Fcscce%2Fpdf%2Froots_decline06.pdf >

Carrots and Sticks: New Jerseys Effort To Create a Qualified PK-3 Workforce

< http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=zohcp8bab.0.gwz5t9bab.b9yowzaab.11179&ts=S0218&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fcd-us.org%2Fpdfs%2FCarrotsSticksBrief.pdf >

Telework Exchange and Federal Managers Association

Face-to-Face with Management Reality

A Telework Research Report

January 22, 2007

http://www.teleworkexchange.com/managementstudy/Face-to-Face-with-Management-Reality-Study-012207.pdf

[full-text, 17 pages]

Press Release 22 January 2007

Telework Exchange and Federal Managers Association Study Reveals Only 35 Percent of Managers Believe Their Agencies Support Telework

Highlights Major Management/Agency Telework Misalignment; Provides Management Training Recommendations

to Make Telework a Standard Operating Practice for Federal Agencies

http://www.teleworkexchange.com/managementstudy/TANDBERG-Disruptive-Study-Press-Release_012207.pdf

Law

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)

SPEAKERS

http://www.nlrb.gov/about_us/speakers.aspx

UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION (USITC)

Washington, DC 20436

Investigation No. 332-483

ADVICE CONCERNING POSSIBLE MODIFICATIONS TO THE U.S. GENERALIZED SYSTEM OF PREFERENCES, 2006 REVIEW [18 January 2007]

http://www.usitc.gov/secretary/fed_reg_notices/332/332-483.institution.1169503190.pdf

[full-text, 2 pages]

Statistical Reports

BLS: REGIONAL AND STATE EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT: DECEMBER 2006 [23 January 2007]

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: USUAL WEEKLY EARNINGS OF WAGE AND SALARY WORKERS: FOURTH QUARTER 2006 [19 January 2007]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/wkyeng.nr0.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wkyeng.pdf

[full-text, 12 pages]

BLS: CONSUMER PRICE INDEX: DECEMBER 2006 [18 January 2007]

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 DECEMBER 2006 [18 January 2007]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/realer.nr0.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/realer.pdf

[full-text, 5 pages]

Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts

Pew Charitable Trusts

Pew/Internet

Pew Internet & American Life Project

Election 2006 Online

The number of Americans citing the Internet as the source of most of their political news and information doubled since the last midterm election

January 17, 2007

http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Politics_2006.pdf

[full-text, 33 pages]

Questionnaire

http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/Topline_Campaign_2006.pdf

[full-text, 19 pages]

Facts for Features from the Census Bureau

*Special Edition* Super Bowl XLI

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/009486.html

or

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2007/cb07ffse-01.pdf

[full-text, 5 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
****************************************

# posted by SBasefsky : 9:02 AM

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, 17 January 2007

Academic Research

Do U.S. Firms Have the Best Corporate Governance? A Cross-Country Examination of the Relation between Corporate Governance and Shareholder Wealth

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w12819.pdf

[full-text, 37 pages]

Reena Aggarwal, Isil Erel, Rene M. Stulz, Rohan Williamson

NBER Working Paper No. 12819

Issued in January 2007

---- Abstract -----

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w12819

The Return to Knowledge Hierarchies

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w12815.pdf

[full-text, 65 pages]

Luis Garicano, Thomas N. Hubbard

NBER Working Paper No. 12815

Issued in January 2007

---- Abstract -----

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w12815

CAHRS Working Paper 06-17

Adaptive Guidance: Effects On Self-Regulated Learning In Technology-Based Training

Bradford S. Bell, Adam Kanar, Xiangmin Liu, Jane Forman, Mila Singh

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/depts/cahrs/downloads/PDFs/WorkingPapers/WP06-17.pdf

[full-text, 34 pages]

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

International

EUROPA > European Commission > DG Health and Consumer Protection > Public Health > Health Information > Dissemination of health information and data

DESCRIBING NATIONAL HEALTH SYSTEMS [9 January 2007]

http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_information/dissemination/hsis/hsis_13_nhs_en.htm

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

European Works Councils case studies [11 January 2007]

http://www.eurofound.eu.int/areas/participationatwork/ewccasestudies.htm

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

The experience of European Works Councils in new EU Member States [11 January 2007]

http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/htmlfiles/ef0665.htm

or

http://www.eurofound.eu.int/pubdocs/2006/65/en/1/ef0665en.pdf

[full-text, 62 pages]

Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JILPT)

The Labor Situation in Japan and Analysis: General Overview 2006/2007 [25 December 2006]

http://www.jil.go.jp/english/lsj.html

or

http://www.jil.go.jp/english/laborinfo/library/documents/Labor2006_2007.pdf

[full-text, 138 pages]

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

OECD.Stat Data Warehouse

OECD.Stat Web Browser

http://stats.oecd.org/wbos/Default.aspx

OECD.Stat Web Browser USER GUIDE

http://stats.oecd.org/wbos/Help/UserGuide.pdf

[full-text, 36 pages]

United Nations (UN)

World Economic Situation and Prospects 2007 [11 January 2007]

http://www.un.org/esa/policy/wess/wesp2007files/wesp2007.pdf

[full-text, 177pages]

Executive Summary

http://www.un.org/esa/policy/wess/wesp2007files/es_wesp2007_en.pdf

[full-text, 11 pages]

See Press Release 11 January 2007

World economy slowing in 2007, but developing countries growth remains strong

Weakening US housing market a major factor

http://www.un.org/esa/policy/wess/wesp2007files/pr_glbout_en.pdf

World Bank

Migration and Remittances: Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union [16 January 2007]

http://www.worldbank.org/eca/migration

or

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTECA/Resources/257896-1167856389505/Migration_FullReport.pdf

[full-text, 232 pages]

Story

Report: Labor Migration Likely to Grow in Europe and Central Asia

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:21183561~pagePK:64257043~piPK:437376~theSitePK:4607,00.html

Press Release

Migration Could Yield a 'Triple Win' For Migrants And Sending And Receiving Countries, Says World Bank Report

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:21183567~pagePK:64257043~piPK:437376~theSitePK:4607,00.html

Federal

Census

A CHILD'S DAY: 2003 [11 January 2007]

(Selected Indicators of Child Well-Being)

http://www.census.gov/prod/2007pubs/p70-109.pdf

DETAILED TABLES

http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/03p70-109.html

Podcast

http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/broadcast/radio/special_radio_features/009423.html

Press Release

More Kids On Track at School 1 in 4 Gifted According to Census Bureau Report on A Childs Day [11 January 2007]

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/children/009412.html

Census: 2005 Service Annual Survey

NAICS 48/49

Truck Transportation, Messenger Services & Warehousing

http://www.census.gov/econ/www/servmenu.html

or

http://www.census.gov/svsd/www/services/sas/sas_data/sas48.htm

and

Tables

http://www.census.gov/svsd/www/services/sas/sas_data/48/2005_NAICS48.pdf

[full-text, 12 pages]

or

http://www.census.gov/svsd/www/services/sas/sas_data/48/2005_NAICS48.xls

[spreadsheet]

Press Release 9 January 2007

2005 Revenues Reach $292 Billion for Truck, Courier and Storage, Industries, Census Bureau Reports

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/transportation_industry/009415.html

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE (CBO)

COST ESTIMATE

January 11, 2007

H.R. 2

Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007

As passed by the House of Representatives on January 10, 2007

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/77xx/doc7726/hr2.pdf

[full-text, 3 pages]

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Response to a Request by Senator Grassley About the Effects of Increasing the Federal Minimum Wage Versus Expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit

January 9, 2007

http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=7721&sequence=0&from=7

or

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/77xx/doc7721/01-09-MinimumWageEITC.pdf

[full-text, 11 pages]

National Science Foundation (NSF)

Science and Engineering Degrees: 1966-2004 [11 January 2007]

http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf07307

or

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics//nsf07307/

or

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics//nsf07307/pdf/nsf07307.pdf

[full-text, 72 pages]

List of Tables

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics//nsf07307/content.cfm?pub_id=3634&id=2

National Science Foundation (NSF)

Science and Engineering Degrees, by Race/Ethnicity of Recipients: 1995-2004 [11 January 2007]

http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf07308

or

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf07308/

or

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf07308/pdf/nsf07308.pdf

[full-text, 116 pages]

List of Tables

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf07308/content.cfm?pub_id=3633&id=2

National Science Foundation (NSF)

December 2006 Update of

Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/pdf/december2006updates.pdf

[full-text, 291 pages]

See Technical Notes at

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/technotes.htm

Original document, page and web site at

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/

Institutes/Associations/Commercial

Association of American Colleges and Universities

A report from the National Leadership Council for Liberal Education & America's Promise (LEAP)

College Learning for the New Global Century [10 January 2007]

http://aacu-secure.nisgroup.com/advocacy/leap/documents/GlobalCentury_final.pdf

[full-text, 76 pages]

Executive Summary

http://aacu-secure.nisgroup.com/advocacy/leap/documents/GlobalCentury_ExecSum_final.pdf

[full-text, 20 pages]

Press Release 10 January 2007

http://aacu-secure.nisgroup.com/press_room/press_releases/2007/LEAPReport.cfm

EBRI (Employee Benefit Research Institute)

EBRI Issue Brief #301

Behavioral Finance and Retirement Plan Contributions: How Participants Behave, and Prescriptive Solutions [16 January 2007]

Executive Summary

http://www.ebri.org/publications/ib/index.cfm?fa=ibDisp&content_id=3778

or

Full Report

http://www.ebri.org/pdf/briefspdf/EBRI_IB_01-20071.pdf

[full-text, 20 pages]

Press Release

Pension Law Shifts Retirement Plan Participation Equation, Report Says [16 January 2007]

http://www.ebri.org/pdf/PR_758_16Jan07.pdf

Kaiser Family Foundation

NEW: Kaiser Health Disparities Report: A Weekly Look at Race, Ethnicity and Health

Kaiser Health Disparities Report: A Weekly Look at Race, Ethnicity and Health [11 January 2007]

http://kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_disparities.cfm

or

http://kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/print_category.cfm?dr_cat=5

LegiStorm

CONGRESSIONAL STAFF SALARIES

LegiStorm

http://www.legistorm.com/

release of the most recent Senate staff salaries extending through the end of September.

MDRC

January 2007

A Vision for the Future of the Workforce Investment System [11 January 2007]

by John Wallace

http://www.mdrc.org/publications/440/concept.html

or

http://www.mdrc.org/publications/440/concept.pdf

[full-text, 13 pages]

Pew Charitable Trusts

A Survey Conducted in Association with: The Generation Next Initiative and Documentary produced by MacNeil/Lehrer Productions

A Portrait of "Generation Next"

How Young People View Their Lives, Futures and Politics

Released: January 9, 2007

http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=300

or

http://people-press.org/reports/pdf/300.pdf

[full-text, 45 pages]

Work Foundation (UK)

Provocation Series Volume 2 Number 3

Justice in the workplace: Why it is important and why a new public policy initiative is needed [12 January 2007]

by Professor Paul Edwards FBA, Industrial Relations Research Unit, Warwick Business School

and Senior Fellow, Advanced Institute of Management Research

http://83.138.136.179/products/publications/azpublications/justiceintheworkplace.aspx

or

http://83.138.136.179/Assets/PDFs/justice1.pdf

[full-text, 48 pages]

Press Release 12 January 2007

Employment law not the only route to justice at work

http://www.theworkfoundation.com/aboutus/media/pressreleases/employmentlawnottheonlyroutetojusticeatwork.aspx

Law

EEOC

MATERNITY STORE GIANT TO PAY $375,000 TO SETTLE EEOC PREGNANCY DISCRIMINATION AND RETALIATION LAWSUIT [8 January 2007]

Motherhood Maternity Refused to Hire Pregnant Applicants and Fired Assistant Manager for Complaining, Agency Charged

http://www.eeoc.gov/press/1-8-07.html

NLRB TO HOLD ORAL ARGUMENT ON

EMPLOYEE USE OF EMPLOYER'S E-MAIL SYSTEM [10 January 2007]

http://www.nlrb.gov/shared_files/Press%20Releases/2006/R-2613.pdf

[full-text, 4 pages]

Briefs and other documents related to this case can be found at

http://www.nlrb.gov/nlrb/about/foia/FrequentlyRequestedDocuments.html

Statistical Reports

BLS: Producer Price Indexes - December 2006 [17 January 2007]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ppi.nr0.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ppi.pdf

[full-text, 21 pages]

and

Supplemental Files Table of Contents

http://www.bls.gov/web/ppi.supp.toc.htm

BLS: U.S. IMPORT AND EXPORT PRICE INDEXES - DECEMBER 2006 - [12 January 2007]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ximpim.nr0.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ximpim.pdf

[full-text, 16 pages]

and

Supplemental Files Table of Contents

http://www.bls.gov/web/ximpim.supp.toc.htm

BLS: COUNTY EMPLOYMENT AND WAGES: SECOND QUARTER 2006 [11 January 2006]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cewqtr.nr0.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cewqtr.pdf

[full-text, 23 pages]

BLS: VOLUNTEERING IN THE UNITED STATES, 2006 [10 January 2007]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/volun.nr0.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/volun.pdf

[full-text, 12 pages]

BLS: JOB OPENINGS AND LABOR TURNOVER: NOVEMBER 2006 [10 January 2007]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.nr0.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/jolts.pdf

[full-text, 14 pages]

OECD Standardised Unemployment Rates

Paris, 12 January 2007

News Release

OECD Standardised Unemployment Rate falls to 5.8% in November 2006 [12 January 2006]

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/5/19/37913124.pdf

[full-text, 4 pages]

DETAILED DATA

http://stats.oecd.org/wbos/Default.aspx?QueryName=251&QueryType=View

Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts

BNA & State Net

2007 STATE LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS CALENDAR

http://www.bna.com/promotions/ehslegalert/calendar2007.pdf

Pew Charitable Trusts

Pew/Internet

Pew Internet & American Life Project

Social Networking Websites and Teens: An Overview [7 January 2007]

http://www.pewtrusts.org/pdf/PIP_Data_Jan_2007.pdf

[full-text, 10 pages]

Population Reference Bureau (PRB)

Do Parents Spend Enough Time With Their Children? [15 January 2007]

by DVera Cohn

http://www.prb.org/Template.cfm?Section=PRB&template=/Content/ContentGroups/06_Articles/Do_Parents_Spend_Enough_Time_With_Their_Children_.htm

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IWS Weekly Bulletin, 10 January 2007

Academic Research

The Center for Health Workforce Studies (CHWS)

University at Albany

School of Public Health

Rensselaer, N.Y. 12144

The Center for Health Workforce Studies (CHWS)

http://chws.albany.edu/

CENTER REPORTS (available full-text)

http://chws.albany.edu/index.php?id=11,0,0,1,0,0

Immigration and the Survival of Social Security: A Political Economy Model

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w12800.pdf

[full-text, 40 pages]

Edith Sand, Assaf Razin

NBER Working Paper No. 12800

Issued in December 2006

---- Abstract -----

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w12800

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

International

European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO)

Transnational

Industrial relations developments in Europe in 2005

http://www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int/2006/01/feature/tn0601102f.html

See also NATIONAL REPORTS from each of the EU Countries for 2005

http://www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int/annualreports.html

European Working Conditions Observatory (EWCO)

EWCO Survey Data Reports

http://www.eurofound.eu.int/ewco/surveys/surveyreports.htm

Ireland: Attitudes of employers and employees to the changing workplace [21 December 2006]

< http://www.eurofound.eu.int/ewco/surveyreports/IE0610019D/IE0610019D.htm >

EMPLOYER SURVEY

http://www.eurofound.eu.int/ewco/surveyreports/IE0610019D/IE0610019D_1.htm

EMPLOYEE SURVEY

http://www.eurofound.eu.int/ewco/surveyreports/IE0610019D/IE0610019D_2.htm

COMMENTARY

http://www.eurofound.eu.int/ewco/surveyreports/IE0610019D/IE0610019D_3.htm

REFERENCES

http://www.eurofound.eu.int/ewco/surveyreports/IE0610019D/IE0610019D_4.htm

European Working Conditions Observatory (EWCO)

EWCO News Updates

http://www.eurofound.eu.int/ewco/newsupdates.htm

Bulgaria: Survey examines migration intentions post-accession (04 January 2007)

< http://www.eurofound.eu.int/ewco/2006/10/BG0610069I.htm>

Czech Republic: Cooperation between employers and employees regarding parental leave (04 January 2007)

< http://www.eurofound.eu.int/ewco/2006/11/CZ0611029I.htm>

Austria: Training opportunities for older workers (04 January 2007)

< http://www.eurofound.eu.int/ewco/2006/12/AT0612019I.htm>

Denmark: Risk factors in long-term sickness absence (04 January 2007)

< http://www.eurofound.eu.int/ewco/2006/11/DK0611039I.htm>

Malta: Case studies document practical experience of teleworking (04 January 2007)

< http://www.eurofound.eu.int/ewco/2006/11/MT0611019I.htm>

Directorate General of Employment & Training

Ministry of Labour

Government of India

Occupational Educational Pattern of Employees in India [2002 data for the PUBLIC SECTOR]

http://dget.gov.in/publications/opr/OPRPS2002.pdf

[full-text, 87 pages]

Directorate General of Employment & Training

Ministry of Labour

Government of India

World of Work Series

Facilities for Disabled

http://dget.gov.in/cirtes/csc/courses/facilitiesfordisabled.pdf

[full-text, 58 pages]

INDIA

Ministry of Labour and Employment

New Website Address

http://labour.gov.in/

The Ministry of Labour Annual Report 2005-2006

http://labour.nic.in/annrep/annrep2005.htm

Earlier Annual Reports can be found at-

http://labour.nic.in/annrep/annrep.htm

INDIA

United Progressive Alliance (UPA)

Report to the People

UPA Government 2004 - 2006 [May 2006]

http://pib.nic.in/archieve/others/2006/may2006/UPAbook2004-06.pdf

[full-text, 66 pages]

See Press Release

http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=18001&kwd

Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)

2007 Report on Economic and Social Progress in Latin America:

Living with Debt: How to Limit the Risks of Sovereign Finance [3 January 2007]

http://www.iadb.org/res/ipes/2007/index.cfm

[USE THE PULL-DOWN MENU to go to EACH CHAPTER]

for List of Figures see

http://www.iadb.org/res/ipes/2007/figures.cfm?Language=English

for List of Tables see

http://www.iadb.org/res/ipes/2007/tables.cfm?Language=English

See Press Release 3 January 2007

Role of Multilateral Lending

http://www.iadb.org/research/homepageDetails.cfm?language=English&conid=56&page=1&frame=1

ILO

Social Dialogue

Workers' Activities

Labour Education 2006/1

No. 142

Globalization and the sectors

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/dialogue/actrav/publ/142/index.htm

or

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/dialogue/actrav/publ/142/142.pdf

[full-text, 88 pages]

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

Economic survey of the Euro Area 2007 [4 January 2007]

http://www.oecd.org/document/40/0,2340,en_2649_201185_37849384_1_1_1_1,00.html

OECD Policy Brief:

Economic Survey of the Euro Area 2007 [4 January 2007]

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/32/28/37867660.pdf

[full-text, 12 pages]

Federal

Bureau of Health Professions

National Center for Health Workforce Analysis Reports

U.S. Health Workforce Reports

http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/healthworkforce/

More of these are found at-

http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/healthworkforce/reports/

Databases

Area Resource File

http://www.arfsys.com/

Public Use Files from National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses

http://datawarehouse.hrsa.gov/NSSRN.htm

U.S.-CHINA COMMISSION ANNOUNCES THE APPOINTMENT OF JEFFREY L. FIEDLER [4 January 2007]

http://www.uscc.gov/pressreleases/2007/07_01_04pr.php

or

http://www.uscc.gov/pressreleases/2007/07_01_04pr.pdf

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Historical Effective Federal Tax Rates: 1979 to 2004 [6 January 2007]

December 2006

http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=7718&sequence=0&from=7

or

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/77xx/doc7718/EffectiveTaxRates.pdf

[full-text, 7 pages]

and

Supplemental Tables

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/77xx/doc7718/SupplementalTables.xls

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Background Paper:

Housing Wealth and Consumer Spending [6 January 2007]

January 2007

http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=7719&sequence=0&from=7

or

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/77xx/doc7719/01-05-Housing.pdf

[full-text, 22 pages]

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)

Public-Use Data Files and Documentation: Foods and Physical Activity in Public Elementary Schools, 2005 [4 January 2007]

http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2006106

or

http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/frss/downloads.asp#FRSS8

Calories In, Calories Out: Food and Exercise in Public Elementary Schools, 2005

http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2006/nutrition/

List of TABLES

http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2006/nutrition/03.asp

Institutes/Associations/Commercial

Center for PERSONAL ASSISTANCE SERVICES (PAS)

http://www.pascenter.org/home/index.php

The Workplace PAS Project [Disabilities]

http://www.pascenter.org/workplace_pas/index.php

See also their BULLETIN at -

http://www.pascenter.org/newsletter/CenterforPASBulletinJan07.pdf

One can sign up to receive this automatically at-

http://www.pascenter.org/newsletter/index.php

Employee Benefit Research Institute(EBRI)

EBRI NOTES

January 2007, Vol. 28, No. 1

IRA Assets, Contributions, and Market Share [9 January 2007]

and

Health Insurance Coverage of the Near Elderly, 1994-2005

http://www.ebri.org/publications/notes/index.cfm?fa=notesDisp&content_id=3774

or

http://www.ebri.org/pdf/notespdf/EBRI_Notes_01-20071.pdf

[full-text, 16 pages]

GALLUP MANAGEMENT JOURNAL SURVEYS

http://gmj.gallup.com/gmj_surveys/category.aspx?i=10

Current items available are:

GMJ Surveys

Who's Driving Innovation at Your Company?

http://gmj.gallup.com/content/24472/Whos-Driving-Innovation-at-Your-Company.aspx

Worker Disengagement Continues to Cost Singapore

http://gmj.gallup.com/content/22720/Worker-Disengagement-Continues-to-Cost-Singapore.aspx

Why Dilbert Is Right

http://gmj.gallup.com/content/21802/Why-Dilbert-Is-Right.aspx

At Work, Feeling Good Matters

http://gmj.gallup.com/content/20311/At-Work-Feeling-Good-Matters.aspx

Grim News for Japan's Managers

http://gmj.gallup.com/content/17242/Grim-News-for-Japans-Managers.aspx

Wake-Up Call for Thailand, Inc.

http://gmj.gallup.com/content/16285/Wake-Up-Call-for-Thailand-Inc.aspx

The Limits of Employee Training

http://gmj.gallup.com/content/14497/The-Limits-of-Employee-Training.aspx

Engagement Keeps the Doctor Away

http://gmj.gallup.com/content/14500/Engagement-Keeps-the-Doctor-Away.aspx

All Eyes on Ohio

http://gmj.gallup.com/content/12295/All-Eyes-on-Ohio.aspx

Getting Personal in the Workplace

http://gmj.gallup.com/content/11956/Getting-Personal-in-the-Workplace.aspx

Beyond the Dot-Com Bust

http://gmj.gallup.com/content/9841/Beyond-the-Dot-Com-Bust.aspx

Great Britain's Workforce Lacks Inspiration

http://gmj.gallup.com/content/9847/Great-Britains-Workforce-Lacks-Inspiration.aspx

Disengaged Employees Cost Singapore $4.9 Billion

http://gmj.gallup.com/content/1207/Disengaged-Employees-Cost-Singapore-4.9-Billion.aspx

Bringing Work Problems Home

http://gmj.gallup.com/content/1078/Bringing-Work-Problems-Home.aspx

Warning: Corporate Scandals May Demoralize Employees

http://gmj.gallup.com/content/826/Warning-Corporate-Scandals-May-Demoralize.aspx

Who Cared?

http://gmj.gallup.com/content/427/Who-Cared.aspx

Talk of Ages

http://gmj.gallup.com/content/430/Talk-of-Ages.aspx

Think Big, Act Small

http://gmj.gallup.com/content/433/Think-Big-Act-Small.aspx

The Gender Question

http://gmj.gallup.com/content/436/The-Gender-Question.aspx

What Your Disaffected Workers Cost

http://gmj.gallup.com/content/439/What-Your-Disaffected-Workers-Cost.aspx

Institute of Policy Studies (IPS), Singapore

IPS Working Papers No. 17. January 2007

Singapore: The Art Of Building A Global City

by Sanjeev Sanyal

http://www.ips.org.sg/publications/index-wp.htm

Hewitt

Hewitt Associates Research Shows Impact That Pivotal Employees Have on Business Results [8 January 2007]

Data Establishes Link Between Shareholder Value and Companies Ability to Attract and Retain Top Performers

http://www.hewittassociates.com/Intl/NA/en-US/AboutHewitt/Newsroom/PressReleaseDetail.aspx?cid=3411

Kaiser Family Foundation

Snapshots: Health Care Costs

Health Care Spending in the United States and OECD Countries [3 January 2007]

January 2007

http://www.kff.org/insurance/snapshot/chcm010307oth.cfm

Mercer

Executive pay in European financial services companies - survey

UK

London, 9 January 2007

http://www.mercerhr.com/pressrelease/details.jhtml/dynamic/idContent/1254330;jsessionid=ZRXGIM2HKUXUECTGOUFCIIQKMZ0QUJLW

Pew Charitable Trusts

Analysis: The Complicated Politics of Free Trade, Unrestricted Trade Makes for Strange Political Bedfellows

January 4, 2007

http://www.pewtrusts.org/ideas/ideas_item.cfm?content_item_id=3857&content_type_id=18&issue_name=Public%20opinion%20and%20polls&issue=11&page=18&WT.mc_id=01/08/2007

For CHARTS -- see --- http://pewresearch.org/obdeck/?ObDeckID=116

For DETAILS -- see -- http://pewresearch.org/reports/?ReportID=77

and http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=299

RAND

Nanomaterials in the Workplace: A Summary of the RAND Policy and Planning Workshop on Occupational Safety and Health January 4, 2007

Eric Landree

http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/CT269/

or

http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/2007/RAND_CT269.pdf

[full-text, 8 pages]

Segal/Sibson

2007 REPORTING & DISCLOSURE CALENDAR for BENEFIT PLANS [December 2006]

http://www.segalsibson.com/publications/r&dcalendar/2007.html

or

http://www.segalsibson.com/publications/r&dcalendar/2007.pdf

[full-text, 27 pages]

Abstract

http://www.segalsibson.com/corporate/pub-corporate.cfm?ID=699

Segal

2007 REPORTING & DISCLOSURE CALENDAR for MULTIEMPLOYER PLANS [December 2006]

http://www.segalco.com/publications/r&dcalendar/2007.html

or

http://www.segalco.com/publications/r&dcalendar/2007.pdf

[full-text, 24 pages]

Abstract

http://www.segalco.com/taft/pub-taft.cfm?ID=698

Wall Street Journal

Markets Data Center -- FREE [New version launched January 2007]

http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/marketsdata.html

Need Help Finding Tables?

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116716548881759827.html

take a tour of new features.

http://online.wsj.com/submkt/tourc/MDCtour_2007.html

Watson Wyatt

Employee Ratings of Senior Management Dip, Watson Wyatt Survey Finds [4 January 2007]

http://www.watsonwyatt.com/news/press.asp?ID=16887

Law

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Asian Development Bank Institute

NGO Law and Governance: A Resource Book [4 January 2007]

http://www.adbi.org/book/2007/01/04/2086.ngo.law/

or

http://www.adbi.org/files/2007.12.26.book.ngo.law.governance.pdf

[full-text, 136 pages]

2006 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary [1 January 2007]

http://www.uscourts.gov/newsroom/yearend06.pdf

[full-text, 15 pages]

Abstract:

Federal Judges' Pay: "Constitutional Crisis"

NLRB GENERAL COUNSEL ISSUES REPORT ON FY 2006 OPERATIONS [3 January 2007]

http://www.nlrb.gov/shared_files/Press%20Releases/2006/R-2611%20Summary%20of%20Operations.pdf

[full-text, 13 pages]

Statistical Reports

Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)

County Estimates of Compensation by Industry, 20032005 [29 December 2006]

http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrelarchive/2006/lapi1206.htm

Tables for all areas for 19982005 can be accessed interactively at

www.bea.gov/bea/regional/reis

BLS: THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION: DECEMBER 2006 [5 January 2006]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf

[full-text, 26 pages]

and

Supplemental Files Table of Contents

http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit.supp.toc.htm

BLS: METROPOLITAN AREA EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT: NOVEMBER 2006 [3 January 2007]

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

Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)

January 5, 2007 / Vol. 55 / Nos. 51 & 52

Recommended Immunization Schedules for Persons Aged 0--18 Years --- United States, 2007

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5551a7.htm

or

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5551-Immunization.pdf

[full-text, 4 pages]

Order Code 97-1011 GOV

Congressional Research Service (CRS)

Updated April 18, 2006

Salaries of Members of Congress: A List of Payable Rates and Effective Dates, 1789-2006

Paul E. Dwyer, Specialist in American National Government, Government and Finance Division

http://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/97-1011.pdf

[full-text, 6 pages]

Facts for Features from the Census Bureau

CB07-FF.03

January 4, 2007

Women's History Month: March 2007

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/009383.html

or

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/cb07ff-03.pdf

[full-text, 6 pages]

RAND

I Want You!

The Evolution of the All-Volunteer Force

By: Bernard D. Rostker

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG265/

or

RESEARCH BRIEF

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/2006/RAND_RB9195.pdf

[full-text, 5 pages]

News Release 14 September 2006

http://www.rand.org/news/press.06/09.14.html

General Accountability Office (GAO)

Securing, Stabilizing, and Rebuilding Iraq: Key Issues for Congressional Oversight. GAO-07-308SP, January 9, 2007

http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-07-308SP

or

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d07308sp.pdf

[full-text, 120 pages]

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IWS Weekly Bulletin, 3 January 2007

Academic Research

The Johns Hopkins University, Center for Civil Society Studies

DECEMBER 2006

EMPLOYMENT IN AMERICAS CHARITIES: A PROFILE

LESTER M. SALAMON AND S. WOJCIECH SOKOLOWSKI

http://www.jhu.edu/~ccss/research/pdf/Employment%20in%20Americas%20Charities.pdf

[full-text, 17 pages]

CAHRS Working Paper 06-12

Dynamic Organizations: Achieving Marketplace Agility Through Workforce Scalability

Lee Dyer

Jeff Ericksen

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/depts/cahrs/downloads/PDFs/WorkingPapers/WP06-12.pdf

[full-text, 32 pages]

CAHRS Working Paper 06-08

How Can Multinational Corporations Retain Their Employees in China?

Ke Fan

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/depts/cahrs/downloads/PDFs/WorkingPapers/WP06-08.pdf

[full-text, 35 pages]

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

International

European Monitoring Centre on Change (EMCC)

EMCC case studies

Networks, partnerships and corporate social responsibility in Poland: Autokreacja Association [December 2006]

http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/content/source/pl06001a.html

or

http://www.emcc.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/2006/ef0548enC10.pdf

[full-text, 16 pages]

International Labour Organization (ILO)

Social Security Department

STEP

New Website [15 December 2006]

ILO/STEP

STEP = STRATEGIES & TOOLS AGAINST SOCIAL EXCLUSION & POVERTY

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/secsoc/step/

ILO Library, Bangkok

www.ilo.org/asia/library

Recent Publications, No. 2006/4

Decent Work for Women and Men in the Informal Economy: Profile and Good Practices in Cambodia

by International Labour Office in cooperation with the Economic Institute of Cambodia (EIC) and United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Cambodia

Bangkok: ILO, 2006

95 p.

English version

ISBN 92-2-119045-5 and 978-92-2-119045-5 (print version)

ISBN 92-2-119046-3 and 978-92-2-119046-2 (web version)

Read Online:

http://www.ilo.org/asia/library/download/pub06-26.pdf

[full-text, 97 pages]

Good practices in safety, health and working conditions: home workers, farmers and construction workers in Cambodia, Mongolia, and Thailand

edited by Tsuyoshi Kawakami

Bangkok: ILO, 2006. 20 p.

ISBN 92-2-119168-0 and 978-92-2-119168-1 (print)

ISBN 92-2-119169-9 and 978-92-2-119169-8 (web)

Read Online:

http://www.ilo.org/asia/library/download/pub06-24.pdf

[full-text, 24 pages]

Know more about HIV/AIDS: a toolkit for workers in the informal economy

Bangkok: ILO, 2006

38 p.

English version

ISBN 92-2-118429-3 & 978-92-2-118429-4 (print)

ISBN 92-2-118430-7 & 978-92-2-118430-0 (web)

ISBN 92-2-018489-3 & 978-92-2-018489-9 (CD-ROM)

Read Online:

http://www.ilo.org/asia/library/download/pub06-27.pdf

[full-text, 46 pages]

Work Improvement for Safe Home: Action Manual for Improving Safety, Health and Working Conditions of Homeworkers

by Tsuyoshi Kawakami, Sara Arphorn and Yuka Ujita

Bangkok: ILO, 2006. 90 p.

ISBN 92-2-119080-3 and 978-92-2-119080-6 (print version)

ISBN 92-2-119081-1 and 978-92-2-119081-3 (web version)

Read Online:

http://www.ilo.org/asia/library/download/pub06-22.pdf

[full-text, 92 pages]

Integrated Rural Accessibility Planning (IRAP) in Mongolia

by Chloe Pearse

Bangkok: ILO, 2006

76p. (Rural Accessibility Technical Paper (RATP) Series; no.15)

ISBN 92-2-118859-0 & 978-92-2-118859-9 (print)

ISBN 92-2-118860-4 & 978-92-2-118860-5 (web)

Read Online:

http://www.ilo.org/asia/library/download/pub06-25.pdf

[full-text, 78 pages]

[Thanks to Chanitda Wiwatchanon, Regional Librarian, ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific for the tip].

Korea Labor Institute (KLI)

e-Labor News

[Korea] LABOR TRENDS [20 December 2006]

http://www.kli.re.kr/kli/html_eng/08_mail/webzineboard/view_trends.asp?seq=66&rseq=88&tseq=49

Korea Labor Institute (KLI)

e-Labor News No. 61

Issue Paper

Industrial Health and Safety and Worker Participation in Korea:

Current Status and Issues

http://www.kli.re.kr/kli/html_eng/08_mail/webzineboard/upfile/61_Industrial%20Health%20and%20Safety%20and%20Worker%20Participation%20in%20Korea.pdf

[full-text, 67 pages]

YOON Jo-Duk, Senior Fellow, Korea Labor Institute

Email: yoonjd@kli.re.kr

December 2006

World Health Organization (WHO)

Protecting Workers' Health Series No. 7

A practical guide for the use of research information to improve the quality of occupational health practice [December 2006]

http://www.who.int/occupational_health/publications/pwh7/en/index.html

or

http://www.who.int/occupational_health/publications/pwh7elr.pdf

[full-text, 72 pages]

Federal

BLS: Monthly Labor Review [26 December 2006]

November 2006

Vol. 129, Number 11

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/mlrhome.htm

Import price rise in 2005 due to continued high energy prices

Jeffrey Bogen

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/11/art1full.pdf

[full-text, 8 pages]

Income imputation and the analysis of consumer expenditure data

Jonathan D. Fisher

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/11/art2full.pdf

[full-text, 9 pages]

New look at long-term labor force projections to 2050

Mitra Toossi

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/11/art3full.pdf

[full-text, 21 pages]

Labor costs of manufacturing employees in China: an update to 200304

Erin Lett and Judith Banister

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/11/art4full.pdf

[full-text, 6 pages]

Regional Trends

Multiple jobholding in States in 2005

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/11/rgtrends.pdf

[full-text, 2 pages]

BLS: Compensation and Working Conditions Online [27 December 2006]

http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/home.htm

Access, Participation, and Take-up Rates in Defined Contribution Retirement Plans among Workers in Private Industry, 2006 (12/27/2006)

http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/cm20061213ar01p1.htm

BLS: Issues in Labor Statistics

Summary 06-06 / December 2006

Telemarketing: Five Industry Centers [29 December 2006]

http://www.bls.gov/opub/ils/pdf/opbils56.pdf

[full-text, 2 pages]

U.S. Department of Labor

Semiannual Report to the Congress, April 1 - September 30, 2006 [6 December 2006]

Office of Inspector General (OIG)

http://www.oig.dol.gov/public/semiannuals/56.pdf

[full-text, 68 pages]

Highlights

http://www.oig.dol.gov/public/semiannuals/56Highlights.pdf

[full-text, 4 pages]

MSHA Media Advisory: [12/08/2006]

Contact: Dirk Fillpot Amy Louviere

Phone: (202) 693-9406 (202) 693-9423

Release Number 06-2056-NAT

U.S. Labor Department's MSHA Makes New Emergency Mine Evacuation Rules Permanent

Emergency Contact Number Established for Reporting All Mining Accidents

http://www.msha.gov/MEDIA/PRESS/2006/NR061208.asp

[One of the more significant results of the new rule is the establishment of only one phone number for use in reporting mine accidents within 15 minutes after it is known an accident occurred. All mine operators, including operators of metal and non-metal mines, must call 1 (800) 746-1553 to report mining accidents within the required time limit.]

Institutes/Associations/Commercial

New Commission on the SKILLS OF THE AMERICAN WORKFORCE [14 December 2006]

http://skillscommission.org/

TOUGH CHOICES or TOUGH TIMES

Report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce

Executive Summary

http://skillscommission.org/pdf/exec_sum/ToughChoices_EXECSUM.pdf

[full-text, 28 pages]

Staff Papers

http://skillscommission.org/staff.htm

Commissioned Papers

http://skillscommission.org/commissioned.htm