Tuesday, January 30, 2007

[IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 31 January 2007

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

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Director, IWS News Bureau                
Institute for Workplace Studies 
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