Wednesday, April 18, 2007
[IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 18 April 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
________________________________________________________________________
IWS Weekly Bulletin, 18 April 2007
Academic Research
International
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
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
****************************************
_______________________________
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, 18 April 2007
Academic Research
- Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training ( JILPT)
- JILPT REPORT No. 4, 2007
- 2005 Survey Results of Labor-Management Relations, Human Resource Management and Working Conditions in Foreign Affiliated Companies in Japan [April 2007]
- http://www.jil.go.jp/english/documents/JILPTRNo4.pdf
- [full-text, 59 pages]
- University of Southern California Law School
- Law and Economics Working Paper Series
- Year 2007 Paper 62
- Happiness and Domain Satisfaction: Theory and Evidence
- Richard A. Easterlin, Onnicha Sawangfa
- http://law.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1063&context=usclwps
- [full-text, 37 pages]
- JILPT REPORT No. 4, 2007
International
- European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
- Part-time work in European companies [12 April 2007]
- http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef06102.htm
- or
- http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2006/102/en/1/ef06102en.pdf
- [full-text, 89 pages]
- European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
- First European Quality of Life Survey: Time use and worklife options over the life course [12 April 2007]
- http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef0699.htm
- or
- http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2006/99/en/1/ef0699en.pdf
- [full-text, 119 pages]
- European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
- European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO)
- COMPARATIVE STUDY
- Gender and career development [21 March 2007]
- March 2007
- http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/2006/12/studies/index.html
- or
- http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/2006/12/studies/tn0612019s.pdf
- [full-text, 27 pages]
- European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
- and the
- European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop)
- Fostering mobility through competence development [12 April 2007]
- http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef0713.htm
- or
- http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2007/13/en/1/ef0713en.pdf
- [full-text, 42 pages]
- See also --
- The role of competence and qualification development in fostering workforce mobility
- http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/emcc/content/source/eu07001a.html?p1=reports&p2=null
- [Includes CASE STUDIES]
- World Bank
- GLOBAL MONITORING REPORT 2007 [13 April 2007]
- Millennium Development Goals: Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile States
- http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTGLOBALMONITOR/EXTGLOMONREP2007/0,,contentMDK:21256862~menuPK:3413278~pagePK:64218950~piPK:64218883~theSitePK:3413261,00.html
- or
- http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTGLOMONREP2007/Resources/3413191-1176390231604/1264-FINAL-LO-RES.pdf
- [full-text, 276 pages]
- STATISTICAL APPENDIX
- http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTGLOMONREP2007/Resources/3413191-1176390231604/225-254_GMRstatapp.pdf
- [full-text, 30 pages]
- Press Release
- Greater Attention Needed to Gender Equality and Fragile States to Reach Global Targets by 2015, Says World Bank-IMF Report
- http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:21296903~pagePK:64257043~piPK:437376~theSitePK:4607,00.html
- Part-time work in European companies [12 April 2007]
- Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
- Upcoming change to CES data access with release of data on May 4, 2007 [12 April 2007]
- http://www.bls.gov/ces/cesdtchanges.htm
- BLS
- Revised 2005 Worker Fatalities Data Now Available
- Fatal cases added on the revised 2005 file [17 April 2007]
- http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/cfoi_revised05.htm
- Census
- Household Economic Studies
- Issued April 2007
- P70-110
- Extended Measures of Well-Being: Living Conditions in the United States, 2003 [2 April 2007]
- http://www.census.gov/prod/2007pubs/p70-110.pdf
- [full-text, 20 pages]
- Census
- Information and Communication Technology: 2005 [12 April 2007]
- Issued April 2007 , ICT/05
- http://www.census.gov/prod/2007pubs/ict-05.pdf
- [full-text, 56 pages]
- Congressional Research Service (CRS)
- Order Code RS22640
- April 10, 2007
- What's the Difference? Comparing U.S. and Chinese Trade Data
- Michael F. Martin, Analyst in Asian Political Economy, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division
- http://www.opencrs.com/rpts/RS22640_20070410.pdf
- [full-text, 6 pages]
- Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
- Trends in Earnings Variability Over the Past 20 Years [17 April 2007]
- April 2007
- http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/80xx/doc8007/04-17-EarningsVariability.pdf
- [full-text, 45 pages]
- Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
- Background Paper
- The Effect of Tax Changes on Labor Supply in CBO's Microsimulation Tax Model [12 April 2007]
- April 2007
- http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/79xx/doc7996/04-12-LaborSupply.pdf
- [full-text, 26 pages]
- U. S. Department of Labor
- Employee Benefits Security Administration
- Administration
- March 2007
- Private Pension Plan Bulletin
- Abstract of 2004 Form 5500 Annual Reports
- http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/PDF/2004pensionplanbulletin.PDF
- [full-text, 61 pages]
- See also
- Private Pension Plan Bulletin Historical Tables
- http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/pdf/privatepensionplanbulletinhistoricaltables.pdf
- [full-text, 25 pages]
- USITC (U.S. International Trade Commission)
- Sub-Saharan Africa: Factors Affecting Trade Patterns of Selected Industries [13 April 2007]
- First Annual Report
- Investigation No. 332--477
- Publication 3914, April 2007
- http://hotdocs.usitc.gov/docs/pubs/332/pub3914.pdf
- [full-text, 214 pages]
- Women's Bureau
- 20 Leading Occupations of Employed Women 2006
- http://www.dol.gov/wb/factsheets/20lead2006.htm
- or
- http://www.dol.gov/wb/factsheets/20lead2006.pdf
- Earlier years (1999-) archived at -- http://www.dol.gov/wb/media/archives.htm
- Women's Bureau
- Nontraditional Occupations for Women 2006
- http://www.dol.gov/wb/factsheets/nontra2006.htm
- or
- http://www.dol.gov/wb/factsheets/nontra2006.pdf
- Earlier years (1999-) archived at -- http://www.dol.gov/wb/media/archives.htm
- Upcoming change to CES data access with release of data on May 4, 2007 [12 April 2007]
- American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
- Financial Inequality in Higher Education
- The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 200607
[12 April 2007]- http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/About/committees/committee+repts/compensation/ecstatreport2006-07/survey2006-07.htm
- or
- http://www.aaup.org/NR/rdonlyres/B25BFE69-BCE7-4AC9-A644-7E84FF14B883/0/zreport.pdf
- [full-text, 15 pages]
- TABLES
- http://www.aaup.org/NR/rdonlyres/FAD15522-BC8A-4BD1-9C73-C6F2BBC85710/0/alltables.pdf
- [full-text, 16 pages]
- Press Release 12 April 2007
- Financial Inequality in Higher Education-AAUP Releases Annual Report on Faculty Salaries
- http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/newsroom/pressreleases/zreport.htm
- ETC Group
- Civil Society/Labor Coalition Rejects Fundamentally Flawed Dupont-ED Proposed Nanotechnology Framework
- http://www.etcgroup.org/en/materials/publications.html?id=610
- AN OPEN LETTER TO THE INTERNATIONAL NANOTECHNOLOGY COMMUNITY AT LARGE [12 April 2007]
- Civil Society-Labor Coalition Rejects Fundamentally Flawed DuPont-ED Proposed Framework
- Urges All Parties To Reject The Public Relations Campaign
- http://www.etcgroup.org/upload/publication/610/01/coalition_letter_april07.pdf
- Mercer
- Incentives used to reduce employee absence - European survey
- UK
- London, 12 April 2007
- http://www.mercerhr.com/pressrelease/details.jhtml/dynamic/idContent/1263520;jsessionid=22LZXB4UTJ0JUCTGOUFCHPQKMZ0QUJLW
- Towers Perrin
- A report prepared by CFO Research Services in collaboration with Towers Perrin
- Pension Plan Risk: Using the calm before the next storm [11 April 2007]
- http://www.towersperrin.com/tp/getwebcachedoc?webc=HRS/USA/2007/200703/CFO_pension_risk_survey_report_final.pdf
- [full-text, 26 pages]
- Press Release 11 April 2007
- Towers Perrin And CFO Research Services Joint Study Finds Many Corporations Slow To Embrace Financial Solutions To Pension Risks
- Defined Benefit Pension Plans Show Staying Power
- http://www.towersperrin.com/tp/jsp/hrservices_webcache_html.jsp?webc=HR_Services/United_States/Press_Releases/2007/20070411/2007_04_11.htm&selected=press&language_code=global
- Financial Inequality in Higher Education
- EEOC Press Release
- EEOC CHAIR NAOMI EARP URGES ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY TO PROACTIVELY ADDRESS RACE AND COLOR BIAS [12 April 2007]
- Chief of Federal Civil Rights Enforcement Agency Speaks Out Amid National Debate
- http://www.eeoc.gov/press/4-12-07a.html
- EEOC CHAIR NAOMI EARP URGES ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY TO PROACTIVELY ADDRESS RACE AND COLOR BIAS [12 April 2007]
- BEA: U.S. INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN GOODS AND SERVICES February 2007 [13 April 2007]
- http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/tradnewsrelease.htm
- or
- http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/2007/pdf/trad0207.pdf
- [full-text, 47 pages]
- or
- http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/2007/xls/trad0207.xls
- [spreadsheet]
- and
- Highlights
- http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/2007/pdf/trad0207_fax.pdf
- BLS: CONSUMER PRICE INDEX: MARCH 2007 [17 April 2007]
- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm
- or
- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cpi.pdf
- [full-text, 20 pages]
- BLS: REAL EARNINGS IN MARCH 2007 [17 April 2007]
- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/realer.nr0.htm
- or
- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/realer.pdf
- [full-text, 5 pages]
- BLS: EMPLOYMENT SITUATION OF VETERANS: AUGUST 2005 [16 April 2007]
- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/vet.nr0.htm
- or
- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/vet.pdf
- [full-text, 17 pages]
- BLS: Producer Price Indexes - March 2007 [13 April 2007]
- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ppi.nr0.htm
- or
- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ppi.pdf
- [full-text, 20 pages]
- and
- Supplemental Files Table of Contents
- http://www.bls.gov/web/ppi.supp.toc.htm
- BLS: U.S. IMPORT AND EXPORT PRICE INDEXES - MARCH 2007 - [12 April 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: THIRD QUARTER 2006 [11 April 2007]
- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cewqtr.nr0.htm
- or
- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cewqtr.pdf
- [full-text, 23 pages]
- http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/tradnewsrelease.htm
- Congressional Research Service (CRS)
- Order Code RL33956
- Counting the Homeless: Homeless Management Information Systems
- April 11, 2007
- Libby Perl, Analyst in Social Legislation, Domestic Social Policy Division
- http://www.opencrs.com/rpts/RL33956_20070411.pdf
- [full-text, 13 pages]
- National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the
- University of Chicago
- Public Attitudes towards the Regulation of Firearms [10 April 2007]
- Tom W. Smith
- NORC/University of Chicago, March, 2007
- http://www.norc.org/NR/rdonlyres/30013B80-5BA9-4764-9DEA-57B135BBD51B/0/PublicAttitudestowardsReglulationofFirearms2007.pdf
- [full-text, 11 pages]
- ILR School (School of Industrial & Labor Relations at Cornell University)
- ILR School announces new Program on Globalization and the Workplace
- April 12 2007
- http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/news/041207_ProgramOnGlobalization.html
- ILR influences CBO (Congressional Budget Office)
- It is interesting to note that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has incorporated into its analysis of the impact of tax changes on labor supply the estimates of labor supply elasticities that Professors Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn of the ILR School obtained in the paper: "Changes in the Labor Supply Behavior of Married Women: 1980-2000", cited by the CBO as NBER Working Paper No. 11230, March 2005 < http://www.nber.org/papers/w11230>, and which is now forthcoming in the Journal of Labor Economics.
- "In some earlier analyses, CBO assumed a higher total wage elasticity (0.5) and substitution elasticity (0.75) for secondary earners. CBO has lowered those estimates on the basis of evidence that secondary earners have become less responsive over time as their participation in the labor force has grown. See Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn, Changes in the Labor Supply Behavior of Married Women: 1980-2000, Working Paper No. 11230 (Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2005)." < http://www.nber.org/papers/w11230>
- ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press)
- ASSISTED LIVING FOR OUR PARENTS
- A Son's Journey
- Daniel Jay Baum; Carol Levine (Foreword)
- http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4681
- Order Code RL33956
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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