IWS Documented News WEEKLY BULLETIN: [IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 18 April 2007

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
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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]

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

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

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

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

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

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2007/13/en/1/ef0713en.pdf

[full-text, 42 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

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

http://www.dol.gov/wb/factsheets/nontra2006.pdf

Earlier years (1999-) archived at -- http://www.dol.gov/wb/media/archives.htm

Institutes/Associations/Commercial

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

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

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

Law

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

Statistical Reports

BEA: U.S. INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN GOODS AND SERVICES February 2007 [13 April 2007]

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/tradnewsrelease.htm

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/2007/pdf/trad0207.pdf

[full-text, 47 pages]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[full-text, 23 pages]

Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts

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 its Background Paper (distributed above in this bulletin), "The Effect of Tax Changes on Labor Supply in CBO's Microsimulation Tax Model", April 2007, http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/79xx/doc7996/04-12-LaborSupply.pdf , the CBO states on page 6:

"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

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