Wednesday, May 16, 2007
[IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 16 May 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
________________________________________________________________________
IWS Weekly Bulletin, 16 May 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, 16 May 2007
Academic Research
- U.S. Department of Labor
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Office of Productivity and Technology
- BLS Working Paper 405
- "Workplace Organization and Innovation"
- by Cindy Zoghi, Robert D. Mohr, and Peter B. Meyer (2007)
- http://www.bls.gov/ore/abstract/ec/ec070040.htm
- or
- http://www.bls.gov/ore/pdf/ec070040.pdf
- [full-text, 32 pages]
- The Cost of Worker Misclassification in New York State [February 2007]
- Linda H. Donahue, Cornell University
- James Ryan Lamare, Cornell University
- Fred B. Kotler, J.D., >Cornell University
- http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/reports/9/
- or
- http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1009&context=reports
- [full-text, 21 pages]
- The Social and Economic Costs of Employee Misclassification in Construction
- Maine Report
(April 2005)- http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/lwp/Maine%20Misclassification%20Maine.pdf
- or
- http://www.mccormack.umb.edu/csp/publications/Maine_misclassification.pdf
- [full-text, 22 pages]
- Massachusetts Report (December 2004)
- http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/lwp/Misclassification%20Report%20Mass.pdf
- or
- http://www.mccormack.umb.edu/csp/publications/misclassification.pdf
- [full-text, 28 pages]
- ILR Impact Brief
- Employee or Independent Contractor? Misclassification Comes at a Price
- Linda H. Donahue, Cornell University,
- James Ryan Lamare, Cornell University
- Fred B. Kotler, Cornell University
- http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/briefs/28/
- ILR Impact Brief
- Supervisor Support, Employee Control Help NYC Firefighters Cope with 9/11
- Samuel B. Bacharach, Cornell University
- Peter A. Bamberger, Technion: Israel Institute of Technology
- http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/briefs/29/
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
International
- European Foundation on the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
- Extended and unusual working hours in European companies [4 May 2007]
- Establishment Survey on Working Time 20042005
- http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef06105.htm
- or
- http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2006/105/en/1/ef06105en.pdf
- [full-text, 78 pages]
- European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
- Foundation Focus - Issue 3: Equal opportunities the catch-up game [14 May 2007]
- http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef0731.htm
- or
- http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2007/31/en/1/ef0731en.pdf
- [full-text, 16 pages]
- European Foundation for the Improvement of Working and Living Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
- Annual report 2006
- http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef0717.htm?utm_source=4may2007&utm_medium=email&utm_term=annualreport&utm_campaign=press
- or
- http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2007/17/en/1/ef0717en.pdf
- [full-text, 76 pages]
- European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO)
- Industrial relations in EU Member States 20002004 [3 May 2007]
- http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef0715.htm
- or
- http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2007/15/en/1/ef0715en.pdf
- [full-text, 44 pages]
- Japan Institute for Labor Policy and Training (JILPT)
- JAPAN LABOR REVIEW
- Vol.4,No.2
- Spring 2007
- http://www.jil.go.jp/english/JLR.htm
- Introduction
- "Future of the Performance-based Pay System in Japan"
- Funio Ohtake
- http://www.jil.go.jp/english/documents/JLR14_intro.pdf
- Articles
- * Why Companies in Japan Are Introducing Performance-based Treatment and Reward Systems - The Background, Merits and Demerits
- Masahiro Abe
- http://www.jil.go.jp/english/documents/JLR14_abe.pdf
- [full-text, 30 pages]
- * A Behavioral Economic Approach to Performance-based Wage Systems
- Kohei Daido
- http://www.jil.go.jp/english/documents/JLR14_daido.pdf
- [full-text, 18 pages]
- * What is the Outcome of the Wages Reform in Recent Japan ?
- Mitsuo Ishida
- http://www.jil.go.jp/english/documents/JLR14_ishida.pdf
- [full-text, 24 pages]
- * Seikashugi from an Employee Perspective
- Shingo Tatsumichi, Motohiro Morishima
- http://www.jil.go.jp/english/documents/JLR14_tatsumichi.pdf
- [full-text, 26 pages]
- * Employee Comprehension of Pay Systems
- Hisakazu Matsushige
- http://www.jil.go.jp/english/documents/JLR14_matsushige.pdf
- [full-text, 16 pages]
- Article Based on Research Reports
- * Career Analysis of Today's Japanese from Different Angles: Dramatic Change of the Japanese Society and Workers' Way of Life
- Mari Okutsu
- http://www.jil.go.jp/english/documents/JLR14_okutsu.pdf
- [full-text, 18 pages]
- * The Problems of the Women's Job Continuity and the Childcare Leave System
- Sachiko Imada, Shingou Ikeda
- http://www.jil.go.jp/english/documents/JLR14_imada.pdf
- [full-text, 22 pages]
- JILPT Research Activities
- http://www.jil.go.jp/english/documents/JLR14_activities.pdf
- [full-text, 2 pages]
- ILO
- REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL
- Global Report under the follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work
- INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCE
- 96th Session 2007
- Report I (B)
- Equality at work: Tackling the challenge [10 May 2007]
- http://www.ilo.org/global/What_we_do/Publications/Officialdocuments/lang--en/docName--WCMS_082607/PDF
- or
- http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/@dgreports/@dcomm/@webdev/documents/publication/wcms_082607.pdf
- [full-text, 141 pages]
- Press Release
- http://www.ilo.org/global/About_the_ILO/Media_and_public_information/Press_releases/lang--en/WCMS_082596
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
- OECD GUIDELINES ON FUNDING AND BENEFIT SECURITY IN OCCUPATIONAL PENSION PLANS [10 May 2007]
- Recommendation of the Council
- http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/3/22/38547978.pdf
- [full-text, 12 pages]
- Press Release [10 May 2007]
- OECD calls for better protection of occupational pension systems
- http://www.oecd.org/document/9/0,2340,en_2649_201185_38556937_1_1_1_1,00.html
- Extended and unusual working hours in European companies [4 May 2007]
- Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
- Issues in Labor Statistics
- Summary 07-01 / May 2007
- Recovery After Hurricane Katrina: Employment in the Gulf Coast Area
- http://www.bls.gov/opub/ils/pdf/opbils57.pdf
- [full-text, 2 pages]
- Additonal charts are available online at
- www.bls.gov/katrina/smallareas.pdf
- Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention
- National Center for Health Statistics
- National Vital Statistics Report, Vol. 55, No. 16
- Births, Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths: Provisional Data for September 2006 [4 May 2007]
- http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr55/nvsr55_16.pdf
- [full-text, 6 pages]
- Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
- A CBO Paper
- The State Children's Health Insurance Program [10 May 2007]
- http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/80xx/doc8092/05-10-SCHIP.pdf
- [full-text, 31 pages]
- CBO Testimony
- Statement of Peter R. Orszag, Director
- before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border
- Security, and International Law
- Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives
- The Role of Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market
- May 3, 2007
- http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=8042&sequence=0&from=7
- or
- http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/80xx/doc8042/05-03-Immigration.pdf
- [full-text, 18 pages]
- Congressional Research Service (CRS)
- Order Code 98-871 STM
- Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Education: Status and Issues
- Updated April 23, 2007
- Christine M. Matthews, Specialist in Science and Technology Policy, Resources, Science, and Industry Division
- http://ncseonline.org/NLE/CRSreports/07March/98-871.pdf
- [full-text, 27 pages]
- Department of Labor (DOL)
- FLSA OVERTIME CALCULATOR [8 May 2007]
- http://www.dol.gov/elaws/otcalculator.htm
- Issues in Labor Statistics
- Center for Retirement Research (CRR)
- Issues in Brief
- May 2007
- WOB #10
- Employers Lukewarm About Retaining Older Workers
- by Andrew D. Eschtruth, Steven A. Sass, and Jean-Pierre Aubry*
- http://www.bc.edu/centers/crr/issues/wob_10.pdf
- [full-text, 9 pages]
- Detailed Survey Data
- http://www.bc.edu/centers/crr/surveydata.shtml
- Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI)
- Stretched Too Thin: Food Stamp Benefits in New York State [16 May 2007]
- http://www.fiscalpolicy.org/publications2007/FPI_FoodStampsStretchedTooThin.pdf
- [full-text, 9 pages]
- ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press)
- JUKI GIRLS, GOOD GIRLS
- Gender and Cultural Politics in Sri Lanka's Global Garment Industry
- by Caitrin Lynch
- http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4663
- $19.95s paper
- 2007, 296 pages, 6 x 9, 6 halftones
- ISBN: 978-0-8014-7362-3
- ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press)
- THE SEX OF CLASS
- Women Transforming American Labor
- Dorothy Sue Cobble (Editor)
- http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4660
- $22.50s paper
- 2007, 352 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, 11 tables, 13 charts/graphs
- ISBN: 978-0-8014-8943-3
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Communication and Management at Work
- http://www.palgrave.com/products/Catalogue.aspx?is=0230515436
- Author:
- Thomas Klikauer
- PhD Warwick (UK), teaches Industrial Relations, HRM, Strategic Management, & Organisation Theory at the School of Management, College of Business, University of Western Sydney, Australia; E-Mail: t.klikauer@uws.edu.au
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke (UK), New York (USA)
- ISBN: 0-230-51543-6, hardback; published in April, 2007
- Details: 238-xvi pages, 380 references, 540 notes
- Issues in Brief
- Congressional Research Service (CRS)
- Order Code RL33988
- Genetic Nondiscrimination in Health Insurance:
- A Side-by-Side Comparison of the Title I Provisions in H.R. 493 and S. 358
- May 2, 2007
- C. Stephen Redhead, Specialist in Life Sciences, Domestic Social Policy Division
- http://www.opencrs.com/rpts/RL33988_20070502.pdf
- [full-text, 14 pages]
- Congressional Research Service (CRS)
- Order Code RL33987
- Genetic Non-discrimination in Employment:
- A Comparison of Title II Provisions in S. 358 and H.R. 493, 110th Congress
- May 2, 2007
- Nancy Lee Jones, Legislative Attorney, American Law Division
- http://www.opencrs.com/rpts/RL33987_20070502.pdf
- [full-text, 37 pages]
- EEOC
- LOCAL 580, ORNAMENTAL IRONWORKERS, TO PAY $800,000 TO PARTIALLY SETTLE CONTEMPT ACTION BY EEOC [8 May 2007]
- Union Allegedly Refused to Refer Journeypersons for Work On Equal Basis Due to Race and National Origin
- http://www.eeoc.gov/press/5-8-07.html
- Order Code RL33988
- BEA: U.S. INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN GOODS AND SERVICES March 2007 [10 May 2007]
- http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/tradnewsrelease.htm
- or
- http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/2007/pdf/trad0307.pdf
- [full-text, 47 pages]
- or
- http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/2007/xls/trad0307.xls
- [spreadsheet]
- and
- Highlights
- http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/2007/pdf/trad0307_fax.pdf
- BLS: CONSUMER PRICE INDEX: APRIL 2007 [15 May 2007]
- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm
- or
- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cpi.pdf
- [full-text, 19 pages]
- BLS: REAL EARNINGS IN APRIL 2007 [15 May 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: Producer Price Indexes - April 2007 [11 May 2007]
- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ppi.nr0.htm
- or
- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ppi.pdf
- [full-text, 19 pages]
- and
- Supplemental Files Table of Contents
- http://www.bls.gov/web/ppi.supp.toc.htm
- BLS: U.S. IMPORT AND EXPORT PRICE INDEXES - APRIL 2007 - [10 May 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: EMPLOYMENT CHARACTERISTICS OF FAMILIES IN 2006 [9 May 2007]
- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/famee.nr0.htm
- or
- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/famee.pdf
- [full-text, 10 pages]
- BLS: PRODUCTIVITY AND COSTS First Quarter 2007, preliminary [3 May 2007]
- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/prod2.nr0.htm
- or
- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/prod2.pdf
- [full-text, 16 pages]
- and
- Supplemental Files Table of Contents
- http://www.bls.gov/web/prod2.supp.toc.htm
- BLS: THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION: APRIL 2007 [4 May 2007]
- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
- or
- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
- [full-text, 24 pages]
- and
- Supplemental Files Table of Contents
- http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit.supp.toc.htm
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
- OECD Standardised Unemployment Rates (SURs) - Updated: May 2007 [10 May 2007]
- http://www.oecd.org/document/48/0,2340,en_2649_201185_38555440_1_1_1_1,00.html
- or
- http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/23/38/38555397.pdf
- [full-text, 4 pages]
- http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/tradnewsrelease.htm
- National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
- The Nation's Report Card
- http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/
- U.S. HISTORY 2006 - assessment results [16 May 2007]
- http://nationsreportcard.gov/ushistory_2006/
- CIVICS 2006 -- assessment results [16 May 2007]
- http://nationsreportcard.gov/civics_2006/
- The Disposable American: Layoffs And Their Consequences
- Written by Louis Uchitelle
- (Now in Paperback)
- Vintage
- | April 2007 | $9.95| 978-0-307-27970-5 (0-307-27970-7)
- http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307279705#desc
- The Nation's Report Card
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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