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[IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 1 October 2008
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, 1 October 2008
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
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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, 1 October 2008
Academic Research
- NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH (NBER)
- Forecasting the Cost of U.S. Health Care in 2040
- Robert W. Fogel
- NBER Working Paper No. 14361
- Issued in September 2008
- http://www.nber.org/papers/w14361.pdf
- [full-text, 17 pages]
- ---- Abstract -----
- http://www.nber.org/papers/w14361
- Warwick Papers in Industrial Relations
- http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/wbs/research/irru/publications/wpir/
- Recent examples include --
- No 89
- Legal regulation, institutions and industrial relations
- No 88
- Putting the record straight: Industrial relations and the employment relationship
- No 87
- The role of trade unions in the implementation of autonomous framework agreements
- Legal regulation, institutions and industrial relations
- Forecasting the Cost of U.S. Health Care in 2040
International
- Asian Development Bank (ADB)
- Skilling the Pacific: Technical and Vocational Education and Training in the Pacific [online 29 September 2008]
- http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/Skilling-Pacific/default.asp
- or
- http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/Skilling-Pacific/Skilling-Pacific.pdf
- [full-text, 262 pages]
- Executive Summary
- http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/Skilling-Pacific/Skilling-Pacific-summary.pdf
- European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
- Cities for Local Integration Policy (CLIP) -- CLIP Network
- Equality and diversity in jobs and services: City policies for migrants in Europe [24 September 2008]
- http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef0871.htm
- or
- http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2008/71/en/1/EF0871EN.pdf
- [full-text, 141 pages]
- This Report has been commissioned and funded by UNEP, as part of the joint UNEP, ILO, IOE, ITUC Green Jobs Initiative.
- Technical assistance in producing the report was provided by the Worldwatch Institute and
- Cornell University, ILR School, Global Labor Institute
- Green Jobs: Towards Decent Work in a Sustainable, Low-Carbon World [24 September 2008]
- http://www.unep.org/labour_environment/PDFs/Greenjobs/UNEP-Green-Jobs-Report.pdf
- or
- http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/intl/53/
- or
- http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1057&context=intl
- [full-text, 376 pages]
- See Press Release 24 September 2008
- Landmark New Report Says Emerging Green Economy Could Create Tens of Millions of New "Green Jobs"
- http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=545&ArticleID=5929&l=en
- RELATED EVENT--
- Global Policy Innovations
- Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
- Green Jobs
- Decent Work in a Low-Carbon World
- http://www.policyinnovations.org/calendar/data/000030
- Landmark New Report Says Emerging Green Economy Could Create Tens of Millions of New "Green Jobs"
- ILO Bangkok
- Library
- Disabled Workers
- http://www.ilo.org/public/english/region/asro/bangkok/library/pub2.htm
- Getting hired: a guide for job-seekers with disabilities
- Bangkok: ILO, 2008
- 71 p.
- ISBN 9789221208587 (print version)
- ISBN 9789221208594 (web version)
- http://www.ilo.org/public/english/region/asro/bangkok/library/download/pub08-31.pdf
- Getting hired: a trainer's manual for conducting a workshop for job-seekers with disabilities
- Bangkok: ILO, 2008
- 97 p.
- ISBN 9789221208600 (print version)
- ISBN 9789221208617 (web version)
- http://www.ilo.org/public/english/region/asro/bangkok/library/download/pub08-32.pdf
- Bangkok: ILO, 2008
- Skilling the Pacific: Technical and Vocational Education and Training in the Pacific [online 29 September 2008]
- BLS
- Bulletin 2715
- National Compensation Survey: Employee Benefits in the United States, March 2008 [24 September 2008]
- http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ebs/benefits/2008/home.htm
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Compensation and Working Conditions
- http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/home.htm
- Major Union Mergers, Alliances, and Disaffiliations, 1995-2007 [24 September 2008]
- by Elizabeth A. Ashack
- http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/cb20080919ar01p1.htm
- or
- http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/print/cb20080919ar01p1.htm
- BLS Introduces New Employment Cost Indexes for 14 Metropolitan Areas [24 September 2008]
- by Albert E. Schwenk
- http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/cm20080922ar01p1.htm
- by Elizabeth A. Ashack
- Congressional Research Service (CRS)
- Order Code RS22956
- Updated September 23, 2008
- The Cost of Government Financial Interventions, Past and Present
- Baird Webel, N. Eric Weiss, and Marc Labonte, Government and Finance Division
- http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/RS22956_20080923.pdf
- [full-text, 6 pages]
- Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
- Cost Estimate on Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 [28 September 2008]
- Letter to the Honorable Barney Frank
- http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/98xx/doc9829/09-28-HonorableFrank.pdf
- [full-text, 7 pages]
- Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
- Testimony
- Statement of Peter R. Orszag, Director
- Federal Responses to Market Turmoil
- before the Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives
- September 24, 2008
- http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=9767
- or
- http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/97xx/doc9767/09-24-MarketTurmoil.pdf
- [full-text, 11 pages]
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Federal R&D Funding by Budget Function: 200709 [25 September 2008]
- http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf08315/
- or
- http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf08315/pdf/nsf08315.pdf
- [full-text, 48 pages]
- National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
- Postsecondary Career/Technical Education: Changes in the Number of Offering Institutions and Awarded Credentials from 1997 to 2006 [23 September 2008]
- http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2008001
- or
- http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2008/2008001.pdf
- [full-text, 4 pages]
- National Center for Health Statistics (HCHS)
- Early Release of Selected Estimates Based on Data From the January-March 2008 National Health Interview Survey [24 September 2008]
- http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/nhis/released200809.htm
- or
- http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/earlyrelease200809.pdf
- [full-text, 109 pages]
- About the release
- http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/nhis/about200809.htm
- U.S. Department of State
- 2008 Report on International Religious Freedom [19 September 2008]
- http://www.state.gov/g/drl/irf/rpt/
- or
- http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2008/
- Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)
- 2007 Border-Crossing Data [TRUCKS +][19 September 2008]
- http://www.bts.gov/press_releases/2008/dot139_08/html/dot139_08.html
- or
- http://www.bts.gov/press_releases/2008/dot139_08/pdf/dot139_08.pdf
- DATA
- U.S. Border Crossings/ Entries by State/Port and Month/Year Sorted by Month
- http://www.transtats.bts.gov/BorderCrossing.aspx
- or
- Border Crossing/Entry Data
- http://www.transtats.bts.gov/Fields.asp?Table_ID=1358
- White House
- Executive Order: To Authorize Certain Noncompetitive Appointments in the Civil Service for Spouses of Certain Members of the Armed Forces [25 September 2008]
- http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/09/20080926-8.html
- or
- http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/09/print/20080926-8.html
- Bulletin 2715
- Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)
- Fast Facts from EBRI
- FFE #101, Sept. 24, 2008
- Gen X and Gen Y Self Description: "Hard-Working" [24 September 2008]
- http://www.ebri.org/pdf/publications/facts/fastfacts/fastfact09242008.pdf
- Kaiser Family Foundation
- Employer Health Benefits 2008 Annual Survey [24 September 2008]
- http://ehbs.kff.org/
- or
- http://ehbs.kff.org/pdf/7790.pdf
- [full-text, 214 pages]
- See Press Release
- YEARLY PREMIUMS FOR FAMILY HEALTH COVERAGE RISE TO $12,680 IN 2008, UP 5 PERCENT, AS MANY WORKERS ALSO FACE HIGHER DEDUCTIBLES
- Workers Pay An Average Of $3,354 Annually Toward Family Coverage, More Than Double What They Paid Nine Years Ago
- Growing Shares of Workers Now Face Deductibles Of At Least $1,000, Including More Than One-Third Of Those Covered By Smaller Firms
- http://www.kff.org/newsroom/ehbs092408.cfm
- Kaiser Family Foundation
- www.heath08.org
- 2008 Presidential Candidates Health Care Proposals -- New Side-by-Side Comparison and Video Clips
- http://www.health08.org/sidebyside.cfm
- or
- http://www.health08.org/healthissues_sidebyside.cfm
- or
- http://www.health08.org/candidates/healthissues_both_candidates.pdf
- [full-text, 10 pages]
- Kaiser Family Foundation
- StateHealthFacts.org
- www.statehealthfacts.org
- UPDATES current through 23 September 2008
- http://statehealthfacts.org/cgi-bin/healthfacts.cgi?action=whatsnew
- Mercer
- More than one-fourth of plan sponsors lack a funding policy for their defined benefit plans [22 September 2008]
- Turbulent economic conditions expose need for stronger risk management
- http://www.mercer.com/summary.htm?idContent=1322355
- Migration Policy Institute (MPI)
- High Stakes, More Meaning: An Overview of the Process of Redesigning the U.S. Citizenship Test [29 September 2008]
- http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/BR6_NatzTest_092908.pdf
- [full-text, 18 pages]
- Press Release 29 September 2008
- MPI Backgrounder Examines Redesigned Citizenship Test
- Taking Effect October 1st
- Report Details Redesign Process, Examines Whether the Government Met Its Goals
- http://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/2008_09_29.php
- MPI Backgrounder Examines Redesigned Citizenship Test
- Pew Internet & American Life Project
- NETWORKED WORKERS : Most workers use the internet or email at their jobs, but they say these technologies are a mixed blessing for them [24 September 2008]
- http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Networked_Workers_FINAL.pdf
- [full-text, 57 pages]
- Questionnaire
- http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Worker_Topline.pdf
- Press Release
- Most Working Americans Now Use the Internet or Email at Their Jobs [24 September 2008]
- http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=44496
- Towers Perrin
- Press Release 24 September 2008
- Towers Perrin Health Care Cost Survey Shows Average Annual Per-Employee Cost of $9,660 in 2009 -- And the Health Care Affordability Gap Widens
- High-Performing Companies Again Beat Low Performers on Costs by Double-Digit Percentages Informing Policy Debate With Insights Into What Works In Health Care
- http://www.towersperrin.com/tp/showdctmdoc.jsp?country=global&url=Master_Brand_2/USA/Press_Releases/2008/20080924/2008_09_24b.htm
- SeeThroughNY -- sponsored by the Empire Center for New York State Policy
- http://www.seethroughny.net/
- Payrolls
- http://www.seethroughny.net/Payrolls/tabid/55/Default.aspx
- Contracts
- http://www.seethroughny.net/Contracts/tabid/85/Default.aspx
- Expenditures
- http://www.seethroughny.net/Expenditures/tabid/56/Default.aspx
- Other Data
- http://www.seethroughny.net/OtherData/tabid/57/Default.aspx
- more about the site:
- http://www.empirecenter.org/2008/07/SeeThruAnnouncement73108.cfm
- http://www.seethroughny.net/Payrolls/tabid/55/Default.aspx
- Fast Facts from EBRI
- EEOC
- STERLING JEWELERS SUED FOR SEX DISCRIMINATION [24 September 2008]
- EEOC Says Jewelry Retail Giant Discriminated Against Thousands of Women Nationwide
- http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-24-08.html
- STERLING JEWELERS SUED FOR SEX DISCRIMINATION [24 September 2008]
- BEA: PERSONAL INCOME AND OUTLAYS: AUGUST 2008 [29 September 2008]
- http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2008/pi0808.htm
- or
- http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2008/pdf/pi0808.pdf
- [full-text, 13 pages]
- or
- http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2008/xls/pi0808.xls
- [spreadsheet]
- and
- Highlights
- http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2008/pdf/pi0808_fax.pdf
- BEA: GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT: SECOND QUARTER 2008 (FINAL) [26 September 2008]
- CORPORATE PROFITS: SECOND QUARTER 2008 (FINAL)
- http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2008/gdp208f.htm
- or
- http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2008/pdf/gdp208f.pdf
- [full-text, 15 pages]
- or
- http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2008/xls/gdp208f.xls
- [spreadsheet]
- and
- Highlights
- http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2008/pdf/gdp208f_fax.pdf
- BEA: 2006 and Revised 2004-2005 GDP-by-Metropolitan-Area Statistics [25 September 2008]
- METROPOLITAN ECONOMIC GROWTH WIDESPREAD IN 2006
- http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/regional/gdp_metro/2008/gdp_metro0908.htm
- or
- http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/regional/gdp_metro/2008/pdf/gdp_metro0908.pdf
- [full-text, 29 pages]
- or
- http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/regional/gdp_metro/2008/xls/gdp_metro0908.xls
- [spreadsheet]
- and
- Highlights by Region
- http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/regional/gdp_metro/2008/gdpm_highlights_0908.htm
- BEA: U.S. Travel and Tourism Satellite Accounts: Second Quarter 2008 [24 September 2008]
- http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/industry/tourism/2008/tour208.htm
- or
- http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/industry/tourism/2008/pdf/tour208.pdf
- [full-text, 7 pages]
- or
- http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/industry/tourism/2008/xls/tour208.xls
- [spreadsheet]
- BLS: INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS OF MANUFACTURING PRODUCTIVITY AND UNIT LABOR COST TRENDS, 2007 [26 September 2008]
- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/prod4.nr0.htm
- or
- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/prod4.pdf
- [full-text, 16 pages]
- BLS: Employment and wage profile of the Louisiana and Texas counties affected by Hurricane Ike [26 September 2008]
- http://www.bls.gov/bls/hurricaneike.htm
- or
- http://www.bls.gov/opub/ils/pdf/opbils69.pdf
- [full-text, 9 pages]
- BLS: EMPLOYEE TENURE IN 2008 [26 September 2008]
- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/tenure.nr0.htm
- or
- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/tenure.pdf
- [full-text, 10 pages]
- BLS: Business Employment Dynamics Data By Size of Change [25 September 2008]
- http://www.bls.gov/bdm/bdsoc.htm
- For a discussion of the release of the new data, see
- http://www.bls.gov/bdm/bdsocsummary.htm
- http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2008/pi0808.htm
- U.S. Department of Education
- College.gov
- www.college.gov
- college.gov is being built by the U.S. Department of Education in collaboration with students. This site is intended to be the go-to source for information and resources about planning, preparing and paying for postsecondary education (such as 2- or 4-year colleges and universities, and vocational or career schools).
- Facts for Features from the Census Bureau
- Unmarried and Single Americans Week, Sept. 21-27, 2008
- http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/012633.html
- or
- http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/cb08ff-16.pdf
- [full-text, 4 pages]
- Establishing the FRANCES PERKINS CENTER
- http://www.francesperkinscenter.org/index1.html
- Special Event
- Please join the Newcastle Historical Society for an evening on Frances Perkins's life and work
- Featuring KIRSTIN DOWNEY*
- http://www.francesperkinscenter.org/october-11-2008.html
- Here is a link to Kirstin Downey's new book which will be published next March:
- The Woman Behind the New Deal - Random House
- http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385513654
- *KIRSTIN DOWNEY joined The Washington Post in 1988 and has won Press Association awards for her business and economic reporting. Most recently she shared in the 2008 Pulitzer Prize awarded to The Washington Post for its coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings. She was awarded a Nieman fellowship at Harvard University, where her research into the country's economic history led to this biography. She lives in Washington, D.C.
- College.gov
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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