IWS Documented News WEEKLY BULLETIN: September 2008

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, 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 May 2008 Linda Dickens

Legal regulation, institutions and industrial relations

No 88 April 2008 Keith Sisson

Putting the record straight: Industrial relations and the employment relationship

No 87 April 2008 Christina Niforou

The role of trade unions in the implementation of autonomous framework agreements

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

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

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

Federal

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

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

Institutes/Associations/Commercial

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

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

Law

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

Statistical Reports

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

Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts

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.

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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, 24 September 2008

Academic Research

Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)

Research Department

Research Topic: Labor and Social Issues

http://www.iadb.org/res/pub_list.cfm?pub_type_id=LAB&language=En&parid=2

R-559

Research Net. Working Papers

Quality of Life in Buenos Aires Neighborhoods: Hedonic Price Regressions and the Life Satisfaction Approach

< http://www.iadb.org/res/pub_desc.cfm?pub_id=R-559>

or

http://www.iadb.org/res/publications/pubfiles/pubR-559.pdf

[full-text, 60 pages]

Ham, Andres, Cruces, Guillermo, Tetaz, Martin

September 2008

R-561

Research Net. Working Papers

Quality of Life in Montevideo

< http://www.iadb.org/res/pub_desc.cfm?pub_id=R-561>

or

http://www.iadb.org/res/publications/pubfiles/pubR-561.pdf

[full-text, 59 pages]

Piani, Giorgina, Gandelman, Nestor, Ferre, Zuleika

September 2008

ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press)

NO SMALL CHANGE: Pension Funds and Corporate Engagement [September 2008]

by Tessa Hebb

http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4929

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

International

European Commission (EC)

European Report on Development

Millennium Development Goals at Midpoint: Where do we stand and where do we need to go? [22 September 2008]

François Bourguignon, Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Stefan Dercon, Antonio Estache, Jan Willem Gunning, Ravi Kanbur, Stephan Klasen, Simon Maxwell, Jean-Philippe Platteau, Amedeo Spadaro

http://ec.europa.eu/development/icenter/repository/mdg_paper_final_20080916_en.pdf

[full-text, 39 pages]

Executive Summary

http://ec.europa.eu/development/icenter/repository/mdg_exec_summary_final_en.pdf

[full-text, 5 pages]

Federal

BLS Handbook of Methods, Chapter 9, Occupational Safety and Health Statistics Updated [17 September 2008]

http://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/pdf/homch9.pdf

[full-text, 49 pages]

BLS: Fatal Workplace Injuries in 2005: [CHARTBOOK] A Collection of Data and Analysis [16 September 2008]

http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/cfoibulletin2005.htm

Census

Population Characteristics

Issued August 2008

P20-559

School Enrollment in the United States: 2006 [online 17 September 2008]

http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/p20-559.pdf

[full-text, 16 pages]

DETAILED TABLES

http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/school.html

Press Release

College Enrollment Up 17 Percent Since 2000 [17 September 2008]

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/education/012637.html

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Presentation to the Center for Public Health, Stanford University

A Federal Perspective on Health Care Policy and Costs

Peter Orszag, Director

September 16, 2008

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/97xx/doc9748/09-16-2008-Stanford.pdf

[full-text, 29 pages]

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE (CBO)

Testimony

Statement of Peter R. Orszag, Director

Issues in Designing a Cap-and-Trade Program for Carbon Dioxide Emissions

before the Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives

September 18, 2008

http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=9727

or

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/97xx/doc9727/09-18_ClimateChange_Testimony.pdf

[full-text, 19 pages]

Congressional Research Service (CRS)

Order Code RL30629

Older Workers: Employment and Retirement Trends

Updated September 15, 2008

Patrick Purcell, Specialist in Income Security, Domestic Social Policy Division

http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/RL30629_20080915.pdf

or

http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/key_workplace/545/

or

http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1550&context=key_workplace

[full-text, 19 pages]

Congressional Research Service (CRS)

Order Code RL34658

Worker Safety in the Construction Industry: The Crane and Derrick Standard

September 9, 2008

Linda Levine, Specialist in Labor Economics, Domestic Social Policy Division

http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/RL34658_20080909.pdf

[full-text, 16 pages]

Congressional Research Service (CRS)

Order Code RL33577

U.S. International Trade: Trends and Forecasts

Updated September 5, 2008

Dick K. Nanto, Specialist in Industry and Trade, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division

Shayerah Ilias, Analyst in Industry and Trade, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division

J. Michael Donnelly, Information Research Specialist, Knowledge Services Group

http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/RL33577_20080905.pdf

[full-text, 33 pages]

Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

[HEALTH] AREA RESOURCE FILE (ARF) -- DATABASE

National County-level Health Resource Information Database

http://www.arfsys.com/

ADVANCED SEARCH FEATURE

http://www.arfsys.com/ALLVARs_search.asp

available at Cornell, see -- The AREA RESOURCE FILE material at CISER -

See for 2007 Data -

http://ciser.cornell.edu/ASPs/search_athena.asp?CODEBOOK=HE-001(2007)&IDTITLE=2511

(Not available via the Internet)

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)

Projections of Education Statistics to 2017 [17 September 2008]

http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2008078

or

http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2008/2008078.pdf

[full-text, 166 pages]

National Science Foundation (NSF)

Press Release 08-155

NSF and EPA Establish Two Centers for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology [17 September 2008]

Centers will focus on environmental effects of nanotechnology and its applications

http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=112234&org=NSF&from=news

OSHA Videos (Original CENSORED, now UNCENSORED)

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=31E75CE43C7B93B5

Institutes/Associations/Commercial

RAND

An Economic Model to Estimate the Profits Resulting from the Employment of Illegal Aliens [16 September 2008]

By: Claude Berrebi, Stephen J. Carroll, Jeffrey Sullivan

http://rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR599/

or

http://rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2008/RAND_TR599.pdf

[full-text, 51 pages]

or

Summary

http://rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2008/RAND_TR599.sum.pdf

[full-text, 6 pages]

Decision Support Tool

http://rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2008/RAND_TR599.tool.zip

Teamsters for a Democratic Union

For full report on $150,000 Club (complete salary data of our union's top-paid officers), see

http://tdu.org/files/final.pdf

[full-text, 3 pages]

Officials' Salaries Hit New High as Members Sacrifice [19 September 2008]

http://tdu.org/2008salaryreport

See

http://tdu.org/node/2372

Work Foundation (UK)

Report

'Good Work': Job Quality in a Changing Economy [18 September 2008]

http://workfoundation.org/research/publications/publicationdetail.aspx?oItemId=197&parentPageID=102&PubType =

or

http://workfoundation.org/assets/docs/publications/197_good_work_final2.pdf

[full-text, 89 pages]

World Economic Forum (WEF) in collaboration with Mercer

The Future of Pensions and Healthcare in a Rapidly Ageing World Scenarios to 2030 [23 September 2008]

http://www.weforum.org/pdf/scenarios/Pensions.pdf

[full-text, 115 pages]

Press Release 23 September 2008

Scenarios for the future of pensions and healthcare in rapidly ageing world

http://www.weforum.org/en/media/Latest%20Press%20Releases/FDS08PR

Law

Congressional Research Service (CRS)

Order Code RL34652

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA): A Legal Overview

September 5, 2008

Jody Feder, Legislative Attorney, American Law Division

http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/RL34652_20080905.pdf

or

http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/key_workplace/548/

or

http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1553&context=key_workplace

[full-text, 19 pages]

Social Security Administration (SSA)

Social Security Programs Throughout the World: Europe, 2008 [September 2008]

http://www.socialsecurity.gov/policy/docs/progdesc/ssptw/2008-2009/europe/index.html

[scroll down on this page to find full-text of individual countries]

or

http://www.socialsecurity.gov/policy/docs/progdesc/ssptw/2008-2009/europe/ssptw08euro.pdf

[full-text, 333 pages]

Statistical Reports

BEA: State Personal Income: Second Quarter 2008 [18 September 2008]

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/regional/spi/2008/spi0908.htm

or

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/regional/spi/2008/pdf/spi0908.pdf

[full-text, 10 pages]

or

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/regional/spi/2008/xls/spi0908.xls

[spreadsheet]

and

Highlights

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/regional/spi/2008/pdf/spi0908pc_fax.pdf

BEA: U.S. International Transactions: Second Quarter 2008 - Current Account [17 September 2008]

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/transactions/2008/trans208.htm

or

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/transactions/2008/pdf/trans208.pdf

[full-text, 7 pages]

or

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/transactions/2008/xls/trans208.xls

[spreadsheet]

and

Highlights

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/transactions/2008/pdf/trans208_fax.pdf

BLS: REGIONAL AND STATE EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT: AUGUST 2008 [19 September 2008]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/laus.nr0.htm

or

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

[full-text, 20 pages]

and

Supplemental Files Table of Contents

http://www.bls.gov/web/laus.supp.toc.htm

BLS: MASS LAYOFFS IN AUGUST 2008 [23 September 2008]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/mmls.nr0.htm

or

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

[full-text, 10 pages]

Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts

MARKETPLACE (Radio) from American Public Media and Homelands Productions

WORKING

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/

Each month, WORKING brings us into the life of a single worker in the global economy. Intimate profiles of real people with real families, real struggles, real dreams, and real jobs.

THIS MONTH --

Raffaella Mangiarotti

Industrial Designer

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/designer.html

FORBES Lists (richest, top, best, etc....)

http://www.forbes.com/lists/

Public.Resource.Org : "Making Government Information More Accessible"

http://public.resource.org/

Several projects are underway including -

FedFlix

http://www.archive.org/details/FedFlix

Browse Collection

< http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=%28collection%3AFedFlix%20OR%20mediatype%3AFedFlix%29%20AND%20-mediatype%3Acollection&sort=-avg_rating%3B-num_reviews >

Browse by Subject / Keywords

< http://www.archive.org/browse.php?field=subject&mediatype=movies&collection=FedFlix >

Browse by creator

< http://www.archive.org/browse.php?collection=FedFlix&field=creator >

______________________________
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
****************************************

# posted by SBasefsky : 11:41 AM

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, 17 September 2008

Academic Research

Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University

INDIA Links for Courses

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/research/courseGuides/indiaguide.html

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Staff Reports

ESOP Fables: The Impact of Employee Stock Ownership Plans on Labor Disputes

September 2008 Number 347

http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/staff_reports/sr347.html

or

http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/staff_reports/sr347.pdf

[full-text, 40 pages]

IZA Discussion Papers (Institute for the Study of Labor)

http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers

Recent studies include

3702 Relative Performance Pay, Bonuses, and Job-Promotion Tournaments

3701 Does Growth Affect the Nature of Inequality? Ireland 19942001

3700 Wage Risk and Employment Risk over the Life Cycle

3699 Flexible Outsourcing and the Impacts of Labour Taxation in European Welfare States

3698 A Dynamic Analysis of the Demand for Health Insurance and Health Care

3697 Variable Search Intensity in an Economy with Coordination Unemployment

3696 The Effect of High School Employment on Educational Attainment: A Conditional Difference-in-Differences Approach

3695 The Impact of the Recent Expansion of the EU on the UK Labour Market

3694 Preferences for Childcare Policies: Theory and Evidence

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

International

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Asian Development Outlook 2008 Update [September 2008]

http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/ADO/2008/Update/default.asp

or

http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/ADO/2008/Update/ado2008-update.pdf

[full-text, 227 pages]

European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)

European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO)

Political agreement reached on working time and temporary work directives [15 September 2008]

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/2008/07/articles/eu0807049i.htm

ILO Bangkok --- Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

Library

Publications on Migrant Workers

Series on Underlying factors in international labour migration in Asia 2008

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/region/asro/bangkok/library/pub15.htm

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

Tertiary Education for the Knowledge Society: [16 September 2008]

VOLUME 1 : Special features: Governance, Funding, Quality -

VOLUME 2: Special features: Equity, Innovation, Labour Market, Internationalisation

http://www.oecd.org/document/35/0,3343,en_2649_39263238_36021283_1_1_1_1,00.html

Complete executive summary

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/36/18/41303688.pdf

[full-text, 11 pages]

RESERVE BANK of INDIA -- DATABASE (STATISTICS)

http://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/statistics.aspx

EXAMPLE:

Handbook of Statistics on Indian Economy

http://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/AnnualPublications.aspx?head=Handbook%20of%20Statistics%20on%20Indian%20Economy

World Bank

DOING BUSINESS 2009: COMPARING REGULATION IN 181 ECONOMIES [Report Overview] [10 September 2008]

http://www.doingbusiness.org/documents/DB09_Overview.pdf

[full-text, 10 pages]

See DOWNLOADS

http://www.doingbusiness.org/Downloads/

Federal

Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

Issues in Labor Statistics

Summary 08-07 / September 2008

Workdays for People in Healthcare Occupations [12 September 2008]

http://www.bls.gov/opub/ils/pdf/opbils68.pdf

[full-text, 2 pages]

Congressional Research Service (CRS)

Order Code RL30122

Pension Sponsorship and Participation: Summary of Recent Trends

Updated September 8, 2008

Patrick Purcell, Specialist in Income Security, Domestic Social Policy Division

http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/key_workplace/543/

or

http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1548&context=key_workplace

[full-text, 21 pages]

Congressional Research Service (CRS)

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) Investment Policy: Issues for Congress

September 8, 2008

Kelly Kinneen, Analyst in Income Security

Patrick Purcell, Specialist in Income Security, Domestic Social Policy Division

http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/key_workplace/544/

or

http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1549&context=key_workplace

[full-text, 25 pages]

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation: Need for Improved Oversight Persists. GAO-08-1062, September 10.

http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-1062

or

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d081062.pdf

[full-text, 34 pages]

and

Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d081062high.pdf

Small Business Administration

Office of Advocacy

Frequently Asked Questions [on SMALL BUSINESS & the U.S. ECONOMY] [10 September 2008]

http://www.sba.gov/advo/stats/sbfaq.pdf

[full-text, 2 pages]

Institutes/Associations/Commercial

AARP Policy & Research

Research Report

Comparison of 401(k) Participants' Understanding of Model Fee Disclosure forms Developed by the Department of Labor and AARP [September 2008]

Colette Thayer, Ph.D., AARP Knowledge Management

September 2008

http://www.aarp.org/research/work/retirement/fee_disclosure.html

or

http://assets.aarp.org/rgcenter/econ/fee_disclosure.pdf

[full-text, 65 pages]

Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)

Parental Leave Policies in 21 Countries: Assessing Generosity and Gender Equality

Rebecca Ray, Janet C. Gornick and John Schmitt

September 2008

http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/parental_2008_09.pdf

[full-text, 23 pages]

Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)

Unions and Upward Mobility for Latino Workers [16 September 2008]

http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/latino_union_2008_09.pdf

[full-text, 10 pages]

Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)

EBRI Issue Brief #321

Sources of Health Insurance and Characteristics of the Uninsured: Analysis of the March 2008 Current Population Survey [9 September 2008]

September 2008

http://www.ebri.org/pdf/briefspdf/EBRI_IB_09a-2008.pdf

[full-text, 36 pages]

See Press Release 9 September 2008

http://www.ebri.org/pdf/PR_812_09Sept08.pdf

Executive Summary

http://www.ebri.org/publications/ib/index.cfm?fa=ibDisp&content_id=3975

Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)

NOTES

September 2008, Vol. 29, No. 9

'IRA Assets and Contributions, 2007,' and 'Domestic Partner Benefits: Facts and Background'

http://www.ebri.org/pdf/notespdf/EBRI_Notes_09-2008.pdf

[full-text, 16 pages]

See Press Release 11 September 2008

http://www.ebri.org/pdf/PR_813_11Sept08.pdf

Executive Summary

http://www.ebri.org/publications/notes/index.cfm?fa=notesDisp&content_id=3978

Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI)

Press Release 16 September 2008

Unions Lift Wages for New York's Hispanics

Unionization doubles health care and pension coverage

http://www.fiscalpolicy.org/FPI_Release_UnionsHelpHispanicWorkers.pdf

[full-text, 4 pages]

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Green Recovery: A Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a Low-Carbon Economy

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/09/pdf/green_recovery.pdf

[full-text, 42 pages]

FACT SHEETS on 34 STATES

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/09/green_recovery.html

Press Release 9 September 2008

New Report: Green Investment Will Yield Two Million New Jobs in Two Years

Report Outlines Rapid Recovery Economic Program That Moves America Toward A Clean Energy Future

http://www.nrdc.org/media/2008/080909.asp

Network of African Youths for Development (NAYD)

http://www.nayd.org/index.html

NAYD is the Network of African youths for Development. It began in 2006 and today involves close to 40 youth-led projects in about 20 African countries.

See also -- INSPIRE (monthly magazine of NAYD) at http://www.nayd.org/be_inspired.htm

Work Foundation (UK)

Greening Work

Provocation Series Volume 4 Number 1 [June 2008]

by Nick Isles

http://www.workfoundation.org/assets/docs/publications/196_greening_work_final.pdf

[full-text, 34 pages]

Law

Northwest Location Services, Inc.

Free Public Records Directory

http://publicrecords.onlinesearches.com/

See NEW YORK [Example]

http://publicrecords.onlinesearches.com/NewYork.htm

Statistical Reports

BEA: U.S. INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN GOODS AND SERVICES July 2008 [11 September 2008]

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/2008/trad0708.htm

or

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/2008/pdf/trad0708.pdf

[full-text, 47 pages]

or

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/2008/xls/trad0708.xls

[spreadsheet]

and

Highlights

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/2008/pdf/trad0708_fax.pdf

BLS: CONSUMER PRICE INDEX: AUGUST 2008 [16 September 2008]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm

or

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

[full-text, 18 pages]

BLS: REAL EARNINGS IN AUGUST 2008 [16 September 2008]

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 - August 2008 [12 September 2008]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ppi.nr0.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ppi.nr0.htm

BLS: U.S. IMPORT AND EXPORT PRICE INDEXES - AUGUST 2008 - [11 September 2008]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ximpim.nr0.htm

or

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

[full-text, 15 pages]

and

Supplemental Files Table of Contents

http://www.bls.gov/web/ximpim.supp.toc.htm

BLS: EMPLOYER COSTS FOR EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION-JUNE 2008 [10 September 2008]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.nr0.htm

or

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

[full-text, 27 pages]

Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts

Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)

BEA: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQs)

Most Popular QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

http://faq.bea.gov/cgi-bin/bea.cfg/php/enduser/cls_alp.php?p_sid=TJR32Ddj&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_lva=501&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPSZwX3NvcnRfYnk9JnBfZ3JpZHNvcnQ9JnBfcm93X2NudD0zODEsMzgxJnBfcHJvZHM9JnBfY2F0cz0mcF9wdj0mcF9jdj0mcF9zZWFyY2hfdHlwZT1hbnN3ZXJzLnNlYXJjaF9ubCZwX3BhZ2U9MQ **

Facts for Features from the Census Bureau

Hispanic Heritage Month 2008: Sept. 15 Oct. 15

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/012245.html

or

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/cb08ff-15.pdf

[full-text, 9 pages]

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

2007 CRIME IN THE UNITED STATES [15 September 2008]

http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2007/index.html

Whitehouse

Major Drug Transit or Major Illicit Drug Producing Countries for Fiscal Year 2009 [16 September 2008]

http://www.state.gov/p/inl/rls/prsrl/ps/109777.htm

______________________________
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
****************************************

# posted by SBasefsky : 6:15 AM

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, 10 September 2008

Academic Research

Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JILPT)

JILPT Research Report No. 85

Survey Research Report on the Work and Lives of Baby-boomers: Summary [updated 15 May 2008]

http://www.jil.go.jp/english/documents/JILPTNo.85.pdf

[full-text, 11 pages]

Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) DIGITAL LIBRARY

http://library.bea.gov/

IZA Discussion Papers (Institute for the Study of Labor)

http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers

Recent studies include

3690 Estimating Trends in US Income Inequality Using the Current Population Survey: The Importance of Controlling for Censoring

3689 Using a Census to Assess the Reliability of a National Household Survey for Migration Research: The Case of Ireland

3688 Employment and Wage Effects of Privatization: Evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

3687 Labor Market Policy Evaluation in Equilibrium: Some Lessons of the Job Search and Matching Model

3686 The Impact of Local Public Services and Geographical Cost of Living Differences on Poverty Estimates

3685 Non-Profit Organizations in a Bureaucratic Environment

3684 Distribution of Wealth and Interdependent Preferences

3683 Understanding the Contributions of Reallocation to Productivity Growth: Lessons from a Comparative Firm-Level Analysis

3682 Trade, Wages, and Productivity

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

International

European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)

European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO)

COMPARATIVE STUDY

Working time developments 2007 [1 September 2008]

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/tn0804029s/tn0804029s.htm

New Zealand

Ministry of Social Development

2008: THE SOCIAL REPORT -INDICATORS OF SOCIAL WELLBEING IN NEW ZEALAND [28 August 2008]

http://socialreport.msd.govt.nz/

or

http://socialreport.msd.govt.nz/tools/downloads.html

or

http://socialreport.msd.govt.nz/documents/social-report-2008.pdf

[full-text, 172 pages]

See Press Release 28 August 2008

http://www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-and-our-work/newsroom/media-releases/2008/pr-2008-08-28.html

New Zealand

Ministry of Social Development

Reports

* The New Zealand Non-profit Sector in Comparative Perspective -

http://www.ocvs.govt.nz/documents/reports/the-new-zealand-non-profit-sector-in-comparative-perspective.pdf

[full-text, 52 pages]

* The History of the Non-profit Sector in New Zealand

http://www.ocvs.govt.nz/documents/reports/the-history-of-the-non-profit-sector-in-new-zealand.pdf

[full-text, 52 pages]

Additional Reports at

http://www.ocvs.govt.nz/publications/#reports

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

What is the economic outlook for OECD countries? An interim assessment [2 September 2008]

http://www.oecd.org/document/6/0,3343,en_2649_34487_41246470_1_1_1_1,00.html

or

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/0/51/41229145.pdf

[full-text, 19 pages]

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

Education at a Glance 2008: OECD Indicators [9 September 2008]

http://www.oecd.org/document/9/0,3343,en_2649_39263238_41266761_1_1_1_1,00.html

or

Highlights

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/31/39/41277583.pdf

[full-text, 4 pages]

See Press Releases 9 September 2008 at

Soaring student numbers pose funding and quality challenges for universities in OECD countries

http://www.oecd.org/document/9/0,3343,en_2649_39263238_41266761_1_1_1_1,00.html#6

Table of contents [click on each link to obtain the corresponding data]

http://www.oecd.org/document/9/0,3343,en_2649_39263238_41266761_1_1_1_1,00.html#3

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

International Migration Outlook 2008 [10 September 2008]

http://www.oecd.org/document/3/0,3343,en_2825_498349_41241219_1_1_1_1,00.html

or

www.oecd.org/els/migration/imo

See Press Release 10 September 2008

http://www.oecd.org/document/61/0,3343,en_2649_201185_41288829_1_1_1_1,00.html

Federal

BLS: Common Misconceptions about the Consumer Price Index: Questions and Answers [4 September 2008]

http://www.bls.gov/cpi/cpiqa.htm

BLS: MONTHLY LABOR REVIEW ONLINE

August 2008

Vol. 131, Number 8

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/mlrhome.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2008/08/mlr200808.pdf

[full-text, 124 pages]

Addressing misconceptions about the Consumer Price Index

John S. Greenlees and Robert B. McClelland

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2008/08/art1full.pdf

[full-text, 17 pages]

Examining evidence on whether BLS undercounts workplace injuries and illnesses

John W. Ruser

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2008/08/art2full.pdf

Who goes to college? Evidence from the NLSY97

Alison Aughinbaugh

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2008/08/art3full.pdf

Census

Geographic Mobility: 2007

http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/migrate.html

DETAILED TABLES

http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/migrate/cps2007.html

Press Release 4 September 2008

Most Movers Stay in the Same County

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/mobility_of_the_population/012604.html

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

The Budget and Economic Outlook: An Update [9 September 2008]

http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=9706

or

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/97xx/doc9706/09-08-Update.pdf

[full-text, 92 pages]

Congressional Research Service (CRS)

Order Code RL30802

Reserve Component Personnel Issues: Questions and Answers [online September 2008]

Updated March 14, 2008

Lawrence Kapp, Specialist in National Defense, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division

http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/RL30802_20080314.pdf

[full-text, 30 pages]

U.S. Department of Labor

Center for Faith-Based & Community Initiatives (CFBCI)

COST of TURNOVER WORKSHEET

http://www.dol.gov/cfbci/Turnover.pdf

[full-text, 2 pages]

For other FREE materials to DOWNLOAD, see -

http://www.dol.gov/cfbci/mml/view/OrderMaterials_Record.cfm

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)

Dropout and Completion Rates in the United States: 2006 [3 September 2008]

http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2008053

or

http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2008/2008053.pdf

[full-text, 79 pages]

Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA)

Keeping Workers Safe During Clean Up and Recovery Operations Following Hurricanes [Web Page]

http://www.osha.gov/OshDoc/hurricaneRecovery.html

Most recent press release 2 September 2008

U.S. Labor Department's OSHA offers assistance for Hurricane Gustav cleanup and recovery

http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=NEWS_RELEASES&p_id=16511

Institutes/Associations/Commercial

Conference Board

Press Release 8 September 2008

Release #5270

The Conference Board Employment Trends Index

Suggests No Turnaround in the Job Market Anytime Soon

Rising Unemployment May Extend Through 2009

http://www.conference-board.org/pdf_free/economics/ETI090808.pdf

[full-text, 3 pages]

Fraser Institute

Measuring Labour Markets in Canada and the United States: 2008 Report (Canadian Edition)

http://www.fraserinstitute.org/Commerce.web/publication_details.aspx?pubID=6151

or

http://www.fraserinstitute.org/commerce.web/product_files/MeasuringLabourMarketsCanadaUS2008.pdf

[full-text, 70 pages]

See Press Release 28 August 2008 at

http://www.fraserinstitute.org/newsandevents/news/6155.aspx

Manpower

Manpower Employment Outlook Survey [GLOBAL] [9 September 2008]

http://www.manpower.com/press/meos.cfm

Mercer

Health benefit cost growth predicted to ease slightly in 2009 as employers shift cost [4 September 2008]

Early responses to Mercer's annual survey indicate cost will rise 5.7 percent next year

http://www.mercer.com/summary.htm?idContent=1319885

RAND

Awareness and Use of California's Paid Family Leave Insurance Among Parents of Chronically Ill Children

http://www.rand.org/health/feature/2008/09/schuster.html

Mark A. Schuster, Paul J. Chung, Marc N. Elliott, Craig F. Garfield, Katherine D. Vestal, David J. Klein. JAMA, JAMA. 2008;300(9):1047-1055.

Read document (may require searching, registration or payment on JAMA website)

http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/300/9/1047

RAND

Assistance and Accountability in Externally Managed Schools: The Case of Edison Schools, Inc. [2 September 2008]

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1369/

or

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/2008/RAND_RP1369.pdf

[full-text, 37 pages]

Law

Congressional Research Service (CRS)

Order Code RL34637

Legal Issues Relating to State Health Care Regulation: ERISA Preemption and Fair Share Laws

August 26, 2008

Jon O. Shimabukuro and Jennifer Staman, Legislative Attorneys, American Law Division

http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/RL34637_20080826.pdf

[full-text, 18 pages]

EEOC

THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT: APPLYING PERFORMANCE AND CONDUCT STANDARDS TO EMPLOYEES WITH DISABILITIES [3 September 2008]

http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/performance-conduct.html

Press Release 3 September 2008

EEOC ADDRESSES PERFORMANCE AND CONDUCT ISSUES UNDER THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT

New Publication Focuses on Frequently Asked Questions from Employers and Employees

http://www.eeoc.gov/press/9-3-08.html

Statistical Reports

BLS: JOB OPENINGS AND LABOR TURNOVER: JULY 2008 [9 September 2008]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.nr0.htm

or

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

[full-text, 15 pages]

BLS: THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION: AUGUST 2008 [5 September 2008]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

or

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

[full-text, 28 pages]

and

Supplemental Files Table of Contents

http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit.supp.toc.htm

BLS: PRODUCTIVITY AND COSTS Second Quarter 2008, Revised [4 September 2008]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/prod2.nr0.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/prod2.pdf

[full-text, 15 pages]

and

Supplemental Files Table of Contents

http://www.bls.gov/web/prod2.supp.toc.htm

Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts

Congressional Research Service (CRS)

Order Code RL34631

Former Presidents: Pensions, Office Allowances, and Other Federal Benefits

August 22, 2008

Wendy Ginsberg, Analyst in American National Government, Government and Finance Division

http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/RL34631_20080822.pdf

[full-text, 18 pages]

Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/conflictRes/

The Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution (an Institute at the ILR School at Cornell University) is now accepting registrations for their

Fall 2008 workshops in NYC (New York City).

More information can be found on our website:

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/conflictRes/training/workplaceDR/workshops/index.html

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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
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IWS Weekly Bulletin, 3 September 2008

Academic Research

IZA Discussion Papers (Institute for the Study of Labor)

http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers

Recent studies include

3675 The Prevalence and Effects of Occupational Licensing

3674 Psychological and Biological Foundations of Time Preference: Evidence from a Day Reconstruction Study with Biological Tracking

3673 Elite Capture, Political Voice and Exclusion from Aid: An Experimental Study

3672 Workplace, Human Capital and Ethnic Determinants of Sickness Absence in Sweden, 19932001

3671 Identification of Treatment Effects on the Treated with One-Sided Non-Compliance

3670 Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives: Evidence from Hurricane Mitch

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT WORKING PAPERS No. 623

INDIA'S GROWTH PATTERN AND OBSTACLES TO HIGHER GROWTH [11 August 2008]

http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2008doc.nsf/LinkTo/NT0000365A/$FILE/JT03249513.PDF

[full-text, 28 pages]

by Sean M. Dougherty, Richard Herd, Thomas Chalaux and Abdul Azeez Erumban

Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE)

California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO: Proceedings and Publications [DIGITAL COLLECTION]

[100 YRS of CALIFORNIA LABOR HISTORY]

http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/library/digital_collections/calfed/

European Trade Union Institute for Research, Education and Health and Safety (ETUI-REHS)

Working Paper -- WP 2008.05

Wage differentials across sectors in Europe: an east-west comparison

François Rycx, Ilan Tojerow and Daphné Valsamis

file:///C:/DOCUME~1/smb6/LOCALS~1/Temp/WP%202008%2005%20EN%20Web-1.pdf

[full-text, 31 pages]

ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press)

MANAGING THE HUMAN FACTOR: The Early Years of Human Resource Management in American Industry [August 2008]

by Bruce E. Kaufman

http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4860

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

International

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2008 [27 August 2008]

http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/Key_Indicators/2008/default.asp

or

http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/Key_Indicators/2008/pdf/Key-Indicators-2008.pdf

[full-text, 277 pages]

* a special chapter on "Comparing Poverty Across Countries: The Role of Purchasing Power Parities"

See Highlights at -- http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/Key_Indicators/2008/pdf/Highlights.pdf

[full-text, 24 pages]

European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)

European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO)

Industrial relations developments in Europe 2007 [28 August 2008]

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef0845.htm

or

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2008/45/en/1/ef0845en.pdf

[full-text. 70 pages]

INDIA

Ministry of Labour and Employment

New Website Address

http://labour.gov.in/

The Ministry of Labour Annual Report 2007-2008

http://labour.gov.in/annrep/annrep2007.htm

[Please note: The date on the web site is mislabeled as 2006-2007. In fact, the link to 2007-2008 is correct].

Earlier Annual Reports can be found at-

http://labour.nic.in/annrep/annrep.htm

Federal

BLS: Compensation and Working Conditions Online

http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/home.htm

Pay Relatives for U.S. Census Regions and Divisions, 2006

by John E. Buckley

Bureau of Labor Statistics, Originally Posted: August 28, 2008

http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/cm20080826ar01p1.htm

Census

2007/2008 Older Worker Profiles [Updated 28 August 2008] -- now includes South Carolina.

http://lehd.did.census.gov/led/library/profiles_2007.html

ADDITIONAL TABLES

http://lehd.did.census.gov/led/library/profiletables_2007.php

U.S. Department of Labor (DOL)

AMERICA'S DYNAMIC WORKFORCE: 2008 [29 August 2008]

http://www.dol.gov/asp/media/reports/workforce2008/

or

http://www.dol.gov/asp/media/reports/Workforce2008/ADW2008.pdf

or

http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/key_workplace/540/

[full-text, 70 pages]

U.S. Department of Labor

Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB)

U.S. Department of Labor's 2007 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor [27 August 2008]

http://www.dol.gov/ilab/programs/ocft/pdf/2007ocftreport.pdf

or

http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/key_workplace/538/

[full-text, 772 pages]

Press Release

U.S. Labor Department issues seventh annual report on worst forms of child labor in trade beneficiary countries [27 August 2008]

Report required under Trade and Development Act of 2000

http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/ilab/ILAB20081226.htm

National Science Foundation (NSF)

InfoBrief

Note: HBCUs are Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Role of HBCUs as Baccalaureate-Origin Institutions of Black S&E Doctorate Recipients [27 August 2008]

NSF 08-319 | August 2008

by Joan Burrelli and Alan Rapoport

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf08319/

or

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf08319/nsf08319.pdf

[full-text, 8 pages]

National Science Foundation (NSF)

InfoBrief

New Estimates of National Research and Development Expenditures Show 5.8% Growth in 2007 [27 August 2008]

NSF 08-317 | August 2008 | PDF format PDF

by Mark Boroush

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf08317/

or

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf08317/nsf08317.pdf

[full-text, 8 pages]

Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP)

U.S. Department of Labor and Major League Baseball launch 'PITCH' campaign to encourage businesses to hire people with disabilities [2 September 2008]

Former Major Leaguer Jim Abbott to serve as campaign spokesman

http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/odep/odep20081239.htm

Institutes/Associations/Commercial

AFL-CIO

LABOR DAY FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)

http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/laborday/faqs.cfm

American Staffing Association (ASA) [TEMPORARY STAFFING}

American Staffing 2008: Uncharted Territory

Annual Economic Analysis Puzzles Through the Data and Explains the Trends

June 2008

http://www.americanstaffing.net/statistics/economic2008.cfm

or

http://www.americanstaffing.net/statistics/pdf/American_Staffing_2008.pdf

[full-text, 16 pages]

Download FIGURES from 2008 Analysis

http://www.americanstaffing.net/statistics/download_figures2008.cfm

See more recent information at Staffing Statistics

News Release

Aug. 25, 2008

Staffing Employment Down in Second Quarter

http://www.americanstaffing.net/statistics/newsreleases/aug_25_08.cfm

Economic Policy Institute (EPI)

The State of Working America 2008/2009

http://www.stateofworkingamerica.org/

Read several chapters from the forthcoming 2008/2009 edition

http://www.stateofworkingamerica.org/excerpt.html

Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)

Fast Facts from EBRI

FFE #96

What Are the Financial Concerns of Gen-X and Gen-Y Americans? [21 August 2008]

http://www.ebri.org/pdf/publications/facts/fastfacts/fastfact08212008.pdf

[full-text, 1 page]

Fiscal Policy Institute

Press Release 26 August 2008

New York has the highest poverty rate of all the northern states.

http://www.fiscalpolicy.org/FPI_Release_Poverty2008.pdf

[full-text, 8 pages]

Hewitt

Hewitt Study Finds Salaries Will Remain Constant Despite Faltering Economy [2 September 2008]

http://www.hewittassociates.com/Intl/NA/en-US/AboutHewitt/Newsroom/PressReleaseDetail.aspx?cid=5526

Kaiser: StateHealthFacts

What's New on statehealthfacts.org

http://cme.kff.org/Key=14818.F9.C.C.MLxxCY

National Association of Community Health Centers & George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services

ACCESS TRANSFORMED: BUILDING A PRIMARY CARE WORKFORCE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY [12 August 2008]

http://www.nachc.com/client/documents/ACCESS%20Transformed%20full%20report.PDF

[full-text, 40 pages]

National Council of La Raza (NCLR)

Labor Day 2008: A Snapshot of the Latino Workforce [28 August 2008]

http://www.nclr.org/content/publications/detail/53647/

or

http://www.nclr.org/files/53647_file_FS_LaborDay08_FNL.pdf

[full-text, 4 pages]

Population Reference Bureau (PRB)

WORLD POPULATION

2008 World Population Data Sheet [19 August 2008]

http://www.prb.org/Publications/Datasheets/2008/2008wpds.aspx

Download DATA SHEET at

http://www.prb.org/pdf08/08WPDS_Eng.pdf

[full-text, 16 pages]

Watson Wyatt

Asian Employers Better Prepared For Downturn Compared To The United States [1 September 2008]

http://watsonwyatt.com/news/press.asp?ID=19689

WorldatWork (formerly the American Compensation Association)

WorldatWork 35th Annual SALARY BUDGET SURVEY 2008/2009 TOP LEVEL DATA [August 2008]

http://www.worldatwork.org/waw/adimLink?id=27072&nonav=yes

Law

Congressional Research Service (CRS)

Order Code RL30533

The Quasi Government: Hybrid Organizations with Both Government and Private Sector Legal Characteristics Updated January 31, 2008 [online August 2008]

Kevin R. Kosar, Analyst in American National Government, Government and Finance Division

http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/RL30533_20080131.pdf

or

http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/key_workplace/539/

[full-text, 44 pages]

EEOC

Questions and Answers: Promoting Employment of Individuals with Disabilities in the Federal Workforce [26 August 2008]

http://www.eeoc.gov/federal/qanda-employment-with-disabilities.html

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[IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 17 September 2008

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[IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 10 September 2008

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