IWS Documented News WEEKLY BULLETIN: May 2009

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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, 20 May 2009

Academic Research

TRADE UNION PUBLICATIONS: THE OFFICIAL JOURNALS, CONVENTION PROCEEDINGS AND CONSTITUTIONS OF INTERNATIONAL UNIONS AND FEDERATIONS, 1850-1941

by Lloyd G. Reynolds and Charles C. Killingsworth

Baltimore, The John Hopkins Press, 1944

http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/tradeunionpubs/

IZA Discussion Papers (Institute for the Study of Labor)

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

Recent studies include ---

4180 The Impact of Demographic Change on Human Capital Accumulation

4179 Optimal Family Policy in the Presence of Moral Hazard, When the Quantity and Quality of Children Are Stochastic

4178 Coming to America: Does Immigrant's Home Country Economic Status Impact the Probability of Self-Employment in the U.S.?

4177 A Distribution Dynamics Approach to Regional GDP Convergence in Unified Germany

(forthcoming in: Empirical Economics)

4176 Still Waiting for Mister Right? Asymmetric Information, Abortion Laws and the Timing of Marriage

4175 Migrants at School: Educational Inequality and Social Interaction in the UK and Germany

4174 Real Wages and the Business Cycle: Accounting for Worker and Firm Heterogeneity

4173 Equal-Treatment Policy in a Random Search Model with Taste Discrimination

4172 Birth Weight and the Dynamics of Early Cognitive and Behavioural Development

4171 The Impact of Parental Education on Earnings: New Wine in an Old Bottle?

4170 Biased Probability Judgment: Evidence of Incidence and Relationship to Economic Outcomes from a Representative Sample

(forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization)

4169 Interpreting Degree Effects in the Returns to Education

4168 Labour Market Mismatch Among UK Graduates: An Analysis Using REFLEX Data

4167 Are Two Tax Rates Better than One?

4166 Global Aging and Fiscal Policy with International Labor Mobility: A Political Economy Perspective

4165 An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State: The Case of Benefit Morale

4164 Does Offshoring of Materials and Business Services Affect Employment? Evidence from a Small Open Economy

4163 Participation in Higher Education: A Random Parameter Logit Approach with Policy Simulations

4162 Sample Attrition Bias in Randomized Experiments: A Tale of Two Surveys

4161 Population Aging, Elderly Migration and Education Spending: Intergenerational Conflict Revisited

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

International

African Development Bank (AFDB)

African Statistical Yearbook 2009 [12 May 2009]

http://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Documents/Publications/African%20Statistical%20Yearbook%202009%20-%2000.%20Full%20Volume.pdf

[full-text, 389 pages]

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Pan-Asian Integration: Linking East and South Asia [13 May 2009]

Edited by Joseph Francois, Pradumna B. Rana, and Ganeshan Wignaraja

http://www.adb.org/Documents/books/Pan-Asian-Integration/

or

Summary

http://www.adb.org/Documents/books/Pan-Asian-Integration/summary.pdf

[full-text, 2 pages]

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Pacific Studies Series

Taking the Helm: A Policy Brief on a Response to the Global Economic Crisis [April 2009]

http://www.adb.org/Documents/Briefs/Taking-the-Helm/default.asp

or

http://www.adb.org/Documents/Briefs/Taking-the-Helm/Taking-the-Helm.pdf

[full-text, 62 pages]

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

Patterns of recent employment growth in the EU: implications for gender equality - Background paper [15 May 2009]

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef0935.htm

or

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2009/35/en/1/EF0935EN.pdf

[full-text, 14 pages]

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

European Working Conditions Observatory (EWCO)

CZECH REPUBLIC--

Measuring satisfaction with key elements of working life [1 April 2009]

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/ewco/surveyreports/CZ0901019D/CZ0901019D.htm

or

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/ewco/surveyreports/CZ0901019D/CZ0901019D.pdf

[full-text, 21 pages]

Korea Labor Institute

e-Labor News

No. 89

Industrial Relations and Labor Market Trends [15 May 2009]

https://www.kli.re.kr/kli/html_eng/08_mail/webzineboard/view_trends.asp?seq=96&rseq=267&tseq=77

Federal

BLS:

Issues in Labor Statistics

Summary 09-06 / May 2009

A New Approach to Classifying Industries in the Information Sector

http://www.bls.gov/opub/ils/pdf/opbils75.pdf

[full-text, 4 pages]

BLS: Notice about wage data for postal service workers [12 May 2009]

http://www.bls.gov/oes/oespostalnotice.htm

Census

POPULATION ESTIMATES [Detailed Tables] [14 May 2009]

http://www.census.gov/popest/estimates.html

Press Release 14 May 2009

Census Bureau Estimates Nearly Half of Children Under Age 5 are Minorities

Estimates find nation's population growing older, more diverse

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/013733.html

Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MWWR)

May 8, 2009 / 58(17);473

QuickStats: Life Expectancy at Age 65 Years, by Sex and Race --- United States, 2000--2006*

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5817a7.htm

CHART

SOURCE: Heron MP, Hoyert DL, Murphy SL, Xu JQ, Kochanek KD, Tejada-Vera B. Deaths: final data for 2006. Natl Vital Stat Rep 2009;57(14).

Available at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr57/nvsr57_14.pdf

[full-text, 80 pages]

U.S. Commercial Service

Doing Business in France: 2009 Country Commercial Guide for U.S. Companies [11 May 2009]

http://www.buyusainfo.net/docs/x_5541033.pdf

[full-text, 153 pages]

U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC)

Executive Briefings on Trade

http://www.usitc.gov/ind_econ_ana/research_ana/research_work_papers/ebot_external.htm

New Civil Aircraft Competitors on the Horizon?

Peder Andersen (April 2009)

http://www.usitc.gov/ind_econ_ana/research_ana/research_work_papers/documents/executive_briefings/NewCivilAircraftExecutiveBriefing.pdf

The Global Trade Contraction: How Much is 2008-09 Like 1929-33?

Michael Ferrantino (April 2009)

http://www.usitc.gov/ind_econ_ana/research_ana/research_work_papers/documents/executive_briefings/TradeandRecessionExecutiveBriefing.pdf

How Do FTA's Affect the U.S. Trade Balance?

Nick Grossman (April 2009)

http://www.usitc.gov/ind_econ_ana/research_ana/research_work_papers/documents/executive_briefings/FTAs_USTradeBalance.pdf

Growth in Wind Turbine Manufacturing and Trade

Andrew David (March 2009)

http://www.usitc.gov/ind_econ_ana/research_ana/research_work_papers/documents/executive_briefings/USITC_EB_WindTurbines_David.pdf

China's Growth Recession and Policy Response

Alexander Hammer (March 2009)

http://www.usitc.gov/ind_econ_ana/research_ana/research_work_papers/documents/executive_briefings/USITC_EB_ChinaGrowthRecession_Hammer.pdf

Institutes/Associations/Commercial

AARP Policy & Research

Older Workers on the Move: Recareering in Later Life

Research Report

Richard W. Johnson, The Urban Institute

Janette Kawachi, The Urban Institute

Eric K. Lewis, The Urban Institute

May 2009

http://www.aarp.org/research/work/employment/2009_08_recareering.html

or

http://assets.aarp.org/rgcenter/econ/2009_08_recareering.pdf

[full-text, 70 pages]

RAND

Review of the European Data Protection Directive [12 May 2009]

By: Neil Robinson, Hans Graux, Maarten Botterman, Lorenzo Valeri

http://rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR710/

or

http://rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2009/RAND_TR710.pdf

[full-text, 99 pages]

and

Summary

http://rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2009/RAND_TR710.sum.pdf

[full-text, 12 pages]

Law

EEOC

LIFECARE HOSPITALS OF PITTSBURGH WILL PAY $100,000 FOR FIRING EMPLOYEE BECAUSE OF CANCER [12 May 2009]

Hospital Settles EEOC Disability Discrimination Suit

http://www.eeoc.gov/press/5-12-09.html

Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JILPT)

Japan Labor Review

Volume 6, Number 2, Spring 2009 [14 May 2009]

Special Edition: The Labor Contract Act of 2007 and Other Legislative Developments

http://www.jil.go.jp/english/JLR.htm

or

http://www.jil.go.jp/english/JLR/documents/2009/JLR22_all.pdf

[full-text, 113 pages]

* Introduction

http://www.jil.go.jp/english/JLR/documents/2009/JLR22_intro.pdf

* Articles

The Enactment of the Labor Contract Act: Its Significance and Future Issues

Ryuichi Yamakawa

http://www.jil.go.jp/english/JLR/documents/2009/JLR22_yamakawa.pdf

A New Departure in the Japanese Minimum Wage Legislation

Hiroya Nakakubo

http://www.jil.go.jp/english/JLR/documents/2009/JLR22_nakakubo.pdf

Balanced Treatment and Bans on Discrimination--Significance and Issues of the Revised Part-Time Work Act

Michiyo Morozumi

http://www.jil.go.jp/english/JLR/documents/2009/JLR22_morozumi.pdf

The Amendment of the Employment Measure Act: Japanese Anti-Age Discrimination Law

Ryoko Sakuraba

http://www.jil.go.jp/english/JLR/documents/2009/JLR22_sakuraba.pdf

The Process of Formulating Policy in Labor Matters: Derailment? Or Transformation?

Keisuke Nakamura

http://www.jil.go.jp/english/JLR/documents/2009/JLR22_nakamura.pdf

* Article Based on Research Report

Employment Promotion Programs for Single Mothers in Japan: 2003- 2008

Yanfei Zhou

http://www.jil.go.jp/english/JLR/documents/2009/JLR22_zhou.pdf

* JILPT Research Activities

http://www.jil.go.jp/english/JLR/documents/2009/JLR22_activities.pdf

Statistical Reports

BEA: U.S. INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN GOODS AND SERVICES March 2009 [12 May 2009]

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/2009/trad0309.htm

or

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/2009/pdf/trad0309.pdf

[full-text, 47 pages]

or

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/2009/xls/trad0309.xls

[spreadsheet]

and

Highlights

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/2009/pdf/trad0309_fax.pdf

BLS: CONSUMER PRICE INDEX: APRIL 2009 [15 May 2009]

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 APRIL 2009 [15 May 2009]

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 2009 [14 May 2009]

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

or

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

[full-text, 21 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 2009 [13 May 2009]

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: JOB OPENINGS AND LABOR TURNOVER: MARCH 2009 [12 May 2009]

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

or

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

[full-text, 16 pages]

BLS: EXTENDED MASS LAYOFFS IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2009 [12 May 2009]

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

or

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

[full-text, 23 pages]

Employment and Training Administration (ETA)

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WEEKLY CLAIMS REPORT [14 May 2009]

http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/eta/ui/current.htm

OECD

Dataset: UNIT LABOR COST-- Quarterly Indicators

http://stats.oecd.org/WBOS/Index.aspx?DatasetCode=ULC_QUA

Press Release

OECD System of quarterly unit labour cost indexes - Updated: May 2009 [15 May 2009]

http://www.oecd.org/document/46/0,3343,en_2649_33715_42764398_1_1_1_1,00.html

or

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/22/42764007.pdf

[full-text, 4 pages]

Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts

Administrative Office of the United States Courts

Costs of Imprisonment Far Exceed Supervision Costs [12 May 2009]

http://www.uscourts.gov/newsroom/2009/costsOfImprisonment.cfm

ENLARGED CHART

http://www.uscourts.gov/CostofIncarceration.swf

National Science Foundation (NSF)

Solving the Puzzle: Researching the Impacts of Climate Change around the World [14 May 2009]

http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/climate/index.jsp

or

http://www.nsf.gov/news/nsf09202/index.jsp

or

http://www.nsf.gov/news/nsf09202/nsf09202.pdf

[full-text, 114 pages]

Press Release 09-099

National Science Foundation Releases Comprehensive Report on Global Impacts of Climate Change [14 May 2009]

Agency proposes to double climate research portfolio in 2010

http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114811&org=NSF&from=news

ILR Employment Law Program & N.Y. State Bar Association

2nd Annual Conference

As the World Turns: Perspectives on International Labor and Employment Law

June 5 - 6, 2009

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/law/events/As-the-World-Turns-2nd-Annual.html

WHEN:

Friday and Saturday, June 5 and 6, 2009

WHERE:

At the offices of White & Case, LLP,

1155 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10036

FEE:

$400.00/person or $350.00 for groups of two or more (includes all program materials, continental breakfast on both days, and lunch and reception on Day 1).

For non-profit organizations rates and CLE scholarship information, please contact Opal Bablington (odb2@cornell.edu or 212-340-2866).

Register online at the regular price only.

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/law/catalog/EL888.html

For all discounted registrations. please download the registration form and fax it to Opal Bablington at 212-340-7979.

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/law/events/upload/LawReg_June2009.pdf

CLE CREDIT:

11.0 CLEs Professional Practice (Transitional and Non-Transitional)

CO-SPONSORED BY:

Cornell University ILR, Labor and Employment Law Program

Director: Esta R. Bigler, Esq.

NYS Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section

Chair: Alan M. Koral, Vedder Price P.C.

Chair-Elect: Donald L. Sapir, Sapir & Frumkin LLP

REGISTER:

Register online at

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/law/catalog/EL888.html

or

fax the registration form to: Opal Bablington, 212-340-7979. Questions, phone 212-340-2866 or e-mail odb2@cornell.edu

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/law/events/upload/LawReg_June2009.pdf

View the full 2-day AGENDA

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/law/events/AsTheWorldTurnsAgenda.html

TOPICS INCLUDE:

Globally Aligning Compensation and Benefits

Starting Up in a New Country

Non-Competes and Intellectual Property: Whose Law Applies?

Cross-Border Class Action Litigation

Employee Data Privacy Inside and Outside the E.U.

Organizing Global Reductions in Force: Law and Methods

New York University 62nd Annual Conference on Labor

Labor and Employment Initiatives and Proposals Under the Obama Administration

http://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/labor/conferences/2009/index.htm

The Center for Labor and Employment Law is proud to present the 62nd Annual Conference on Labor. This year's topic is: Labor and Employment Law Initiatives and Proposals Under the Obama Administration, an expansion of the Center's November 2008 Program Labor & Employment Law Under the Obama Administration, which took place a few days after the election.

DATES: JUNE 4-5, 2009

All sessions will be held in Lipton Hall, D'Agostino Hall, NYU School of Law, 108 West Third Street.

15 hours of CLE credit including 2 hours of ethics/professionalism

See

AGENDA

http://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/labor/conferences/2009/ECM_PRO_062033

and

REGISTRATION

http://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/labor/conferences/2009/ECM_PRO_061811

Registration deadline is June 1, 2009.

THE BACHARACH BLOG

http://bacharachblog.com/

Visiting Mr. Green: Acceptance, Diversity, and Tolerance

http://bacharachblog.com/leadership-skills/visiting-mr-green-acceptance-diversity-and-tolerance/

May 18, 2009

When is Superstar Leadership Needed?

http://bacharachblog.com/leadership-skills/when-is-superstar-leadership-needed/

May 18, 2009

Leadership Link Round-Up: May 11-15

http://bacharachblog.com/leadership-skills/leadership-link-round-up-may-11-15/

May 15, 2009

4 Essential Leadership Traits: Empathy, Sincerity, Loyalty, & Follow Through

http://bacharachblog.com/leadership-skills/4-essential-leadership-traits-empathy-sincerity-loyalty-follow-through/

May 14, 2009

When Charisma becomes Madness: Leadership and Shakespeare's Henry V and Melville's Ahab

http://bacharachblog.com/leadership-skills/when-charisma-becomes-madness-leadership-and-shakespeares-henry-v-and-melvilles-ahab/

May 13, 2009

______________________________
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.

****************************************
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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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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, 13 May 2009

Academic Research

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

ADB Economics Working Paper Series

No. 153 | April 2009

Poverty Impact of the Economic Slowdown in Developing Asia: Some Scenarios

Rana Hasan, Maria Rhoda Magsombol, and J. Salcedo Cain

http://www.adb.org/Documents/Working-Papers/2009/Economics-WP153.pdf

[full-text, 18 pages]

ILR School, Cornell University

Focus on Research of Michele Williams, ILR Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/directory/mw326/

Press Release

Workplace Trust Research

May 11 2009

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/news/WilliamsTrust051109.html

Be as Careful of the Company You Keep as of the Books You Read: Peer Effects in Education and on the Labor Market

http://www.nber.org/papers/w14948.pdf

[full-text, 54 pages]

Giacomo DeGiorgi, Michele Pellizzari, Silvia Redaelli

NBER Working Paper No. 14948

Issued in May 2009

---- Abstract -----

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14948

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

International

African Development Bank (AFDB)

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2008/2009: CONFLICT RESOLUTION, PEACE AND RECONSTRUCTION IN AFRICA [10 May 2009]

http://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Documents/Publications/African%20Development%20Report%202008.2009_00_Full_Report.pdf

[full-text, 127 pages]

African Development Bank (AFDB)

ADB STATISTICS POCKETBOOK 2009 [7 May 2009]

http://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Documents/Publications/AfDB_Statistics_Pocketbook_2009_01_Full_Report.pdf

[full-text, 168 pages]

African Development Bank (AFDB)

Compendium of Statistics on Bank Group Operations 2009 Volume XXXI - Full Report [7 May 2009]

http://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Documents/Publications/Compendium_Statistics_Bank_Group_Operations_2009_Volume_XXXII_01_Full_Report.pdf

[full-text, 199 pages]

Aftrican Development Bank (AFDB)

African Development Bank Group Annual Report 2008 - Full Report [11 May 2009]

http://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Documents/Publications/African%20Development%20Bank%20Group%20Annual%20Report%202008%20-%2000.%20Full%20Report.pdf

[full-text, 312 pages]

African Development Bank (AFDB)

Gender, Poverty and Environmental Indicators on African Countries 2009 [6 May 2009]

http://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Vacancies/GenderPovertyEnvironmental_IndicatorsAfricanCountries2009_01_Full_Report.pdf

[full-text, 305 pages]

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Sustainability Report 2009 [May 2009]

http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/sustainability-report/2009/default.asp

or

http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/sustainability-report/2009/SR2009.pdf

[full-text, 92 pages]

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

The Global Economic Crisis Implications for Asia-Pacific and ADB [updated 8 May 2009]

http://www.adb.org/Economic-Crisis/default.asp

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

European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO)

COMPARATIVE STUDY

Representativeness of the European social partner organisations: Personal services sector [6 May 2009]

May 2009

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/tn0811017s/index.htm

or

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/tn0811017s/tn0811017s.htm

or

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/docs/eiro/tn0811017s/tn0811017s.pdf

[full-text, 46 pages]

International Labour Organization (ILO)

THE COST OF COERCION [12 May 2009]

REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL

Global Report under the follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work

http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_norm/---relconf/documents/meetingdocument/wcms_106230.pdf

[full-text, 96 pages]

SUMMARY

http://www.ilo.org/global/About_the_ILO/Media_and_public_information/Press_releases/lang--en/docName--WCMS_106200/index.htm

With special reports by REGION of the WORLD.

Press Release 12 May 2009

New ILO report says "cost of coercion" to workers in forced labour surpasses USD 20 billion per year

http://www.ilo.org/global/About_the_ILO/Media_and_public_information/Press_releases/lang--en/WCMS_106219/index.htm

ILO

Sectoral Activities Programme

Social dialogue and industrial relations issues in the oil industry [11May 2009]

Report for discussion at the Tripartite Meeting on Promoting Social Dialogue and Good Industrial Relations from Oil and Gas Exploration and Production to Oil and Gas Distribution

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/dialogue/sector/techmeet/tmoge09/tmoge-r.pdf

[full-text, 134 pages]

Press Release 11 May 2009

Governments, oil firms and oil workers meeting at ILO to discuss implications of global crisis for oil and gas industry

http://www.ilo.org/global/About_the_ILO/Media_and_public_information/Press_releases/lang--en/WCMS_106187/index.htm

Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT)

2008 LABOUR OVERVIEW for LATIN AMERICA and the CARIBBEAN [May 2008]

www.oit.org.pe/WDMS/bib/publ/panorama/labour_overview_08.pdf

[full-text, 129 pages]

or

http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/intl/72/

OECD

AFRICAN ECONOMIC OUTLOOK (AEO) 2008/9 [11 May 2009]

http://www.africaneconomicoutlook.org/en/home/

Includes pull-down menu providing

access to the profiles of 47 of the 53 countries in Africa. Each profile includes synopses of the overall state of the country.

Press Release

African Economic Outlook (AEO) 2008/9 [11 May 2009]

http://www.oecd.org/document/43/0,3343,en_2649_15162846_42719915_1_1_1_1,00.html

Trade Union Advisory Committee (TUAC) to the OECD

Global crisis: list of trade union statements and press releases

http://www.tuac.org/print/en/public/e-docs/00/00/03/CF/document_doc.phtml

Federal

BLS: EMPLOYMENT & EARNINGS ONLINE [8 May 2009]

March 2009

Vol. 56 No. 3

http://www.bls.gov/opub/ee/empearn200903.pdf

[full-text, 222 pages]

The 2010 President's Budget for the Bureau of Labor Statistics [7 May 2009]

http://www.bls.gov/bls/budget2010.htm

and

http://www.dol.gov/dol/budget/2010/PDF/CBJ-2010-V3-01.pdf

[full-text 71 pages]

Census 2000 Foreign-Born Population Map Series by Selected Countries of Birth [7 May 2009]

http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/foreign/index.html

MAPS in particular at

http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/foreign/fb-maps.html

Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

HRSA Geospatial Data Warehouse (HGDW)

http://datawarehouse.hrsa.gov/default.aspx

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)

Basic Reading Skills and the Literacy of the America's Least Literate Adults: Results from the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) Supplemental Studies [6 May 2009]

http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2009481

or

http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2009/2009481.pdf

[full-text, 83 pages]

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)

Crime, Violence, Discipline, and Safety in U.S. Public Schools, Findings from the School Survey on Crime and Safety: 2007-08 [5 May 2009]

http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2009326

or

http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2009/2009326.pdf

[full-text, 81 pages]

NIOSH Safety and Health Topic:

Occupational Health Issues Associated with H1N1 Influenza Virus (Swine Flu) [2 May 2009]

http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/H1N1flu/

United States International Trade Commission (USITC)

Investigation No. 332-477

USITC Publication 4071

April 2009

Sub-Saharan Africa: Effects of Infrastructure Conditions on Export Competitiveness, Third Annual Report [8 May 2009]

http://www.usitc.gov/publications/332/pub4071.pdf

[full-text, 195 pages]

Press Release 8 May 2009

POOR INFRASTRUCTURE SIGNIFICANTLY UNDERMINES EXPORT COMPETITIVENESS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, USITC FINDS

Governments, Private Sector Aware Of, Working to Address Infrastructure Issues

http://www.usitc.gov/ext_relations/news_release/2009/er0508gg3.htm

Institutes/Associations/Commercial

European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) -- web page

Economic and social crisis: ETUC positions and actions

http://www.etuc.org/a/5838

Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

Monthly Estimates of the Total Foreign-Born and Mexican/Central American-Born Labor Force, January 2000 to March 2009

http://www.migrationinformation.org/DataHub/charts/laborforce.3.shtml

Unemployment Rates by Nativity, January 2000 to March 2009

(not seasonally adjusted)

http://www.migrationinformation.org/DataHub/charts/laborforce.4.shtml

Foreign Born as a Percentage of the Total Population and of the Civilian Labor Force by State, 1980 to 2007

http://www.migrationinformation.org/DataHub/charts/laborforce.2.shtml

The above charts are found by visiting the

US Historical Immigration Trends

http://contact.migrationpolicy.org/site/R?i=uldP0S0ytHM8l1jVQEX9ug.. page, click on

Immigrants in the US Labor Force, and then select a chart of your interest.

http://contact.migrationpolicy.org/site/R?i=Gx0RevKMV1XQMHN5jO1n2A ..

Watson Wyatt

Majority of Fortune 100 Companies Offer Only Defined Contribution Plans to New Salaried Employees, Watson Wyatt Analysis Finds [11 May 2009]

Hybrid Pension (Cash Balance) Plans Become More Prevalent Than Traditional Pension Plans for the First Time

http://www.watsonwyatt.com/news/press.asp?ID=21177

Law

Baker & McKenzie LLP

Global Practice Group

Worldwide Guide to Trade Unions and Works Councils 2009 Edition

http://bakerxchange.com/ve/ZZO30Jn85a718393es5/stype=dload/OID=70955213548273/VT=0

[full-text, 336 pages]

Statistical Reports

BLS: THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION: APRIL 2009 [8 May 2009]

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

or

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

[full-text, 29 pages]

and

Supplemental Files Table of Contents

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

BLS: PRODUCTIVITY AND COSTS First Quarter 2009, Preliminary [7 May 2009]

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

or

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

[full-text, 18 pages]

and

Supplemental Files Table of Contents

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

BLS: PRELIMINARY MULTIFACTOR PRODUCTIVITY TRENDS, 2008 [6 May 2009]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/prod3.nr0.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/prod3.pdf

[full-text, 12 pages]

and

Supplemental Files Table of Contents

http://www.bls.gov/web/prod3.supp.toc.htm

Census

2007 Economic Census: Transportation and Warehousing Industry Series 

http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/EconSectorServlet?caller=dataset&sv_name=*&_SectorId=48&ds_name=EC0700A1&_lang=en&_ts=259506943587

Census

2007 Economic Census: Manufacturing Industry Series [7 May 2008]

http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/EconSectorServlet?caller=dataset&sv_name=*&_SectorId=31&ds_name=EC0700A1&_lang=en&_ts=259166765542

Census

2007 Economic Census: Wholesale Trade Industry Series [7 May 2008]

http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/EconSectorServlet?caller=dataset&sv_name=*&_SectorId=42&ds_name=EC0700A1&_lang=en&_ts=259483962809

Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts

THE BACHARACH BLOG

http://bacharachblog.com/

Friendship: Establishing Bonds in the Workplace Painlessly

http://bacharachblog.com/leadership-skills/friendship-establishing-bonds-in-the-workplace-painlessly/

May 11, 2009

Jackson Pollock or Knute Rockne: How Do You Lead?

http://bacharachblog.com/leadership-skills/jackson-pollock-or-knute-rockne-how-do-you-lead/

May 11, 2009

______________________________
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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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, 6 May 2009

Academic Research

ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press)

TAXI! Cabs and Capitalism in New York City [April 2009]

Biju Mathew

Paper, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-8014-7439-2 $18.95s

http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4864

IZA Discussion Papers (Institute for the Study of Labor)

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

Recent studies include ---

4159 Unexplained Gaps and Oaxaca-Blinder Decompositions

4158 The Effect of Employment Protection Legislation and Financial Market Imperfections on Investment: Evidence from a Firm-Level Panel of EU Countries

4157 Immigrant Wages in the Spanish Labour Market: Does the Origin of Human Capital Matter?

4156 The Impact of Aid on Growth Revisited: Do Donor Motives Matter?

4155 Well-Being over the Life Span: Semiparametric Evidence from British and German Longitudinal Data

4154 Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-Employment

4153 Why Pay Taxes When No One Else Does?

4152 The Effect of an Employer Health Insurance Mandate on Health Insurance Coverage and the Demand for Labor: Evidence from Hawaii

4151 Policy, Institutional Factors and Earnings Mobility

4150 Family Ties and Political Participation

4149 Do the Obese Really Die Younger or Do Health Expenditures Buy Them Extra Years?

4148 A Comparison and Decomposition of Reform-Era Labor Force Participation Rates of China's Ethnic Minorities and Han Majority

4147 Does Job Loss Cause Ill Health?

4146 Stepping Stone or Dead End? The Effect of the EITC on Earnings Growth

4145 An Incentive Theory of Matching

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

Representativeness of the European social partner organisations: Hospitals [28 April 2009]

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/tn0802017s/index.htm

or

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/tn0802017s/tn0802017s.htm

or

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/docs/eiro/tn0802017s/tn0802017s.pdf

[full-text, 53 pages]

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

European Day on Solidarity and Cooperation between Generations, 2009 [29 April 2009]

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/areas/populationandsociety/eurdaysolidarity2009.htm

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

European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)

(European Restructuring Monitor) ERM Quarterly

Issue 1, Spring 2009 [30 April 2009]

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/emcc/erm/index.php?template=quarterly

or

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/emcc/erm/templates/displaydoc.php?docID=51

[full-text, 30 pages]

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

The following are the latest [SECTOR] FACT SHEETS [30 April 2009]

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/bytype/infosheets2008.htm

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

The following is a background paper prepared for

A High-Level Forum on Sickness, Disability and Work: Addressing Policy Challenges in OECD Countries will be held in Stockholm on 14-15 May 2009.

http://www.oecd.org/site/0,3407,en_21571361_42464611_1_1_1_1_1,00.html

Sickness, Disability and Work: KEEPING ON TRACK IN THE ECONOMIC DOWNTURN [April 2009]

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/42/15/42630589.pdf

[full-text, 46 pages]

OECD

Economic Survey of France 2009 [28 April 2009]

http://www.oecd.org/document/8/0,3343,en_2649_33733_42610376_1_1_1_1,00.html

and

POLICY BRIEF

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/20/32/42655601.pdf

[full-text, 12 pages]

Federal

BLS: Monthly Labor Review Online

April 2009

Vol. 132, Number 4

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

Trends in labor force flows during recent recessions

Harley Frazis and Randy Ilg

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2009/04/art1full.pdf

[full-text, 16 pages]

Business employment dynamics: tabulations by size of employment change

Sheryl L. Konigsberg, James R. Spletzer, and David M. Talan

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2009/04/art2full.pdf

[full-text, 11 pages]

China's manufacturing employment and compensation costs: 200206

Erin Lett and Judith Banister

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2009/04/art3full.pdf

[full-text, 9 pages]

BLS

Issues in Labor Statistics

Ranks of Discouraged Workers and Others Marginally Attached to the Labor Force Rise During Recession [30 April 2009]

http://www.bls.gov/opub/ils/pdf/opbils74.pdf

[full-text, 3 pages]

Census

QUARTERLY PUBLIC EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT SYSTEMS SURVEY: 4th Qtr. 2008 [30 April 2009]

http://www.census.gov/govs/www/qpr.html

Press Release 30 April 2009

Quarterly Public-Employee Retirement Systems Survey: 4th Quarter 2008

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/miscellaneous/013695.html

Congressional Research Service (CRS)

R40517

Health Care Reform: An Introduction

Bob Lyke

April 14, 2009

http://opencrs.com/getfile.php?rid=81262

[full-text, 20 pages]

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)

New Indicators of Career/Technical Education Coursetaking: Class of 2005 [29 April 2009]

http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2009038

or

http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2009/2009038.pdf

[full-text, 20 pages]

Small Business Administration (SBA)

Office of Advocacy

Effects of International Competition on Small Wholesale and Retail Trade Firms [1 May 2009]

by Robert M. Feinberg,

http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs344tot.pdf

[full-text, 27 pages]

Research Summary

http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs344.pdf

[full-text, 2 pages]

Social Security Administration (SSA)

Research, Statistics, & Policy Analysis

Social Security Bulletin, Vol. 69 No. 1 [5 May 2009]

http://www.socialsecurity.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v69n1/index.html

Institutes/Associations/Commercial

European Trade Union Institute (ETUI)

The Collective Bargaining Newsletter for April 2009

http://www.etui.org/research/content/download/6559/31939/file/Collective%20bargaining%20April%202009.pdf

[full-text, 10 pages]

See PAST NEWSLETTERS at

http://www.etui.org/research/Publications/Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter

Kauffman Foundation

2008 KAUFFMAN INDEX OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITY [April 2009]

http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedFiles/kiea_042709.pdf

[full-text, 36 pages]

Press Release

Entrepreneurship Remains Strong in 2008 with Increasing Business Startups, According to Kauffman Foundation [30 April 2009]

http://www.kauffman.org/newsroom/entrepreneurship-remains-strong-in-2008.aspx

Mercer

Quality of Living global city rankings 2009 Mercer survey [29 April 22009]

http://www.mercer.com/summary.htm?idContent=1345570

RAND

No Bullies Allowed: Understanding Peer Victimization, the Impacts on Delinquency, and the Effectiveness of Prevention Programs [29 April 2009]

By: Jennifer S. Wong

http://rand.org/pubs/rgs_dissertations/RGSD240/

or

http://rand.org/pubs/rgs_dissertations/2009/RAND_RGSD240.pdf

[full-text, 372 pages]

A report for UNISON (the Public Service Union) (UK)

Making the Connections, Contract Cleaning and Infection Control [17 April 2009]

Steve Davies

Senior Research Fellow Cardiff School of Social Sciences

http://www.unison.org.uk/acrobat/14564.pdf

[full-text, 48 pages]

Law

Congressional Research Servcie (CRS)

RS22718

Trade Adjustment Assistance for Workers (TAA) and Reemployment Trade Adjustment Assistance (RTAA)

February 19, 2009

http://opencrs.com/getfile.php?rid=81391

[full-text, 12 pages]

Congressional Research Service (CRS)

R40368 -

Unemployment Insurance Provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

March 4, 2009

http://opencrs.com/getfile.php?rid=81246

[full-text, 12 pages]

Congressional Research Service (CRS)

RL34330 -

The Proposed U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA): Provisions and Implications

March 24, 2009

http://opencrs.com/getfile.php?rid=81357

[full-text, 51 pages]

EEOC

Employment Discrimination and the 2009 H1N1 Flu Virus (Swine Flu) [1 May 2009]

http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/h1n1.html

EEOC

ADA-Compliant Employer Preparedness For the H1N1 Flu Virus [4 May 2009]

http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/h1n1_flu.html

N. L. R. B. BULLETIN

Division of Information

Washington, D.C.

April 27, 2009

WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNCES TWO BOARD MEMBER NOMINEES

http://www.nlrb.gov/shared_files/Press%20Releases/2009/B042709.pdf

Statistical Reports

BEA: GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT: FIRST QUARTER 2009 (ADVANCE) [29 April 2009]

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2009/gdp109a.htm

or

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2009/pdf/gdp109a.pdf

[full-text, 14 pages]

or

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2009/xls/gdp109a.xls

[spreadsheet]

and

Highlights

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2009/pdf/gdp109a_fax.pdf

BLS: OCCUPATIONAL EMPLOYMENT AND WAGES, 2008 [1 May 2009]

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

or

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

[full-text, 30 pages]

BLS: EMPLOYMENT COST INDEX-MARCH 2009 [30 April 2009]

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

or

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

[full-text, 24 pages]

and

Supplemental Files Table of Contents

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

BLS: International Comparisons of Hourly Compensation Costs for All Employees in Manufacturing, Supplementary Tables 1996-2007 [April 2009]

http://www.bls.gov/fls/hcaesupptabtoc.htm

BLS: International Comparisons of Hourly Compensation Costs for Production Workers in Manufacturing, Supplementary Tables 1975-2007 [April 2009]

http://www.bls.gov/fls/hcpwsupptabtoc.htm

Employment and Training Administration (ETA)

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WEEKLY CLAIMS REPORT [30 April 2009]

http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/eta/ui/current.htm

Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

A CBO Paper

Potential Impacts of Climate Change in the United States [4 May 2009]

May 2009

http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=10107

[full-text, 33 pages]

Google

ADDING SEARCH POWER TO PUBLIC DATA [28 April 2009]

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/adding-search-power-to-public-data.html

National Academies Press

Technology, Policy, Law, and Ethics Regarding U.S. Acquisition and Use of Cyberattack Capabilities [April 2009]

http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12651

or

http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12651#toc

[to read full-text online]

Press Release 29 April 2009

Greater Transparency Needed in Development of U.S. Policy on Cyberattack

http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=12651

U.S. State Department

Country Reports on Terrorism 2008 [30 April 2009]

http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/2008/index.htm

or

http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/122599.pdf

[full-text, 351 pages]

U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO)

Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George W. Bush

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/pubpapers/gwbush.html

Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS)

On Thursday, April 23, 2009, David Lipsky and William Sonnenstuhl presented and led a discussion on critical issues in health care, illustrating the ILR School's expanded work in this area. This was done as part of the continuing IWS Workplace Colloquium Series.

The video of this presentation can be viewed at the following link:

COLLOQUIUM VIDEO FOOTAGE

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/iws/news/colloquium-video.html

April 23, 2009

The Future of US Health Care

with David Lipsky, and William Sonnenstuhl

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/iws/news/colloquium4239.html

In order to view a segment, click a topic on the right and it will begin to play.

THE BACHARACH BLOG

http://bacharachblog.com/

Charisma & Leadership Podcast: Is it Necessary?

http://bacharachblog.com/leadership-skills/charisma-leadership-is-it-necessary/

May 6, 2009

Leaders and Technology; Buying a Blackberry

http://bacharachblog.com/leadership-skills/leaders-and-technology-buying-a-blackberry/

April 30, 2009

Small Town, Small Businesses, and Being Proactive

http://bacharachblog.com/leadership-skills/small-town-small-businesses-and-being-proactive/

April 29, 2009

______________________________
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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