IWS Documented News WEEKLY BULLETIN: [IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 20 May 2009

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

[IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 20 May 2009

IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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IWS Weekly Bulletin, 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/

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

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

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

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

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/

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

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

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

[full-text, 47 pages]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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).

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:

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

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

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