IWS Documented News WEEKLY BULLETIN: August 2009

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

[IWS] WEEKLY -- NO MESSAGE until 9 September 2009.

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
________________________________________________________________________

NO MESSAGES will be sent until 9 September 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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# posted by SBasefsky : 12:12 PM

[IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 19 August 2009

Hallock, K., & Klein, F. (2009).

Executive compensation in American unions

http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/workingpapers/95/

(August 2009) by Stuart Basefsky

Archive of the

International Labour Organization (ILO) mirrored web site as of 31 January 2006

http://ilo-mirror.library.cornell.edu

SEE

http://iwsdocumentednewsdaily.blogspot.com/2009/08/iws-web-archive-ilo-mirrored-web-site.html

This guide to the archive consists of three sections --

Description; About the ILO; and How to Use the Archive.

[NOTE: This is a portal. Materials in the web site are NOT searchable via Google & other web browsers/search engines]

International Labour Office (ILO)

The global economic crisis and migrant workers: Impact and response [August 2009]

Ibrahim Awad

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/migrant/download/global_crisis.pdf

[full-text, 76 pages]

IZA Discussion Papers (Institute for the Study of Labor)

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

Recent studies include ---

4370 Does Leaving Welfare Improve Health? Evidence for Germany

4369 Health Inequality over the Life-Cycle

4368 Health Status and the Allocation of Time

4367 International Differences in Longevity and Health and Their Economic Consequences

4366 Understanding the Economic Consequences of Shifting Trends in Population Health

4365 Growing Up in a Recession: Beliefs and the Macroeconomy

4364 The Research Potential of New Types of Enterprise Data Based on Surveys from Official Statistics in Germany

4363 Sweatshop Equilibrium

4362 Do No-Loan Policies Change the Matriculation Patterns of Low-Income Students?

4361 Marital Violence and Women's Employment and Property Status: Evidence from North Indian Villages

4360 In the Eye of the Beholder: Subjective Inequality Measures and the Demand for Redistribution

4359 Who Is Hit Hardest during a Financial Crisis? The Vulnerability of Young Men and Women to Unemployment in an Economic Downturn

4358 Time Use and Time Budgets: Improvements, Future Challenges and Recommendations

4357 Labor Market Pooling, Outsourcing and Labor Contracts

4356 Perceptions and Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants in Australia after 9/11

4355 The Public Health Costs of Job Loss

4354 Does Positional Concern Matter in Poor Societies? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Rural Ethiopia

4353 Gradients of the Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Developing Countries

4352 One-third Codetermination at Company Supervisory Boards and Firm Performance in German Manufacturing Industries: First Direct Evidence from a New Type of Enterprise Data

4351 Reputation and Credit Market Formation: How Relational Incentives and Legal Contract Enforcement Interact

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

International

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

European Monitoring Centre on Change (EMCC)

European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)

Statistics

To date, we have recorded 10455 fact sheets [updated 17 August 2009]

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

Breakdown of the number of planned job reductions, in relation to the following three variables:

(1) Type of restructuring

(2) Sector

(3) Country

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

European Monitoring Centre on Change (EMCC)

European Restructuring Monitor quarterly (ERM quarterly) [12 August 2009]

Issue 2 summer 2009

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/emcc/erm/templates/displaydoc.php?docID=52

[full-text, 22 pages]

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

Annual Report 2008: Annexes [14 August 2009]

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef09071.htm

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2009/071/en/2/EF09071EN.pdf

[full-text, 60 pages]

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

Foundation Focus - Issue 7: Social dialogue - All in this together? [14 August 2009]

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef0934.htm

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2009/34/en/1/EF0934EN.pdf

[full-text, 16 pages]

International Labour Office (ILO)

Multinational Enterprise Programme

ILO Helpdesk - Tel: +41.22.799.6264 - Fax: +41.22.799.6354 - Email assistance@ilo.org

Helping companies to put decent work principles into practice

http://www.ilo.org/empent/Whatwedo/Publications/lang--en/docName--WCMS_106376/index.htm

The ILO Helpdesk is a free and confidential service that can help your company align its operations with international labour standards and the ILO approach to socially responsible labour practices.

ILO HELPDESK -- assistance@ilo.org

http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_emp/---emp_ent/documents/publication/wcms_106376.pdf

[full-text, 4 pages]

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Press Release No. 09/283

August 13, 2009

IMF Governors Formally Approve US$250 Billion General SDR Allocation

http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/pr/2009/pr09283.htm

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

United States: External links to macroeconomic reports and data

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/27/36/18634782.htm

World Bank

India: Higher Education [11 August 2009]

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:22274526~menuPK:51416191~pagePK:64257043~piPK:437376~theSitePK:4607,00.html

Overview:

India's Higher Education system is not producing enough qualified engineers. To changes this the country is pushing universities and colleges to improve their teaching techniques and update their equipment.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

[IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 12 August 2009

ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press)

CIRCLES OF EXCLUSION: The Politics of Health Care in Israel [July 2009]

Dani Filc , MD; Quentin Young , MD (Foreword)

http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=5359

$35.00s cloth

2009, 208 pages, 6 x 9

ISBN: 978-0-8014-4795-2

Table of Contents

http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/toc/filc.circles.toc.pdf

IZA Discussion Papers (Institute for the Study of Labor)

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

Recent studies include ---

4348 Complements or Substitutes? Task Specialization by Gender and Nativity in Spain

4347 Terror and the Costs of Crime

4346 Real and Nominal Wage Rigidity in a Model of Equal-Treatment Contracting

4345 Do Expenditures Other Than Instructional Expenditures Affect Graduation and Persistence Rates in American Higher Education?

4344 Employment Fluctuations with Downward Wage Rigidity: The Role of Moral Hazard

4343 Caste and Punishment: The Legacy of Caste Culture in Norm Enforcement

4342 The Part-Time Pay Penalty in a Segmented Labor Market

4341 Marriage, Cohabitation and Commitment

4340 Population and Health Policies

4339 On the Relevance and Composition of Gifts within the Firm: Evidence from Field Experiments

4338 Financial Liberalization and Democracy: The Role of Reform Reversals

4337 Time and Income Poverty: An Interdependent Multidimensional Poverty Approach with German Time Use Diary Data

4336 Smoking Persistence Across Countries: An Analysis Using Semi-Parametric Dynamic Panel Data Models with Selectivity

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

International

Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

CEPALSTAT DATABASES (LATIN AMERICA & the CARIBBEAN STATISTICS)

http://websie.eclac.cl/sisgen/ConsultaIntegrada.asp

[SELECT one of the 10 SUBJECTS listed BELOW using the PULL DOWN MENU for SUBJECT or the ALL INDICATORS to CUSTOMIZE --11th SUBJECT]

or see

http://www.eclac.org/estadisticas/bases/default.asp?idioma=IN

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

European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO)

EUROPEAN LEVEL

Social partner revision to parental leave directive [28 July 2009]

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/2009/07/articles/eu0907029i.htm

European Monitoring Centre for Change (EMCC)

MATRIX browsing for documents [updated 10 August 2009]

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/emcc/browse.htm

by KEY THEMES

European Monitoring Centre for Change (EMCC)

MATRIX browsing for documents [updated 10 August 2009]

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/emcc/browse2.htm

by RELATED TOPICS

OECD

STATISTICAL ANNEX OF THE OECD EMPLOYMENT OUTLOOK 2009

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/30/33/43272221.pdf

[full-text, 30 pages]

NOTE: The OECD EMPLOYMENT OUTLOOK for 2009 will be released in Late SEPTEMBER.

See -- http://www.oecd.org/document/46/0,3343,en_2649_33927_40401454_1_1_1_1,00.html

OECD

OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper No. 89

Legislation, Collective Bargaining and Enforcement: Updating the OECD Employment Protection Indicators

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/36/9/43116624.pdf

[full-text, 55 pages]

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

Composite Leading Indicators (CLIs), OECD, August 2009 update [7 August 2009]

http://www.oecd.org/document/23/0,3343,en_2649_34349_43454039_1_1_1_1,00.html

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/45/9/43453886.pdf

[full-text, 4 pages]

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

OECD Communications Outlook 2009 [11 August 2009]

http://www.oecd.org/document/44/0,3343,en_2649_34225_43435308_1_1_1_1,00.html

http://www.oecd.org/sti/telecom/outlook

Executive Summary

http://www.oecd.org/document/44/0,3343,en_2649_34225_43435308_1_1_1_1,00.html#summary

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/24/32/43472431.pdf

[full-text, 5 pages]

Federal

BLS Editor's Desk

August 06, 2009 (The Editor's Desk is updated each business day.)

Hours spent doing unpaid household work by age and sex, 200307

http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2009/ted_20090806.htm

Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)

Search Airline Employment Data by Month [DATABASE] [7 August 2009]

http://www.bts.gov/airline_employment/src/index.xml

Press Release

BTS Posts Airline Employment Numbers [7 August 2009]

http://www.bts.gov/press_releases/2009/dot117_09/html/dot117_09.html

http://www.bts.gov/press_releases/2009/dot117_09/pdf/dot117_09.pdf

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

CDC Guidance for State and Local Public Health Officials and School Administrators for School (K-12) Responses to Influenza

U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services sent this bulletin on August 07, 2009 08:44 AM

http://www.flu.gov/plan/school/schoolguidance.html

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Preparing for the Flu: A Communication Toolkit for Schools (Grades K-12)

U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services sent this bulletin on August 07, 2009 08:46 AM

http://www.flu.gov/plan/school/toolkit.html

ChildStats.gov

Forum on Child and Family Statistics

America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2009 [July 2009]

http://childstats.gov/index.asp

http://childstats.gov/pdf/ac2009/ac_09.pdf

[full-text, 216 pages]

See VIDEO

http://citvideosla.cit.nih.gov/nichd/NIH_OpenCaptioned.ram

Highlights

http://childstats.gov/americaschildren/index3.asp

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

CBO's Long-Term Projections for Social Security: 2009 Update [7 August 2009]

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/104xx/doc10457/08-07-SocialSecurity_Update.pdf

[full-text, 44 pages]

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Budget Options, Volume 2 [7 August 2009]

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/102xx/doc10294/08-06-BudgetOptions.pdf

[full-text, 284 pages]

Congressional Research Service (CRS)

Post Office and Retail Postal Facility Closures: Overview and Issues for Congress

Kevin R. Kosar, Analyst in American National Government

July 23, 2009

http://opencrs.com/getfile.php?rid=82368

[full-text, 19 pages]

http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/key_workplace/639/

Congressional Research Service (CRS)

Health Care Reform: An Introduction

Bob Lyke

July 29, 2009

http://opencrs.com/getfile.php?rid=82316

[full-text, 21 pages]

Economic Research Service (ERS)

Baby Boom Migration and Its Impact on Rural America [10 August 2009]

http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/ERR79/

http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/ERR79/ERR79.pdf

[full-text, 36 pages]

Summary

http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/ERR79/ERR79_ReportSummary.pdf

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

International Trade: Four Free Trade Agreements GAO Reviewed Have Resulted in Commercial Benefits, but Challenges on Labor and Environment Remain

GAO-09-439, July 10, 2009 [online 10 August 2009]

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09439.pdf

[full-text, 154 pages]

and

Highlights

http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09439high.pdf

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

U.S. Postal Service: Restructuring Urgently Needed to Achieve Financial Viability, by Phillip Herr, director, physical infrastructure issues, before the Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security, Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. GAO-09-958T, August 6.

http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-958T

[full-text, 11 pages]

and

Highlights -

http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09958thigh.pdf

Health and Human Services (HHS)

The Health Care Status Quo [by STATE] [7 August 2009]

http://www.healthreform.gov/healthcarestatus.html

SELECT YOUR STATE TO SEE -- HOW HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM WILL HELP YOU AND YOUR STATE

Press Release

New State-by-State Reports Show How Health Insurance Reform Will Benefit All Americans

http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2009pres/08/20090807c.html

United States International Trade Commission (USITC)

SHIFTS IN U.S. MERCHANDISE TRADE 2008 [3 August 2009]

http://www.usitc.gov/publications/332/pub4089.pdf

[full-text, 311 pages]

[This may be slow to download]

http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/key_workplace/638/

United States International Trade Commission (USITC)

THE YEAR IN TRADE 2008: Operation of the Trade Agreements Program [30 July 2009]

60TH REPORT

USITC Publication 4091

July 2009

http://www.usitc.gov/publications/332/pub4091.pdf

[full-text, 217 pages]

http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/key_workplace/640/

Institutes/Associations/Commercial

Conference Board (CB)

IMPLEMENTING STRATEGIC WORKFORCE PLANNING [5 August 2009]

http://www.conference-board.org/publications/describe.cfm?id=1663

(for purchase)

Mary Young's presentation of The Conference Board Model of Strategic Workforce Planning in Action.

http://www.conference-board.org/flash/iswp.swf

Press Release / News

Strategic Workforce Planning Enables Smarter HR Decisions

Aug. 5, 2009

http://www.conference-board.org/utilities/pressDetail.cfm?press_ID=3712

Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU)

Agreement was Reached at Ssangyong Motors ...

http://kctu.org/3754

2009.08.07 16:25:01

Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU)

KCTU Statement : Violent Suppression of Ssangyong Motors Workers: A Declaration of War on Its Own People [6 August 2009]

http://kctu.org/ActionAlerts/3738

RAND

Fact Sheet

Health Care Cost Growth and the Economic Performance of U.S. Industries [5 August 2009]

http://rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9465/

http://rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9465/index1.html

http://rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/2009/RAND_RB9465.pdf

[full-text, 3 pages]

Notice

http://www.bls.gov/lpc/home.htm

The Productivity and Costs: Second Quarter 2009 Preliminary news release issued on the morning of Tuesday, August 11, 2009, contains errors in Tables 1 through 5 and Appendix tables 1 and 2. The series containing the errors are compensation per hour, real compensation per hour, unit labor costs, and unit non-labor payments. A corrected version of this release will be posted as soon as possible.

IWS Documented News will post the correction when it becomes available.

BLS: July 2009 Disability Employment Statistics Released [7 August 2009]

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsdisability.htm

and

Employment status and disability status, July 2009

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsdisability_072009.htm

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsdisability_072009.pdf

BLS: THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION -- JULY 2009 [7 August 2009]

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

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

Census

State and County Housing Unit Estimates: July 1, 2008 [6 August 2009]

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

Vintage 2008

State Housing Unit Estimates: 2000 to 2008

http://www.census.gov/popest/housing/HU-EST2008.html

Annual County Housing Unit Estimates by State: 2000 to 2008

http://www.census.gov/popest/housing/HU-EST2008-4.html

Top 100 Fastest Growing Counties

http://www.census.gov/popest/housing/HU-EST2008-top100.html

Methodology

http://www.census.gov/popest/topics/methodology/2008-hu-meth.pdf

Press Release 6 August 2009

State and County Housing Unit Estimates: July 1, 2008 

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/housing/014123.html

Employment and Training Administration (ETA)

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WEEKLY CLAIMS REPORT [6 August 2009]

http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/eta/ui/eta20090907.htm

Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts

National Center for Biotechnology Informaton (NCBI)
ENTREZ [DATABASE for Bio-Medical Literature] & WORKPLACE INFORMATION
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Database/
NOTE: This is an ideal database for cross-disciplinary inquiry.
The above database can be extremely useful in identifying and retrieving work-related information.
For example, enter the word WORKPLACE as a search term. Then click on GO.
You will be taken to the following page
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/gquery?term=workplace

NOTE: The IWS Documented News Service is committed to helping the Rwanda Tribunal garner more attention world-wide. The lessons and legacy of ground-breaking legal matters related to the unspeakable events in Rwanda should not be forgotten. Humans, whether from rich or poor countries, must remain vigilant in curbing the motivations that lead individuals and groups to violent hatred and barbaric acts against a class of people. Consequently, items about this tribunal, which will end shortly after 2010, will appear from time to time on this news service.

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda-ICTR
FACTSHEETS
http://www.ictr.org/ENGLISH/factsheets/index.htm
ICTR Completion Strategy
        The Members of the Tribunal
         International Cooperation with the Tribunal
         Detention of Suspects and Convicted Persons

THE BACHARACH BLOG
http://bacharachblog.com/

Win in China: China's Reality of Business Leadership
http://bacharachblog.com/leadership-skills/win-in-china-chinas-reality-of-business-leadership/
August 11, 2009

Proactive Leaders In the Kitchen: Cutting Costs and Maintaining Brand
http://bacharachblog.com/leadership-skills/proactive-leaders-in-the-kitchen-cutting-costs-and-maintaining-brand/
August 10, 2009

When Selling a Diamond Studded Skull You Only Have to Fool Some of the People: Branding in the World of Contemporary Art: A review of "The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art"
http://bacharachblog.com/leadership-skills/leadership-book-corner-the-12-million-stuffed-shark-the-curious-economics-of-contemporary-art/
August 9, 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
****************************************

# posted by SBasefsky : 6:47 AM

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

[IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 5 August 2009

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, 5 August 2009

Academic Research

Duke University (Fuqua School of Business)
OFFSHORING RESEARCH NETWORK
https://offshoring.fuqua.duke.edu/research.jsp
Research Highlights
Academic Papers
   * A Dynamic Perspective on Next-Generation Offshoring: The Global Sourcing of Science and Engineering Skills published in the Academy of Management Perspective, August 2008
https://offshoring.fuqua.duke.edu/pdfs/AMPpaper.pdf
[full-text, 20 pages]
   * Why Are Companies Offshoring Innovation? The Emerging Global Race for Talent forthcoming in the Journal of International Business Studies
https://offshoring.fuqua.duke.edu/pdfs/JIBSpaper.pdf
[full-text, 47 pages]

IZA Discussion Papers (Institute for the Study of Labor)
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers
Recent studies include ---
4335   Setting the Minimum Wage
4334    Another Look at the Identification at Infinity of Sample Selection Models
4333    Immigration and Housing Booms: Evidence from Spain
4332    Count Your Hours: Returns to Education in Poland
4331    Gender Gaps across the Earnings Distribution in Britain: Are Women Bossy Enough?
4330    Does Schooling Affect Health Behavior? Evidence from the Educational Expansion in Western Germany
4329    Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of Nonadditive Hedonic Models
4328    Severity of Work Disability and Work
4327    The Economies of Scale of Living Together and How They Are Shared: Estimates Based on a Collective Household Model
4326    The Effect of Economic Downturns on Apprenticeships and Initial Workplace Training: A Review of the Evidence
4325    Monitoring Job Offer Decisions, Punishments, Exit to Work, and Job Quality
4324    Evaluating Marginal Policy Changes and the Average Effect of Treatment for Individuals at the Margin
4323    Gender Wage Inequality and Economic Growth: Is There Really a Puzzle?
4321    Overskilling Dynamics and Education Pathways
4320    Endogenous Monopsony and the Perverse Effect of the Minimum Wage in Small Firms
4319    Job Search with Bidder Memories
4318    Remittances to Latin America from Migrants in the United States: Assessing the Impact of Amnesty Programs
4317    Understanding the Workweek of Foreign Born Workers in the United States
4316    Southern African Economic Integration: Evidence from an Augmented Gravity Model

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

International

EUROPA - Public Opinion analysis - Eurobarometer Special Surveys
European Employment and Social Policy [31 July 2009]
Summary
Fieldwork: June 2009
Publication: July 2009
http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/eb_special_en.htm
or
SUMMARY
http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_316_sum_en.pdf
[full-text, 88 pages]

EUROPA - Public Opinion analysis - Eurobarometer Special Surveys
SPECIAL EUROBAROMETER 308
THE EUROPEANS IN 2009 [31 July 2009]
http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/eb_special_en.htm
or
http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_308_en.pdf
[full-text, 144 pages]
Annexes
http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_308_anx.pdf
Factsheets
http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_308_factsheets.zip

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: Tanning and leather sector [30 July 2009]
July 2009
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/tn0902017s/index.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/tn0902017s/tn0902017s.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/docs/eiro/tn0902017s/tn0902017s.pdf
[full-text, 42 pages]

International Labour Organization (ILO)
Employment
Job Creation and Enterprise Development Department
(EMP/ENTERPRISE)
Women Entrepreneurs in KENYA (online July 2009)
Women Entrepreneurs in Kenya (A preliminary Report) & Factors affecting Women Entrepreneurs in Micro and Small Enterprises in Kenya (A Primary Research Report)
http://www.ilo.org/empent/Whatwedo/Publications/lang--en/docName--WCMS_107507/index.htm
or
http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_emp/---emp_ent/---ifp_seed/documents/publication/wcms_107507.pdf
[full-text, 117 pages]

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Economic Survey of MEXICO 2009 [30 July 2009]
http://www.oecd.org/document/53/0,3343,en_2649_33733_43393781_1_1_1_1,00.html
and
Executive Summary
http://www.oecd.org/document/1/0,3343,en_2649_33733_43393921_1_1_1_1,00.html
POLICY BRIEF
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/23/28/43371045.pdf
[full-text, 12 pages]

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
RESPONDING TO THE ECONOMIC CRISIS: Fostering Industrial Restructuring and Renewal [July 2009]
http://www.oecd.org/document/26/0,3343,en_2649_34173_43387482_1_1_1_1,00.html
or
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/58/35/43387209.pdf
[full-text, 51 pages]

Federal

BLS Editor's Desk
July 31, 2009 (The Editor's Desk is updated each business day.)
Women's-to-men's earnings ratio, 1979-2008 [31 July 2009]
http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2009/jul/wk4/art05.htm

BLS: Monthly Labor Review Online
July 2009
Vol. 132, Number 7
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/home.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2009/07/mlr200907.pdf
[full-text, 146 pages]

A portrait of the youth labor market in 13 countries, 19802007
Gary Martin
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2009/07/art1full.pdf
[full-text, 19 pages]

Producer prices reverse course in 2008
Joseph Kowal, William Snyders, Antonio Lombardozzi, and Lana Borgie
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2009/07/art2full.pdf
[full-text, 24 pages]

Measuring time spent in unpaid household work: results from the ATUS
Rachel Krantz-Kent
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2009/07/art3full.pdf
[full-text, 14 pages]

Nonfamily youth temporarily employed in agriculture: a research summary
John C. Becker, Fern K. Willits, Anastasia Snyder, Dennis K. Murphy, James Hilton, Andrea Ryan, and Prem Bahandari
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2009/07/art4full.pdf
[full-text, 7 pages]

Census
MINORITY LINKS (updated 9 July 2009)
http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/hotlinks.html

Census
2009 Capital Spending Report: U.S. Capital Spending Patterns, 1999-2007 [4 August 2009]
http://www.census.gov/econ/aces/report/2009/capitalspendingreport2009.pdf
[full-text, 20 pages]
Press Release 4 August 2009
Capital Spending Increases Nearly $201 Billion Between 2000-2007, Census Bureau Reports
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/economic_surveys/014111.html

Census
Model-based Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE) for Counties and States [3 August 2009]
http://www.census.gov/did/www/sahie/
Press Release
Census Bureau Releases Comprehensive Health Insurance Coverage Estimates by County [3 August 2009]
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/health_care_insurance/014113.html

Census
COUNTY BUSINESS PATTERNS: 2007 [30 July 2009]
http://www.census.gov/econ/cbp/index.html
NOTE: At the page above, one also has access to
Metro Business Patterns (MBP)
ZIP Code Business Patterns (ZBP)
Press Release
U.S. Business Employers Add 100,000 Establishments in 2007, Census Bureau Reports [30 July 2009]
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/county_business_patterns/014105.html

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
CBO's Economic Forecasting Record: 2009 Update [31 July 2009]
July 2009
http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=10484
or
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/104xx/doc10484/07-30-ForecastingRecord2.pdf
[full-text, 48 pages]

Energy Information Administration (EIA)
CHINA Energy Data [31 July 2009]
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/China/Background.html
Click on topics in right margin for other parts of the report
or go to
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/China/pdf.pdf
[full-text, 20 pages]

National Center for Education Statistics
STATS in BRIEF
Students Who Study Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) in Postsecondary Education [29 July 2009]
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2009161
or
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2009/2009161.pdf
[full-text, 25 pages]

Small Business Administration (SBA)
Office of Advocacy
FIRM SIZE
http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/data.html
See link on this page above to Census providing
Statistics of U.S. Businesses (SUSB)
http://www.census.gov/econ/susb/

U.S. Commercial Service
DOING BUSINESS IN IRELAND: A COUNTRY COMMERCIAL GUIDE FOR U.S. COMPANIES 2009 [23 July 2009]
http://www.buyusainfo.net/docs/x_2101325.pdf
[full-text, 82 pages]

Institutes/Associations/Commercial

Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives (CCPA)
Canada's "He-cession": Men bearing the brunt of rising unemployment [25 July 2009]
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/reports/2009/07/reportsstudies2267/?pa=BB736455
or
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/~ASSETS/DOCUMENT/National_Office_Pubs/2009/HeCession.pdf
[full-text, 3 pages]
Press Release 25 July 2009
Canada's recession a he-cession, says new CCPA report
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/news/2009/07/pressrelease2268/?pa=BB736455

Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany
Armstrong DP and Forte GJ.
Trends in Demand for New Physicians, 2002-2008: A Summary of Demand Indicators for 35 Physician Specialties.
Rensselaer, NY: Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany. May 2009.
Full report:
http://chws.albany.edu/download.php?id=536342,387,2   (extrends2009.zip)
see-
Residency Training Outcomes in New York, 1997-Present
http://chws.albany.edu/index.php?nys_exit

Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany
Armstrong DP and Forte GJ.
Annual New York Physician Workforce Profile, 2008 Edition. [online July 2009]
Rensselaer, NY: Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany. December 2008.
Full report:
http://chws.albany.edu/download.php?id=3486748,388,2 (nyphysprofile2008.zip)
Abridged report:
http://chws.albany.edu/download.php?id=2227130,389,2 (nyphysprofile2008abr.zip)
see-
New York Physician Workforce Supply and Distribution
http://chws.albany.edu/index.php?nyphysicians

Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany
New York Physician Supply and Demand Through 2030: Executive Summary [online July 2009]
http://chws.albany.edu/download.php?id=240143,381,2
[full-text, 34 pages]

Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany
Preliminary Findings from the New York Registered Nurse Re-registration Survey [July 2009]
http://chws.albany.edu/download.php?id=25554,393,2
[full-text, 2 pages]

Conference Board & Duke University
Press Release
Offshoring Evolving at a Rapid Pace, Report Duke University and The Conference Board
Aug. 3, 2009
http://www.conference-board.org/utilities/pressDetail.cfm?press_ID=3709

Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)
EBRI Issue Brief #333
Individual Account Retirement Plans: An Analysis of the 2007 Survey of Consumer Finances, With Market Adjustments to June 2009
July 2009
http://www.ebri.org/publications/ib/index.cfm?fa=ibDisp&content_id=4326
or
http://www.ebri.org/pdf/briefspdf/EBRI_IB_8-2009_No333_SCF.pdf
[full-text, 36 pages]

Good Jobs First
Show Us the Stimulus: An Evaluation of State Government Recovery Act Websites [29 July 2009]
by Philip Mattera and Leigh McIlvaine, Caitlin Lacy, Michelle Lee & Thomas Cafcas
http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/news/article.cfm?id=396
or
http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/pdf/ARRAwebreport.pdf
[full-text, 25 pages]
Press Release 29 July 2009
Report: Most States Are Failing to Use the Web Effectively to Inform Taxpayers About Economic Stimulus Spending
http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/pdf/ARRAwebpressrelease.pdf

Law

NOTE: By special arrangement with the BAKER & McKENZIE Law Firm, the Catherwood Library at the ILR School (Industrial & Labor Relations) makes these law firm produced publications available via the Internet free of charge for research, study and practice. This is made possible by the technology incorporated in the DigitalCommons@ILR tool -- see http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/
LAW FIRMS -- Baker & McKenzie Publications
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/lawfirms/
Manuscripts from 2009

China Employment Law Update, Baker & McKenzie
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/lawfirms/53

Global Mobility Handbook, Baker & McKenzie
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/lawfirms/51

The Global Employer: How to Respond to a Global Crisis, Baker & McKenzie
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/lawfirms/52

Worldwide Guide to Termination, Employment Discrimination, and Workplace Harassment Laws, Baker & McKenzie
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/lawfirms/50

Worldwide Guide to Trade Unions and Works Councils, Baker & McKenzie
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/lawfirms/49

AND MUCH MORE.....

Statistical Reports

BEA: PERSONAL INCOME AND OUTLAYS: JUNE 2009 [4 August 2009]
REVISED ESTIMATES: 1929 THROUGH MAY 2009
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2009/pi0609.htm
or
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2009/pdf/pi0609.pdf
[full-text, 29 pages]
or
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2009/xls/pi0609.xls
[spreadsheet]
and
Highlights
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2009/pdf/pi0609_fax.pdf

BEA: NATIONAL INCOME AND PRODUCT ACCOUNTS [31 July 2009]
GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT: SECOND QUARTER 2009 (ADVANCE ESTIMATE)
COMPREHENSIVE REVISION: 1929 THROUGH FIRST QUARTER 2009
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2009/gdp2q09_adv.htm
or
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2009/pdf/gdp2q09_adv.pdf
[full-text, 51 pages]
or
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2009/xls/gdp2q09_adv.xls
[spreadsheet]
and
Highlights
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2009/pdf/gdp2q09_adv_fax.pdf

BLS: International comparisons of GDP per capita and per employed person for 17 countries, 1960--2008 [28 July 2009]
ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ForeignLabor/flsgdp.txt
or
http://www.bls.gov/fls/flsgdp.pdf
[ful-text, 20 pages]
and
http://www.bls.gov/fls/ilcgdp.zip
[zipped XLS file]

BLS: EMPLOYMENT COST INDEX - JUNE 2009 [31 July 2009]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/eci.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/eci.pdf
[full-text, 21 pages]

BLS: METROPOLITAN AREA EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT: JUNE 2009 [29 July 2009]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/metro.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/metro.pdf
[full-text, 22 pages]
and
Supplemental Files Table of Contents
http://www.bls.gov/web/metro.supp.toc.htm

Employment and Training Administration (ETA)
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WEEKLY CLAIMS REPORT [30 July 2009]
http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/eta/ui/current.htm

Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts

Federal Citizen Information Center
CONSUMER ACTION HANDBOOK 2009 & WEBSITE [July 2009]
http://www.consumeraction.gov/
or
http://www.consumeraction.gov/viewpdf.shtml
[get PDF by part of publication]
or
http://www.consumeraction.gov/pdfs/2009_Handbook_Web_Version.pdf
[full-text, 182 pages]

NOTE: The IWS Documented News Service is committed to helping the Rwanda Tribunal garner more attention world-wide. The lessons and legacy of ground-breaking legal matters related to the unspeakable events in Rwanda should not be forgotten. Humans, whether from rich or poor countries, must remain vigilant in curbing the motivations that lead individuals and groups to violent hatred and barbaric acts against a class of people. Consequently, items about this tribunal, which will end shortly after 2010, will appear from time to time on this news service.

University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
[SEARCH CONTENT of] Cases of the
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda-ICTR
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/ICTR/ICTR_Cases_Index.html

THE BACHARACH BLOG
http://bacharachblog.com/

What Ever Happened to Bargaining? The Important Difference Between Negotiation & Bargaining
http://bacharachblog.com/leadership-skills/what-ever-happened-to-bargaining-the-important-difference-between-negotiation-bargaining/
August 4, 2009

Leadership Link Round-Up: July 27-30
http://bacharachblog.com/leadership-links/leadership-link-round-up-july-27-30/
August 1, 2009

Woody Allen & Negotiating 101: Never Forget Your Negotiating Priorities
http://bacharachblog.com/leadership-skills/woddy-allen-negotiating-101-never-forget-your-negotiating-priorities/
July 31, 2009

Avoiding Tennis Grunts and Keeping Prima Donna's In Check
http://bacharachblog.com/leadership-skills/avoiding-tennis-grunts-and-keeping-prima-donnas-in-check/
July 31, 2009

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