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Wednesday, August 05, 2009

[IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 5 August 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, 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

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

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

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/tn0902017s/tn0902017s.htm

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2009/pdf/pi0609.pdf

[full-text, 29 pages]

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

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2009/pdf/gdp2q09_adv.pdf

[full-text, 51 pages]

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

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

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

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/

http://www.consumeraction.gov/viewpdf.shtml

[get PDF by part of publication]

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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