Monday, September 14, 2009

[IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 16 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
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IWS Weekly Bulletin, 16 September 2009


Academic Research

United States International Trade Commission (USITC)
Staff Publications and Working Papers
Export Controls: An Overview of Their Use, Economic Effects, and Treatment in the Global Trading System
Publication ID-23
Joanna Bonarriva, Michelle Koscielski, and Edward Wilson, Office of Industries
August 2009
http://www.usitc.gov/publications/332/working_papers/ID-23.pdf
[full-text, 26 pages]

Forum for Research on Empirical International Trade (FREIT)
Trade as Engine of Creative Destruction: The Mexican experience with Chinese competition
PRELIMINARY AND INCOMPLETE - PLEASE DO NOT CITE WITHOUT PERMISSION
Leonardo Iacovone†
Ferdinand Rauch‡
Alan L. Winters§
First Version: July 31, 2009
Current Version: August 1, 2009
http://www.freit.org/WorkingPapers/Papers/FirmLevelTrade/FREIT087.pdf
[full-text, 35 pages]

Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Staff Reports
September 2009  Number 392
Labor Market Pooling and Occupational Agglomeration
http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/staff_reports/sr392.html
or
http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/staff_reports/sr392.pdf
[full-text, 31 pages]


IZA Discussion Papers (Institute for the Study of Labor)
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers
Recent studies include ---
4400    Do Better Paid Politicians Perform Better? Disentangling Incentives from Selection      
4399    Does Military Draft Discourage Enrollment in Higher Education? Evidence from OECD Countries     
4398    Meet the Parents? The Causal Effect of Family Size on the Geographic Distance between Adult Children and Older Parents  
4397    Male and Female Labour Force Participation: The Role of Dynamic Adjustments to Changes in Labour Demand, Government Policies and Autonomous Trends      
4396    Better Means More: Property Rights and High-Growth Aspiration Entrepreneurship  
4395    Tournament Incentives in the Field: Gender Differences in the Workplace         
4394    Immigrants' Assimilation Process in a Segmented Labor Market    
4393    Re-Orient? MNC Penetration and Contemporary Shifts in the Global Political Economy      
4392    The Effect of Lone Motherhood on the Smoking Behaviour of Young Adults (forthcoming in: Health Economics)       
4391    The Redistributive Effects of Political Reservation for Minorities: Evidence from India         
4390    Life Satisfaction and Relative Income: Perceptions and Evidence         
4389    Experimental Tests of Survey Responses to Expenditure Questions         
4388    Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S.    
4387    How Much Can We Trust Causal Interpretations of Fixed-Effects Estimators in the Context of Criminality?         
4386    Improving the Labor Market Outcomes of Minorities: The Role of Employment Quota


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


International

Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2009 40th Edition [26 August 2009]
SPECIAL CHAPTER
Enterprises in Asia: Fostering Dynamism in SMEs
http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/Key_Indicators/2009/default.asp
or
http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/Key_Indicators/2009/pdf/Key-Indicators-2009.pdf
[full-text, 324 pages]
Press Release 26 August 2009
http://www.adb.org/Media/Articles/2009/12968-adb-key-indicators/


Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Knowledge Solutions
September 2009 | 61
Harnessing Creativity and Innovation in the Workplace
By Olivier Serrat
http://www.adb.org/documents/information/knowledge-solutions/harnessing-creativity-and-innovation-in-the-workplace.pdf
[full-text, 11 pages]

European Commission
Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities
News
Employment Guidelines 2009: Indicators for monitoring and analysis in the (National Reform Programmes) NRPs 2009
http://ec.europa.eu/social/BlobServlet?docId=3750&langId=en
[full-text, 17 pages]

European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO)
Groundbreaking European company agreement at Warema [31 August 2009]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/2009/07/articles/eu0907019i.htm


European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO)
CZECH REPUBLIC [Key Information on Industrial Relations by YEAR]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/2009/country/czech.republic.htm
OTHER COUNTRIES LISTED AT --
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/country_index.htm


Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
OECD Employment Outlook 2009
http://www.oecd.org/document/46/0,3343,en_2649_33927_40401454_1_1_1_1,00.html
Full report will be release on 16 September 2009.
However, the following is NOW AVAILABLE:
   * Table of contents
http://www.oecd.org/document/46/0,3343,en_2649_33927_40401454_1_1_1_1,00.html#toc
   * Background statistical material
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/30/33/43272221.pdf
[full-text, 34 pages]
   * Previous editions
http://www.oecd.org/document/0/0,3343,en_2649_33927_40774656_1_1_1_1,00.html
see also
KEY EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS
http://www.oecd.org/document/53/0,3343,en_2649_39023495_42788213_1_1_1_1,00.html
How does your country compare?
http://www.oecd.org/document/53/0,3343,en_2649_39023495_42788213_1_1_1_1,00.html#cc
How do OECD labour markets perform?
http://www.oecd.org/document/53/0,3343,en_2649_39023495_42788213_1_1_1_1,00.html#lm


Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Education at a Glance 2009: OECD Indicators [8 September 2009]
http://www.oecd.org/document/24/0,3343,en_2649_39263238_43586328_1_1_1_37455,00.html
or
FINDINGS
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/1/28/43654482.pdf
[full-text, 9 pages]
or
FULL REPORT
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/25/43636332.pdf
[full-text, 472 pages]


Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
OECD unemployment rate stable at 8.5% in July 2009 [14 September 2009]
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/11/58/43687940.pdf
[full-text, 4 pages]
and
Harmonised Unemployment Rates (HURs), OECD - Updated: September 2009
http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?QueryName=251&QueryType=View&Lang=en


International Labour Organization (ILO)
KEY INDICATORS OF THE LABOR MARKET (KILM), Sixth Edition [7 September 2009]
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/strat/kilm/
and
ONLINE DATA [NEW]
http://kilm.ilo.org/kilmnet


World Bank/IFC
Doing Business 2010: Reforming through Difficult Times [9 September 2009]
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:22301788~pagePK:64257043~piPK:437376~theSitePK:4607,00.html
or
http://www.doingbusiness.org/
or
OVERVIEW
http://www.doingbusiness.org/Documents/DB10_Overview.pdf
[full-text, 9 pages]
and
This Years RANKINGS
http://www.doingbusiness.org/economyrankings/
and
Additional Releases at
http://www.doingbusiness.org/media/


WTO, OECD, UNCTAD
REPORT on G20 TRADE and INVESTMENT MEASURES[1] [14 Septmeber 2009]
http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news09_e/trdev_dg_report_14sep09_e.doc
[full-text, 60 pages]


Federal

BLS: Employment & Earnings Online [8 September 2009]
August 2009
Vol. 56 No. 8
http://www.bls.gov/opub/ee/empearn200908.pdf
[full-text, 216 pages]


BLS: Occupational Outlook Quarterly Online [9 September 2009]
Fall 2009
Vol. 53, Number 3
http://www.bls.gov/opub/ooq/2009/fall/fall2009ooq.pdf

Careers in auto racing: Work in the fast lane
William Lawhorn
http://www.bls.gov/opub/ooq/2009/fall/art01.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]


Metrology careers: Jobs for good measure
Drew Liming
http://www.bls.gov/opub/ooq/2009/fall/art02.pdf
[full-text, 6 pages]


Patent work: The other side of invention
Tamara Dillon
http://www.bls.gov/opub/ooq/2009/fall/art03.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]


Gap year: Time off, with a plan
Elka Maria Torpey
http://www.bls.gov/opub/ooq/2009/fall/art04.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]


Grab bag
  http://www.bls.gov/opub/ooq/2009/fall/grabbag.pdf
[full-text, 2 pages]


You're a what?
http://www.bls.gov/opub/ooq/2009/fall/yawhat.pdf
[full-text, 2 pages]

OOChart

Large occupations with higher-than-median wages
http://www.bls.gov/opub/ooq/2009/fall/oochart.pdf


Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB)
The Department of Labor's 2008 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor [10 September 2009]
http://www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/main.htm
or
http://www.dol.gov/ilab/programs/ocft/PDF/2008OCFTreport.pdf
[full-text, 448 pages]


List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor [10 September 2009]
http://www.dol.gov/ILAB/programs/ocft/tvpra.htm#lgc
or
http://www.dol.gov/ilab/programs/ocft/PDF/2009TVPRA.pdf
[full-text, 194 pages]


Bibliography of Each Product Listed in the Initial Determination by Country of Origin [10 September 2009]
http://www.dol.gov/ILAB/regs/eo13126/main.htm#List
or
http://www.dol.gov/ilab/regs/eo13126/eo13126bib.pdf
[full-text, 50 pages]
Press Release
U.S. Labor Department issues reports on international child labor and forced labor
http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/ilab/ILAB20090946.htm


Census
P60-236
Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2008 [10 September 2009]
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/income08.html [Income]
or
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/poverty08.html poverty]
or
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/hlthins/hlthin08.html [health insurance coverage]
or
http://www.census.gov/prod/2009pubs/p60-236.pdf
[full-text, 74 pages]
and
Media Kit
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/news_conferences/014226.html
Press Release 10 September 2009
INCOME, POVERTY AND HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE IN THE UNITED STATES: 2008
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/income_wealth/014227.html


Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Will the Demand for Assets Fall When the Baby Boomers Retire?
September 2009
Background Paper
http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=10526
or
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/105xx/doc10526/09-08_Baby-Boomers.pdf
[full-text, 33 pages]

U.S. Department of Education
Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE)
Equity in Athletics Data Analysis Cutting Tool [DATABASE on COLLEGE SPORTS]
http://ope.ed.gov/athletics/


Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Employee Misclassification: Improved Coordination, Outreach, and Targeting Could Better Ensure Detection and Prevention
GAO-09-717,  August 10, 2009 [online 9 September 2009]
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09717.pdf
[full-text, 74 pages]

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
Revenues and Expenditures by Public School Districts: School Year 2006-07 (Fiscal Year 2007) [8 September 2009]
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2009338
or
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2009/2009338.pdf
[full-text, 32 pages]

National Science Foundation (NSF)
NSF 09-319 | September 2009 |
Federal S&E Obligations to Three Types of Minority-Serving Institutions Decline in FY 2007 [8 September 2009]
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf09319/
or
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf09319/nsf09319.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]


Institutes/Associations/Commercial

Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc.
CEO Departures Fall 20% >From 9-Month High in July
101 CEO EXITS RECORDED IN AUGUST [9 September 2009]
http://iwsdocumentednewsdaily.blogspot.com/2009/09/iws-ceo-departures-fall-20-from-9-month.html


The DESIGN OBSERVER Group
By John Emerson
Pressed into Service [LINCOLN CUSHING INTERVIEW] [8 September 2009]
Author of
Agitate! Educate! Organize!: American Labor Posters (Cornell University Press, 2009)
http://observatory.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=10617
or
http://observatory.designobserver.com/entryprint.html?entry=10617


Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)
EBRI NOTES, Vol. 30, No. 9, September 2009
'Trends in Satisfaction and Confidence in Health Care, by Insurance and Health Status: Findings from the 2009 EBRI/MGA Health Confidence Survey,' and 'Social Security Reform: How Different Options Might Affect Future Funding'
http://www.ebri.org/publications/notes/index.cfm?fa=notesDisp&content_id=4354
or
http://www.ebri.org/pdf/notespdf/EBRI_Notes_09-Sept09.HCS-SS.pdf
[full-text, 20 pages]
Press Release 9 September 2009
New Research from EBRI:
Uninsured Are More Likely Than Insured to Be Dissatisfied With Quality of the Health Care They Receive, Study Says
http://www.ebri.org/pdf/PR.848_09Sept09.HCS.pdf
[full-text, 2 pages]

HR Policy Association (HRPA)
Principal CHRO Concerns [2009]
http://www.hrpolicy.org/about_Concerns.aspx


The International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF)
Uniting Food, Farm and Hotel Workers World-Wide
Unilever Lipton Management/Contractors Instigate Violent Attacks On Khanewal Action Committee Members [9 September 2009]
http://www.iuf.org/cgi-bin/dbman/db.cgi?db=default&uid=default&ID=6168&view_records=1&ww=1&en=1


Mercer
Tough economy leads employers to cut health benefit cost increases in 2010 [10 September 2009]
http://www.mercer.com/summary.htm?idContent=1357570


Watson Wyatt
Current Trends in Sales Force Compensation and Management [14 September 2009]
http://www.watsonwyatt.com/salescompreport
[full-text, 11 pages]
Press Release
Optimistic Forecasts for 2010 Drive Sales Force Staffing, Compensation Design, Watson Wyatt Survey Finds [14 September 2009]
http://www.watsonwyatt.com/news/press.asp?ID=22286


World Economic Forum (WEF)
The Global Competitiveness Report 2009-2010 [8 September 2009]
http://www.weforum.org/gcr
or
http://www.weforum.org/pdf/GCR09/GCR20092010fullreport.pdf
[full-text, 492 pages]
and
HIGHLIGHTS
http://www.weforum.org/pdf/GCR09/GCR20092010CountryHighlights.pdf
Press Release
Switzerland replaces United States at top of competitiveness rankings [8 September 2009]
http://www.weforum.org/en/media/Latest%20Press%20Releases/PR_GCR09


WorldatWork.org (Total Rewards Association)
WorldatWork Public Policy Department Bill Tracker (updated August 2009)
http://www.worldatwork.org/waw/adimLink?id=33618


WorldatWork.org (Total Rewards Association)
Five Questions on Health Care
A Snapshot Survey by WorldatWork
August 2009
http://www.worldatwork.org/waw/adimLink?id=34184
[full-text, 3 pages]


Law

Congressional Research Service (CRS)
Mexico's Free Trade Agreements
M. Angeles Villarreal, Specialist in International Trade and Finance
August 27, 2009
http://opencrs.com/document/R40784/2009-08-27/download/1013/
[full-text, 22 pages]

Congressional Research Service (CRS)
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell:" The Law and Military Policy on Same-Sex Behavior
David F. Burrelli, Specialist in Military Manpower Policy
August 14, 2009
http://opencrs.com/document/R40782/2009-08-14/download/1013/
[full-text, 17 pages]


Statistical Reports

BEA: U.S. INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN GOODS AND SERVICES July 2009 [10 September 2009]
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/2009/trad0709.htm
or
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/2009/pdf/trad0709.pdf
[full-text, 47 pages]
or
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/2009/xls/trad0709.xls
[spreadsheet]
and
Highlights
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/2009/pdf/trad0709_fax.pdf


BLS: U.S. IMPORT AND EXPORT PRICE INDEXES - AUGUST 2009 [11 September 2009]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ximpim.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ximpim.pdf
[full-text, 16 pages]


BLS: EMPLOYER COSTS FOR EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION-JUNE 2009 [10 September 2009]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ecec.pdf
[full-text, 27 pages]


BLS: JOB OPENINGS AND LABOR TURNOVER:  JULY 2009 [9 September 2009]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/jolts.pdf
[full-text, 16 pages]


Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Uniform Crime Reports
CRIME IN THE UNITED STATES 2008 [14 September 2009]
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2008/index.html
Press Release
THE DECLINE OF CRIME Even in Tough Economic Times  
09/14/09
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/sept09/crimestats_091409.html


Facts for Features from the Census Bureau
CB09-FF.14
June 15, 2009
Back to School: 2009-2010
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/013847.html
or
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/pdf/cb09ff-14.pdf
[full-text, 7 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.

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
www.ictr.org
 ICTR/INFO-9-2-606.EN
Arusha, 10 September 2009
Judge Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov Sworn In  
http://www.ictr.org/ENGLISH/PRESSREL/2009/606.html


THE BACHARACH BLOG
http://bacharachblog.com/


Obama: Health Reform and the Leadership of Nuts & Bolts
http://bacharachblog.com/proactive-leadership-skills/obama-health-reform-and-the-leadership-of-nuts-bolts/
Posted by Samuel B. Bacharach on Sep 14, 2009


Academic Leadership Dos & Dont's From the Field: Interview with Edward Lawler
http://bacharachblog.com/proactive-leadership-skills/academic-leadership-dos-donts-from-the-field-interview-with-edward-lawler/
By Samuel B. Bacharach on 09/14/09


Commitment & Soildarity are Still Part of Everyday Life
http://bacharachblog.com/proactive-leadership-skills/commitment-soildarity-are-still-part-of-everyday-life/
By Samuel B. Bacharach on 09/11/09


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