Wednesday, December 09, 2009
[IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 9 December 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, 9 December 2009
Academic Research
Monthly Review Press
The Taming of the American Crowd: From Stamp Riots to Shopping Sprees
by Al Sandine
http://monthlyreview.org/books/tamingthecrowd.php
ISBN: 978-1-58367-197-9
$18.95 paperback
240 pp.
November 2009
Monthly Review Press
Put To Work: The WPA and Public Employment in the Great Depression
Second Edition
Including a New Introduction and Afterword
by Nancy E. Rose
http://monthlyreview.org/books/puttowork.php
ISBN: 978-1-58367-206-8
$14.95 paperback
160 pp.
October 2009
IZA Discussion Papers (Institute for the Study of Labor)
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers
Recent studies include ---
4620 Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Integration
4619 Cultural Diversity and Local Labour Markets
4618 Financial Stress, Family Conflict, and Youths' Successful Transition to Adult Roles
4617 New Evidence on the Role of Remittances on Health Care Expenditures by Mexican Households
4616 Gender Differences in Native Preferences towards Undocumented and Legal Immigration: Evidence from San Diego
4615 Brainy Africans to Fortress Europe: For Money or Colonial Vestiges?
4614 Is Informal Sector Work an Alternative to Workfare Benefits? The Case of Pre-Program Expansion and Economic Crisis
4613 Local Human Capital Externalities and Wages at the Firm Level: The Case of Italian Manufacturing
4612 Productivity, Welfare and Reallocation: Theory and Firm-Level Evidence
4611 Low-Wage Employment versus Unemployment: Which One Provides Better Prospects for Women?
4610 Markets for Reputation: Evidence on Quality and Quantity in Academe
4609 Financial Dependence, Formal Credit, and Informal Jobs: New Evidence from Brazilian Household Data
4608 Does Human Capital Protect Workers against Exogenous Shocks? South Africa in the 2008-2009 Crisis
Government Reports/Press - International, Federal, State, Local
International
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO)
COMPARATIVE STUDY
Greening the European economy: Responses and initiatives by Member States and social partners [4 December 2009]
Author: Andrea Broughton
Institution: Institute for Employment Studies (IES)
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/TN0908019s/index.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/TN0908019s/tn0908019s.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/docs/eiro/tn0908019s/tn0908019s.pdf
[full-text, 34 pages]
and
Executive Summary
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef09721.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/TN0908019s/index.htm
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
HEALTH AT A GLANCE 2009 [8 December 2009]
http://www.oecd.org/document/11/0,3343,en_2649_33929_16502667_1_1_1_37407,00.html
or
http://www.oecd.org/health/healthataglance
Press Release 8 December 2009
Expensive health care is not always the best health care, says OECD’s Health at a Glance
http://www.oecd.org/document/14/0,3343,en_2649_34487_44216846_1_1_1_1,00.html
Federal
Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
Capital Punishment, 2008 - Statistical Tables [3 December 2009]
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/cp08st.htm
or
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/cp08st.pdf
[full-text, 21 pages]
or
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/sheets/cp08st.zip
[spreadsheet]
U.S. Department of Labor
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
November 2009
Report 1020
Labor Force Characteristics by Race and Ethnicity, 2008 [4 December 2009]
http://www.bls.gov/cps/race_ethnicity_2008.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsrace2008.pdf
[full-text, 51 pages]
Census Bureau
American Community Survey Reports
The Foreign-Born Labor Force in the United States: 2007 [7 December 2009]
http://www.census.gov/prod/2009pubs/acs-10.pdf
[full-text, 15 pages]
Census
The Foreign-Born Population of the United States: 2007 and 2008 [7 December 2009]
2007
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/foreign/cps2007.html
2008
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/foreign/cps2008.html
Census
2008 North American Transportation in Figures [7 December 2009]
http://nats.sct.gob.mx/nats/
or
http://nats.sct.gob.mx/nats/sys/index.jsp?i=3
[English link]
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
U.S. Labor Force Statistics: Illustrative Simulations of the Likely Effects of Underrepresenting Unauthorized Residents. GAO-10-99, November 30. [online 7 December 2009]
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-10-99
[full-text, 61 pages]
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Private Pensions: Additional Changes Could Improve Employee Benefit Plan Financial Reporting. GAO-10-54, November 5. [online 7 December 2009]
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-10-54
[full-text, 32 pages]
and
Highlights -
http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d1054high.pdf
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
Changes in Postsecondary Awards Below the Bachelor's Degree: 1997 to 2007 [2 December 2009]
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2010167
or
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2010/2010167.pdf
[full-text, 22 pages]
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Doctorate Recipients from U.S. Universities: Summary Report 2007–08 [2 December 2009]
Special Report | NSF 10-309 | December 2009 |
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf10309/
or
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf10309/pdf/nsf10309.pdf
[full-text, 322 pages]
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Office of Advocacy
Educational Attainment, “Brain Drain,” and Self-employment: Examining the Interstate Mobility of Baccalaureate Graduates, 1993-2003 [8 December 2009]
A Working Paper
by Chad Moutray for the SBA
http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs355tot.pdf
[full-text, 54 pages]
or
Research Summary
http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs355.pdf
[full-text, 2 pages]
Institutes/Associations/Commercial
COALITION FOR HEALTHY PORTS
HAZARDOUS TO OUR HEALTH: The Human Impact of Port Truck Pollution on Truck Drivers and Residents in New York and New Jersey [9 December 2009]
http://healthyports.com/fileadmin/files_nynj/Hazardous_to_Our_Health.pdf
[full-text, 12 pages]
Press Release 9 December 2009
NOT JUST A CALIFORNIA PROBLEM: New Report Links Poor Industry Standards in Port Trucking to Public Health Crisis on Both Coasts
Diesel Pollution Claims More Lives Each Year Than New York and New Jersey Homicides Combined
http://healthyports.com/fileadmin/files_nynj/Hazardous_to_Our_Health_12_7_09.pdf
Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)
EBRI FAST FACTS Dec. 8, 2009 #147
Retirement Plan Participation: Firm Size Differences–An Update [8 December 2009]
http://www.ebri.org/pdf/FFE147.08Dec09.Final.pdf
Manpower
MANPOWER EMPLOYMENT OUTLOOK SURVEY [8 December 2009]
http://www.us.manpower.com/meos
Survey Results for the UNITED STATES
http://manpower.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=44
or
http://manpower.mediaroom.com/file.php/264/Q110+MEOS+Research+Report.pdf
[full-text, 12 pages]
Survey Results for the 201 Surveyed MSAs
http://manpower-employmentreports.mediaroom.com/
Global Survey Results for 35 COUNTRIES
http://www.manpower.com/press/meos.cfm
Press Release 8 December 2009
Employers Plan to Increase Staff Levels in First Quarter, According to the Manpower Employment Outlook Survey
A Positive Bounce in Hiring Expected, Record Number Expect No Change
http://manpower.mediaroom.com/file.php/263/Q110+MEOS+Press+Release.pdf
RAND
A Compendium of Sexual Assault Research [7 December 2009]
By: Margaret C. Harrell, Laura Werber Castaneda, Marisa Adelson, Sarah Gaillot, Charlotte Lynch, Amanda Pomeroy
http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR617/
or
http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2009/RAND_TR617.pdf
[full-text,318 pages]
or
Summary
http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2009/RAND_TR617.sum.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]
World Economic Forum [WEF]
Global Agenda Council on Corruption
Raising Our Game: Next Steps for Business, Government and Civil Society to Fight Corruption [8 December 2009]
http://email.weforum.org/HS?a=DNX7CqEnH0RR8SA9MKIrJZTnGHxKPlpwlg2J
[full-text, 50 pages]
Law
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
Genetic Information Discrimination
http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/genetic.cfm
Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008, which prohibits genetic information discrimination in employment, took effect on November 21, 2009.
On this page you will find guidance for compliance.
Statistical Reports
BLS: Job Openings and Labor Turnover – October 2009 [8 December 2009]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/jolts.pdf
[full-text, 16 pages]
BLS: WORK EXPERIENCE OF THE POPULATION -- 2008 [8 December 2009]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/work.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/work.pdf
[full-text, 9 pages]
BLS: DISABILITY EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS - NOVEMBER 2009 [4 December 2009]
http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsdisability.htm
or
http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/print.pl/cps/cpsdisability.htm
Employment status and disability status, November 2009 [1 December 2009]
http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsdisability_112009.htm
or
http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/print.pl/cps/cpsdisability_112009.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsdisability_112009.pdf
BLS:THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION -- NOVEMBER 2009 [4 December 2009]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
[full-text, 29 pages]
and
Supplemental Files Table of Contents
http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit.supp.toc.htm
BLS: PRODUCTIVITY AND COSTS Third Quarter 2009, Revised [3 December 2009]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/prod2.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/prod2.pdf
[full-text, 12 pages]
and
Supplemental Files Table of Contents
http://www.bls.gov/web/prod2.supp.toc.htm
Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts
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)
NEW DOCUMENTS
3 December 2009
Address by Judge Dennis Byron, President of the ICTR, to the United Nations Security Council [Six monthly report on the Completion Strategy]
http://www.ictr.org/ENGLISH/speeches/byron091203.htm
3 December 2009
Statement by Justice Hassan B. Jallow, Prosecutor of the ICTR, to the United Nations Security Council
http://www.ictr.org/ENGLISH/speeches/jallow091203.htm
THE BACHARACH BLOG
Vision is Not Enough: Proactive Leaders & the Timing of Good Ideas [Podcast]
Posted by Samuel B. Bacharach on Dec 7, 2009
http://bacharachblog.com/podcasts/a-good-idea-is-not-enough-podcast/
Churchill: Leadership Into the Storm [Video]
By Samuel B. Bacharach on 12/04/09
http://bacharachblog.com/proactive-leadership-skills/churchill-leadership-into-the-storm-video/
Coaching as a Proactive Leadership Skill
By Samuel B. Bacharach on 12/04/09
http://bacharachblog.com/proactive-leadership-skills/coaching-as-a-proactive-leadership-skill/
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Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
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