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Tuesday, March 02, 2010

[IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 3 March 2010

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, 3 March 2010

Academic Research

IZA Discussion Papers (Institute for the Study of Labor)

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

Recent studies include ---

4795 Bonus Payments and Reference Point Violations

4794 Estimation of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects on Hazard Rates

4793 Strategic Behavior across Gender: A Comparison of Female and Male Expert Chess Players

4792 The Design of Unemployment Transfers: Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Life-Cycle Model

4791 Increasing Income Inequality: Productivity, Bargaining and Skill-Upgrading

4790 Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed: Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity

4789 Non-Response Biases in Surveys of School Children: The Case of the English PISA Samples

4788 Does Immigration Induce 'Native Flight' from Public Schools? Evidence from a Large Scale Voucher Program

4787 Revisiting the Income-Health Nexus: The Importance of Choosing the "Right" Indicator

4786 Financial Constraints and Innovation: Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up

4785 Trends in Economic Research: An International Perspective

4784 Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth: The Case of Chinese Provinces

4783 Gender Wage Gap: A Semi-Parametric Approach with Sample Selection Correction

4782 Reciprocity and Incentive Pay in the Workplace

4781 Alternative Basic Income Mechanisms: An Evaluation Exercise with a Microeconometric Model

4780 The Role of Early-Life Conditions in the Cognitive Decline due to Adverse Events Later in Life

4779 Learning from Latin America's Experience: Europe's Failure in the "Lisbon Process"

4778 What's the Difference?! Gender, Personality, and the Propensity to Start a Business

4777 Job Competition and the Wage Curve

4776 Wage Work for Women: The Menstrual Cycle and the Power of Water

ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press)

A SHAMEFUL BUSINESS: The Case for Human Rights in the American Workplace [February 2010]

James A. Gross

http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=5584

International Labour Organization

Social Dialogue

Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV)

International Journal of Labour Research, 2009 Vol. 1, Issue 2:

Global Capital Strategies and Trade Union Responses: Collective Bargaining and Transnational Trade Union cooperation

http://www.ilo.org/actrav/what/pubs/lang--en/docName--WCMS_122375/index.htm

http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_dialogue/---actrav/documents/publication/wcms_122375.pdf

[full-text, 224 pages]

International Journal of Labour Research, 2009 Vol. 1, Issue 1

Trade union strategies towards global production systems

http://www.ilo.org/actrav/what/pubs/lang--en/docName--WCMS_114951/index.htm

http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_dialogue/---actrav/documents/publication/wcms_114951.pdf

[full-text, 108 pages]

Additional publications from ACTRAV are found at

http://www.ilo.org/actrav/what/pubs/lang--en/index.htm

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

International

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

European Company Survey 2009 - Overview [1 March 2010]

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef1005.htm

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2010/05/en/1/EF1005EN.pdf

[full-text, 135 pages]

[NOTE: Report not opening currently -- come back later]

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

European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO)

New European observatory on cross-border temporary agency work [17 February 2010]

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/2010/01/articles/eu1001019i.htm

Federal

BLS: Compensation and Working Conditions

http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/

Occupational Earnings of Full-time Healthcare Workers in Civilian Hospitals, 2008

by Elizabeth Dietz Originally Posted: February 24, 2010

http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/cm20100222ar01p1.htm

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Policies for Increasing Economic Growth and Employment in the Short Term February 23, 2010

Testimony prepared for the Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress

http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=11255

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/112xx/doc11255/02-23-Employment_Testimony.pdf

[full-text, 24 pages]

and

CHARTS

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/112xx/doc11255/02-23-Growth_and_Employment.pdf

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Estimated Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on Employment and Economic Output From October 2009 Through December 2009

23 February 2010

http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=11044

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/110xx/doc11044/02-23-ARRA.pdf

[full-text, 21 pages]

DATA.GOV

www.data.gov

DATA.GOV for Labor Force, Employment, and Earnings

"RAW DATA"

http://www.data.gov/catalog/raw/category/12/agency/0/filter//type//sort//page/1/count/25

[69 records as of 26 February 2010]

DATA.GOV for U.S. Department of Labor

http://www.data.gov/catalog/raw/category/0/agency/41/filter//type//sort//page/1/count/25

[41 records as of 26 February 2010]

Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention

National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)

HEALTH, UNITED STATES, 2009 [17 February 2010]
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus.htm

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus09.pdf

[full-text, 574 pages]

See Press Release 17 February 2010

http://www.cdc.gov/media/pressrel/2010/r100217.htm

Employment and Training Administration (ETA)

ETA News Release: [03/01/2010]

US Labor Department releases state-by-state figures on number of Americans who stand to lose unemployment benefits without congressional extension of program

http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/eta/eta20100265.htm

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)

The National Forum on Education Statistics (the Forum)

The Forum Guide to Data Ethics [26 February 2010]

http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2010801
or

http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2010/2010801.pdf

[full-text, 50 pages]

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)

The National Forum on Education Statistics (the Forum)

Crisis Data Management: A Forum Guide to Collecting and Managing Data About Displaced Students [26 February 2010]

http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2010804
or

http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2010/2010804.pdf

[full-text, 54 pages]

National Science Foundation (NSF)

Globalization of Science and Engineering Research: A Companion to Science and Engineering Indicators 2010 [19 February 2010]

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsb1003/

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsb1003/pdf/nsb1003.pdf

[full-text, 17 pages]

See also

WorldatWork Executive Rewards Questionary

Optimize Executive Compensation Design, Second Edition

http://www.worldatwork.org/waw/pub/questionary.pdf

[full-text, 53 pages]

Law

GovBenefits.gov

www.govbenefits.gov

February 4, 2010
Turn Unemployment Into Re-employment!

http://www.govbenefits.gov/govbenefits_en.portal;jsessionid=rQQfLGjhvCQwTggZv2xtwCk3rrNd9LhhzzxfQL1vfQ9L9G6GcbMm!-695256741?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=gbcc_page_press_room&_nfls=false&nid=727&press=featuredNews

Statistical Reports

BEA: PERSONAL INCOME AND OUTLAYS: JANUARY 2010 [1 March 2010]

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2010/pi0110.htm

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2010/pdf/pi0110.pdf

[full-text, 13 pages]

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2010/xls/pi0110.xls

[spreadsheet]

and

Highlights

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2010/pdf/pi0110_fax.pdf

BEA: Gross Domestic Product: Fourth Quarter 2009 (Second Estimate) [26 February 2010]

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2010/gdp4q09_2nd.htm

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2010/pdf/gdp4q09_2nd.pdf

[full-text, 13 pages]

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2010/xls/gdp4q09_2nd.xls

[spreadsheet]

and

Highlights

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2010/pdf/gdp4q09_2nd_fax.pdf

BLS: MULTIFACTOR PRODUCTIVITY TRENDS IN MANUFACTURING — 2007 [25 February 2010]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/prod5.nr0.htm

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/prod5.pdf

[full-text, 11 pages]

BLS: NONFATAL OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES AND ILLNESSES REQUIRING DAYS AWAY FROM WORK FOR STATE GOVERNMENT AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT WORKERS, 2008 [24 February 2010]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/osh2.nr0.htm

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/osh2.pdf

[full-text, 20 pages]

BLS: Alternative Measures of Labor Underutilization for States, 2009 Annual Averages [5 February 2010]

http://www.bls.gov/lau/stalt.htm

Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts

FACTS for FEATURES from the Census Bureau

Women’s History Month: March 2010

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/014522.html

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/pdf/cb10ff-03_womenshistory.pdf

[full-text, 6 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 (ICTR)

www.ictr.org

ICTR/INFO-9-2-630.EN

Arusha, 25 February 2010

Ephrem Setako Sentenced to 25 Years of Imprisonment
http://www.ictr.org/ENGLISH/PRESSREL/2010/630.htm

THE BACHARACH BLOG
http://bacharachblog.com/

Leaders, Don’t Buy The Hype

By Nathan Sheranian on 02/24/10

http://bacharachblog.com/proactive-leadership-skills/leaders-dont-buy-the-hype/

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