Wednesday, April 07, 2010

[IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 7 April 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
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Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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IWS Weekly Bulletin, 7 April 2010

Academic Research

 

 

Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JILPT)

Databook of International Labour Statistics 2010 [2 April 2010]

http://www.jil.go.jp/english/estatis/databook/index.htm

 

 

Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)

LATIN AMERICAN and CARIBBEAN MACRO WATCH DATA TOOL (LMW)
http://www.iadb.org/Research/LatinMacroWatch/index.cfm?lang=en

COUNTRY TABLES
http://www.iadb.org/Research/LatinMacroWatch/CountryTable.cfm?lang=en

LMW TOOL

http://www.iadb.org/Research/LatinMacroWatch/LMW.cfm?lang=en

Latest update for December 2009

 

                                                                                                                  

IZA Discussion Papers (Institute for the Study of Labor)

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

Recent studies include ---

4865       Documentation IZAΨMOD: The IZA Policy SImulation MODel     

4864       Can Training Programs or Rather Wage Subsidies Bring the Unemployed Back to Work? A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation for Germany
4863       Earnings Progression, Human Capital and Incentives: Theory and Evidence          

4862       Enhanced Fee-for-Service Model and Access to Physician Services: Evidence from Family Health Groups in Ontario                

4861       Training Subsidies and the Wage Returns to Continuing Vocational Training: Evidence from Italian Regions                

4860       The (Hidden) Financial Flows of Terrorist Organizations: A Literature Review and Some Preliminary Empirical Results                

4859       Are Attitudes Towards Economic Risk Heritable? Analyses Using the Australian Twin Study of Gambling                

4858       The Glass Door: The Gender Composition of Newly-Hired Workers Across Hierarchical Job Levels             

4857       If Seebohm Rowntree Had Studied Sweden: How Poverty Changed in the City of Göteborg from 1925 to 2003      

4856       How Do Labor Markets Affect Crime? New Evidence on an Old Puzzle

                (forthcoming in: Handbook on the Economics of Crime, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010)  

4855       A Socio-economic Analysis of Youth Disconnectedness

 

 

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


International

 

 

African Development Bank (AfDB)

QUARTERLY STATISTICAL BULLETIN, First Quarter 2010 [1 April 2010]

http://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Documents/Publications/Bulletin%20qartey%20%20Eng.pdf

[full-text, 15 pages]

 

 

Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)

The Aftermath of the Global Crisis: Policy Lessons and Challenges Ahead for Latin America and the Caribbean

March 2010

http://www.iadb.org/research/pub_desc.cfm?pub_id=B-642

or

http://www.iadb.org/research/pub_hits.cfm?pub_id=35121569

[full-text, 70 pages]

 

 

Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)

Development in the Americas (DIA)

The Age of Productivity: Transforming Economies from the Bottom Up

Publication date: April 2010

http://www.iadb.org/research/dia_detail.cfm?id=2010

or

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

http://www.iadb.org/research/dia/2010/summary/DIA_booklet_eng.pdf

[full-text, 20 pages]

 

 

International Labour Organization (ILO)

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR MIGRATION: A RIGHTS-BASED APPROACH [31 March 2010]

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

[full-text, 324 pages]

Press Release 31 March 2010

A "rights-based approach" is required to meet the needs of the world's 105 million migrant workers http://www.ilo.org/global/About_the_ILO/Media_and_public_information/Press_releases/lang--en/WCMS_125324/index.htm

 

 

World Bank

China Quarterly Update, March 2010 [17 March 2010]

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/EASTASIAPACIFICEXT/CHINAEXTN/0,,contentMDK:22502137~pagePK:1497618~piPK:217854~theSitePK:318950,00.html
or

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/CHINAEXTN/Resources/318949-1268688634523/CQU_march2010.pdf

[full-text, 17 pages]

 

 

Federal

 

 

BLS: CHARTING INTERNATIONAL LABOR COMPARISONS (2010 edition) [2 April 2010]

http://www.bls.gov/fls/chartbook.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/fls/chartbook/chartbook2010.pdf

[full-text, 63 pages]

 

 

BLS: Chartbook: Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2008 [2 April 2010]

http://www.bls.gov/oes/2008/may/chartbook.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/oes/2008/may/chartbook.pdf

[full-text, 70 pages]

 

 

BLS: Compensation and Working Conditions

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

 

Profiles of Significant Collective Bargaining Disputes of 2009 [31 March 2010]

by Elizabeth A. Ashack

http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/cb20100326ar01p1.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/print/cb20100326ar01p1.htm

 

 

BLS Handbook of Methods, Chapter 13, Employment Projections, Updated [31 March 2010]

http://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/pdf/homch13.pdf

[full-text, 8 pages]

 

 

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

Issues in Labor Statistics | Summary 10-04 | March 2010

Record unemployment among older workers does not keep them out of the job market

by Emy Sok

http://www.bls.gov/opub/ils/summary_10_04/older_workers.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/opub/ils/pdf/opbils81.pdf

[full-text, 3 pages]

 

 

BLS: National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS)

NLS NEWS [2 April 2010]

No. 10-139

http://www.bls.gov/nls/nls139.pdf

[full-text, 7 pages]

 

 

EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS

WORK-LIFE BALANCE AND THE ECONOMICS OF WORKPLACE FLEXIBILITY, MARCH 2010 [31 March 2010]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/files/documents/100331-cea-economics-workplace-flexibility.pdf

[full-text, 35 pages]

See Blog Release 31 March 2010

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/03/31/economics-workplace-flexibility

 

 

US Department of Labor

Employment and Training Administaration (ETA)

and

Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Reinvesting in America's Youth: Lessons from the 2009 Recovery Act Summer Youth Employment Initiative (17 March 2010)

http://wdr.doleta.gov/research/keyword.cfm?fuseaction=dsp_resultDetails&pub_id=2436&mp=y

or

http://wdr.doleta.gov/research/FullText_Documents/Reinvesting%20in%20America%27s%20Youth%20%2D%20Lessons%20from%20the%202009%20Recovery%20Act%20Summer%20Youth%20Employment%20Initiative%2Epdf

[full-text, 148 pages]

and

Executive Summary

http://wdr.doleta.gov/research/FullText_Documents/Summer%20Youth%20Employment%20Initiative%20%2D%20Executive%20Summary%2Epdf

[full-text, 26 pages]

 

 

Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)

"Google and Internet Control in China: A Nexus Between Human Rights and Trade?"

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

http://www.cecc.gov/pages/hearings/2010/20100324/index.php

 

 

CHINA'S ACTIVITIES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR U.S. INTERESTS

HEARING BEFORE THE U.S.CHINA ECONOMIC AND SECURITY REVIEW COMMISSION

ONE HUNDRED ELEVENTH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION

February 4, 2010 [online 30 March 2010]

http://www.uscc.gov/hearings/2010hearings/transcripts/10_02_04_trans/10_02_04_trans.pdf

(full-text, 214 pages]

 

 

Joint Economic Committee (JEC)

Understanding the Economy: State-by-State Snapshots (Feb. Data) [29 March 2010]

http://jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Reports1&ContentRecord_id=3e69db23-2230-4d8f-b508-61296690bb1a&ContentType_id=efc78dac-24b1-4196-a730-d48568b9a5d7&Group_id=c120e658-3d60-470b-a8a1-6d2d8fc30132

or

http://jec.senate.gov/public/?a=Files.Serve&File_id=1f74d2a3-b9d5-4c9d-b533-f734d7ccbd70

[full-text, 111 pages]

 

 

Joint Economic Committee (JEC)

Understanding the Economy: Long-­Term Unemployment in the African American Community [17 March 2010]

http://jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=f7a324ea-4998-4a96-aeea-0265a3a68aae

[full-text, 16 pages]

Press Release 17 March 2010

Joint Economic Committee Releases New Report on

Long-Term Unemployment in the African American Community

http://jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Reports1&ContentRecord_id=b5fa595e-e61a-42ac-86ed-e8eb127f8c7d

 

 

National Science Foundation (NSF)

National Patterns of R&D Resources: 2008 Data Update [29 March 2010]
Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 10-314 | March 2010 |

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf10314/

or

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf10314/pdf/nsf10314.pdf

[full-text, 49 pages]

 

 

National Science Foundation (NSF)

Interdisciplinary Dissertation Research [29 March 2010]

NSF 10-316 | March 2010 | PDF format. PDF 

by Jaquelina C. Falkenheim[1]

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf10316/

or

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf10316/nsf10316.pdf

[full-text, 6 pages]

 

 

Social Security Administration (SSA)

Income of the Population 55 or Older, 2008 (released 5 April 2010)

http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/income_pop55/2008/

or

http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/income_pop55/2008/incpop08.pdf

[full-text, 352 pages]

or

http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/income_pop55/2008/incpop08.xls

[spreadsheet]

 

 

U.S. Department of State

2009 COUNTRY REPORTS on HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICES [11 March 2010]
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2009/index.htm

 

 

U.S. Department of labor

Women's Bureau (WB)

UPDATED PUBLICATIONS from the WOMEN'S BUREAU
http://www.dol.gov/wb/media/reports/main.htm

 

 

Institutes/Associations/Commercial

 

 

Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)

EBRI NOTES April 2010, Vol. 31, No. 4 

'The Use of Health Savings Accounts for Health Care in Retirement,' and 'Tax Expenditures and Employee Benefits: Estimates from the FY 2011 Budget'

http://www.ebri.org/publications/notes/index.cfm?fa=notesDisp&content_id=4509

or

http://www.ebri.org/pdf/notespdf/EBRI_Notes_04-Apr10.HSAs-TaxExpends1.pdf

[full-text, 12 pages]

 

 

New Economics Foundation (NEF) in UK

21 hours: Why a shorter working week can help us all to flourish in the 21st century [February 2010]

http://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/igo/2010/455254.pdf

[full-text, 40 pages]

 

 

Law

 

 

In the March 16, 2010 FEDERAL REGISTER, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announces it is soliciting public comments on the definition to be used in measuring green jobs, the "industry list" and other issues. Comments are due by April 30, 2010.

 

Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 50 / Tuesday, March 16, 2010 / Notices        t

http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-5705.pdf

[full-text, 3 pages]

 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Comment Request

AGENCY: Bureau of Labor Statistics, DOL.

ACTION: Notice of solicitation of comments.

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is responsible for developing and implementing the collection of new data

on green jobs. The resulting information will assist policymakers in planning policy initiatives and understanding their impact on the labor market, and will facilitate the monitoring of labor market developments related to protecting the environment and conserving natural resources. BLS activities also will be useful to State labor market information offices in their efforts to meet the need for information

for State policymakers, businesses, and job seekers.

 

BLS is currently soliciting comments on the definition BLS will use in measuring green jobs, the industry list, or any other aspect of the information provided in this Notice.

 

DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the ADDRESSES section of this notice on or before April 30, 2010.

 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to Richard

Clayton, Office of Industry Employment

Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics,

Room 4840, 2 Massachusetts Avenue,

NE., Washington, DC 20212 or by e-mail

to: green@bls.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Richard Clayton, Office of Industry

Employment Statistics, Bureau of Labor

Statistics, telephone number 202–691–

5185 (this is not a toll-free number), or

by e-mail to: green@bls.gov.

 

 

Statistical Reports

 

 

BLS: Job Openings and Labor Turnover – February 2010 [6 April 2010]

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

or

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

[full-text, 16 pages]

and

Supplemental Files Table of Contents

http://www.bls.gov/web/jolts.supp.toc.htm

 

 

BLS: THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION -- MARCH 2010 [2 April 2010]

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

or

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

[full-text, 38 pages]

 

 

BLS: County Employment and Wages Third Quarter 2009 [1 April 2010]

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

or

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

[full-text, 24 pages]

 

 

Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts

 

 

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

2010 Census: Population Measures Are Important for Federal Funding Allocations GAO-08-230T October 29, 2007

http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-08-230T

or

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08230t.pdf

[full-text, 13 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

Latest Decisions

http://www.ictr.org/ENGLISH/latestdecisions/index.htm

 


THE BACHARACH BLOG
http://bacharachblog.com/

 

 

The First Jobs of 8 Business Leaders

By wbriggs on 03/30/10

http://bacharachblog.com/proactive-leadership-skills/the-first-jobs-of-8-business-leaders/

 

 

4 Mistakes Made By History's Biggest Leaders

By wbriggs on 03/29/10

http://bacharachblog.com/proactive-leadership-skills/4-mistakes-made-by-historys-biggest-leaders/

 

 

4 Key Skills of a Frontline Leader

By Eric Smith on 03/23/10

http://bacharachblog.com/proactive-leadership-skills/4-key-skills-of-a-frontline-leader/

 

 

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