IWS Documented News WEEKLY BULLETIN: [IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 16 June 2010

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

[IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 16 June 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, 16 June 2010

Academic Research

OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers

http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/oecd/content/workingpaperseries/1815199x

Recent publications

N° 106 Rising Youth Unemployment During The Crisis

N° 104 Israeli Child Policy and Outcomes

N° 103 Reforming Policies on Foreign Workers in Israel

N° 102 Labour Market and Socio-Economic Outcomes of the Arab-Israeli Population

N° 101 Trends in South African Income Distribution and Poverty since the Fall of Apartheid

N° 100 Minimum Income Benefits in OECD Countries

Japan Institute for Labour Policy & Training (JILPT)

Reports by Visiting Researchers

Atypical Employment in Japan and Germany [31 May 2010]

Hartmut Seifert, Adviser, Wirtschafts-und Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut in der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung

http://www.jil.go.jp/profile/documents/Seifert.pdf

[full-text, 23 pages]

IZA Discussion Papers (Institute for the Study of Labor)

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

Recent studies include ---

5001 Implicit Contracts, Unemployment, and Labor Market Segmentation

5000 The Crime Reducing Effect of Education

4999 The Impact of Teacher Subject Knowledge on Student Achievement: Evidence from Within-Teacher Within-Student Variation

4998 Imperfect Information, On-the-Job Training, and the Employer Size-Wage Puzzle: Theory and Evidence

4997 The Importance of Skill Measurement for Growth Accounting

4996 Crime and Immigration: Evidence from Large Immigrant Waves

4995 Do Gun Buybacks Save Lives? Evidence from Panel Data

4994 Public Employment and Political Pressure: The Case of French Hospitals

4993 Quantile Treatment Effects in the Regression Discontinuity Design: Process Results and Gini Coefficient

4992 Disease Prevalence, Disease Incidence, and Mortality in the United States and in England

4991 Widening Participation in Higher Education: Analysis Using Linked Administrative Data

4990 Violent Conflict and Inequality

4989 Short-Time Compensation and Establishment Exit: An Empirical Analysis with French Data

4988 Market Imperfections and Firm-Sponsored Training

4987 Inequality in Vietnamese Urban-Rural Living Standards, 1993-2006

4986 Concave-Monotone Treatment Response and Monotone Treatment Selection: With an Application to the Returns to Schooling

4985 Immigration Background and the Intergenerational Correlation in Education

4984 Ranking the Schools: How Quality Information Affects School Choice in the Netherlands

4983 The Combined Employment Effects of Minimum Wages and Labor Market Regulation: A Meta-Analysis

4982 Formal Education, Mismatch and Wages after Transition: Assessing the Impact of Unobserved Heterogeneity Using Matching Estimators

DigitalCommons@ILR--Most Recent Additions

http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/recent_additions.html
Home Page at - http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/

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

International

Gov.cn

Chinese Government's Official Web Portal

The Internet in China [8 June 2010]

http://english.gov.cn/2010-06/08/content_1622956.htm

International Institute for Labour Studies (IILS) at the ILO

Making migration a development factor: The case of North and West Africa [8 June 2010]

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inst/download/migration.pdf

[full-text, 184 pages]

International Labour Organization (ILO)

Conditions of Work and Employment Programme (TRAVAIL)

MATERNITY AT WORK: A review of national legislation. Second Edition [June 2010]

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/condtrav/

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/condtrav/pdf/maw2010_en.pdf

[full-text, 120 pages]

Executive Summary

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/condtrav/pdf/maw_exec_en.pdf

International Labour Organization (ILO)

International Labour Conference, 99th Session, 2010

Report of the Director-General

Appendix

The SITUATION of WORKERS of the OCCUPIED ARAB TERRITORIES [10 June 2010]

http://www.ilo.org/global/What_we_do/Officialmeetings/ilc/ILCSessions/99thSession/reports/lang--en/docName--WCMS_130550/index.htm

http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_norm/---relconf/documents/meetingdocument/wcms_130550.pdf

[full-text, 53 pages]

World Bank

Global Economic Prospects--Summer 2010: Fiscal Headwinds and Recovery [10 June 2010]

http://go.worldbank.org/OE8NEB3JP0

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTGEP2010/Resources/GEP-Summer2010-MainReport.pdf

[full-text, 23 pages]

Press Release No:2010/466/GEP [9 June 2010]

Developing Countries Lead Recovery, But High-Income Country Debt Clouds Outlook

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:22608886~pagePK:64257043~piPK:437376~theSitePK:4607,00.html

Federal

Administration on Aginging (AOA)

A TOOLKIT for SERVING DIVERSE COMMUNITIES [11 June 2010]

http://www.aoa.gov/AoAroot/Press_Room/For_The_Press/pr/archive/2010/June/DiversityToolkit.aspx

http://www.aoa.gov/AoARoot/AoA_Programs/Tools_Resources/DOCS/AoA_DiversityToolkit_full.pdf

[full-text, 134 pages]

BLS: Charting International Comparisons of Annual Labor Force Statistics, 2009 [3 June 2010]

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

http://www.bls.gov/fls/intl_labor_force_charts.pdf

[full-text, 11 pages]

BLS: International Comparisons of Annual Labor Force Statistics, Adjusted to U.S. Concepts, 10 Countries, 1970-2009 [3 June 2010]

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

Full Report

http://www.bls.gov/fls/flscomparelf/lfcompendium.pdf

[full-text,52 pages]

By INDICATOR

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ForeignLabor/lfcompendium.xls

[spreadsheet]

By COUNTRY

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ForeignLabor/lfcompendium_bycountry.xls

[spreadsheet]

Census

2007 Economic Census, Transportation, 2007 Commodity Flow Survey: United States [15 June 2010]

http://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/ec07tcf-us.pdf

[full-text, 254 pages]

Census

POPULATION ESTIMATES for NATION, STATES, COUNTIES+ by AGE, SEX, RACE...for July 1, 2009 [10 June 2010]
http://www.census.gov/popest/estimates.html

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

BANK DATA & STATISTICS

http://www.fdic.gov/bank/statistical/index.html

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)

PowerStats [9 June 2010]

http://nces.ed.gov/datalab/

National Science Foundation (NSF)

Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering: Fall 2007 [9 June 2010]

Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 10-307 | June 2010 |

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf10307/

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf10307/pdf/nsf10307.pdf

[full-text, 277 pages]

Social Security Administration (SSA)

Social Security in Other Countries

http://www.ssa.gov/international/links.html

U.S. Department of State

TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT 2010 [14 June 2010]

http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2010/

http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/142979.pdf

[full-text, 373 pages]

Institutes/Associations/Commercial

Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc.

May CEO Exits Surge 24 Percent

125 CEO CHANGES, MOST SINCE LAST JULY [9 June 2010]
http://iwsdocumentednewsdaily.blogspot.com/2010/06/iws-challenger-may-ceo-exits-surge-24.html

Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)
EBRI Databook on Employee Benefits [with May 2010 Updates]
http://www.ebri.org/publications/books/index.cfm?fa=databook

Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)

Fast Facts, 9 June 2010, #168

Income from Pensions and Annuities: Gender Differences

http://www.ebri.org/pdf/FFE168.09June10.Pens-Gender.Final.pdf

The Foundation for Child Development (FCD)

2010 CHILD AND YOUTH WELL-BEING INDEX (CWI) [8 June 2010]

http://www.fcd-us.org/resources/resources_show.htm?doc_id=1266393

http://www.fcd-us.org/usr_doc/FINAL_2010_CWI_Annual_Release.pdf

[full-text, 29 pages]

See Press Release 8 June 2010

http://www.fcd-us.org/usr_doc/FINAL_Press_Release.pdf

Institute of International Finance (IIF)

Interim Report on the Cumulative Impact on the Global Economy of Proposed Changes in the Banking Regulatory Framework [June 2010]

http://www.abbl.lu/sites/default/files/FCKeditor/NCI_0610_interim_web.pdf

[full-text, 161 pages]

Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ)
Upside-Down Priorities! Safety, not Checkpoints for Gulf Cleanup Workers
IWJ Condemns Targeting of Immigrant Workers in BP Oil Spill
Priorities Should be Worker Safety and Cleaning Up the Mess
http://www.iwj.org/detail/news.cfm?news_id=154&id=80

International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)

2010 ANNUAL SURVEY OF VIOLATIONS OF TRADE UNION RIGHTS [9 June 2010]

http://survey.ituc-csi.org/

http://survey.ituc-csi.org/+-Whole-World-+.html?lang=en

Press Release 9 June 2010

101 Trade Unionists Murdered in 2009; Pressure on Workers’ Rights Grows as Crisis Hits Jobs

http://survey.ituc-csi.org/-Press-Releases-.html

Mercer

How does your retirement program stack up? - 2010 edition [June 2010]

Last updated: 26 May 2010

http://www.mercer.com/retirementbenchmarking

http://www.mercer.com/attachment.dyn?idContent=1381310&filePath=/attachments/English/03229RE_Benchmark_Report_FIN.pdf

[full-text, 54 pages]

VIEW FLIPBOOK

http://www.mercer.com/flipbook/retirementbenchmarking/

RAND

Do Bonuses Affect Enlistment and Procurement? [14 June 2010]

By: Beth J. Asch, Paul Heaton, James Hosek, Francisco Martorell, Curtis Simon, John T. Warner

Research Brief

http://rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9539/index1.html

http://rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/2010/RAND_RB9539.pdf

and

FULL REPORT

Cash Incentives and Military Enlistment, Attrition, and Reenlistment [14 June 2010]

http://rand.org/pubs/monographs/2010/RAND_MG950.pdf

[full-text, 195 pages

Urban Institute

(Series/Basic Facts)

Basic Facts on Unemployment [8 June 2010]

http://www.urban.org/publications/412104.html

http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/412104-basic-facts-unemployment.pdf

Law

The Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has posted the following related to grandfathered health plans under the Affordable Care Act:

Interim Final Regulation, available at http://www.federalregister.gov/OFRUpload/OFRData/2010-14488_PI.pdf
[full-text, 121 pages]

Fact Sheet, available at http://www.healthreform.gov/newsroom/keeping_the_health_plan_you_have.html

FAQs, available at http://healthreform.gov/about/grandfathering.html

See PRESS RELEASE 14 June 2010
U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury Issue Regulation on “Grandfathered” Health Plans under the Affordable Care Act
http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2010pres/06/20100614c.html

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)

Press Release 10 June 2010

NLRB Mobile brings access to NLRB case information and decisions to smartphones

http://www.nlrb.gov/shared_files/Press%20Releases/2010/R-2749.htm

http://www.nlrb.gov/shared_files/Press%20Releases/2010/R-2749.pdf

NLRB Mobile is available at: http://m.nlrb.gov

PEW Center on the States

StateLine.org

With health care lawsuits, states hope for victory but plan for defeat [14 June 2010]

By Jake Grovum, Special to Stateline

http://www.stateline.org/live/details/story?contentId=491305

See also from NATIONAL CONFERERNCE OF STATE LEGISLATURES (NCSL)
FEDERAL HEALTH REFORM IMPLEMENTATION
http://www.ncsl.org/?tabid=17639

Statistical Reports

THE BUREAU OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS (BEA) RELEASES ESTIMATES OF THE MAJOR COMPONENTS OF GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT FOR GUAM [13 June 2010]

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/general/terr/2010/guam_061310.htm

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/general/terr/2010/pdf/guam_061310.pdf

[full-text, 9 pages]

BEA: U.S. INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN GOODS AND SERVICES April 2010 [10 June 2010]

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/2010/trad0410.htm

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/2010/pdf/trad0410.pdf

[full-text, 50 pages]

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/2010/xls/trad0410.xls

[spreadsheet]

and

Highlights

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/2010/pdf/trad0410_fax.pdf

BEA: U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services Annual Revision for 2009 [10 June 2010]

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/2010/trad1310.htm

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/2010/pdf/trad1310.pdf

[full-text, 74 pages]

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/2010/xls/trad1310.xls

[spreadsheet]

BLS: U.S. IMPORT AND EXPORT PRICE INDEXES - MAY 2010 [15 June 2010]

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

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

[full-text, 16 pages]

and

Supplemental Files Table of Contents

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

BLS: PRODUCTIVITY AND COSTS BY INDUSTRY: MANUFACTURING, MINING, AND SELECTED SERVICE-PROVIDING INDUSTRIES, 2008 [10 June 2010]

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

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

[full-text, 11 pages]

BLS: EMPLOYER COSTS FOR EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION - MARCH 2010 [9 June 2010]

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

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

[full-text, 24 pages

BLS: Job Openings and Labor Turnover – April 2010 [8 June 2010]

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

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

Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts

Facts for Features from the Census Bureau
Father's Day Centennial: June 20, 2010

http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/cb10-ff11.html

http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/pdf/cb10-ff11.pdf

[full-text, 4 pages]

See also

Labor Film Festivals Around the World

Labor Film Festival Overview by Date

https://laborfilms.dabbledb.com/page/laborfilms/oohjaYNX#

RAND

Assessing the impact of arts and humanities research at the University of Cambridge

By: Ruth Levitt, Claire Celia, Stephanie Diepeveen, Siobhan Ni Chonaill, Lila Rabinovich, Jan Tiessen

http://rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR816/

http://rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2010/RAND_TR816.pdf

[full-text, 124 pages]

and

Summary

http://rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2010/RAND_TR816.sum.pdf

[full-text, 9 pages]

ILR School at Cornell University
Labor and Employment Law Program
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor, 212-340-2866
Codes of Conduct and Corporate Social Responsibility: Global Strategies for Global Compliance
July 8, 2010 – NYC
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/law/events/Codes-of-Conduct-and-Corporate-Social-Responsibility.html
This Third Annual Conference on International Employment Law is a special workshop focused on the issue of multinational employers’ global codes of conduct and corporate social responsibility [CSR] initiatives.

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-9-2-639.EN

Jun 8, 2010

More Prosecution’s Case Files Transferred to Rwanda
http://www.unictr.org/tabid/155/Default.aspx?id=1138

THE BACHARACH BLOG
http://bacharachblog.com/

Leadership Book Review: Lessons in Disaster

By Samuel B. Bacharach on 06/15/10

http://bacharachblog.com/proactive-leadership-skills/leadership-book-review-lessons-in-disaster/

Teaching Cross-Cultural Leadership

By Samuel B. Bacharach on 06/11/10

http://bacharachblog.com/proactive-leadership-skills/cross-cultural-leadership/

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