Tuesday, June 08, 2010
[IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 9 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, 9 June 2010
Academic Research
African Development Bank (AfDB)
Working Paper #110
June 2010
Education and Employment in Malawi
Vincent Castel, Martha Phiri and Marco Stampini
http://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Documents/Publications/WORKING%20110%20PDF%20d%2022.pdf
[full-text, 32 pages]
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Employment Policy Department (EMP/POLICY)
Employment Working Paper No. 57
Demographic ageing and employment in China [2 June 2010]
D.U. Yang & Wang Meiyan, Institute of Population and Labour Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
[full-text, 49 pages]
International Labour Organization (ILO)
ILO Asia-Pacific Working Paper Series
Demographic ageing and employment in India [March 2010]
S. Irudaya Rajan
http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---asia/---ro-bangkok/documents/publication/wcms_140676.pdf
[full-text, 35 pages]
IZA Discussion Papers (Institute for the Study of Labor)
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers
Recent studies include ---
4982 Formal Education, Mismatch and Wages after Transition: Assessing the Impact of Unobserved Heterogeneity Using Matching Estimators
4981 The Investment in Job Training: Why Are SMEs Lagging So Much Behind?
4980 The Evolution of Secularization: Cultural Transmission, Religion and Fertility Theory, Simulations and Evidence
4979 Migration, Self-Selection, and Income Distributions: Evidence from Rural and Urban China
4978 Is Universal Child Care Leveling the Playing Field? Evidence from Non-Linear Difference-in-Differences
4977 Real Wages, Working Time, and the Great Depression: What Does Micro Evidence Tell Us?
4976 The Self-Employment of Immigrants and Natives in Sweden
4975 The GED
4974 China's Higher Education Expansion and its Labor Market Consequences
4973 Looking Beyond the Bridge: How Temporary Agency Employment Affects Labor Market Outcomes
4972 Did Employer Sanctions Lose Their Bite? Labor Market Effects of Immigrant Legalization
4971 What Linear Estimators Miss: Re-Examining the Effects of Family Income on Child Outcomes
4970 Country-Specific Goal-Scoring in the "Dying Seconds" of International Football Matches
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
European Commission
2009 Eurobarometer Survey on Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship in the EU and beyond: A survey in the EU, EFTA countries, Croatia, Turkey, the US, Japan, South Korea and China
Analytical report
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/sme/facts-figures-analysis/eurobarometer/index_en.htm
or
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/sme/facts-figures-analysis/eurobarometer/fl283_en.pdf
[full-text, 201 pages]
Press Release
45% of Europeans would like to be their own boss if …[4 June 2010]
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO)
COMPARATIVE STUDY
Developments in social partner organisations – employer organisations [7 June 2010]
June 2010
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/tn0910049s/index.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/tn0910049s/tn0910049s.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/docs/eiro/tn0910049s/tn0910049s.pdf
[full-text, 42 pages]
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO)
European Level
First European agreement at Thales aims to improve professional development of employees [1 June 2010]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/2010/04/articles/eu1004039i.htm
International Labour Office Geneva
Social Security Department
Extending Social Security to All. A guide through challenges and options.
Preliminary version [June 2010]
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/secsoc/downloads/policy/guide.pdf
[full-text, 195 pages]
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Employment Policy Department (EMP/POLICY)
Employment Working Paper No. 51
Characterizing the school-to-work transitions of young men and women: Evidence from the ILO School-to-work transition surveys [2 June 2010]
http://www.ilo.org/employment/Whatwedo/Publications/lang--en/docName--WCMS_141016/index.htm
or
[full-text, 115 pages]
Federal
BLS SPOTLIGHT ON STATISTICS
May 2010
Employment Situation of Veterans
http://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2010/veterans/home.htm
or
http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/print.pl/spotlight/2010/veterans/home.htm
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
Public School Graduates and Dropouts from the Common Core of Data: School Year 2007–08 [2 June 2010]
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2010341
or
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2010/2010341.pdf
[full-text, 34 pages]
National Science Foundation (NSF)
InfoBrief
Jump in Fall 2008 Enrollments of First-Time, Full-Time S&E Graduate Students [2 June 2010]
NSF 10-320 | June 2010
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf10320/
or
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf10320/nsf10320.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Press Release 1 June 2010
March 2010 Surface Trade with Canada and Mexico Rose 37.0 Percent from March 2009
(State Rankings in Tables 5 and 7)
http://www.bts.gov/press_releases/2010/bts027_10/html/bts027_10.html
or
http://www.bts.gov/press_releases/2010/bts027_10/pdf/bts027_10.pdf
[full-text, 5 pages]
Vice President of the United States
MIDDLE-CLASS TASK FORCE [REPORTS]
http://www.whitehouse.gov/strongmiddleclass/reports
Institutes/Associations/Commercial
Breakthrough Institute, ITIF, and the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program
Strengthening Clean Energy Competitiveness: Opportunities for America Competes Reauthorization [3 June 2010]
http://www.itif.org/files/2010-strengthening-clean-energy-competitiveness.pdf
[full-text, 24 pages]
Deloitte
Clean Energy 1.0: Moving Beyond Green to Create Sustainable Jobs and a Long-term Energy Strategy [7 June 2010]
http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_US/us/press/Press-Releases/2c9756f05b9f8210VgnVCM200000bb42f00aRCRD.htm
or
[full-text, 24 pages]
Press Release 7 June 2010
Green" Is No Longer the Magic Bullet: Deloitte White Paper Explores New Path Toward Clean Energy, Jobs and Security
Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)
Press Release 3 June 2010
Social Security Averages 40% of Income of Elderly
http://www.ebri.org/pdf/PR.877.03June.SocSec.pdf
Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)
EBRI NOTES, June 2010, Vol. 31, No. 6
'Income of the Elderly Population Age 65 and Over, 2008,' and 'Examination of the Short-term Impact of the COBRA Premium Subsidy and Characteristics of the COBRA Population'
http://www.ebri.org/publications/notes/index.cfm?fa=notesDisp&content_id=4571
or
http://www.ebri.org/pdf/notespdf/EBRI_Notes_06-June10.Inc-Eld.pdf
[full-text, 18 pages]
Families USA
Special Report
The Pending Jobs Bill: People Most in Need Could Lose Health Care [6 June 2010]
http://www.familiesusa.org/resources/publications/pending-jobs-bill.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]
Press Release [6 June 2010]
Millions May Lose Health Coverage Due to No Federal Extension of Safety Net Benefits
Newly Laid-Off Workers Will Need to Pay 84 Percent of Their Unemployment Insurance Checks to Secure COBRA Health Coverage
International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
UNION VIEW #19
Domestic Work: Mobilising for an ILO Convention [June 2010]
http://www.ituc-csi.org/domestic-work-mobilising-for-an.html
or
http://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/VS_domestiques_EN.pdf
[full-text, 16 pages]
International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
How to Combat Forced Labour and Trafficking: Best practices manual for trade unions [2 June 2010]
http://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/TU_Guide_Forced_labour_EN.pdf
[full-text, 48 pages]
Press Release
2 June 2010: Best practices manual for trade unions
http://www.ituc-csi.org/ituc-guide-how-to-combat-forced.html
Migration Policy Institute (MPI)
The Impact of Immigrants in Recession and Economic Expansion [7 June 2010]
http://my.migrationpolicy.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=UJypTyyADNuNjjWlQJeeqdosgrngzIIl
or
www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/Peri-June2010.pdf
[full-text, 26 pages]
Press Release 7 June 2010
Immigration Unambiguously Improves U.S. Employment, Productivity and Income But Involves Adjustments, New Study for MPI Finds
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/2010_6_07.php
National Conference of State Legistlatures (NCSL)
Labor and Employment Program
FREE VIDEO
James Johnson: America's Changing Demographics [available online 24 May 2010]
http://www.ncsl.org/default.aspx?tabid=20415
Run time: 57 minutes: 41 seconds
Towers Watson
Press Release 2 June 2010
Understanding 'The New Standards' in Executive Compensation Equips Leaders With Blueprint for Designing Effective Pay Structures
New Book From Towers Watson Expert Highlights Methods for Linking Business Performance and Executive Incentive Pay
http://www.towerswatson.com/press/2009
Urban Institute
(Research Report)
The State of Society: Measuring Economic Success and Human Well-Being [28 May 2010]
Erwin de Leon, Elizabeth T. Boris
http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?ID=412101
or
http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/412101-state-of-society.pdf
[full-text, 94 pages]
Law
U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on CHiNA (CECC)
CHINA HUMAN RIGHTS and RULE OF LAW UPDATE, No.5, June 4, 2010
http://www.cecc.gov/pages/virtualAcad/newsletterListing.phpd?NLdate=20100604&show=ALL
or
http://www.cecc.gov/pages/general/newsletters/CECCnewsletter20100604.pdf
[full-text, 3 pages with links to more]
Regulation Room [from Cornell [Law School's] e-Rulemaking Initiative (CeRI)]
Providing Citizen Participation in Government Regulatory Matters
in cooperation with the Department of Transportation
AIRLINE PASSENGER RIGHTS
Statistical Reports
BEA: GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT FOR THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS [7 June 2010]
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/general/terr/2010/cnmi_060710.htm
or
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/general/terr/2010/pdf/cnmi_060710.pdf
[full-text, 9 pages]
BLS: THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION -- MAY 2010 [4 June 2010]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
[full-text, 38 pages]
and
Supplemental Files Table of Contents
http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit.supp.toc.htm
BLS: PRODUCTIVITY AND COSTS First Quarter 2010, Revised [3 June 2010]
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
BLS: METROPOLITAN AREA EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT -- APRIL 2010 [2 June 2010]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/metro.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/metro.pdf
[full-text, 21 pages]
and
Supplemental Files Table of Contents
http://www.bls.gov/web/metro.supp.toc.htm
Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP)
May 2010 Disability Employment Statistics Released 4 June 2010
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t06.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)
Members of the Tribunal
http://www.unictr.org/AboutICTR/FactSheet/TheMembersoftheTribunal/tabid/111/Default.aspx
THE BACHARACH BLOG
http://bacharachblog.com/
The Worth of Things
By Sean Lee on 06/07/10
http://bacharachblog.com/proactive-leadership-skills/the-worth-of-things/
Proactive in NYC: Nostalgia for the Purple Onion and Overwhelmed by Disney
By Sean Lee on 06/04/10
10 Must-Read Social Media & Leadership Stories From June 1-4
By Samuel B. Bacharach on 06/04/10
Lebron, Leonidas, and The New York Knicks
By Bobak Moazami on 06/03/10
http://bacharachblog.com/proactive-leadership-skills/lebron-leonidas-and-the-new-york-knicks/
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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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