Wednesday, September 29, 2010
[IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 29 September 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, 29 September 2010
Academic Research
World Bank (New Book!)
The Day After Tomorrow: A Handbook on the Future of Economic Policy in the Developing World [27 September 2010]
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTPREMNET/Resources/TDAT_Book.pdf
[full-text, 466 pages]
Press Release 27 September 2010
Developing Countries Come to the Global Economy's Rescue
They account for half of global growth and will surpass economic size of developed nations by 2015
IZA Discussion Papers (Institute for the Study of Labor)
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers
Recent studies include ---
5204 Equality, Equity and Incentives: An Experiment
5203 Is Employer-Based Health Insurance a Barrier to Entrepreneurship?
5202 Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology
5201 Public and Private Insurance with Costly Transactions
5200 Respect as an Incentive
5199 Real Wages and the Business Cycle in Germany
5198 Religious Participation versus Shopping: What Makes People Happier?
5197 Parental Risk Attitudes and Children's Secondary School Track Choice
5196 Business Cycle Dependent Unemployment Insurance
5195 Gender Discrimination in Job Ads: Theory and Evidence
5194 The Lasting Impact of Mothers' Fetal Malnutrition on Their Offspring: Evidence from the China Great Leap Forward Famine
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
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
ASIAN DEVELOPMENT OUTLOOK 2010 UPDATE [28 September 2010]
http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/ADO/2010/Update/
or
http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/ADO/2010/Update/ado2010-update.pdf
[full-text, 194 pages]
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
MAKING WORK PAY (CASE STUDIES)
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/areas/qualityofwork/betterjobs/Bycategory4.htm
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditons (Dublin Foundation)
European Monitoring Centre on Change (EMCC)
EMCC case studies: Impact of the financial and economic crisis - Study on ArcelorMittal Galati subsidiary (Romania) [27 September 2010]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef1059.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2010/59/en/1/EF1059EN.pdf
[full-text, 15 pages]
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditons (Dublin Foundation)
European Working Conditions Observatory (EWCO)
COMPARATIVE STUDY
Health and safety at work in SMEs: Strategies for employee information and consultation
September 2010 [23 September 2010]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/ewco/studies/tn0911028s/index.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/ewco/studies/tn0911028s/tn0911028s.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/docs/ewco/tn0911028s/tn0911028s.pdf
[full-text, 67 pages]
Government of India
Central Statistics Office
Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
MONTHLY ABSTRACT of STATISTICS, Vol. 63, No. 1-3, January-March 2010
http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/mas_january_March_2010.htm
Government of India
Central Statistics Office
Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
Women and Men in India 2010
12th Issue [June 2010]
http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/w_and_m_2010.htm
Korea Labor Institute (KLI)
Issue Paper
Retirement from the Main Lifetime Job and Reemployment *
by Hanam Phang **
http://www.kli.re.kr/kli_ehome/zine/vew.ehome-zine?seq=116&subSeq=348
or
http://www.kli.re.kr/kli/html_eng/08_mail/webzineboard/upfile/e_102.pdf
[full-text, 16 pages]
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Employment
Skills and Employability Department (EMP/SKILLS)
Skills for Green Jobs - 21 background country studies
http://www.ilo.org/skills/what/projects/lang--en/WCMS_144268/index.htm
International Labour Organisation (ILO)
Organizacion Internacional del Trabajo (OIT)
2009 LABOUR OVERVIEW [July 2010]
http://intranet.oit.org.pe/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1957&Itemid=1155
or
http://oit.org.pe/WDMS/bib/publ/panorama/labour_overview_09.pdf
[full-text, 120 pages]
See Spanish Version at http://intranet.oit.org.pe/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1932&Itemid=1155
OECD
Obesity and the Economics of Prevention: Fit not Fat [23 September 2010]
http://www.oecd.org/document/31/0,3343,en_2649_33929_45999775_1_1_1_37407,00.html
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/21/19/46004918.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]
Federal
BLS, September 2010
Bulletin 2752
National Compensation Survey: Employee Benefits in the United States, March 2010 [24 September 2010]
http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ebs/benefits/2010/home.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ebs/benefits/2010/ebbl0046.pdf
[full-text, 529 pages]
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
INDUSTRIES AT A GLANCE
http://www.bls.gov/iag/home.htm
Census
AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY (ACS) 2009 DATA RELEASE [28 September 2010]
http://www.census.gov/acs/www/data_documentation/2009_release/
Includes the following ACS Briefs
· Household Income for States: 2008 and 2009
· Men's and Women's Earnings for States and Metropolitan Statistical Areas: 2009
· Health Insurance Coverage of Children under Age 19: 2008 and 2009
· Disability Among the Working Age Population: 2008 and 2009
· Usual Hours Worked in the Past 12 Months for Workers 16 to 64: 2008 and 2009
Press Release 28 September 2010
Census Bureau Releases 2009 American Community Survey Data
http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/american_community_survey_acs/cb10-cn78.html
Census
2010 2nd Quarter Summary of State and Local Government Tax Revenue [27 September 2010]
http://www.census.gov/govs/qtax/
or
http://www2.census.gov/govs/qtax/information_sheet.pdf
[full-text, 2 pages]
National Level
http://www2.census.gov/govs/qtax/2010/q2t1.pdf
or
http://www2.census.gov/govs/qtax/2010/q2t1.xls
[spreadsheet]
Census
Rose M, Kreider Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division U,S, Bureau of the Census Washington, D,C, 20233-8800
Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division Working Paper
Increase in Opposite-sex Cohabiting Couples from 2009 to 2010 in the Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) to the Current Popnlation Survey (CPS)
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/Inc-Opp-sex-2009-to-2010.pdf
[full-text, 19 pages]
Press Release
Working Paper on the Change in Cohabiting Couples from 2009 to 2010 [23 September 2010]
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Postsecondary Education: Many States Collect Graduates' Employment Information, but Clearer Guidance on Student Privacy Requirements Is Needed
GAO-10-927 September 27, 2010
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-927
or
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10927.pdf
[full-text, 50 pages]
and
Highlights
http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10927high.pdf
U.S. Congress
Joint Economic Committee (JEC)
Understanding the Economy: State-by-State Snapshots (August Data Update)
Sep 22 2010
or
http://jec.senate.gov/public/?a=Files.Serve&File_id=f5721647-6b3c-4890-9fde-64935261dc15
[full-text, 112 pages]
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Info Brief
NSF 10-329 | September 2010 |
Universities Report $55 Billion in Science and Engineering R&D Spending for FY 2009; Redesigned Survey to Launch in 2010 [27 September 2010]
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf10329/
and
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf10329/nsf10329.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Office of Advocacy
The Impact of Regulatory Costs on Small Firms [September 2010]
http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs371tot.pdf
[full-text, 83 pages]
Research Summary
http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs371.pdf
[full-text, 2 pages]
Institutes/Associations/Commercial
Hewitt
Press Release 27 September 2010
U.S. Health Care Cost Rate Increases Reach Highest Levels in Five Years, According to New Data from Hewitt Associates
http://www.hewittassociates.com/Intl/NA/en-US/AboutHewitt/Newsroom/PressReleaseDetail.aspx?cid=9106
Mercer
Global Defined Benefit Pension liabilities hit new highs [22 September 2010]
http://www.mercer.com/press-releases/1393740
Law
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
The Digest of Equal Employment Opportunity Law
http://www.eeoc.gov/federal/digest/index.cfm
This publication includes feature articles on timely issues in equal employment opportunity law, as well as summaries of recent Commission decisions and federal court cases, as they affect Federal government employees.
Commission Federal Sector decisions are currently available on the EEOC web site at http://www.eeoc.gov/federal/decisions.cfm
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
CLASSIFIED INDEX—THE ELECTRONIC NETWORK (CiteNet)
http://12.150.186.170/citenet/home/index.cfm
[excerpt from CiteNet Quick Start at http://12.150.186.170/Citenet/Helpdocs/CiteNetQuickStart.htm ]
Statistical Reports
BEA: TRAVEL AND TOURISM SPENDING GROWS IN SECOND QUARTER 2010 [23 September 2010]
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/industry/tourism/2010/tour210.htm
or
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/industry/tourism/2010/pdf/tour210.pdf
[full-text, 7 pages]
or
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/industry/tourism/2010/xls/tour210.xls
[spreadsheet]
BLS: MULTIFACTOR PRODUCTIVITY TRENDS FOR DETAILED INDUSTRIES, 2008 [28 September 2010]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/prin3.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/prin3.pdf
[full-text, 12 pages]
BLS: MASS LAYOFFS -- AUGUST 2010 [23 September 2010]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/mmls.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/mmls.pdf
[full-text, 10 pages]
EuroStat
European Day of Languages
In the EU, nearly 80% of children were studying a foreign language at primary school in 2008 [24 September 2010]
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_PUBLIC/3-24092010-AP/EN/3-24092010-AP-EN.PDF
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)
INTERIM ORDER ON PROTECTIVE MEASURES FOR DEFENCE WITNESSES
NDAHIMANA Gregoire (ICTR-01-68)
Sep 22, 2010
http://www.unictr.org/Portals/0/Case/English/Ndahimana/decisions/100922.pdf
and
CORRIGENDUM TO ORDER FOR DISCLOSURE FILED ON 3 FEBRUARY 2010
NZABONIMANA, Callixte (ICTR-98-44)
Sep 22, 2010
http://www.unictr.org/Portals/0/Case/English/Nzabonimana/decision/100922.pdf
THE BACHARACH BLOG
http://bacharachblog.com/
Failing Upwards: Jeff Zucker & NBC
BY BOBAK MOAZAMI on 09/24/10
http://bacharachblog.com/leader/failing-upwards-jeff-zucker-nbc/
Comparing Leaders from the Sofa: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad & Jack Ma
BY SAMUEL B. BACHARACH on 09/23/10
http://bacharachblog.com/leader/leadership-lessons-from-the-sofa-mahmoud-ahmadinejad-jack-ma/
Our New & Improved Youtube Channel: Video Series on Leadership
BY SAMUEL B. BACHARACH on 09/22/10
http://bacharachblog.com/linksy/our-new-improved-youtube-channel-video-series-on-leadership/
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Stuart Basefsky
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
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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