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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, 23 March 2011

Academic Research

International Institute for Labour Studies (IILS) at the ILO

MAKING RECOVERY SUSTAINABLE: LESSONS FROM COUNTRY INNOVATIONS [21 March 2011]

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

[full-text, 25 pages]

Press Release 21 March 2011

New ILO Report: fair and equitable policies are key to sustainable economic recovery

http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/press-and-media-centre/press-releases/WCMS_153376/lang--en/index.htm

[includes LINKS to three STUDIES]

IZA Discussion Papers (Institute for the Study of Labor)

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

Recent studies include ---
5588 Labor Market Adjustment: Is Russia Different? 

5587 Monopsony Power, Pay Structure and Training 

5586 The Transatlantic Productivity Gap: Is R&D the Main Culprit? 

5585 he Long Shadow of Income on Trustworthiness

5584 The Empire Is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy

5583 Rental Housing Discrimination and the Persistence of Ethnic Enclaves 

5582 Drivers and Impacts in the Globalization of Corporate R&D: An Introduction Based on the European Experience

(forthcoming in: Industrial and Corporate Change)

5581 Occupational Mobility of Immigrants in a Low Skilled Economy: The Spanish Case

5580 Cigarette Taxes and the Social Market 

5579 Informal Sector and Corruption: An Empirical Investigation for India

5578 Is there Discriminatory Mortgage Pricing against Immigrants in the Spanish Lending Market?

5577 Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts in Latin America: Overview and Assessment  

5576 The Impact of Amnesty on Labor Market Outcomes: A Panel Study Using the Legalized Population Survey  

5575 Experts in Experiments: How Selection Matters for Estimated Distributions of Risk Preferences 

5574 AUnion Threat and Non-Union Employment: A Natural Experiment on the Use of Temporary Employment in British Firms  

5573 Distributional Norms, and Redistributive Preferences in East and West Germany

5572 The Impact of Education on Unemployment Incidence and Re-employment Success: Evidence from the U.S. Labour Market 

5571 Wage Differentials between Native and Immigrant Women in Spain: Accounting for Differences in the Supports 

5570 Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle 

5569 Racial Differences in Inequality Aversion: Evidence from Real World Respondents in the Ultimatum Game

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

Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN EUROPE 2010 [3 March 2011]

http://ec.europa.eu/social/BlobServlet?docId=6566&langId=en

[full-text, 232 pages]

European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
FACTSHEETS on EUROPE & VOLUNTEERING

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Pensions at a Glance 2011: Retirement-Income Systems in OECD and G20 Countries

http://www.oecd.org/document/49/0,3746,en_2649_34757_42992113_1_1_1_1,00.html

or

www.oecd.org/els/social/pensions/PAG

COUNTRY HIGHTLIGHTS & PROFILES

http://www.oecd.org/document/49/0,3746,en_2649_34757_42992113_1_1_1_1,00.html#country_highlights

PENSION DATABASE

http://www.oecd.org/document/16/0,3746,en_2649_34757_45558288_1_1_1_1,00.html

PENSION CALCULATOR

http://www.oecd.org/document/12/0,3746,en_2649_34757_43024076_1_1_1_1,00.html

World Health Organization (WHO)

Global Workplan of the Collaborating Centres in Occupational Health for 2009-2012 (December 2010 Edition)

http://www.who.int/occupational_health/network/2009_2012_workplan/en/index.html

See also

Occupational health topics

http://www.who.int/occupational_health/topics/en/

Federal

BLS: Occupational Outlook Quarterly Online

Spring 2011, Vol. 55, No. 1 [17 March 2011]

http://www.bls.gov/opub/ooq/2011/spring/home.htm

Focused jobseeking: A measured approach to looking for work

Dennis Vilorio

http://www.bls.gov/opub/ooq/2011/spring/art01.pdf

Consulting careers: A profile of three occupations

John Mullins

http://www.bls.gov/opub/ooq/2011/spring/art02.pdf

Nursing jobs in nursing homes

Elka Maria Torpey

http://www.bls.gov/opub/ooq/2011/spring/art03.pdf

Census

Household Economic Studies

P70-123

Dynamics of Economic Well-Being: Poverty, 2004–2006 [16 March 2011]

http://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/p70-123.pdf

[full-text, 32 pages]

Press Release 16 March 2011

Census Bureau Survey Shows Poverty is Primarily a Temporary Condition  

  http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/poverty/cb11-49.html

Small Business Administration (SBA)

2010 Small Business Profiles for the States and Territories [February 2011]

http://www.sba.gov/content/2010-small-business-profiles-states-and-territories

[by STATE]

or

http://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/files/AllProfiles10.pdf

[full-text, 106 pages]

U.S. Commercial Service

Doing Business in Turkey: 2011 Country Commercial Guide for U.S. Companies

http://www.buyusainfo.net/docs/x_7220700.pdf

[full-text, 113 pages]

U.S. Commercial Service

Doing Business in Singapore: 2011 Country

Commercial Guide for U.S. Companies

http://www.buyusainfo.net/docs/x_4093288.pdf

[full-text, 90 pages]

Institutes/Associations/Commercial

Brookings Institution

Public Employees, Unions and Fiscal Austerity [15 March 2011]

Gary Burtless, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies

http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2011/0315_public_unions_burtless.aspx

or

http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2011/0315_public_unions_burtless.aspx?p=1

Center for Health Workforce Studies (CHWS)

Universty of Albany, School of Public Health

New York Physician Workforce Supply and Distribution

http://chws.albany.edu/index.php?nyphysicians

Employee Benefit Researc Institute (EBRI_

FAST FACTS #192

EBRI’s 2011 Retirement Confidence Survey:

Gender Comparisons Among Workers

http://www.ebri.org/pdf/FFE.192.21Mar11.RCS-Gender.Final.pdf

Work Foundation (UK)

Ready, Steady, Grow? How the government can support the development of more high growth firms [21 March 2011]

A joint Cities 2020 and Knowledge Economy Programme Report

Prepared by Charles Levy, Neil Lee and Annie Peate

http://workfoundation.org/research/publications/publicationdetail.aspx?oItemId=285&parentPageID=102&PubType=

or

http://workfoundation.org/assets/docs/publications/285_high_growth_firmsFINAL%20FROM%20ANN.pdf

[full-text, 54 pages]

Work Foundation (UK)

More Than Making Things: A new future for manufacturing in a service economy [14 March 2011]

A Knowledge Economy programme report

Andrew Sissons

http://workfoundation.org/research/publications/publicationdetail.aspx?oItemId=284&parentPageID=102&PubType=

or

http://workfoundation.org/assets/docs/publications/284_More%20than%20making%20things.pdf

[full-text, 64 pages]

Law

NOLO {Law for All}

Employment Law Center

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/hr-employment-law/

Statistical Reports

BEA: TRAVEL AND TOURISM SPENDING GROWS IN FOURTH QUARTER 2010 [18 March 2011]

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/industry/tourism/2011/tour410.htm

or

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/industry/tourism/2011/pdf/tour410.pdf

[full-text, 7 pages]

or

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/industry/tourism/2011/xls/tour410.xls

[spreadsheet]

BLS: METROPOLITAN AREA EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT -- JANUARY 2011 [18 March 2011]

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

or

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

[full-text, 23 pages]

and

Supplemental Files Table of Contents

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

BLS: Consumer Price Index - February 2011 [17 March 2011]

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

or

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

[full-text, 19 pages]

Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts

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THE BACHARACH BLOG
http://bacharachblog.com/

6 Funny Leadership and Social Media Cartoons

By Sean Lee on 03/23/11

http://sambacharach.com/bacharachblog/linksy/6-funny-leadership-and-social-media-cartoons/

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