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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 March 2011

NOTE: The IWS Documented News was temporarily suspended from mid-December until the end of February. Many postings this week will refer to “KEY DOCUMENTS” released during this time period in addition to those released this week.

Academic Research

International Institute for Labour Studies (IILS) at the ILO

DISCUSSION PAPER 206/2010

Did the financial sector profit at the expense of the rest of the economy?

Evidence from the United States

by Sameer Khatiwada

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inst/download/dp206_2010.pdf

[full-text, 20 pages]

BLS: Handbook of Methods: Chapter 6, The Mass Layoff Statistics Program — Updated [4 March 2011]

http://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/pdf/homch6.pdf

[full-text, 6 pages]

see Handbook of Methods at-- http://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/

IZA Discussion Papers (Institute for the Study of Labor)

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

Recent studies include ---
5554       Pensions, Household Saving, and Welfare: A Dynamic Analysis  

5553       Sensitivity of Matching-Based Program Evaluations to the Availability of Control Variables            

5552       Age at Migration, Language and Fertility Patterns among Migrants to Canada     

5551       Engel Curves, Spatial Variation in Prices and Demand for Commodities in Côte d'Ivoire   

5550       Social Comparison in the Workplace: Evidence from a Field Experiment 

5549       Income Taxation of U.S. Households: Basic Facts              

5548       Improving the Employment Rates of People with Disabilities through Vocational Education         

5547       Are We Wasting Our Children's Time by Giving Them More Homework?

                (forthcoming in: Economics of Education Review)


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)

The Informal Sector and Informal Employment in Indonesia [February 2011]

http://www.adb.org/documents/books/informal-sector-indonesia/default.asp

or

http://www.adb.org/documents/books/informal-sector-indonesia/informal-sector-indonesia.pdf

[full-text, 135 pages]

European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)

European Working Conditions Observatory (EWCO)

COMPARATIVE STUDY

PREPARING FOR THE UPSWING: TRAINING AND QUALIFICATION DURING THE CRISIS [2 March 2011]

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/ewco/studies/tn1010023s/index.htm

or

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/ewco/studies/tn1010023s/tn1010023s.htm

or

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/docs/ewco/tn1010023s/tn1010023s.pdf

[full-text, 48 pages]

Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)

Women’s Economic Opportunities in the Formal Private Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Focus on Entrepreneurship

http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=35278574

[full-text, 164 pages]

Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)

The Gender Dividend: Capitalizing on Women’s Work

Carmen Pagés and Claudia Piras

with contributions by Suzanne Duryea and Norbert Schady

http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=35117341

[full-text, 38 pages]

International Labour Organization (ILO)

Global Employment Trends 2011: The challenge of a jobs recovery [25 January 2011]

http://www.ilo.org/global/publications/ilo-bookstore/order-online/books/WCMS_150440/lang--en/index.htm

or

http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/@dgreports/@dcomm/@publ/documents/publication/wcms_150440.pdf

[full-text, 107 pages]

International Labour Organization (ILO)

Global Wage Report 2010/11: Wage policies in times of crisis [15 December 2010]

http://www.ilo.org/global/publications/ilo-bookstore/order-online/books/WCMS_145265/lang--en/index.htm

or

http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/@dgreports/@dcomm/@publ/documents/publication/wcms_145265.pdf

[full-text, 139 pages]

Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT)

PANORAMA LABORAL 2010: América Latina y el Caribe

http://oit.org.pe/WDMS/bib/publ/panorama/panorama10.pdf

[full-text, 145 pages]

Federal

BLS: Spotlight on Statistics:

WOMEN AT WORK [2 March 2011]

http://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2011/women/

or

http://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2011/women/pdf/women_bls_spotlight.pdf

[full-text, 16 pages]

BLS: Program Perspective, Vol. 3, Issue 1

Local and State Government Benefits [31 January 2011]

http://www.bls.gov/opub/perspectives/program_perspectives_vol3_issue1.pdf

[full-text, 4 pages]

BLS: Program Perspectives on:

Sick Leave and Disability Benefit Combinations

<To print this publication on one 11" x 17" sheet of paper, in the style of a single-fold brochure, please use the following file: www.bls.gov/opub/perspectives/program_perspectives_vol3_issue2_11x17.pdf >

or

http://www.bls.gov/opub/perspectives/program_perspectives_vol3_issue2.pdf

[full-text, 4 pages]

BLS: Compensation and Working Conditions

Profiles of Significant Collective Bargaining Disputes of 2010 [23 February 2011]

http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/cb20110218ar01p1.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/print/cb20110218ar01p1.htm

Census

U.S. County Population Estimates: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2010 [7 March 2011]

http://www.census.gov/popest/estimates.html

or

http://www.census.gov/popest/eval-estimates/eval-est.html

County Totals - Released March 2011

Preliminary Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Counties: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2010 (CO-PEST2010-TOTALS)

FILE LAYOUT

http://www.census.gov/popest/counties/tables/CO-PEST2010-totals.pdf

and

SPREADSHEET

http://www.census.gov/popest/counties/tables/CO-PEST2010-totals.csv

National Science Foundatin (NSF)

NSF 11-310 | March 2011 |

R&D Expenditures at Federally Funded R&D Centers Reach $15.2 Billion in FY 2009 [2 March 2011]

by Ronda Britt

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf11310/

or

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf11310/nsf11310.pdf

[full-text, 4 pages]

National Science Foundatin (NSF)

NSF 11-309 | February 2011

Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering [28 February 2011]

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

or

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/pdf/nsf11309.pdf

[full-text, 20 pages]

More detailed TABLES

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/tables.cfm

Additional RESOURCES

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/resources.cfm

National Science Foundatin (NSF)

Diversity in the Federal Science and Engineering Workforce [3 January 2011]

by Joan S. Burrelli and Jaquelina C. Falkenheim

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf11303/

or

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf11303/nsf11303.pdf

[full-text, 8 pages]

Social Security Administration (SSA)

Social Security Programs Throughout the World: Asia and the Pacific, 2010 [3 March 2011]

http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/progdesc/ssptw/2010-2011/asia/index.html

or

http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/progdesc/ssptw/2010-2011/asia/ssptw10asia.pdf

[full-text, 232 pages]

U.S. Commercial Service

Just click on the titles below for the document to open.

Country Commercial Guide
 · Doing Business in Japan: 2011 Country Commerci... [03/04/2011]
 · Doing Business in the Netherlands: 2011 Countr... [03/03/2011]
 · Country Commercial Guide Ukraine 2011 [03/03/2011]
 · 2011 Hungary Country Commercial Guide [03/03/2011]
 · Estonia Country Commercial Guide 2011 [03/03/2011]
 · Doing business in Latvia: 2011 Country Commerci... [03/03/2011]
 · Doing business in Malta: 2011 Country Commercia... [03/02/2011]
 · Doing Business in Indonesia : 2011 Country Comm... [03/01/2011]
 · Doing Business in the United Kingdom - Country ... [03/01/2011]
 · Doing Business in Ethiopia: 2011 Country Comme... [03/01/2011]

Industry Sector Analysis
 · Germany: Travel and Tourism Overview [02/15/2011]
 · Croatia: Construction & Demolition Waste Manage... [01/23/2011]
 · Opportunities for Franchising [01/19/2011]
 · Preparing Your Business for Global E-Commerce [01/07/2011]
 · Purchasing Overseas Vacation [01/07/2011]
 · Korea:Tourism [01/02/2011]
 · Mexico: Overview of the Microfinance Sector [12/30/2010]
 · Greece: Education Services [12/30/2010]
 · Greece: Guide for Participating Government Tenders [12/30/2010]
 · Banking Sector Highlights [12/29/2010]

Institutes/Associations/Commercial

AARP Public Policy Institute

Fact Sheet [March 2011]

New Health Care Law Helps Protect 18 million Medicare Beneficiaries from High Drug Costs

http://assets.aarp.org/rgcenter/ppi/health-care/fs213-health.pdf

[full-text, 4 pages]

Bersin & Associates

TalentWatch®: First Quarter 2011 – Global Growth Creates a New War for Talent [March 2011]

http://marketing.bersin.com/TalentWatchQ12011.html

or

http://marketing.bersin.com/rs/bersin/images/030211_TW_Q1'2011.pdf

[full-text, 40 pages]

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

The Shadow Public Service: The swelling ranks of federal government outsourced workers [3 March 2011]

http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/shadow-public-service

or

http://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/National%20Office/2011/03/Shadow_Public_Service.pdf

[full-text, 28 pages]

Catalyst

Research Reports [on advancing talented WOMEN]

Author: Deepali Bagati

Published: March 2011

2010 India Benchmarking Report [4 March 2011]

http://www.catalyst.org/publication/472/42/2010-india-benchmarking-report

or

http://www.catalyst.org/file/425/2010_india_benchmarking_report_web.pdf

[full-text, 32 pages]

Economic Policy Institute (EPI)

EPI Briefing Papaer #300

1 March 2011

Does ‘Right-to-Work’ Create Jobs? Answers from Oklahoma

http://epi.3cdn.net/71b6af16eb5e2f26cc_atm6iihec.pdf

[full-text, 22 pages]

Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)

EBRI NOTES, Vol. 32, No. 2, February 2011

‘Who Tries to Find Objective Information on Health Care? Findings From the 2010 Health Confidence Survey’ and ‘Labor Force Participation Rates of the Population Age 55 and Older: What Did the Recession Do to the Trends?’

http://www.ebri.org/pdf/notespdf/EBRI_Notes_02_Feb-11.HCS_Part-Rts.pdf

[full-text, 20 pages]

Law

ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press)

ENCOUNTERING RELIGION IN THE WORKPLACE:

The Legal Rights and Responsibilities of Workers and Employers

Raymond F. Gregory

http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=9866

Statistical Reports

BEA: Personal Income and Outlays, January 2011 [28 February 2011]

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2011/pi0111.htm

or

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2011/pdf/pi0111.pdf

[full-text, 13 pages]

or

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2011/xls/pi0111.xls

[spreadsheet]

and

Highlights

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2011/pdf/pi0111_fax.pdf

BLS: INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS OF HOURLY COMPENSATION COSTS IN MANUFACTURING, 2009 [8 March 2011]

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

or

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

[full-text, 10 pages]

and

Supplemental Files Table of Contents

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

BLS: NEW YORK-NEW JERSEY INFORMATION OFFICE

New York City, N.Y.

MASS LAYOFFS IN NEW YORK – 2010 ANNUAL TOTALS [7 March 2011]

http://www.bls.gov/ro2/nymlsa.pdf

[full-text, 5 pages]

BLS: THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION -- FEBRUARY 2011 [4 March 2011]

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  Fourth Quarter and Annual Averages 2010, Revised [3 March 2011]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/prod2.nr0.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/prod2.pdf

[full-text, 19 pages]

and

Supplemental Files Table of Contents

http://www.bls.gov/web/prod2.supp.toc.htm

BLS: MAJOR WORK STOPPAGES IN 2010 [8 February 2011]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/wkstp_02082011.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/wkstp_02082011.pdf

[full-text, 6 pages]

Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts

National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)

Women More Likely Than Men to Have Had a Same-sex Experience

National Health Statistics Reports

Number 36, March 2011

Sexual Behavior, Sexual Attraction, and Sexual Identity in the United States: Data from the 2006-2008

National Survey of Family Growth

By Anjani Chandra, PhD, William D. Mosher, PhD, and Casey Copen, PhD, Division of Vital Statistics, CDC/NCHS;

Catlainn Sionean, PhD, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, CDC/NCHHSTP

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr036.pdf

[full-text, 49 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

SCHEDULING ORDER FOR DELIVERY OF JUDGEMENT Pursuant to Rules 54 and 88 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence

NDINDILIYIMANA, Augustine (ICTR-00-56)

Mar 8, 2011

http://www.unictr.org/Portals/0/Case/English/Ndindiliyimana/decisions/110308.pdf

DECISION ON PROSECUTION MOTION TO CALL REBUTTAL EVIDENCE Rules 54, 73 and 85(A) (iii) of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence

NZABONIMANA, Callixte (ICTR-98-44)

Mar 8, 2011

http://www.unictr.org/Portals/0/Case/English/Nzabonimana/decision/110308.pdf

THE BACHARACH BLOG
http://bacharachblog.com/

Unwritten Rules for Women in the Workplace

BY STUART BASEFSKY on 03/07/11

http://sambacharach.com/bacharachblog/leader/unwritten-rules-for-women-in-the-workplace/

Can’t Change Leadership Without Changing Culture

BY STUART BASEFSKY on 03/04/11

http://sambacharach.com/bacharachblog/leader/cant-change-leadership-without-changing-culture/

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