IWS Documented News WEEKLY BULLETIN

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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Please Note: This week’s bulletin is the first since early May. Many of the items below are key materials released during the Summer. You will also find items released this past week.

IWS Weekly Bulletin, 24 August 2011

Academic Research

Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JILPT)

Japan Labor Review

Volume 8, Number 3, Summer 2011 [20 July 2011]

Special Edition: Changing Job Design and Its Influence on Labor Mobility

http://www.jil.go.jp/english/JLR.htm

or

http://www.jil.go.jp/english/JLR/documents/2011/JLR31_all.pdf

[full-text, 163 pages]

IZA Discussion Papers (Institute for the Study of Labor)

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

Recent studies include ---
5916       International Trade and Firm Performance: A Survey of Empirical Studies since 2006       

5915       Can Compulsory Military Service Raise Civilian Wages? Evidence from the Peacetime Draft in Portugal   

5914       Intergenerational Wealth Mobility in Rural Bangladesh

(forthcoming in: Journal of Development Studies)           

5913       Relative Cohort Size, Relative Income, and Women's Labor Force Participation 1968-2010             

5912       Job Re-grading, Real Wages, and the Cycle          

5911       Three New Empirical Tests of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis When Environmental Regulation is Endogenous       t

5910       Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the U.S., 1978-2009: A Decomposition Approach       

5909       Income Inequality, Mobility, and the Welfare State: A Political Economy Model 

5908       R&D and Employment: Some Evidence from European Microdata            

5907       Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey

DigitalCommons@ILR--Most Recent Additions
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/recent_additions.html
Home Page at - http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/
For example: CAHRS ResearchLink

http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cahrs_researchlink/

Recent publications:

Birds of a Feather: How New Employees' Similarity to Coworkers Affects Organizational Behavior and Productivity

Perception Is Reality: How Employees Perceive What Motivates HR Practices Affects their Engagement, Behavior and Performance

Rules of Attraction: Job Seekers Use Negative News to Filter Initial Search

Strategically Deploy HR Practices to Increase Worker Commitment and Reduce Turnover

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


International

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Knowledge Solutions

July 2011/104

Surveying Communities of Practice

By Olivier Serrat

http://www.adb.org/documents/information/knowledge-solutions/surveying-cop.pdf

[full-text, 16 pages]

Asian Development Bank

Knowledge Solutions

June 2011/103

Moral Courage in Organizations

By Olivier Serrat

http://www.adb.org/documents/information/knowledge-solutions/moral-courage-organizations.pdf

[full-text, 6 pages]

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

European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO)

COMPARATIVE STUDY

Helping young workers during the crisis: contributions by social partners and public authorities

August 2011

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/tn1101019s/index.htm

or

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/tn1101019s/tn1101019s.htm

or

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/docs/eiro/tn1101019s/tn1101019s.pdf

[full-text, 35 pages]

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

European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO)

COMPARATIVE STUDY

Representativeness of the European social partner organisations: Banking

August 2011

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/tn1009018s/index.htm

or

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/tn1009018s/tn1009018s.htm

or

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/docs/eiro/tn1009018s/tn1009018s.pdf

[full-text, 86 pages]

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

European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO)

COMPARATIVE STUDY

Working time developments – 2010 [28 July 2011]

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/tn1106010s/tn1106010s.htm

or

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/docs/eiro/tn1106010s/tn1106010s.pdf

[full-text, 33 pages]

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

European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO)

COMPARATIVE STUDY

Representativeness of the European social partner organisations: Education

July 2011

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/tn1001017s/index.htm

or

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/tn1001017s/tn1001017s.htm

or

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/docs/eiro/tn1001017s/tn1001017s.pdf

[full-text, 68 pages]

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

European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO)

COMPARATIVE STUDY

SMEs in the crisis: Employment, industrial relations and local partnership

June 2011

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/tn1010039s/index.htm

or

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/tn1010039s/tn1010039s.htm

or

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/docs/eiro/tn1010039s/tn1010039s.pdf

[full-text, 50 pages]

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

European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO)

COMPARATIVE STUDY

Recession and social dialogue in the banking sector: a global perspective [19 July 2011]

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef1115.htm

or

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2011/15/en/1/EF1115EN.pdf

[Full-text, 63 pages]

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

European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO)

COMPARATIVE STUDY

Representativeness of the European social partner organisations: Public administration

June 2011

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/tn0912027s/index.htm

or

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/tn0912027s/tn0912027s.htm

or

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/docs/eiro/tn0912027s/tn0912027s.pdf

[full-text, 69 pages]

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

European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO)

COMPARATIVE STUDY

Representativeness of the European social partner organisations: Commerce

May 2011

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/tn1008018s/index.htm

for

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/tn1008018s/tn1008018s.htm

or

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/docs/eiro/tn1008018s/tn1008018s.pdf

[full-text, 76 pages]

Federal

Administration on Aging (AOA)

AGing Integrated Database (AGID)

http://www.agidnet.org/

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

National Academies Press (NAP)

Health Care Comes Home: The Human Factors [17 August 2011]

http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13149

or

http://download.nap.edu/cart/download.cgi?&record_id=13149

or

http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13149#toc

[full-text, 203 pages]

For the accompanying designer's guide, visit: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13205

BLS: Charting International Labor Comparisons (2011 Edition) [2 August 2011]

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

or

http://www.bls.gov/fls/chartbook/chartbook2011.pdf

[full-text, 49 pages]

BLS: SCHOOL'S OUT--SPOTLIGHT ON STATISTICS [22 July 2011]

http://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2011/schools_out/home.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2011/schools_out/pdf/schools_out_bls_spotlight.pdf
[full-text, 12 pages]

Census

Nonemployer Statistics 2009 [28 July 2011]

http://www.census.gov/econ/nonemployer/

Press Release 28 July 2011

Number of Nonemployer Firms Shrinks Again in 2009, Census Bureau Reports Three States and D.C. Break the Trend

http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/employment_occupations/cb11-130.html

Census

International Data Base [Updated June 2011]

World Population by Age and Sex

By Year Through 2050

http://www.census.gov/population/international/data/idb/worldpop.php

For Data by Country and Regions

By Year Through 2050

http://www.census.gov/population/international/data/idb/region.php

Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics

America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2011 [8 July 2011]

http://childstats.gov/pdf/ac2011/ac_11.pdf

[Full-text, 223 pages]

Click here for access to extended tables which include intervening years of data that could not be shown in the printed report.

http://childstats.gov/americaschildren/index.asp

Press Release 8 July 2011

http://childstats.gov/americaschildren/press_release.asp

National Science Foundation (NSF)

Two Decades of Increasing Diversity More than Doubled the Number of Minority Graduate Students in Science and Engineering

NSF 11-319 | July 2011 | [13 July 2011]

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf11319/

or

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf11319/nsf11319.pdf

[full-text, 10 pages]

Institutes/Associations/Commercial

RAND

China and India, 2025: A Comparative Assessment [22 August 2011]

by Charles Wolf, Jr., Siddhartha Dalal, Julie DaVanzo, Eric V. Larson, Alisher Akhmedjonov, Harun Dogo, Meilinda Huang, Silvia Montoya

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1009.html

or

http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2011/RAND_MG1009.pdf

[full-text, 170 pages]

Summary

http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2011/RAND_MG1009.sum.pdf

WorldatWork (Total Rewards Association)

SURVEY

Severance and Change-in-Control Practices

A Report by WorldatWork and Innovative Compensation and Benefits Concepts, LLC

August 2011

http://www.worldatwork.org/waw/adimLink?id=54799

[full-text, 16 pages]

Law

National Conference for State Legislators (NCSL)

Collective Bargaining and Labor Union Legislation Database

http://www.ncsl.org/?tabid=22275

National Conference for State Legislators (NCSL)

PENSIONS AND RETIREMENT PLAN ENACTMENTS IN 2011 STATE LEGISLATURES [30 June 2011]

http://www.ncsl.org/?tabid=22763

or

http://www.ncsl.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=ty70-VuYhz4%3d&tabid=22763

[full-text, 31 pages

National Conference for State Legislators (NCSL)

Unemployment Legislation Database

http://www.ncsl.org/?tabid=20237

Statistical Reports

BLS: MASS LAYOFFS -- JULY 2011 [23 August 2011]

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

or

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

[full-text, 10 pages]

Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts

www.ready.gov
Ready is a national public service advertising (PSA) campaign designed to educate and empower Americans to prepare for and respond to emergencies including natural and man-made disasters. The goal of the campaign is to get the public involved and ultimately to increase the level of basic preparedness across the nation.

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

Butare Judgement Delivered
ICTR/INFO-9-2-680.EN
Jun 24, 2011
http://www.unictr.org/tabid/155/Default.aspx?id=1215

THE BACHARACH BLOG
http://bacharachblog.com/

Hockey, Square Dancing & Strauss-Kahn

POSTED by GABE SULKES on AUG 23, 2011

http://sambacharach.com/bacharachblog/leader/hockey-square-dancing-dominique-strauss-kahn/

Decision Making & Muscles

POSTED by WBRIGGS on AUG 22, 2011

http://sambacharach.com/bacharachblog/leader/decision-making-muscles/

Sofa Snorkeling

POSTED by GABE SULKES on AUG 17, 2011

http://sambacharach.com/bacharachblog/proactive-stories/sofa-snorkeling/

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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) 262-6041               
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