Wednesday, October 26, 2011
[IWS] IWS Weekly Bulletin, 26 October 2011
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, 26 October 2011
Academic Research
International Finance Corporation (IFC); Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA); World Bank
INVESTMENT CLIMATE
RESEARCH & DIAGNOSTICS [DATA & DATABASES]
https://www.wbginvestmentclimate.org/research-and-diagnostics/
IZA Discussion Papers (Institute for the Study of Labor)
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers
Recent studies include ---
6044 Work-Related Health in Europe: Are Older Workers More at Risk?
6043 Culture, Intermarriage, and Differentials in Second-Generation Immigrant Women's Labor Supply
6042 Fathers and Youth's Delinquent Behavior
6041 The Captain of the Men of Death and His Shadow: Long-Run Impacts of Early Life Pneumonia Exposure
6040 Neighborhood Effects and Individual Unemployment
6039 What Do Participation Fluctuations Tell Us About Labor Supply Elasticities?
6038 On Intergenerational Transmission of Reading Habits in Italy: Is a Good Example the Best Sermon?
6037 When the Early Bird Catches the Worm: The Impact of Training in Retail
6036 Minimum Wage Increases Under Straightened Circumstances
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 Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
The social impact of the crisis - Background paper [20 October 20111]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef1168.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2011/68/en/1/EF1168EN.pdf
[full-text, 13 pages]
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO)
Survey Report
Ireland: Recession drives change in workplace practices [24 October 2011]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/surveyreports/ie1012039d/ie1012039d.htm
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
European Monitoring Centre on Change (EMCC)
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
ERM Quarterly--Issue 3, autumn 2011 [24 October 2011]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef1177.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2011/77/en/1/EF1177EN.pdf
[full-text, 16 pages]
Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
Working Paper 267
Protecting Workers against Unemployment in Uruguay [13 October 2011]
http://www.iadb.org/en/research-and-data/publication-details,3169.html?pub_id=IDB-WP-267
or
http://www.iadb.org/en/research-and-data/access-document,3181.html?pub_id=36475699
[full-text, 102 pages]
ILO
Department of Statistics
LINKS to Statistical Programs and Services [world-wide]
http://laborsta.ilo.org/links_E.html
ILO
Department of Statistics
SHORT TERM INDICATORS OF THE LABOUR MARKET [updated 14 October 2011]
http://laborsta.ilo.org/sti/sti_E.html
Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JILPT)
Japan Labor Review, Volume 8, Number 4, Autumn 2011 [17 October 2011]
Special Edition: The Professional Labor Market
http://www.jil.go.jp/english/JLR.htm
or
http://www.jil.go.jp/english/JLR/documents/2011/JLR32_all.pdf
[full-text, 127 pages]
World Bank & International Finance Corporaton (IFc)
DOING BUSINESS 2012: DOING BUSINESS IN A MORE TRANSPARENT WORLD [20 October 2011]
Comparing Regulation for Domestic Firms in 183 Economies
[full-text, 212 pages]
World Bank
Human Development Network
JOB TRENDS, October 2011, Number 1
Uneven Recovery from the Global Crisis in Developing Country Labor Markets [19 October 2011]
or
[full-text, 5 pages]
Federal
Census
Updated QuickFacts Tables Available from Census Bureau [20 October 2011]
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html
Census
American Community Survey Briefs
ACSBR/10-0
Poverty: 2009 and 2010 [20 October 2011]
http://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/acsbr10-01.pdf
[full-text, 7 pages]
Census
American Community Survey Briefs
ACSBR/10-13
Public Assistance Receipt in the Past 12 Months for Households: 2009 and 2010 [20 October 2011]
http://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/acsbr10-13.pdf
[full-text, 4 pages]
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
TRENDS IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF HOUSEHOLD INCOME BETWEEN 1979 AND 2007 [25 October 2011]
http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=12485
or
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/124xx/doc12485/10-25-HouseholdIncome.pdf
[full-text, 63 pages]
Department of Labor (DOL)
Press Release 20 October 2011
Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis announces social Web partnership to connect unemployed Americans with jobs
Partners include Facebook, the National Association of Colleges and Employers, DirectEmployers Association and the National Association of State Workforce Agencies
http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/opa/OPA20111538.htm
see – www.facebook.com/socialjobs
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC)
Press Release 13 October 2011
Agency Opposes Friendly's Attempt to Dump Pension Plan; Pledges Fight for Workers and Retirees
http://www.pbgc.gov/news/press/releases/pr12-02.html
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Office of Advocacy
Analysis of Small Business Innovation in Green Technologies [20 October 2011]
by Anthony Breitzman, Ph.D. and Patrick Thomas, Ph.D.
Release Date: October 2011
http://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/rs389tot.pdf
[full-text, 46 pages]
Census & SBA Office of Advocacy
Statistics of U.S. Businesses (SUSB)
FIRM SIZE DATA [24 October 2011]
http://www.census.gov/econ/susb/
or
with additional explanations
http://www.sba.gov/advocacy/849/12162
Institutes/Associations/Commercial
Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)
EBRI NOTES, October 2011, Vol. 32, No. 10
"Ownership of Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and 401(k)-Type Plans, 1996–2009," and
"Tracking Health Insurance Coverage by Month: Trends in Employment-Based Coverage Among Workers, and Access to Coverage Among Uninsured Workers, 1995-2010"
http://www.ebri.org/publications/notes/index.cfm?fa=notesDisp&content_id=4913
or
http://www.ebri.org/pdf/notespdf/EBRI_Notes_10_Oct-11.IRA-K_HI.pdf
[full-text, 20 pages]
Press Release 20 October 2011
Employment-Based Health Insurance Coverage Declining: Trends in Coverage and Access, 1995‒2010
http://www.ebri.org/pdf/PR943.20Oct11.HI-month.pdf
Kaiser Family Foundation
StateHealthFacts.org
http://www.statehealthfacts.org
and SITE MAP at
http://www.statehealthfacts.org/sitemap.jsp
Mercer
From--
Executive Remuneration Perspective: Trends in Executive Remuneration
http://www.mercer.com/erperspectiveeu
Historic shift in executive remuneration worldwide [June 2011]
http://www.mercer.com/referencecontent.htm?idContent=1417340
or
[full-text, 12 pages]
Press Release 5 October 2011
Global executive pay trends – Asian remuneration eroding West's ability to attract scarce talent
http://www.mercer.com/press-releases/1427125
Towers Watson
HEALTH CARE CHANGES AHEAD: SURVEY REPORT [October 2011]
http://www.towerswatson.com/assets/pdf/5622/TW-survey-report_HC-Changes-Ahead_101411.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]
Press Release October 2011
Employers Remain Committed to Offering Health Care Benefits Today but Concerned About Viability of Insurance Exchanges
http://www.towerswatson.com/united-states/research/5622
Law
Baker & McKenzie
The Global Employer: Ascending to New Heights in Employment Law Strategies [September 2011]
http://bakerxchange.com/ve/ZZ8491tVKujW71fjy1/stype=dload/OID=5111018211915225/VT=0
or
http://files.cecollect.com/811/1014/Global%20Employer%20-%20September%202011.pdf
[full-text, 40 pages]
Free subscription available at http://bakerxchange.com/vf/7430r9691V7169Bk611
Congressional Research Service (CRS)
Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) and Its Role in U.S. Trade Policy
J. F. Hornbeck, Specialist in International Trade and Finance
Laine Elise Rover, Research Associate
October 7, 2011
http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/175967.pdf
[full-text, 16 pages]
Department of Labor (DOL)
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employee Benefits Security Administration
29 CFR Part 2550
RIN 1210-AB35
Investment Advice – Participants and Beneficiaries
AGENCY: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Final rule.
http://www.ofr.gov/OFRUpload/OFRData/2011-26261_PI.pdf
Press Release 24 October 2011
US Labor Department publishes final regulation to improve access to quality investment advice
Regulation implements prohibited transaction exemption under 2006 Pension Protection Act
http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/ebsa/EBSA20111537.htm
Statistical Reports
BLS: MASS LAYOFFS -- SEPTEMBER 2011 [25 October 2011]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/mmls.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/mmls.pdf
[full-text, 10 pages]
BLS: REGIONAL AND STATE EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT -- SEPTEMBER 2011 [21 October 2011]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/laus.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/laus.pdf
[full-text, 19 pages]
and
Supplemental Files Table of Contents
http://www.bls.gov/web/laus.supp.toc.htm
BLS: WORKPLACE INJURIES AND ILLNESSES--2010 [20 October 2011]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/osh.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/osh.pdf
[full-text, 29 pages]
BLS: USUAL WEEKLY EARNINGS OF WAGE AND SALARY WORKERS THIRD QUARTER 2011 [20 October 2011]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/wkyeng.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wkyeng.pdf
[full-text, 10 pages]
Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts
World Bank
Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR)
The Puppet Masters: How the Corrupt Use Legal Structures to Hide Stolen Assets and What to Do About It [24 October 2011]
http://www1.worldbank.org/finance/star_site/documents/Puppet%20Masters%20Report.pdf
[full-text, 284 pages]
Fact Sheet
http://www1.worldbank.org/finance/star_site/documents/English%20FactSheet_PuppetMasters.pdf
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International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
www.ictr.org
ICTR Launches a Cartoon Book for East African Youth
Oct 24, 2011
http://www.unictr.org/tabid/155/Default.aspx?id=1233
THE BACHARACH BLOG
http://bacharachblog.com/
IDEAS
http://sambacharach.com/bacharachblog/category/ideas-2/
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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) 262-6041
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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