IWS Documented News WEEKLY BULLETIN: March 2011

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

[IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 30 March 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, 30 March 2011

Academic Research

IZA Discussion Papers (Institute for the Study of Labor)

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

Recent studies include ---
5601 Health and Well-Being in the Crisis

5600 "Beauty Is the Promise of Happiness"?

5599 Ökonometrie vs. Projektdesign: Lehren aus der Evaluation eines Modellprojekts zur Umsetzung des Workfare-Konzepts

5598 Risk, Institutions and Growth: Why England and Not China?

5597 Wage Structure Effects of International Trade: Evidence from a Small Open Economy

5596 The Relative Efficiency of Active Labour Market Policies: Evidence from a Social Experiment and Non-Parametric Methods

5595 Will GDP Growth Increase Happiness in Developing Countries?

5594 Are Intra-Household Allocations Policy Neutral? Theory and Empirical Evidence

5593 The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers in Canada and Denmark

5592 Emotions, Sanctions and Cooperation

5591 Retaining through Training: Even for Older Workers

5590 Globalization, Brain Drain and Development

(forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Literature)

5589 Egyptian Men Working Abroad: Labor Supply Responses by the Women Left Behind

(revised version forthcoming in: Labour Economics)

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)

ASIA BOND MONITOR March 2011 [29 March 2011]

http://asianbondsonline.adb.org/documents/abm_mar_2011.pdf

[full-text, 91 pages]

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

European Monitoring Centre on Change (EMCC)

COMPARATIVE STUDY

EMERGING FORMS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP [23 March 2011]

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/emcc/erm/studies/tn1009034s/index.htm

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/emcc/erm/studies/tn1009034s/tn1009034s.htm

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/docs/erm/tn1009034s/tn1009034s.pdf

[full-text, 69 pages]

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

Wage setting and indexation in Europe

Pact for the Euro: what future wage-setting? [23 March 2011]

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/areas/industrialrelations/wagesetting.htm

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

European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO)\

EUROPEAN LEVEL

Health social partners agree recruitment and retention framework [25 March 2011]

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/2011/02/articles/eu1102031i.htm

United Kingdom (UK)

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (National)

Task force to improve levels of employee engagement

29 March 2011 11:13

http://nds.coi.gov.uk/content/Detail.aspx?ReleaseID=418886&NewsAreaID=2&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bis-news+%28BIS+News%29

World Bank

POPULATION AGING: IS LATIN AMERICA READY?

http://issuu.com/world.bank.publications/docs/9780821384879/1?zoomed=&zoomPercent=&zoomX=&zoomY=&noteText=&noteX=&noteY=&viewMode=magazine

[Read Online: full-text, 324 pages]

Press Release 28 March 2011

Latin America: Ready for an Aging Revolution?

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:22868886~pagePK:64257043~piPK:437376~theSitePK:4607,00.html

Federal

Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)

Workplace Violence, 1993-2009 [29 March 2011]

http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=2377

http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/wv09.pdf

[full-text, 18 pages]

or
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/key_workplace/809/

BLS: Focus on Prices and Spending | Consumer Expenditure | Volume 1, Number 16

How Consumers Used the 2009 Economic Recovery Payments of $250 [22 March 2011]

http://www.bls.gov/opub/focus/volume1_number16/cex_1_16.htm

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/print.pl/opub/focus/volume1_number16/cex_1_16.htm

Census

QUARTERLY SUMMARY of STATE & LOCAL TAX REVENUE [release of 29 March 2011]

http://www.census.gov/govs/qtax/

Press Release 29 March 2011

2010 4th Quarter Summary of State and Local Government Tax Revenue

http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/governments/cb11-tps08.html

Census

2010 Census Briefs

C2010BR-01

24 March 2011

Population Distribution and Change: 2000 to 2010

http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-01.pdf

[full-text, 12 pages]

Census

2010 Census Briefs

C2010BR-02

24 March 2011

Overview of Race and Hispanic Origin: 2010

http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-02.pdf

[full-text, 24 pages]

Census

Redistricting Data, First Look at Local 2010 Census Results

http://2010.census.gov/news/press-kits/redistricting.html

Redistricting Data

http://www.census.gov/rdo/data/

Press Release 24 March 2011

U.S. Census Bureau Delivers Final State 2010 Census Population Totals for Legislative Redistricting

http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/2010_census/cb11-cn123.html

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Background Paper

CBO's Labor Force Projections Through 2021 [22 March 2011]

http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=12052

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/120xx/doc12052/03-22-LaborForceProjections.pdf

[full-text, 34 pages]

http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/key_workplace/808/

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Private Health Insurance Coverage: Expert Views on Approaches to Encourage Voluntary Enrollment

GAO-11-392R, February 25, 2011 [25 March 2011]

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11392r.pdf

[full-text, 28 pages]

Summary

http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-392R

Institutes/Associations/Commercial

RAND

READY FOR TAKEOFF: CHINA's ADVANCING AEROSPACE INDUSTRY [24 March 2011]

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1100.html

http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2011/RAND_MG1100.pdf

[full-text, 164 pages]

Summary

http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2011/RAND_MG1100.sum.pdf

Law

EEOC

Regulations To Implement the Equal Employment Provisions of the Americans With Disabilities Act, as Amended [25 March 2011]

http://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2011/03/25/2011-6056/regulations-to-implement-the-equal-employment-provisions-of-the-americans-with-disabilities-act-as

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2011-03-25/pdf/2011-6056.pdf

[full-text, 40 pages]

Questions and Answers on the Final Rule Implementing the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 [25 March 2011]

http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/regulations/ada_qa_final_rule.cfm

Questions and Answers for Small Businesses: The Final Rule Implementing the ADA Amendments Act of 2008

http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/regulations/adaaa_qa_small_business.cfm

Fact Sheet on the EEOC’s Final Regulations Implementing the ADAAA [25 March 2011]

http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/regulations/adaaa_fact_sheet.cfm

AND MORE

http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/adaaa_info.cfm

Press Release 24 March 2011

EEOC Announces Final Bipartisan Regulations for the ADA Amendments Act

Regulations Implement Congressional Intent to Simplify Definition of Disability

http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/release/3-24-11.cfm

Statistical Reports

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

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2011/pi0211.htm

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2011/pdf/pi0211.pdf

[full-text, 12 pages]

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2011/xls/pi0211.xls

[spreadsheet]

and

Hightlights

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2011/pdf/pi0211_fax.pdf

BLS: County Employment and Wages Third Quarter 2010 [29 March 2011]

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

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

[full-text, 21 pages

BLS: REGIONAL AND STATE EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT -- FEBRUARY 2011 [25 March 2011]

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

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: EMPLOYMENT CHARACTERISTICS OF FAMILIES--2010 [24 March 2011]

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

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

[full-text, 12 pages]

BLS: PRODUCTIVITY AND COSTS BY INDUSTRY: MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES, 2009 [23 March 2011]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/prin_03232011.htm

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/prin_03232011.pdf

[full-text, 8 pages]

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)
www.ictr.org

Jean-Baptiste Gatete Sentenced to Life Imprisonment
ICTR/INFO-9-2-665.EN
Mar 29, 2011
http://www.unictr.org/tabid/155/Default.aspx?id=1195

Appeals Chamber Hears Oral Arguments in the Munyakazi Case
ICTR/INFO-9-2-664.EN
Mar 29, 2011
http://www.unictr.org/tabid/155/Default.aspx?id=1194

THE BACHARACH BLOG
http://bacharachblog.com/

The Ups and Downs of Brand Evaluation

BY SEAN LEE on 03/27/11

http://sambacharach.com/bacharachblog/proactive-stories/the-ups-and-downs-of-brand-evaluation/

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Cornell/ILR School
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Thursday, March 24, 2011

[IWS} Weekly Bulletin, 23 March 2011

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

	Volunteering in Europe
	Older people and volunteering
	Volunteering - What's different in the new Member States?
	Is volunteering for everyone?
	Companies and 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

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]

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

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=

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=

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

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

[full-text, 7 pages]

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

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

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

[full-text, 19 pages]

Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts

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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