Wednesday, January 18, 2012
[IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 18 January 2012
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, 18 January 2012
Academic Research
IZA Policy Papers (Institute for the Study of Labor)
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/policypapers
Recent studies include ---
36 European Union Expansion and Migration
(forthcoming in: Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, Wiley - Blackwell, 2013)
35 Work Hours Constraints: Impacts and Policy Implications
34 Should Cash Transfers Be Confined to the Poor? Implications for Poverty and Inequality in Latin America
33 A Challenge for the G20: Globally Stipulated Debt Brakes and Transnational Independent Fiscal Supervisory Councils
32 Social Policies for a Recovery
31 The Toll Index: Innovation-based Economic Telemetry
30 Surviving the Turbulence Is Not Enough: Can Côte d'Ivoire Flourish Again?
29 Economic Returns to Education: What We Know, What We Don't Know, and Where We Are Going – Some Brief Pointers
(based on the introduction to a special issue of: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (6), 1118-1122)
28 Immigration: High Skilled vs. Low Skilled Labor?
(published in: Productivity Commission 2011, A 'Sustainable' Population? - Key Policy Issues, Roundtable Proceedings, Productivity Commission, Canberra, 27-40) July 2011
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
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK GROUP (AfDB)
THE 2011 COUNTRY POLICY AND INSTITUTIONAL ASSESSMENTS (CPIA) [13 January 2012]
2011 CPIA QUESTIONNAIRE
Governance Rating (GR)
Country Performance Assessment
Portfolio Performance Assessment
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
HR-Related BRIEFS produced by the Asian Development Bank and known as
KNOWLEDGE SOLUTIONS (2008-2011)
European Commission
Eurobarometer 378
ACTIVE AGEING [13 January 2012]
http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_378_en.pdf
[full-text, 261 pages
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
European network of cities for local integration policies for migrants (CLIP)
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/areas/populationandsociety/clip.htm
Ethnic entrepreneurship: Case study: Dublin, Ireland [13 January 2012]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef11218.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2011/218/en/1/EF11218EN.pdf
[full-text, 43 pages]
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
European Monitoring Centre on Change (EMCC)
EMCC case studies: Aiming for a ‘soft landing’ – Plansee Group (Austria) [17 January 2012]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef1057.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2010/57/en/1/EF1057EN.pdf
[full-text, 20 pages]
Central Statistical Organization, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation,
Government of India
INDIA COUNTRY REPORT 2011: MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL [1 January 2012]
http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/MDG_2010_01jan12.pdf
[full-text, 195 pages]
Central Statistical Organization, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation,
Government of India
www.mospi.nic.in
Statistical Year Book, India 2012
http://164.100.34.61/rpu/htm/index1.html
Organización Internacional del Trabaj (OIT)
Oficina Regional para América Latina y el Caribe
Panorama Laboral 2011 América Latina y el Caribe
http://www.oit.org.pe/1/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/OIT-PL-2011.pdf
[full-text, 148 pages]
or
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/intl/100/
Press Release
| Panorama Laboral 2011: El desempleo urbano continuó bajando en América Latina y el Caribe y llegó a 6,8% |
| Martes, 20 de Diciembre de 2011 |
JOINTLY-- Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), and the World Bank
GREEN GROWTH KNOWLEDGE PLATFORM (GGKP)
http://www.greengrowthknowledge.org/Pages/GGKPHome.aspx
RECENT REPORTS
http://www.greengrowthknowledge.org/Pages/Reports.aspx
Press Release 11 January 2012
Global Organizations to Expand Cooperation on Green Growth for Development
Mexico City meeting points to further, deeper knowledge-sharing, policy push
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/60/48/49379356.pdf
Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP)
Green Growth: Addressing the Knowledge Gaps [12-13 January 2012]
Inaugural conference for the Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) held in Mexico City.
http://www.greengrowthknowledge.org/Pages/Events.aspx
Documents
http://www.greengrowthknowledge.org/Pages/Events.aspx
Federal
BLS: Program Perspectives
Vol. 3, Issue 7
on HEALTH BENEFIT COSTS BY WAGE CATEGORY [13 January 2012]
Costs and Participation Increase for Higher Paid Workers
http://www.bls.gov/opub/perspectives/program_perspectives_vol3_issue7.pdf
[full-text, 4 pages]
BLS: Focus on Prices and Spending |
Consumer Expenditure | Volume 2, Number 12
Consumer Spending in 2010 [13 January 2012]
http://www.bls.gov/opub/focus/volume2_number12/cex_2_12.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/opub/focus/volume2_number12/cex_2_12.pdf
[full-text, 5 pages]
BLS: UNION MEMBERSHIP--GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION BY STATE
http://www.bls.gov/regions/unionmembership.htm
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering [data update. 11 January 2012]
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/tables.cfm
Institutes/Associations/Commercial
Brookings Institution
Fostering Growth through Innovation [13 January 2012]
http://www.brookings.edu/events/2012/0113_growth_innovation.aspx
Download papers from the even [by clicking on title below]:
· Our Immediate Jobs Crisis and Long-Run Employment Problem, by Gary Burtless and Adam Looney
· Policy and Process Innovation for Economic Growth, by William A. Galston
· Maintaining Employment in a Difficult Economy, by Elisabeth Jacobs
· Identifying and Responding to the U.S. Metropolitan Employment Crisis, by Alan Berube
Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc.
Press Release 11 January 2012
2011 Goes Out Like A Lamb
1,178 CEO CHANGES LOWEST SINCE 2004
http://www.challengergray.com/press/press.aspx
Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)
EBRI NOTES, January, Vol. 33, No. 1 (second part)
'Spending Adjustments Made By Older Americans to Save Money'
http://www.ebri.org/pdf/notespdf/EBRI_Notes_01_Jan-12.PPACA-SpndDwn.pdf
Press Release 11 January 2012
New Research from EBRI:
1 in 5 Older Americans Cutting Back on Health Care to Save Money
http://www.ebri.org/pdf/PR955.11Jan12.HlthSpndg.pdf
Migration Policy Institute (MPI)
MIGRATION IN THE MODERN CHINESE WORLD [11 January 2012]
http://www.migrationinformation.org/issue_jan12.cfm
RAND Europe
The impact of migration on transport and congestion [online, 10 January 2012]
by Flavia Tsang, Charlene Rohr
http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1187.html
or
http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/technical_reports/2011/RAND_TR1187.pdf
[full-text, 111 pages]
and
Summary
http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/technical_reports/2011/RAND_TR1187.sum.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]
Law
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Raising the Ages of Eligibility for Medicare and Social Security [10 January 2012]
http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=12531
or
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/125xx/doc12531/01-10-2012-Medicare_SS_EligibilityAgesBrief.pdf
[full-text, 12 pages]
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Elections: Views on Implementing Federal Elections on a Weekend. GAO-12-69, January 12.2012
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-12-69
or
http://www.gao.gov/assets/590/587621.pdf
[full-text, 71 pages]
LLRX.com
OVERVIEW of ALL FOI (Freedom of Information) LAWS 2011 [world-wide] [3 December 2011]
88 national FOIAs, 175 sub-national FOIAs, & 3 international FOIAs
http://www.llrx.com/system/files?file=OverviewFOIA2011.pdf
[full-text, 29 pages]
Overview of all FOI Law Around the World - 2011 update [3 December 2011]
By Roger Vleugels
http://www.llrx.com/features/foilawsoverview.htm
Statistical Reports
BEA: U.S. INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN GOODS AND SERVICES-- November 2011 [13 January 2012]
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/2012/trad1111.htm
or
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/2012/pdf/trad1111.pdf
[full-text, 50 pages]
or
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/2012/xls/trad1111.xls
[spreadsheet]
and
Highlights
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/2012/pdf/trad1111_fax.pdf
BLS: PRODUCER PRICE INDEXES - DECEMBER 2011 [18 January 2012]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ppi.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ppi.pdf
[full-text, 23 pages]
and
Supplemental Files Table of Contents
http://www.bls.gov/web/ppi.supp.toc.htm
BLS: U.S. IMPORT AND EXPORT PRICE INDEXES - DECEMBER 2011 [13 January 2012]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ximpim.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ximpim.pdf
[full-text, 16 pages]
and
Supplemental Files Table of Contents
http://www.bls.gov/web/ximpim.supp.toc.htm
Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts
National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)
2012 Presidential Primary and Caucus Calendar
http://www.ncsl.org/default.aspx?TabId=24075
2012 State and Presidential Primary and Caucus Dates
http://www.ncsl.org/default.aspx?tabid=24079
Press Release 11 January 2012
Primary and Caucus Dates
http://ncsl.typepad.com/the_thicket/2012/01/primary-and-caucus-dates.html
ILR School at Cornell University
FREE Webcast
Are the jobs ever coming back?
Management priorities, market incentives, workplace technology and sustainable employment
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/events/01252012-compensationPanelDiscussion.html
Webcast Date: Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. (EST)
NOTE: In light of the continuing economic crisis, it is wise to educate ourselves about the social dangers that can result if societies and individuals forget the lessons of history and act irresponsibly. With this in mind, the following ongoing educational project is being brought to your attention.
Camp des Milles: A Memorial for the Future
http://www.campdesmilles.org/index.html
or
http://www.campdesmilles.org/content/view/1/7/lang,eng
[English Version]
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 2011, will appear from time to time on this news service.
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
www.ictr.org
THE BACHARACH BLOG
http://bacharachblog.com/
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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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