IWS Documented News WEEKLY BULLETIN: October 2013

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

[IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 30 October 2013

IWS Documented News Service

_______________________________

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 October 2013

Academic Research

A new issue of ILRReview is available online at

http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/ilrreview/vol66/iss5/

Subscribers may log-in to download copies.

To subscribe, go to: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/ilrreview/subscribe.html

IZA Discussion Papers (Institute for the Study of Labor)

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

Recent studies include ---

7709 Household Consumption at Retirement: A Regression Discontinuity Study on French Data

7708 What If You Had Been Less Fortunate: The Effects of Poor Family Background on Current Labor Market Outcomes

7707 What Is the Case for Paid Maternity Leave?

7706 U.S. versus Sweden: The Effect of Alternative In-Work Tax Credit Policies on Labour Supply of Single Mothers

7705 Assessing the Impact of the Maternity Capital Policy in Russia Using a Dynamic Model of Fertility and Employment

7704 Mothers, Friends and Gender Identity

7703 Informality and Mobility: Evidence from Russian Panel Data

7702 Money on the Table? Firms' and Workers' Gains from Productivity Spillovers through Worker Mobility

7701 Skill Mismatches in the EU: Immigrants vs. Natives

7700 A Gravity Model of Migration between ENC and EU

7699 Aggregation and Labor Supply Elasticities

7698 Steady-State Labor Supply Elasticities: A Survey

7697 Does It Pay to Work for Free? Wage Returns and Gender Differences in the Market for Volunteers

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

BePress (Berkeley Electronic Press)

HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT COMMONS

http://network.bepress.com/business/human-resources-management/

http://network.bepress.com/explore/business/human-resources-management/

ILR PRESS
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/presses/?fa=publisher&NameP=ILR%20Press
Forthcoming and recent ILR Press titles
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/search/?fa=rechercheA&keyType=all&Editeur=ILR%20Press&StartYear=1920

CORNELL HR REVIEW

http://www.cornellhrreview.org/

(The Cornell HR Review is a student-run HR publication that provides timely articles, essays, and executive commentary).

International Labour Organization (ILO)

ILO WORKING PAPERS—Recent Studies
http://www.ilo.org/global/publications/working-papers/lang--en/index.htm

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

International

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

ASIAN ECONOMIC INTEGRATION MONITOR--OCTOBER 2013 [24 October 2013]

http://www.adb.org/publications/asian-economic-integration-monitor-october-2013

http://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/pub/2013/aiem-201310.pdf

[full-text, 63 pages]

Press Release 24 October 2013

National and Regional Actions Required to Realize Growth Benefits of Integration

http://www.adb.org/news/national-and-regional-actions-required-realize-growth-benefits-integration

Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

Social protection systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: Plurinational State of Bolivia [September 2013, online October]

by Javier Monterrey Arce

http://www.eclac.org/cgi-bin/getProd.asp?xml=%20/publicaciones/xml/0/51360/P51360.xml&xsl=/tpl-i/p9f.xsl%20&base=/tpl-i/top-bottom.xslt

http://www.eclac.org/publicaciones/xml/0/51360/SPS_Bolivia_ing.pdf

[full-text, 35 pages]

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

FOUNDATION FOCUS: QUALITY OF LIFE, PUBLIC SERVICE AND THE CRISIS [24 October 2013]

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef1342.htm

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2013/42/en/1/EF1342EN.pdf

[full-text, 20 pages]

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

WOMEN, MEN AND WORKING CONDITIONS IN EUROPE [24 October 2013]

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef1349.htm

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2013/49/en/1/EF1349EN.pdf

[full-text, 104 pages]

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

European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO)

ESTONIA: NEW CIVIL SERVICE ACT REDUCES CIVIL SERVANTS BY 25% [24 October 2013]

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/2013/08/articles/ee1308019i.htm

International Labour Organization (ILO)

Can better working conditions improve the performance of SMEs? :An international literature review [23 October 2013]

by Richard Croucher, Bianca Stumbitz, , Michael Quinlan, Ian Vickers

http://www.ilo.org/empent/Publications/WCMS_227760/lang--en/index.htm

http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_emp/---emp_ent/documents/publication/wcms_227760.pdf

[full-text, 104 pages]

International Labour Organization (ILO)

Workers' resistance against Nazi Germany at the International Labour Conference 1933 [23 October 2013]

by Reiner Tosstorff

http://www.ilo.org/actrav/what/pubs/WCMS_226941/lang--en/index.htm

http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_dialogue/---actrav/documents/publication/wcms_226941.pdf

[full-text, 97 pages]

Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JILPT)

JILPT Research Report No.154 Summary March 21, 2013

Work and consciousness of [persons in their] 30s in Tokyo: From "the survey on the working style of [persons in their] 30s [22 October 2013]

http://www.jil.go.jp/english/reports/jilpt_research/2013/no.154.html

Organisaton for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

OECD SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INDUSTRY SCOREBOARD 2013: INNOVATION FOR GROWTH [23 October 2013]

http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/science-and-technology/oecd-science-technology-and-industry-scoreboard-2013_sti_scoreboard-2013-en

http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/download/9213051e.pdf?expires=1383031520&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=76D06125EA3D4BF90AE2F56A34F53E88

[full-text, 279 pages]

Organisaton for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

OECD HEALTH STATISTICS [DATASETS]

http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issues-migration-health/data/oecd-health-statistics_health-data-en;jsessionid=4e5ov88h3lgvn.x-oecd-live-02

Organisaton for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

OECD Health Working Papers No. 62

HEALTH WORKFORCE PLANNING IN OECD COUNTRIES:A REVIEW OF 26 PROJECTION MODELS FROM 18 COUNTRIES [26 June 2013]

by Tomoko Ono, Gaetan Lafortune, Michael Schoenstein

http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issues-migration-health/health-workforce-planning-in-oecd-countries_5k44t787zcwb-en

http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/download/5k44t787zcwb.pdf?expires=1383030939&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=11E0EA6B1A0D51F686D2D372D937111D

[full-text, 131 pages]

World Bank

INCLUSION MATTERS: THE FOUNDATION FOR SHARED PROSPERITY [18 October 2013]

https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/16195

https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/16195/9781464800108.pdf?sequence=1

[full-text, 301 pages]

World Bank

Developing Skills for Economic Transformation and Social Harmony in China : A Study of Yunnan Province [25 October 2013]

Author(s): Liang, Xiaoyan ; Chen, Shuang

https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/16197

https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/16197/82053.pdf?sequence=1

[full-text, 203 pages]

World Economic Forum (WEF)

THE GLOBAL GENDER GAP REPORT 2013 [25 October 2013]

http://reports.weforum.org/global-gender-gap-report-2013/#=

http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GenderGap_Report_2013.pdf

[full-text, 397 pages]

Press Release 25 October 2013

Increased Political Participation Helps Narrow Global Gender Gap in 2013

http://www.weforum.org/news/increased-political-participation-helps-narrow-global-gender-gap-2013

Federal

Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB)

2012 FINDINGS ON THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR [30 September 2013]

http://www.dol.gov/ilab/reports/child-labor/findings/

[use the above link for individual country reports]

http://www.dol.gov/ilab/programs/ocft/2012TDA.pdf

[full-text, 896 pages]

BLS: MONTHLY LABOR REVIEW October 2013

MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE: PATTERNS BY GENDER, RACE, AND EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2013/article/marriage-and-divorce-patterns-by-gender-race-and-educational-attainment.htm

Census

INCOME AND EARNINGS ESTIMATES FOR 2012 [17 October 2013]

http://www.census.gov/sipp/tables/quarterly-est.html

Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

WORKPLACE HEALTH PROMOTION

http://www.cdc.gov/workplacehealthpromotion/

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Raising the Age of Eligibility for Medicare to 67: An Updated Estimate of the Budgetary Effects [24 October 2013]

http://www.cbo.gov/publication/44661

http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/44661-EligibilityAgeforMedicare.pdf

[full-text, 5 pages]

Congressional Research Service (CRS)

SOCIAL SECURITY: WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THE TRUST FUNDS RAN OUT? [21 October 2013]

Christine Scott, Specialist in Social Policy

October 21, 2013

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33514.pdf

[full-text, 16 pages]

Congressional Research Service (CRS)

Unemployment Insurance: Programs and Benefits

Julie M. Whittaker, Specialist in Income Security

Katelin P. Isaacs, Analyst in Income Security

September 17, 2013

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33362.pdf

[full-text, 32 pages]

Congressional Research Service (CRS)

The Mental Health Workforce: A Primer

Elayne J. Heisler, Analyst in Health Services

Erin Bagalman, Analyst in Health Policy

October 18, 2013

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43255.pdf

[full-text, 24 pages]

Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)

TRANSITIONING TO SAFER CHEMICALS: A TOOLKIT FOR EMPLOYERS AND WORKERS [24 October 2013]

https://www.osha.gov/dsg/safer_chemicals/index.html

LEADERSHIP: New Voice, New Insights, RESULTS-ORIENTED

Creativity Tips From 5 World-Famous Artists
Posted by Samuel B. Bacharach on Oct 2, 2013
http://sambacharach.com/bacharachblog/linksy/creativity-tips-from-5-world-famous-artists/

--see also
BACHARACH LEADERSHIP GROUP (BLG)
http://sambacharach.com/blg-lead/
and
INC.com & Inc. Magazine
www.inc.com
Samuel Bacharach Articles
http://www.inc.com/author/samuel-bacharach

4 Innovation Lessons from Mozart

Jeff Bezos' Innovation Formula

Are You Listening, Congress? 8 Things to Remember When You Play Chicken

Leadership, Obama, and the Art of the Schmooze

Leadership Lessons From a Dysfunctional Congress

Creativity Tips From 5 World-Famous Artists

Senator Ted Cruz and the Pitfalls of Zealot Leadership
4 Ways to Justify a Good Idea

5 Steps to Becoming an Innovation Champion

President Obama, Syria, and the Leadership of Muddling Through
Using Summer's End To Boost Your Creativity
4 Strategies That Inspire Creativity

Leadership Without Presumption: Lessons From Eisenhower

5 Productivity Strategies from the Mind of Richard Feynman

Coaching: Beyond the Sports Icon

5 Classic Movies, 5 Leadership Lessons
5 Leadership Lessons From a Hollywood Pope
4 Reasons Your Employees Resist Change--And How To Overcome Them
Are You Still a Great Leader?
4 Lessons for Mid-Life Entrepreneurs
5 Leadership Lessons From the Seder
The One Thing You Need To Create Change
How Competition Makes You Better: 4 Lessons from Picasso and Matisse
Change: A Play in 4 Acts
Creativity Tips From 5 Very Funny People
Great Leaders Know When to Step Down: A Lesson From the Pope
5 Reasons Leaders Fail
Stop Procrastinating: 5 Tips From Ben Franklin
How to Avoid a Desperate Decision
You Talk Too Much
Leading for a Gender-Inclusive Workplace
Can You Manage and Lead?
How to Hang Onto Your Best & Brightest
Negotiation: How to Play the Doomsday Strategy
Your Own Private Whale: Leadership Lessons From Moby Dick
Why He Won: A Lesson in What People Really Want in a Leader
The Leadership Gifts of Keeping Your Mouth Shut
Will They Tell You You're Naked?
5 Traits of True Leaders
How to Lead Creative Geeks
Boosting "Big Mo"
Leadership Training for Your High-Potential Employees
Gen-Y Employees: How to Motivate Them
The 5 Traits of High-Potential Employees
Why You Should Say What You Pay Employees
How to Change Your Mind Without Being a Flip-Flopper
Don't Do Office Politics? Then You Don't Do Leadership.
Leading Teams: Find the Right Balance Between Hands-on and Hands-off
Charisma Is Not Enough. Great Leaders Execute

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# posted by SBasefsky : 10:44 PM

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

[IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 23 October 2013

IWS Documented News Service

_______________________________

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

________________________________________________________________________

IWS Weekly Bulletin, 23 October 2013

Academic Research

IZA Discussion Papers (Institute for the Study of Labor)

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

Recent studies include ---

7686 Criminal Victims, Victimized Criminals, or Both? A Deeper Look at the Victim-Offender Overlap

7685 Engaging in Corruption: The Influence of Cultural Values and Contagion Effects at the Micro Level

7684 Confucianism and Preferences: Evidence from Lab Experiments in Taiwan and China

7683 Effects of Religiosity on Social Behaviour: Experimental Evidence from a Representative Sample of Spaniards

7682 What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being

7681 Household Behavior and the Marriage Market

7680 Strategic Parenting, Birth Order and School Performance

7679 Don't Give Up: The Effects of Birth Order on Earnings in Europe

7678 Why So Few Women on Boards of Directors? Empirical Evidence from Danish Companies 1997-2007

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

BePress (Berkeley Electronic Press)

HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT COMMONS

http://network.bepress.com/business/human-resources-management/

http://network.bepress.com/explore/business/human-resources-management/

CORNELL HR REVIEW

http://www.cornellhrreview.org/

(The Cornell HR Review is a student-run HR publication that provides timely articles, essays, and executive commentary).

International Labour Organization (ILO)

ILO WORKING PAPERS—Recent Studies
http://www.ilo.org/global/publications/working-papers/lang--en/index.htm

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

International

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

ECONOMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN EAST ASIA [17 October 2013]

http://www.adb.org/publications/economics-climate-change-east-asia

http://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/pub/2013/economics-climate-change-east-asia.pdf

[full-text, 216 pages]

Press Release 17 October 2013

0.3% of GDP Would Protect East Asia from Climate Change - ADB Report

http://www.adb.org/news/03-gdp-would-protect-east-asia-climate-change-adb-report

European Commission

Flash Eurobarometer 366

QUALITY OF LIFE IN EUROPEAN CITIES [October 2013]

http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/flash/fl_366_en.pdf

[full-text, 140 pages]

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

DRAFT DOCUMENTS ON MINIMUM WAGE [21 October 2013]

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/press/presspack/minimumwagesdraft.htm

A coordinated EU minimum wage policy? [DRAFT REPORT]

Enrique Fernández-Macías and Carlos Vacas-Soriano

Eurofound, October 2013

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/docs/press/minimumwages/draftreport_minimumwage_21oct13.pdf

[full-text, 64 pages]

ANNEX TO DRAFT REPORT

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/docs/press/minimumwages/annex_draftminimumwage.pdf

[full-text, 22 pages]

CHART (Figure) in spreadsheet form

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/docs/press/minimumwages/draftEUMW%20and%20Germany%20figure.xlsx

Press Release 21 October 2013

New Eurofound report evaluates potential impact of a coordinated EU minimum wage policy

http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=46441f70124bed066f0803c16&id=f5c228a10f&e=dfea509978

India

Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation

Report No. 553 (66/10/8)

EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT SITUATION IN CITIES AND TOWNS IN INDIA [September 2013]

July 2009-June 2010

http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/nss_rep_553_Final.pdf

[full-text, 183 pages]

‌Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)

THE FISCAL INSTITUTIONS OF TOMORROW [October 2013]

http://www.iadb.org/en/publications/publication-detail,7101.html?id=70901&dcLanguage=en&dcType=Books&doctype=Books&docTypeID=Books&searchLang=&keyword=&selectList=All&topicDetail=0&tagDetail=0&jelcodeDetail=0&publicationCover=1#.Ul5Vs3HD-Uk

http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=38149594

[full-text, 198 pages]

Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)

Discussion Paper No. IDB-DP-314

Definitions Matter: Measuring Gender Gaps in Firms' Access to Credit [16 October 2013]

http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=38179254

[full-text, 27 pages

International Labour Organization (ILO)

LABOUR ADMINISTRATION REFORMS IN CHINA [16 October 2013]

by Giuseppe Casale and Changyou Zhu

http://www.ilo.org/labadmin/info/pubs/WCMS_224430/lang--en/index.htm

http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_dialogue/---lab_admin/documents/publication/wcms_224430.pdf

[full-text, 115 pages]

International Labour Organization (ILO)

THE LABOUR MARKETS OF EMERGING ECONOMIES: HAS GROWTH TRANSLATED INTO MORE AND BETTER JOBS? [21 October 2013]

http://www.ilo.org/global/publications/books/forthcoming-publications/WCMS_191018/lang--en/index.htm

Press Release 21 October 2013

Emerging economies: has growth translated into more and better jobs?

A new ILO book analyses labour market trends and regulations in various emerging markets and presents a number of policies that can lead to a synergy between economic growth and decent job creation.

http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/comment-analysis/WCMS_224436/lang--en/index.htm

International Labour Organization (ILO)
Resources from the Green Jobs Programme
http://www.ilo.org/empent/units/green-jobs-programme/facet/lang--en/index.htm?facetcriteria=TYP=Publication-ORG=ED_EMP/GJP&facetdynlist=WCMS_159142

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

LATIN AMERICAN ECONOMIC OUTLOOK 2014: LOGISTICS AND COMPETITIVENESS FOR DEVELOPMENT [18 October 2014]

http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/development/latin-american-economic-outlook-2014_leo-2014-en;jsessionid=2gzbmca8k5iw.x-oecd-live-01

http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/development/latin-american-economic-outlook-2014_leo-2014-en

http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/download/4113061e.pdf?expires=1382466136&id=id&accname=ocid53017311&checksum=915A95333042034D5491A1572C566BD3

[full-text, 161 pages]

Federal

BLS: MONTHLY LABOR REVIEW

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2013/home.htm

[Click on the title of the following articles for access]

· Labor market lessons from occupational colleges 10/01/2013

· Coming to America: the Latino impact 10/01/2013

· Scheduled passenger air transportation in the Producer Price Index: improvements and trends 09/26/2013

· Recent trends in spending patterns of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program participants and other low-income Americans 09/13/2013

· Research highlights of the Consumer Expenditure Survey redesign 09/09/2013

· A working we will go: professional women over 60 and still working 09/04/2013

· Green Goods and Services survey: results and collection 09/03/2013

· America's opinions of occupations 09/03/2013

· Cluster analysis: state unemployment trends during the recession 09/03/2013

· Wage estimates by job characteristic: NCS and OES program data 08/27/2013

BLS: BEYOND THE NUMBERS (August through September 2013)

http://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/archive/home.htm

Sep 2013	Prices & Spending	Measures Of Gasoline Price Change (PDF)	Malik Crawford and Stephen B. Reed	Beyond the Numbers
Aug 2013	Workplace Injuries	Death On The Job: Fatal Work Injuries In 2011 (PDF)	Stephen Pegula and Jill Janocha	Beyond the Numbers
Aug 2013	Employment & Unemployment	Long-Term Unemployment Over Men'S Careers (PDF)	Donna S. Rothstein	Beyond the Numbers

BLS: TED: THE EDITOR'S DESK

http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/year.htm

{Click on title for access]

· Frequency and duration of eldercare, 2011–2012 (10/21/2013)

· Employee benefits for domestic partners in March 2013 (10/18/2013)

· Employer premiums and employee contributions for family medical care benefits, March 2013 (10/17/2013)

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Geographic Dispersion of the COPS Hiring Program Grant Awards, Number of Officers Funded, and Federal Share of Compensation Per Officer, Fiscal Years 2008 through 2012
GAO-13-521, September 18, 2013
http://www.gao.gov/multimedia/GAO-13-521/interactive_map/summary

Grants awarded 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008

Compensation per officer 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008

Show Datatables | Export current map to CSV | Download PDF (118 Pages)

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)

What's New for October 2013
http://nces.ed.gov/whatsnew/

[Click on title below for Access]

Literacy, Numeracy, and Problem Solving in Technology-Rich Environments Among U.S. Adults: Results from the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies 2012 (October 18, 2013)

Selected Statistics from the Common Core of Data: School Year 2011–12 (October 17, 2013)

NCES Releases "Degrees of Debt: Student Loan Repayment of Bachelor's Degree Recipients 1 Year After Graduating: 1994, 2001, and 2009" (October 17, 2013)

America's Ninth Graders Two Years Later Focus of New NCES First Look Report (October 17, 2013)

Institutes/Associations/Commercial

Mercer