Tuesday, October 29, 2013
[IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 30 October 2013
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 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/
or
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
or
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
or
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
or
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
or
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
or
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
or
[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]
or
[full-text, 279 pages]
Organisaton for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
OECD HEALTH STATISTICS [DATASETS]
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
or
[full-text, 131 pages]
World Bank
INCLUSION MATTERS: THE FOUNDATION FOR SHARED PROSPERITY [18 October 2013]
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/16195
or
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
or
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/#=
or
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]
or
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
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
or
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
See also--
Permissible Exposure Limits – Annotated Tables
https://www.osha.gov/dsg/annotated-pels/index.html
Press Release 24 October 2013
OSHA releases new resources to better protect workers from hazardous chemicals
http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/osha/OSHA20132026.htm
Institutes/Associations/Commercial
Kachan & Co., As You Sow and Responsible Endowments Coalition
Cleantech Redefined: Why the next wave of cleantech infrastructure, technology and services will thrive in the twenty first century [23 October 2013]
http://www.asyousow.org/publications/2013/Cleantech_Redefined-20131023.pdf
[full-text, 39 pages]
Urban Institute (UI)
CLASS AND COLOR IN THE CREDIT CRUNCH: Mortgage Lending to Low- and Moderate-Income Borrowers and Borrowers of Color during and after the Great Recession [24 October 2013]
by Claudia Ayanna Sharygin
http://www.urban.org/publications/412939.html
or
http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/412939-Class-and-Color-in-the-Credit-Crunch.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]
Law
Congressional Research Service (CRS)
Student Bullying: Overview of Research, Federal Initiatives, and Legal Issues
Gail McCallion, Specialist in Social Policy
Jody Feder, Legislative Attorney
October 18, 2013
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43254.pdf
[full-text, 29 pages]
International Finance Corporation (IFC)/World Bank
DOING BUSINESS 2014: UNDERSTANDING REGULATIONS FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZE ENTERPRISES [29 October 2013]
http://doingbusiness.org/reports/global-reports/doing-business-2014
or
[full-text, 316 pages]
Press Release 28 October 2013
'Doing Business' Research Documents 18 Percent Increase in Business Regulation Reforms, Helping Entrepreneurs; Trend to Reduce Burdens Especially Noticeable In Africa
International Labour Organization (ILO)
WORKING CONDITIONS LAWS DATABASE
http://www.ilo.org/dyn/travail/travmain.home
Working Time - Minimum Wages - Maternity Protection
Statistical Reports
BEA: U.S. INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN GOODS AND SERVICES August 2013 [24 October 2013]
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/tradnewsrelease.htm
or
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/2013/pdf/trad0813.pdf
[full-text, 50 pages]
or
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/2013/xls/trad0813.xls
[spreadsheet]
and
Highlights
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/2013/pdf/trad0813_fax.pdf
BLS: PRODUCER PRICE INDEXES - SEPTEMBER 2013 [29 October 2013]
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: JOB OPENINGS AND LABOR TURNOVER – AUGUST 2013 [24 October 2013]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/jolts.pdf
[full-text, 17 pages]
and
Supplemental Files Table of Contents
http://www.bls.gov/web/jolts.supp.toc.htm
BLS: U.S. IMPORT AND EXPORT PRICE INDEXES - SEPTEMBER 2013 [23 October 2013]
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
Launching the BLG Leadership Academy
Posted by Samuel B. Bacharach
http://sambacharach.com/bacharachblog/leader/new-developments-launching-the-blg-leadership-academy/
BLG LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: Developing Pragmatic Leaders
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/iws/blg/
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/index2.html
or
http://www.campdesmilles.org/home2.html
[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 2013, 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/
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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