Wednesday, December 04, 2013
[IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 4 December 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, 4 December 2013
Academic Research
LABOUR LAW RESEARCH NETWORK (LLRN)
http://www.labourlawresearch.net/Papers.aspx
IZA Discussion Papers (Institute for the Study of Labor)
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers
Recent studies include ---
7779 Remittances and Migration Intentions of the Left-Behind
7778 Immigration in Europe: Trends, Policies and Empirical Evidence
(Forthcoming in: Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller (eds), Handbook of the Economics of International Migration, Elsevier)
7777 Distributional Effects of Macroeconomic Policy Choices in Emerging Market Economies
7776 The Cyclical Behaviour of Employers' Monopsony Power and Workers' Wages
7775 Couples' Labour Supply Responses to Job Loss: Boom and Recession Compared
7774 Does Homeownership Lead to Longer Unemployment Spells? The Role of Mortgage Payments
7773 Behind the Great Recession: Job Search and Housing Decisions
7772 Aid to Jobless Workers in Florida in the Face of the Great Recession: The Interaction of Unemployment Insurance and the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program
7771 Path-Breakers: How Does Women's Political Participation Respond to Electoral Success?
7770 Bride Price and Fertility Decisions: Evidence from Rural Senegal
7769 Does Patience Matter for Marriage Stability? Some Evidence from Italy
7768 After-School Care and Parents' Labor Supply
7767 Career Lesbians: Getting Hired for Not Having Kids?
7766 Public, Private or Both? Analysing Factors Influencing the Labour Supply of Medical Specialists
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
African Development Bank (AfDB)
The Lancet Commissions
GLOBAL HEALTH 2035: A WORLD CONVERGING WITHIN A GENERATION [3 December 2013]
by Dean T Jamison*, Lawrence H Summers*, George Alleyne, Kenneth J Arrow, Seth Berkley, Agnes Binagwaho, Flavia Bustreo, David Evans,
Richard G A Feachem, Julio Frenk, Gargee Ghosh, Sue J Goldie, Yan Guo, Sanjeev Gupta, Richard Horton, Margaret E Kruk, Adel Mahmoud,
Linah K Mohohlo, Mthuli Ncube, Ariel Pablos-Mendez, K Srinath Reddy, Helen Saxenian, Agnes Soucat, Karene H Ulltveit-Moe, Gavin Yamey
[full-text, 58 pages]
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
PACIFIC ECONOMIC MONITOR--DECEMBER 2013 [2 December 2013]
http://www.adb.org/publications/pacific-economic-monitor-december-2013
or
http://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/pub/2013/pacmonitor-dec2013.pdf
[full-text, 36 pages]
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
ADB Briefs, No. 18, November 2013
SKILLS FOR COMPETITIVENESS, JOBS, AND EMPLOYABILITY IN DEVELOPING ASIA-PACIFIC [26 November 2013]
or
http://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/pub/2013/skills-competitiveness-jobs-employability.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO)
[UK] IMPACT OF THE RECESSION ON WORKPLACES AND ON EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS [2 December 2013]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/surveyreports/uk1310019d/uk1310019d.htm
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
European Monitoring Centre on Change (EMCC)
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/emcc/erm/index.htm
RESTRUCTURING SUPPORT INSTRUMENTS [DATABASE]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/emcc/erm/supportinstruments/
see also
RESTRUCTURING RELATED LEGISLATION [DATABASE]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/emcc/erm/rll/
International Labour Organization (ILO)
International Institute for Labour Studies (IILS)
KENYA: MAKING QUALITY EMPLOYMENT THE DRIVER OF DEVELOPMENT [2 December 2013]
http://www.ilo.org/global/research/publications/WCMS_231155/lang--en/index.htm
or
http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---africa/documents/publication/wcms_231155.pdf
[full-text, 188 pages]
Executive Summary and Policy Recommendations
[full-text, 13 pages]
Press Release 2 December 2013
ILO report calls for job-centred growth policies in Kenya
Kenya needs to adopt a coherent national employment strategy to achieve a more equitable economic growth, says the ILO.
http://www.ilo.org/addisababa/whats-new/WCMS_231151/lang--en/index.htm
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Press Release 2 December 2013
Palestinian Authority to adopt comprehensive private sector social security scheme by 2015
The National Social Security Committee has unveiled a proposed social security scheme covering pensions, and maternity and employment injury benefits to be financed by both employers and workers
http://www.ilo.org/beirut/media-centre/news/WCMS_231142/lang--en/index.htm
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
PISA 2012 RESULTS [3 December 2013]
http://www.oecd.org/pisa/keyfindings/pisa-2012-results.htm
[scroll down at this URL for country-specific information]
Press Release 3 December 2013
Asian countries top OECD’s latest PISA survey on state of global education
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
FISCAL FEDERALISM 2014: MAKING DECENTRALISATION WORK [2 December 2013]
http://www.oecd.org/ctp/federalism/fiscal-federalism-making-decentralisation-work.htm
or
[full-text, 136 pages]
or
http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/governance/fiscal-federalism-2014_9789264204577-en
Press Release 2 December 2013
Making fiscal decentralisation work
http://www.oecd.org/newsroom/making-fiscal-decentralisation-work.htm
Organisation for Economic Cooperaton and Development (OECD)
OECD ECONOMIC SURVEY OF GREECE 2013 [27 November 2013]
http://www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/greece-2013.htm
or
http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/economics/oecd-economic-surveys-greece-2013_eco_surveys-grc-2013-en
[full-text, 134 pages]
or
OVERVIEW
http://www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/GRC_Overview_Eng_2013.pdf
[full-text, 38 pages]
OECD COMPETITION ASSESSMENT REVIEWS: GREECE [27 November 2013]
http://www.oecd.org/daf/competition/greece-competition-review-2013.htm
or
http://www.oecd.org/daf/competition/Greece-Competition-Assessment-2013.pdf
[full-text, 328 pages]
Press Release 27 November 2013
Greece: Structural reforms under way but more progress needed in boosting market dynamism
Federal
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
Performance of U.S. 15-Year-Old Students in Mathematics, Science, and Reading Literacy in an International Context-First Look at PISA 2012 [3 December 2013]
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2014024
or
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2014/2014024.pdf
[full-text, 52 pages]
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
2011–12 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:12) Price Estimates for Attending Postsecondary Education Institutions [3 December 2013]
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2014166
or
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2014/2014166.pdf
[full-text, 56 pages]
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
STEM ATTRITION: COLLEGE STUDENT'S PATHS INTO AND OUT OF STEM FIELDS [26 November 2013]
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2014001rev
or
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2014/2014001rev.pdf
[full-text, 104 pages]
Women's Bureau (WB)
THE ECONOMIC STATUS OF WOMEN OF COLOR: A SNAPSHOT [fact sheets] [2 December 2013]
http://www.dol.gov/wb/media/reports/WB_WomenColorFactSheet.pdf
[full-text, 12 pages]
Institutes/Associations/Commercial
Center for American Progress
TRAINING FOR SUCCESS: A POLICY TO EXPAND APPRENTICESHIPS IN THE UNITED STATES [2 December 2013]
By Ben Olinsky and Sarah Ayres
or
http://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/apprenticeship_report.pdf
[full-text, 66 pages]
Deloitte
THE OPEN TALENT ECONOMY: PEOPLE AND WORK IN A BORDERLESS WORKPLACE [3 July 2013]
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-open-talent-economy/id669663962?ls=1
or
[full-text, 12 pages]
European Trade Union Confederaton (ETUC)
A NEW PATH FOR EUROPE: ETUC PLAN FOR INVESTMENT SUSTAINABLE GROWTH AND QUALITY JOBS [8 November 2013]
or
http://www.etuc.org/IMG/pdf/EN-A-new-path-for-europe.pdf
[full-text, 9 pages -- includes ANNEXES]
RAND
Managing Diverse Work Groups in the U.S. Coast Guard [27 November 2013]
by Laura Collins
http://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE110.html
or
http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/perspectives/PE100/PE110/RAND_PE110.pdf
[full-text, 14 pages]
Urban Institute (UI)
Closing the Wealth Gap: Empowering Minority-Owned Businesses to Reach Their Full Potential for Growth and Job Creation [Testimony] [online 26 November 2013]
by Signe-Mary McKernan, Caroline Ratcliffe
http://www.urban.org/publications/904611.html
or
http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/904611-closing-the-wealth-gap-testimony.pdf
[full-text, 10 pages]
WorldatWork [The Total Rewards Association]
SURVEY BRIEFS AND REPORTS 1999 TO 2013 WHICH ARE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE FOR FREE [see right margin]
http://worldatwork.org/Content/research/html/research-home.jsp
Law
Congressional Research Service (CRS)
Pay Equity: Legislative and Legal Developments
Benjamin Collins, Analyst in Labor Policy
Jody Feder, Legislative Attorney
November 22, 2013
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL31867.pdf
[full-text, 13 pages]
Congressional Research Service (CRS)
Expiring Unemployment Insurance Provisions
Katelin P. Isaacs, Analyst in Income Security
November 22, 2013
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41508.pdf
full-text, 8 pages]
Statistical Reports
Eurostat
Press Release 29 November 2013
October 2013
Euro area unemployment rate at 12.1%
EU28 at 10.9%
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_PUBLIC/3-29112013-AP/EN/3-29112013-AP-EN.PDF
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
How to Earn Credibility as a Leader [video]
Build Teams for Creativity [video]
Why All Leaders Should Read Lord of the Flies
Can You Have Meetings and Still Innovate?
5 Ways to Boost Innovation Without Breaking the Bank
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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