Wednesday, December 08, 2010
[IWS] Weekly Bulletin, 8 December 2010
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, 8 December 2010
Academic Research
United States International Trade Commission (USITC)
Working Paper
An Overview and Examination of the Malaysian Service Sector
No. ID-21
by Lisa Alejandro, Jennifer Baumert Powell, Samantha Brady, and Isaac Wohl, Office of Industries;
November 2010
http://usitc.gov/publications/332/working_papers/ID-21.pdf
[full-text, 45 pages]
IZA Discussion Papers (Institute for the Study of Labor)
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers
Recent studies include ---
5360 The Impact of Labor Market Entry Conditions on Initial Job Assignment, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wages
5359 Sequentiality versus Simultaneity: Interrelated Factor Demand
5358 The Importance of Two-Sided Heterogeneity for the Cyclicality of Labour Market Dynamics
5357 Great Expectations: Law, Employment Contracts, and Labor Market Performance
5356 Directed Generosity and Network Formation: Network Dimension Matters
5355 No Claim, No Pain: Measuring the Non-Take-up of Social Assistance Using Register Data
(forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Inequality)
5354 Immigrants' Employment Outcomes over the Business Cycle
5353 African Leaders: Their Education Abroad and FDI Flows
5352 Contracts between Legal Persons
5351 Perceptions, Expectations, and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Extreme Events
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)
Gender Equality Results Case Studies: Bangladesh [2 December 2010]
http://www.adb.org/documents/reports/gender/case-studies-ban/default.asp
or
http://www.adb.org/documents/reports/gender/case-studies-ban/gender-case-study-ban.pdf
[full-text, 58 pages]
Gender Equality Results Case Studies: Nepal [2 December 2010]
http://www.adb.org/documents/reports/gender/case-studies-nep/default.asp
or
http://www.adb.org/documents/reports/gender/case-studies-nep/gender-case-study-nep.pdf
[full-text 31 pages]
Development Bank (ADB)
Knowledge Solutions
E-Learning and the Workplace
By Olivier Serrat
http://www.adb.org/documents/information/knowledge-solutions/e-learning-and-the-workplace.pdf
[full-text, 7 pages]
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Knowledge Solutions
Enriching Knowledge Management Coordination [1 December 2010]
By Olivier Serrat
[full-text, 5 pages]
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
Juan Menéndez-Valdés [2 December 2010]
[New] Director
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound)
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/press/presspack/general/menendezvaldescv.htm
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
Industrial relations, social dialogue and working time: The commerce sector in Europe [2 December 2010]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef1089.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2010/89/en/1/EF1089EN.pdf
[full-text, 16 pages]
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
Social dialogue and recession in the automotive sector: a global perspective [30 November 2010]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef10371.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2010/371/en/1/EF10371EN.pdf
[full-text, 25 pages]
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
European Working Conditions Observatory [EWCO]
EU LEVEL/INFORMATION UPDATE
Key elements of fair employment and decent work [for HEALTH EQUITY] [23 November 2010]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/ewco/2010/10/EU1010011I.htm
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION
NATIONAL SAMPLE SURVEY OFFICE
HOUSING CONDITION AND AMENITIES IN INDIA, 2008-09 [15 November 2010]
http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/press_note_535_15nov10.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
World Economic and Financial Surveys
Fiscal Monitor
November 2010
Fiscal Exit: From Strategy to Implementation [4 November 2010]
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fm/2010/02/fmindex.htm
or
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fm/2010/fm1002.pdf
[full-text, 153 pages]
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
(The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an internationally standardised assessment that was jointly developed by participating economies and administered to15-year-olds in schools).
PISA 2009 Results [7 December 2010]
http://www.oecd.org/document/61/0,3343,en_2649_35845621_46567613_1_1_1_1,00.html
PISA ONLINE DATABASE 2009
Press Release 7 December 2010
Korea and Finland top OECD's latest PISA survey of education performance
http://www.oecd.org/document/12/0,3343,en_21571361_44315115_46623628_1_1_1_1,00.html
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
OECD Broadband Portal [updated 6 December 2010]
http://www.oecd.org/document/54/0,3343,en_2649_34225_38690102_1_1_1_1,00.html
World Bank
WORLD BANK PUBLIC SECTOR DEBT STATISTICS [6 December 2010]
http://go.worldbank.org/9PIAZORON0
or
[Data found in left margin at above URL]
Press Release 6 December 2010
World Bank and IMF Launch Quarterly Online Public Sector Debt Database
Federal
BLS: U.S. Department of Labor/ Career One Stop
Competency Model Clearinghouse
INDUSTRY COMPETENCY MODELS
http://www.careeronestop.org/competencymodel/default.aspx
BLS: Databases, Tables & Calculators by Subject
BLS: Monthly Labor Review
November 2010
Vol. 133, Number 11
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/
or
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2010/11/mlr201011.pdf
[full-text 123 pages]
The Nation's underemployed in the "Great Recession" of 2007–09
Andrew Sum and Ishwar Khatiwada
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2010/11/art1full.pdf
Reversals in the patterns of women's labor supply in the United States, 1977–2009
Diane J. Macunovich
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2010/11/art2full.pdf
Fatal occupational injuries at road construction sites, 2003–07
Stephen Pegula
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2010/11/art3full.pdf
Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
Local Police Departments, 2007
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=1750
or
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/lpd07.pdf
[full-text, 42 pages]
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
STATS of the STATES (Health and Vital Statistics by State)
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/stats_states.htm
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Doctorate Recipients from U.S. Universities: 2009 [1 December 2010]
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf11306/
or
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf11306/nsf11306.pdf
[full-text, 24 pages]
U.S. Commercial Service
Doing Business in South Africa - 2010 Country Commercial Guide for U.S. Companies [November 2010]
http://www.buyusainfo.net/docs/x_1428477.pdf
[full-text, 125 pages]
Institutes/Associations/Commercial
European Trade Union Institute (ETUI)
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING [Newsletter]
Issue 10 / 2010 November
http://www.etui.org/research/Publications/Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter
or
http://www.etui.org/research/content/download/7786/36832/version/1/file/Collective+bargaining+November+2010.pdf
[full-text, 11 pages]
RAND
INCORPORATING STUDENT PERFORMANCE MEASURES INTO TEACHER EVALUATION SYSTEMS [1 December 2010]
By: Jennifer L. Steele, Laura S. Hamilton, Brian M. Stecher
http://rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR917/
or
http://rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2010/RAND_TR917.pdf
[full-text, 53 pages]
Summary
http://rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2010/RAND_TR917.sum.pdf
World Economic Forum [WEF] & Accenture
ENERGY EFFICIENCY: ACCELERATING THE AGENDA [7 December 2010]
http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_EN_EnergyEfficiency_AcceleratingAgenda_Report_2010.pdf
[full-text, 40 pages]
Press Release 7 December 2010
New Report Launched at COP16 Aims to Cut Expected US$ 26 Trillion Energy Costs by 2030
http://www.weforum.org/en/media/Latest%20News%20Releases/NR_Energy_Efficiency_2010
Law
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
IMMIGRATION POLICY IN THE UNITED STATES: AN UPDATE [3 December 2010]
http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=11959
or
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/119xx/doc11959/12-03-Immigration_Chartbook.pdf
[full-text, 39 pages]
Chart Book
http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=11959&type=11
Statistical Reports
BLS: Job Openings and Labor Turnover – October 2010 [7 December 2010]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/jolts.pdf
[full-text, 16 pages]
And
Supplemental Files Table of Contents
http://www.bls.gov/web/jolts.supp.toc.htm
BLS: METROPOLITAN AREA EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT -- OCTOBER 2010 [7 December 2010]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/metro.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/metro.pdf
[full-text, 21 pages
and
Supplemental Files Table of Contents
http://www.bls.gov/web/metro.supp.toc.htm
BLS: THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION -- NOVEMBER 2010 [3 December 2010]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
[full-text, 39 pages]
and
Supplemental Files Table of Contents
http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit.supp.toc.htm
BLS: PRODUCTIVITY AND COSTS Third Quarter 2010, Revised [1 December 2010]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/prod2.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/prod2.pdf
[full-text, 15 pages]
and
Supplemental Files Table of Contents
http://www.bls.gov/web/prod2.supp.toc.htm
Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS DICTIONARY [Now Celebrating its 5th Birthday on 6 December 2010]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/areas/industrialrelations/dictionary/
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)
Hategekimana Convicted and Sentenced to Life Imprisonment
ICTR/INFO-9-2-661.EN
Dec 6, 2010
http://www.unictr.org/tabid/155/Default.aspx?id=1181
THE BACHARACH BLOG
http://bacharachblog.com/
10 Must-Read Social Media & Leadership Stories From December 1-3
By Samuel B. Bacharach on 12/03/10
http://bacharachblog.com/linksy/10-must-read-social-media-leadership-stories-from-december-1-3/
How to Write a Social Media Article [Free Template Included]
By wbriggs on 12/03/10
Controversial Content, GASP!, Equals Social Media Success
By wbriggs on 12/02/10
http://bacharachblog.com/leader/controversial-content-gasp-equals-social-media-success/
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Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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