Friday, July 31, 2009
Tweet[IWS] BLS: MONTHLY LABOR REVIEW, July 2009, Vol. 132, No. 7 [31 July 2009]
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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Monthly Labor Review Online
July 2009
Vol. 132, Number 7
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/home.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2009/07/mlr200907.pdf
[full-text, 146 pages]
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the 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
________________________________________________________________________
Monthly Labor Review Online
July 2009
Vol. 132, Number 7
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/home.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2009/07/mlr200907.pdf
[full-text, 146 pages]
- A portrait of the youth labor market in 13 countries, 19802007
- Gary Martin
- http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2009/07/art1full.pdf
- [full-text, 19 pages]
- A relatively high unemployment rate for young people
- has been a persistent problem in industrialized countries
- in recent decades; still, the number of youths who are
- unemployed has been falling with declining youth
- populations and more years spent in education.
- Producer prices reverse course in 2008
- Joseph Kowal, William Snyders, Antonio Lombardozzi, and Lana Borgie
- http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2009/07/art2full.pdf
- [full-text, 24 pages]
- After surging in 2007 and the first 7 months of 2008,
- prices for energy goods plummeted during the final 5 months of the year;
- similarly, inflation in food prices slowed significantly in 2008,
- following a steep runup in 2007 and early-to-mid 2008
- Measuring time spent in unpaid household work: results from the ATUS
- Rachel Krantz-Kent
- http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2009/07/art3full.pdf
- [full-text, 14 pages]
- Time-use data show that on average Americans spend more than 20 hours per week working for their own household without pay on tasks that might be done by a paid worker; women spend more time at such unpaid household work
- Nonfamily youth temporarily employed in agriculture: a research summary
- John C. Becker, Fern K. Willits, Anastasia Snyder, Dennis K. Murphy, James Hilton, Andrea Ryan, and Prem Bahandari
- http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2009/07/art4full.pdf
- [full-text, 7 pages]
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
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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) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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