Friday, October 29, 2010
Tweet[IWS] Kaiser: MONTHLY UPDATE on HEALTH DISPARITIES [28 October 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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Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF)
Kaiser’s Monthly Update on Health Disparities [28 October 2010]
http://www.kff.org/minorityhealth/report.cfm
This free, monthly update synthesizes news coverage from hundreds of print and broadcast news sources related to health and health care issues affecting underserved and racial and ethnic communities. The update also summarizes recent journal articles and other research developments in the field and features a data slide from a relevant Kaiser Family Foundation publication.
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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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Cornell/ILR School
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Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
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[IWS] SBA: FIRM DATA (firm births, deaths and job creation has been updated for 2007) [29 October 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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Small Business Administration (SBA)
Office of Advocacy
FIRM DATA [updated 29 October 2010]
http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/data.html
U.S. Census Bureau annual employment size of firm data (partially funded by the Office of Advocacy) on firm births, deaths and job creation has been updated for 2007. Additions to the firm size data for this year include the number of firms by legal form of organization. We have also added introductory data and links for two other firm size data programs, Census'
Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) and the Bureau of Labor Statistics'
Business Employment Dynamics (BED).
BDS supplies firm age data while BED supplies relatively current firm size data.
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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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Director, IWS News Bureau
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Cornell/ILR School
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New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
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[IWS] NAVIGATING THE LABOR MARKET IN CHINA: ENHANCING EXPATRIATE EFFECTIVENESS [6 October 2010]
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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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Cornell HR Review
http://cornellhrreview.org/
NAVIGATING THE LABOR MARKET IN CHINA: ENHANCING EXPATRIATE EFFECTIVENESS [6 October 2010]
By Michelle Atkinson; Ann M. Kubricky; Nathan J. Sheranian
or
[full-text, 6 pages]
Abstract:
As business continues to grow in China, employers there struggle to find locals who possess the needed knowledge, skills, and abilities to meet the talent demands of the market. Many multinational corporations fill requisitions with candidates from outside of their local region or even from outside China.
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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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[IWS] BLS: MONTHLY LABOR REVIEW, OCTOBER 2010, Vol. 133, No. 10 [29 October 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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Monthly Labor Review Online
October 2010, Vol. 133, No. 10
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2010/10/home.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2010/10/mlr201010.pdf
[full-text, 114 pages]
| The composition of the unemployed and long–term unemployed in tough labor markets The impact of the 2007–09 recession on workers with disabilities Disability and occupational projections | |
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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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Director, IWS News Bureau
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Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
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[IWS] ILO: EU SYNTHESIS REPORT: 27 NATIONAL SEMINARS ON ANTICIPATING AND MANAGING RESTRUCTURING [18 October 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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ILO-International Training Centre (ITC)
27 National Seminars on Anticipating and Managing Restructuring - A.R.E.NA.S.
(Service contract VC/ 2008/0667)
EU SYNTHESIS REPORT
27 September 2010
Authors
Ola Bergström is Associate Professor in Business Administration at the School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Andrea Broughton is Principal Research Fellow at the Institute for Employment Studies, United Kingdom
Claude Emmanuel Triomphe is the Director of ASTREES, France
http://arenas.itcilo.org/en/eu-synthesis-report/eu-synthesis-report/download
[full-text, 159 pages]
See also -- http://arenas.itcilo.org/en/news/eu-synthesis-report-now-available
PREFACE
This report examines the measures used for anticipating and managing restructuring in the 27
Member States of the European Union at the end of the first decade of the 21st Century.
Restructuring is defined here as any change in the structure of an organisation with an impact on
the employment or working conditions of the workers.
The aim of this report is to provide an overview of the measures available to anticipate and
manage restructuring in the 27 EU Member States. We also wish to help policy-makers at the
European, national and regional levels to better understand these measures, and to assist them
in policy formation and the design of more effective legislation. An additional aim of this report is
to support labour market actors, such as trade unions, employers and their organizations, in their
policy-making.
The comparative analysis in this report is based on data collected by an international group of
experts in an EU-funded project on Anticipating Restructuring in Enterprises: National Seminars
(ARENAS), coordinated by the International Training Centre of the ILO (ITCILO) in Turin, and on
the minutes of seminars organised in each of the 27 Member States.
The aim of this project was twofold:
- to support the sharing of knowledge concerning restructuring; and
- to disseminate the lessons learned on existing and innovative measures being taken in the
EU Member States for anticipating and managing restructuring at national, regional, and
local levels, and across specific economic sectors.
This report is the first attempt to draw conclusions from this project.
CONTENTS
Preface...............................................................................................................5
Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview of Restructuring in the EU ..............................7
1.1 Methodology ................................................................................................9
1.2 The context for restructuring : labour market development ...............................11
1.3 Differences in recent national labour market policy approaches ........................13
1.4 Regulation of restructuring ..........................................................................14
1.5 Regulating redundancies in the context of restructuring ..................................16
1.6 Actors involved in restructuring ....................................................................17
Chapter 2 Anticipating restructuring....................................................................21
2.1 Classification of anticipation measures..........................................................21
2.2 Economic and labour market forecasting measures .........................................22
2.3 Anticipating and supporting transition...........................................................27
2.4 Concluding remarks ....................................................................................37
Chapter 3 Measures to manage restructuring........................................................41
3.1 Measures to avoid redundancies ...................................................................41
3.2 Managing Redundancies .............................................................................49
3.3 Training for transition and reintegration .........................................................57
3.4 Concluding remarks ....................................................................................60
Chapter 4 Dynamics, trends, issues and dilemmas................................................63
4.1 Practices and strategies of the main actors ....................................................63
4.2. Frameworks and measures..........................................................................74
4.3 Concluding remarks : restructuring, the crisis and their three-fold effect ............81
Chapter 5 Conclusions .......................................................................................83
5.1 Anticipating and managing restructuring .......................................................84
5.2 Key Findings and a way forward ...................................................................88
Annexes............................................................................................................91
Annex I – List of national experts ........................................................................91
Annex II – Main measures for anticipating restructuring.........................................93
Annex III – Case studies on anticipation of restructuring: main lessons learnt .........107
Annex IV – Main measures for managing restructuring .........................................111
Annex V – Case studies on management of restructuring: main lessons learnt.........153
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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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Cornell/ILR School
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New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
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[IWS] Urban Institute: FIXING THE NATION'S FOUR-TRANCHE UNIVERSAL HEALTH SYSTEM (SERIES/THE GOVERNMENT WE DESERVE) [28 October 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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Urban Institute
Fixing the Nation's Four-Tranche Universal Health System (Series/The Government We Deserve) [28 October 2010]
By C. Eugene Steuerle
http://www.urban.org/publications/901386.html
or
http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/901386-fix-the-nation.pdf
[full-text, 2 pages]
Abstract:
U.S. citizens soon will be participating in a four-part, nearly universal, health care system. Medicare, Medicaid, employer-provided health, and the new exchange insurance policies all come with different government subsidies.
Medicare is tied to age or disability and provides roughly the same amount of insurance to all recipients. Medicaid (and a related children's health insurance program) also provides more or less equal coverage to all who get it, though it pays providers less for that coverage and, cliff-like, often cuts off beneficiaries who cross an earnings line. Subsidies for employer-provided health insurance are largest for those with the highest incomes and the most expensive policies. Meanwhile, the new exchanges created under health care reform would phase out subsidies for households as their income increased.
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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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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
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[IWS] GENDER & ECONOMIC POLICY MANAGEMENT INITIATIVE-AFRICA (GEPMI-Africa) [28 October 2010]
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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African Development Bank (AfDB)
Gender and Economic Policy Management Initiative-Africa (GEPMI-Africa)
See also
2010 African Economic Conference, Tunis, Tunisia, October 27-29, 2010
Press Release 28 October 2010]
Closing Gender Gaps crucial to Equitable, Efficient Economic Development Management-GEPMI-Africa partners
Four development institutions including the African Development Bank (AfDB), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP) and the Makerere University, Kampala (MUK), on Wednesday October 27, 2010 in Tunis, jointly launched the Gender and Economic Policy Management Initiative (GEPMI-Africa).
In his opening remark UNDP African Regional Bureau Director, Tegegnework Gettu said that “closing gender gaps in Africa’s economic development is a matter of equity and efficiency”. For his part, AfDB President, Donald Kaberuka, said that the Bank had since recognized the need to mainstream gender in its operations, emphasizing that GEPMI-Africa is a ground-breaking initiative that will enhance cooperation between AfDB and the UNDP in the area of gender. In his intervention, the AfDB Chief Economist, Mthuli Ncube, said that the key gender issues today are knowing the number of female enrolment in schools, the spread of female enrolments into science and technology-based courses as well as the job and managerial distribution in favour of women. He noted that some studies have revealed that companies with greater number of women managers present better financial returns.
For his part, Mr Pedersen Mogens, AfDB Executive Director for Denmark, Finland, India, Norway, and Sweden observed that gender-differences affect economic outcome and pointed out that for economic growth to be sustained it has to be cared for equitably.
Speaking on behalf of UNECA and IDEP, Mr. Emmanuel Nnadozie expressed the delight of ECA and its capacity-building arm, IDEP to be partners in the initiative. Among the reasons he outlined for the importance of GEPMI-Africa were: “the centrality of gender in African development, the need to deepen previous efforts at integrating a gender approach into economic policy development planning and the importance of ensuring that policy-makers are themselves better equipped to handle gender issues in the development process.”
AND MORE....
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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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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
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[IWS] NSF: Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in S&E: Graduate Enrollment, Doctoral Degrees, and Postdoctorate Status Data Update [26 October 2010]
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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National Science Foundation (NSF)
Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in S&E: Graduate Enrollment, Doctoral Degrees, and Postdoctorate Status Data Update [26 October 2010]
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/
Specific TABLES at
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/enroll.cfm#graduate
GraduateData Updated: October 2010
Figure Title
D-1 Female share of S&E graduate students, by field: 2008
D-2 Underrepresented minority share of S&E graduate students, by field: 2008
D-3 Underrepresented minority share of S&E graduate students, by sex and field: 2008
D-4 Field distribution of graduate students, by disability status: 2008
D-1 S&E graduate students, by field, sex and race/ethnicity: 2008
D-2 Black U.S.-citizen and permanent-resident S&E graduate students in all institutions and in HBCUs, by field and sex: 2008
D-3 Hispanic U.S.-citizen and permanent-resident S&E graduate students in all institutions and in HHEs, by field and sex: 2008
D-4 Disability status of S&E graduate students, by sex, age, race/ethnicity, enrollment, and citizenship status: 2008
D-5 Field distribution of graduate student enrollment, by disability status: 2008
D-6 Enrollment status of S&E graduate students, by field and sex: 2008
D-7 Enrollment status of S&E graduate students, by field, citizenship, and race/ethnicity: 2008
D-8 Primary source of support for full-time S&E graduate students, by sex and field: 2008
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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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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
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[IWS] BEA: GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT 3rd Qtr. 2010 (advance estimate) [29 October 2010]
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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National Income and Product Accounts
Gross Domestic Product, 3rd quarter 2010 (advance estimate) [29 October 2010]
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/gdpnewsrelease.htm
or
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2010/pdf/gdp3q10_adv.pdf
[full-text, 13 pages]
or
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2010/xls/gdp3q10_adv.xls
[spreadsheet]
and
Highlights
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2010/pdf/gdp3q10_adv_fax.pdf
Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property
located in the United States -- increased at an annual rate of 2.0 percent in the third quarter of 2010,
(that is, from the second quarter to the third quarter), according to the "advance" estimate released by
the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the second quarter, real GDP increased 1.7 percent.
The Bureau emphasized that the third-quarter advance estimate released today is based on source
data that are incomplete or subject to further revision by the source agency (see the box on page 3).
The "second" estimate for the third quarter, based on more complete data, will be released on November 23,
2010.
The increase in real GDP in the third quarter primarily reflected positive contributions from
personal consumption expenditures (PCE), private inventory investment, nonresidential fixed
investment, federal government spending, and exports that were partly offset by a negative contribution
from residential fixed investment. Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, increased.
The small acceleration in real GDP in the third quarter primarily reflected a sharp deceleration in
imports and accelerations in private inventory investment and in PCE that were partly offset by a
downturn in residential fixed investment and decelerations in nonresidential fixed investment and in
exports.
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FOOTNOTE. -- Quarterly estimates are expressed at seasonally adjusted annual rates, unless otherwise
specified. Quarter-to-quarter dollar changes are differences between these published estimates. Percent
changes are calculated from unrounded data and are annualized. “Real” estimates are in chained (2005)
dollars. Price indexes are chain-type measures.
This news release is available on BEA’s Web site along with the Technical Note and Highlights
related to this release.
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AND MUCH MORE...including TABLES....
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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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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
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[IWS] BLS: EMPLOYMENT COST INDEX - SEPTEMBER 2010 [29 October 2010]
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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EMPLOYMENT COST INDEX - SEPTEMBER 2010 [29 October 2010]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/eci.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/eci.pdf
[full-text, 21 pages]
and
Supplemental Files Table of Contents
http://www.bls.gov/web/eci.supp.toc.htm
Compensation costs for civilian workers increased 0.4 percent, seasonally adjusted, for
the 3-month period ending September 2010, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
Wages and salaries (which make up about 70 percent of compensation costs) increased 0.3 percent
while benefits (which make up the remaining 30 percent of compensation) increased 0.6 percent.
Civilian Workers
Compensation costs for civilian workers increased 1.9 percent for the 12-month period ending
September 2010. In September 2009, the increase was 1.5 percent. Wages and salaries increased 1.5
percent for the current 12-month period, the same as for the 12-month period ending in September
2009. Benefit costs accelerated to 2.7 percent, up from a 1.6 percent increase for the 12-month
period ending September 2009.
Private Industry Workers
Compensation costs for private industry workers increased 2.0 percent for the 12-month
period ending September 2010, higher than the 1.2 percent increase for the 12-month period ending
September 2009. The wage and salary series increased 1.6 percent for the current 12-month period.
The change for the period ending September 2009 was 1.4 percent. The cost of benefits increased
2.8 percent for the 12-month period ending September 2010, higher than the September 2009
increase of 1.1 percent. Employer costs for health benefits rose 4.8 percent for the 12-month
period ending September 2010. In September 2009, the 12-month percent change was 4.7 percent.
Among occupational groups, compensation cost increases for private industry workers for the
12-month period ending September 2010 ranged from 1.4 percent for service occupations to 2.5
percent for production, transportation, and material moving occupations.
Among industry supersectors, compensation cost increases for private industry workers for
the current 12-month period ranged from 1.1 percent for leisure and hospitality to 2.9 percent
for manufacturing.
State and Local Government Workers
Compensation cost increases for State and local government workers decelerated to 1.7
percent for the 12-month period ending September 2010, down from 2.4 percent for the 12-month
period ending September 2009. Prior to this quarter, published values for this series, which
began in June 1982, ranged from 1.8 percent in June 2010 to 9.6 percent in June 1982. The
slowdown in compensation was due to wages and salaries, which increased 1.1 percent. Prior
published values for this series, which also began in June 1982, ranged from 1.4 percent in
June 2010 to 8.5 percent in June 1982. Benefit costs increased 2.7 percent. Prior published
values for this series, which began in June 1990, ranged from 1.2 percent in December 1997
to 8.3 percent in June 1990.
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The Employment Cost Index for December 2010 is scheduled to be released on Friday,
January 28, 2011, at 8:30 a.m. (EST).
Information in this release will be made available to sensory impaired individuals upon
request--Voice phone: (202) 691-5200; Federal Relay Service: (800) 877-8339.
BLS news releases, including the ECI, are available through an e-mail subscription service
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Thursday, October 28, 2010
Tweet[IWS] OECD: BRIEFING ON EXCHANGE RATE DEVELOPMENTS [27 October 2010]
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
OECD Economics Department Briefing, October 2010.
Briefing on exchange rate developments [27 October 2010]
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/59/46/46212957.pdf
[full-text, 7 pages]
Foreign exchange intervention is not the most constructive instrument for managing the macro-economic impacts of currency volatility. A new briefing note from the OECD analyses recent swings in individual currencies, assesses the risks posed and makes the case for greater international co-operation.
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