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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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Google

GOOGLE SCHOLAR LIBRARY [19 November 2013]
http://googlescholar.blogspot.com/2013/11/google-scholar-library.html

Today we’re launching Scholar Library, your personal collection of articles in Scholar. You can save articles right from the search page, organize them by topic, and use the power of Scholar's full-text search & ranking to quickly find just the one you want - at any time and from anywhere. You decide what goes into your library and we’ll provide all the goodies that come with Scholar search results - up to date article links, citing articles, related articles, formatted citations, links to your university’s subscriptions, and more. And if you have a public Scholar profile, it’s easy to quickly set up your library with the articles you want - with a single click, you can import all the articles in your profile as well as all the articles they cite. Click here and follow the instructions to get started.

[ILLUSTRATION]

Here’s how it looks. Click “Save” below a search result to save it to your library. Click “My library” to see all the articles in your library and search their full text. You can also use labels to organize your articles. To get you started we’ve created two labels, “My Citations” and “Cited by me”, based on your Scholar profile, if you have one. “My Citations” contains your profile articles and “Cited by me” contains articles you’ve cited. See our help page for more details.

We hope you enjoy your personal collection with all the Scholar goodies!

Posted by: James Connor, Software Engineer

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GOOGLE SCHOLAR LIBRARY
http://www.google.com/intl/en/scholar/help.html#library

Google Scholar library is your personal collection of articles. You can save articles right off the search page, organize them by topic, and use the power of Scholar search to quickly find just the one you want - at any time and from anywhere. You decide what goes into your library, and we’ll keep the links up to date.

You get all the goodies that come with Scholar search results - citing articles, related articles, formatted citations, links to your university’s subscriptions, and more. Best of all, it’s easy to quickly fill up your library with the articles you want - with a single click, you can import all the articles in your public Scholar profile as well as all the articles they cite.

Set up your library  ßCLICK HERE

Library help

How do I add an article to my library?

Find the article you want to add in Google Scholar and click the “Save” link under the search result.

Can you just build my library for me?

We can help. If you have a public Scholar profile, you can quickly import the articles that your publications have cited. Click on “Cited by me” in the left column of your library page to get started.

How do I find an article in my library?

Click “My library” at the top of the Scholar homepage or in the left column of a search results page to view all articles in your library. To search the full text of these articles, enter your query as usual in the search box.

How do I remove an article from my library?

Find the article you want to remove, click on its title, and then click the “Delete” button at the top of the page.

My library is too big! Can I organize it?

You can use labels (for example: “artificial intelligence”) to categorize your articles.

• To add a label to an article, find the article in your library, click on its title, open the “Labels” dropdown at the top of the page, and select the label you want to apply.
• To view all the articles with a specific label, click the label name in the left column of your library page.
• To remove a label from an article, click on its title, open the “Labels” dropdown at the top of the page, and select the label you want to remove.
• To add, edit, or delete labels, click “Manage labels” in the left column of your library page.

Who can see the articles in my library?

Only you can see the articles in your library. If you create a Scholar profile and make it public, then the articles in your public profile (and only those articles) will be visible to everyone.

How is my library related to my Scholar profile?

Your profile contains all the articles you have written yourself. It’s a way to present your work to others, as well as to keep track of citations to it.
Your library is a way to organize the articles that you’d like to read or cite, not just the ones you’ve written. Your library automatically includes all the articles in your profile; they appear under the “My Citations” label.

How does the “Cited by me” label work? How do you know what I’ve cited?

The articles labelled “Cited by me” are automatically extracted from the bibliography sections of the papers in your public Scholar profile. Note that this automated system may not be able to include citations from papers where the full text isn’t available to our crawlers, or the references aren’t formatted according to our technical guidelines.

Help! I just removed the “My Citations” label from an article and it disappeared from my Scholar profile. How do I add it back?

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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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Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND CARBON LEAKAGE: WORKING PAPER 2013-08 [19 December 2013]

http://www.cbo.gov/publication/44970

or

http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/44970-InternationalTradeCarbonLeakage.pdf

[full-text, 25 pages]

Abstract

Under a broad-based carbon tax or cap-and-trade program, some of the reduction in U.S. carbon dioxide emissions would probably be offset by increases in foreign emissions that would not otherwise have occurred, a phenomenon known as carbon leakage. Industries with substantial total emissions, high trade ratios, and high emission intensities are the most likely to generate substantial leakage. Therefore, the industries most likely to be sources of significant leakage through trade in their products are the chemical; primary metal (such as aluminum and iron and steel); and, to a lesser extent, the nonmetallic mineral products (cement, lime, gypsum, and glass) and petroleum and coal products (refining and coke production) industries. Under narrower programs targeting particular industries, significant leakage would occur in fewer industries.

Studies of economywide programs have produced estimates of leakage ranging from 1 percent to 23 percent of the emission reduction the programs would achieve in the countries implementing them. However, those estimates may not apply to future proposals, and estimating leakage is difficult and subject to considerable uncertainty.

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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.

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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Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Border Adjustments for Economywide Policies That Impose a Price on Greenhouse Gas Emissions [19 December 2013]

http://www.cbo.gov/publication/44971

or

http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/44971-GHGandTrade.pdf

[full-text, 26 pages]

[excerpt]

This CBO report examines the unintended effects on the competitiveness of U.S firms of an economywide policy, such as a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade program, that would reduce emissions by imposing a price on them. The report also assesses the use of border adjustments, such as import tariffs and export subsidies, and transition assistance to mitigate those unintended effects. Border adjustments could reduce the loss of competitiveness and make the costs of U.S. producers more similar to those of producers in countries that do not impose comparable policies, but such adjustments could be difficult to implement and to defend if challenged as being inconsistent with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), one of the component agreements of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Transition assistance could also offset the loss of competitiveness and would probably be easier to implement but might engender difficulties under WTO agreements as well.

Contents

Summary 1

Policies That Impose a Price on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Could Have Unintended

Effects on the Competitiveness of Some Industries 1

Border Adjustments Could Offset the Loss of Competitiveness 2

Border Adjustments Would Be Difficult to Implement and to Defend If Challenged 2

Transition Assistance Also Could Offset the Loss of Competitiveness 3

Effects on Firms’ Costs of Policies That Impose a Price on Emissions 3

Unintended Effects of Economywide Policies That Impose a Price on Emissions 4

Consequences of the Changes in Competitiveness for Foreign Emissions 5

BOX: THE EFFECTS OF ALTERNATIVE EMISSION-REDUCTION POLICIES ON FIRMS’ COSTS 6

Consequences of the Changes in Competitiveness for Employment 9

Preserving Competitiveness With Border Adjustments 12

Practical Difficulties in Implementing Border Adjustments 13

Determining the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Embodied in Imports 13

Modifying Border Adjustments to Reflect Other Countries’ Emissions Policies 15

Potential Legal Challenges to Border Adjustments Under the GATT 15

Conflicts With General Provisions of the GATT 16

Possible Defenses 17

Preserving Competitiveness With Transition Assistance 20

Transition Costs and Transition Assistance 20

Implications for Competitiveness 20

Practical Difficulties 20

Constraints of the WTO Agreements 21

About This Document 22

Figures

1. Carbon Dioxide Emission Intensities, International Trade, and Emissions, by Industry, 2010 8

2. Carbon Dioxide Emission Intensities, International Trade, and Employment, by Industry, 2010 11

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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----------------- 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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REGIONAL AND STATE EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT -- NOVEMBER 2013 [20 December 2013]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/laus.nr0.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/laus.pdf

[full-text, 21 pages]

and

Supplemental Files Table of Contents

http://www.bls.gov/web/laus.supp.toc.htm

Regional and state unemployment rates were generally lower in November. Forty-five

states and the District of Columbia had unemployment rate decreases from October

and five states had no change, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.

Forty-two states had unemployment rate decreases from a year earlier, seven states

and the District of Columbia had increases, and one state had no change. The

national jobless rate declined to 7.0 percent from October and was 0.8 percentage

point lower than in November 2012.

In November 2013, nonfarm payroll employment increased in 43 states and decreased

in 7 states and the District of Columbia. The largest over-the-month increases in

employment occurred in California (+44,300), Texas (+28,700), and Indiana (+25,200).

The largest over-the-month decrease in employment occurred in Ohio (-12,000),

followed by North Carolina (-6,500) and Washington (-6,000). The largest over-the-

month percentage increase in employment occurred in Indiana (+0.9 percent), followed

by Nevada (+0.8 percent) and Vermont (+0.7 percent). The largest over-the-month

percentage declines in employment occurred in the District of Columbia, Nebraska,

North Carolina, Ohio, and Washington (-0.2 percent each). Over the year, nonfarm

employment increased in 49 states and the District of Columbia and decreased in

Alaska (-1.0 percent). The largest over-the-year percentage increase occurred in

North Dakota (+4.0 percent), followed by Florida and Texas (+2.5 percent each) and

Georgia and Idaho (+2.3 percent each).

Regional Unemployment (Seasonally Adjusted)

In November, the West continued to have the highest regional unemployment rate, 7.6

percent, while the South had the lowest rate, 6.7 percent. Over the month, all four

regions had statistically significant unemployment rate declines: the Northeast

(-0.3 percentage point) and Midwest, South, and West (-0.2 point each). Significant

over-the-year rate changes occurred in three regions: the West (-1.1 percentage points),

the Northeast (-0.8 point), and the South (-0.6 point). (See table 1.)

Among the nine geographic divisions, the Pacific had the highest jobless rate, 8.0

percent in November. The West North Central again had the lowest rate, 4.9 percent.

Seven divisions had statistically significant over-the-month unemployment rate

changes, all of which were declines. The largest of these declines occurred in the

Middle Atlantic (-0.4 percentage point). Five divisions had significant rate changes

from a year earlier: the Pacific (-1.3 percentage points), South Atlantic (-1.2 points),

Middle Atlantic (-1.1 points), Mountain (-0.7 point), and West North Central (-0.5 point).

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.

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

________________________________________________________________________

Census

INTERNATIONAL DATA BASE [updated 19 December 2013]

http://www.census.gov/population/international/data/idb/informationGateway.php

The International Data Base has been updated to include revised estimates and projections for 16 countries or areas incorporating new data or analysis. One of the countries in this update is Mexico, whose 2013 population is now projected to be 2.2 percent larger than the previous estimate primarily because of lower estimates of emigration since 2000.

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Institute for Workplace Studies

Cornell/ILR School                       

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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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European Commission

Eurostat

LABOUR MARKET POLICY EXPENDITURE AND THE STRUCTURE OF UNEMPLOYMENT--Issue number 31/2013 [19 December 2013]

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/product_details/publication?p_product_code=KS-SF-13-031

or

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index.php/Labour_market_policy_expenditure

This article analyses recent statistics on labour market policy expenditure in the European Union (EU). Labour market policy (LMP) interventions cover the range of financial and practical supports offered by governments to people who are unemployed or otherwise disadvantaged in the labour market. The economic and financial crisis resulted in a significant increase in the number of people who are unemployed and therefore eligible for assistance from LMP interventions. As a result, expenditure on LMP rose. Although the number of unemployed has yet to decrease, expenditure on LMP has fallen, but the change varies between different types of LMP intervention.

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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----------------- 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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OCCUPATIONAL OUTLOOK QUARTERLY, Winter 2013-14, vol. 57, no. 4  [19 December 2013]

http://www.bls.gov/opub/ooq/2013/winter/

or

http://www.bls.gov/opub/ooq/2013/winter/winter2013ooq.pdf

[full-text, 37 pages]

CHARTING THE PROJECTIONS: 2012-22: A SPECIAL ISSUE

Getting started
How BLS develops and charts the projections.

Snippet   PDF
Full article in HTML

Occupational employment
Projected employment change by occupation and occupational group.

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Full article in HTML

Labor force
Projected changes in the labor force by age, sex, race, and ethnic origin.

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Industry employment
Projected employment change by industry and industry sector.

Snippet   PDF
Full article in HTML

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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.

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

________________________________________________________________________

Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

ADBI Working Paper No. 447

THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT: LOOKING AHEAD TO THE NEXT STEPS [20 December 2013]

by Deborah Kay Elms

http://www.adbi.org/working-paper/2013/12/20/6050.trans.pacific.partnership.looking.ahead/

or

http://www.adbi.org/files/2013.12.20.wp447.trans.pacific.partnership.looking.ahead.pdf

[full-text, 16 pages]

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) represents the chance to set a trade agenda for the future across a wide range of topics for countries throughout the Asia-Pacific region. This means that the agreement should not be settled in haste. It also means that key decisions need to be reached about broader issues related to the institutional structure of the TPP. These decisions must be made now, before the deal is closed, on issues such as how to create the TPP as a living agreement, the formation of a TPP Secretariat, and the clarification of entry conditions for future members. - See more at: http://www.adbi.org/working-paper/2013/12/20/6050.trans.pacific.partnership.looking.ahead/#sthash.4J9c7ZAQ.dpuf

Contents

1. Introduction ................................................................................................................3

1.1 Unfinished Business in the Endgame .............................................................3

2. The Cluster Approach ................................................................................................3

3. A Living Agreement ...................................................................................................5

4. A Trans-Pacific Partnership Secretariat .....................................................................7

5. The Broader Relationship with the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation .....................8

6. Implementation and Accession of New Members.....................................................10

6.1 Implementation ............................................................................................10

6.2 Accession of New Members .........................................................................10

6.3 Circling Back to the Living Agreement ..........................................................12

7. Conclusions .............................................................................................................12

References .........................................................................................................................13

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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.

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 2013 (third estimate);

Corporate Profits, 3rd quarter 2013 (revised estimate)[20 December 2013]

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2013/gdp3q13_3rd.htm

or

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2013/pdf/gdp3q13_3rd.pdf

[full-text, 19 pages]

or

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2013/xls/gdp3q13_3rd.xls

[spreadsheet]

and

Highlights

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2013/pdf/gdp3q13_3rd_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 4.1 percent in the third quarter of 2013 (that

is, from the second quarter to the third quarter), according to the "third" estimate released by the Bureau

of Economic Analysis.  In the second quarter, real GDP increased 2.5 percent.

                The GDP estimate released today is based on more complete source data than were available for

the "second" estimate issued on December 5, 2103.  In the second estimate, the increase in real GDP was

3.6 percent (see "Revisions" on page 3).  With this third estimate for the third quarter, increases in

personal consumption expenditures (PCE) and in nonresidential fixed investment were larger than

previously estimated.

      The increase in real GDP in the third quarter primarily reflected positive contributions from

private inventory investment, PCE, nonresidential fixed investment, exports, residential fixed

investment, and state and local government spending that were partly offset by a negative contribution

from federal government spending.  Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP,

increased.

      The acceleration in real GDP growth in the third quarter primarily reflected an acceleration in

private inventory investment, a deceleration in imports, and accelerations in state and local government

spending and in PCE that were partly offset by a deceleration in exports.

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----------------- 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 (updated to 19 December 2013]

• Labor force projections to 2022: the labor force participation rate continues to fall 12/19/2013
  http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2013/article/pdf/labor-force-projections-to-2022-the-labor-force-participation-rate-continues-to-fall.pdf

[full-text, 28 pages]

Because of the decreasing labor force participation rate of youths and the prime age group, the overall labor force participation rate is expected to decline. The participation rates of older workers are projected to increase, but remain significantly lower than those of the prime age group. A combination of a slower growth of the civilian noninstitutional population and falling participation rates will lower labor force growth to a projected 0.5 percent annually.

• The U.S. economy to 2022: settling into a new normal 12/19/2013
  http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2013/article/pdf/the-u-s-economy-to-2022-settling-into-a-new-normal.pdf
  [full-text, 33 pages]

No one could have predicted the length of time that the economy has required to recover. A variety of economic headwinds have battered the recovery, causing output growth to be somewhat slower than was expected in prior projections. Over the coming decade, growth is expected to be gradual but persistent, bringing the unemployment rate down and returning the macroeconomy to a more stable position.

• Industry employment and output projections to 2022 12/19/2013

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2013/article/pdf/industry-employment-and-output-projections-to-2022.pdf

[full-text, 34 pages]

The health care and social assistance sector will account for almost a third of the projected job growth from 2012 to 2022. Employment in the construction sector is expected to see a large increase, while still not reaching prerecession levels. Manufacturing is projected to experience a slight decline in employment over the projection period.

• Overview of projections to 2022 12/19/2013

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2013/article/pdf/overview-of-projections-to-2022.pdf

[full-text, 3 pages]

Occupations and industries related to healthcare and construction are projected to experience the fastest job growth over the coming decade, as an aging population and expanding health insurance coverage change the preferences of consumers and a resurging housing market spurs long-awaited recovery in construction.

• Occupational employment projections to 2022 12/19/2013

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2013/article/pdf/occupational-employment-projections-to-2022.pdf

[full-text, 44 pages]

Total employment in the U.S. economy is projected to grow by 15.6 million during the 2012–2022 decade to reach 161 million; this represents a 10.8-percent employment increase. Some of the fastest projected growth will occur in the healthcare, healthcare support, construction, and personal care fields. Together, these four occupational groups are expected to account for about one-third—more than 5.3 million—of all new jobs during this period.

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World Bank/IMF

HEAVILY INDEBTED POOR COUNTRIES (HIPC) INITIATIVE AND MULTILATERAL DEBT RELIEF INITIATIVE (MDRI)—STATISTICAL UPDATE [19 December 2013]

http://www.worldbank.org/content/dam/Worldbank/document/Poverty%20documents/HIPC_Fall2013_EN_web.pdf

[full-text, 46 pages]

Press Release 19 December 2013

Debt Relief for 39 Countries on Track to Reach US$114 billion

http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2013/12/16/debt-relief-39-countries-track-reach-114-billion

Story Highlights

Two debt-relief initiatives organized by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund – the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative and the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI) – are continuing to help poor countries fight poverty.

The programs have relieved 36 participating countries of $96 billion in debt since 1996, freeing up their governments to spend money on poverty reduction.

Thirty-one of the beneficiary countries are in Africa.

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School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies

Cornell University

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New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau

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Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

OECD GENDER DATA PORTAL

http://www.oecd.org/gender/data/

The OECD Gender Data Portal includes selected indicators shedding light on gender inequalities in education, employment and entrepreneurship. While much progress has been accomplished in recent years, there are still relevant dimensions of gender inequalities that are poorly monitored and measured. The Portal is thus a work in progress, that aims at progressively filling these gaps through new indicators. The data cover OECD member countries, as well as Russia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, and South Africa.

EDUCATION INDICATORS

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