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Watson Wyatt (UK)

Is work-life balance a driver for employee turnover? [8 June 2005]
http://www.watsonwyatt.com/news/press.asp?ID=14734

UK, June 8, 2005 - Four out of five employees in the UK say that work-life balance considerations play a crucial role in their decision to stay with or leave their current employer, according to research from Watson Wyatt.

Watson Wyatt's WorkUK Survey ­ conducted from a representative sample of 3,000 private sector workers in the UK ­ found that over 40 per cent of employees are actively considering finding a new job with a different employer, and nearly 80 per cent of employees believe work-life balance to be a very important consideration, if not the key consideration, in deciding to leave for a new job.

"A certain level of turnover can always be expected, indeed it is often perceived as healthy," said Jake Outram, a consultant at Watson Wyatt. "But while it is unlikely that all of the 40 per cent of employees considering changing jobs will actually do so, our research demonstrates that many employers may be neglecting a key factor affecting their employees' attitudes to staying in their positions. It is therefore important that employers understand how their employees, and in particular their high-performers, perceive their work-life balance.'

The Watson Wyatt research also found that the concern with work-life balance is not limited to employees within specific job levels. The response to this issue is almost identical for managers and non-managers.

"Although not a new issue, work-life balance has again been given prominence due to the ongoing debate on the EU working hours' directive," said Jake Outram. "Our research demonstrates the importance that employees place on achieving a sensible work-life balance, and it is evident that employers must focus on measuring the levels of work-life balance within their organisations to enable them to develop strategies that help employees to achieve a greater control over their working lives. This in turn will help organisations retain those staff who make the greatest contribution to their business."

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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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European Monitoring Centre on Change (EMCC) -- BY COUNTRY
http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/country.htm

   * < http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/indexes/country/austria.html >Austria
   * < http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/indexes/country/belgium.html>Belgium
   * < http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/notimplemented.htm>Bulgaria
   * < http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/notimplemented.htm>Cyprus
   * < http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/notimplemented.htm>Czech Republic
   * < http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/indexes/country/denmark.html>Denmark
   * < http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/notimplemented.htm>Estonia
   * < http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/indexes/country/finland.html>Finland
   * < http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/indexes/country/france.html >France
   * < http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/indexes/country/germany.html>Germany
   * < http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/indexes/country/greece.html >Greece
   * < http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/indexes/country/hungary.html>Hungary
   * < http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/indexes/country/iceland.html >Iceland
   * < http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/indexes/country/ireland.html>Ireland
   * < http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/indexes/country/italy.html >Italy
   * < http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/indexes/country/japan.html>Japan
   * < http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/notimplemented.htm>Latvia
   * < http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/indexes/country/liechtenstein.html>Liechtenstein
   * < http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/notimplemented.htm>Lithuania
   * < http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/indexes/country/luxembourg.html>Luxembourg
   * < http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/indexes/country/netherlands.html >Netherlands
   * < http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/indexes/country/norway.html>Norway
   * < http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/notimplemented.htm>Malta
   * < http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/indexes/country/poland.html>Poland
   * < http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/indexes/country/portugal.html >Portugal
   * < http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/notimplemented.htm>Romania
   * < http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/indexes/country/slovak_republic.html >Slovakia
   * < http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/indexes/country/slovenia.html>Slovenia
   * < http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/indexes/country/spain.html >Spain
   * < http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/indexes/country/sweden.html>Sweden
   * < http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/indexes/country/switzerland.html >Switzerland
   * < http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/notimplemented.htm>Turkey
   * < http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/indexes/country/united_kingdom.html >United Kingdom
   * < http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/indexes/country/united_states.html >USA
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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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World Economic Forum (WEF)

Women’s Empowerment: Measuring the Global Gender Gap [16 May 2005]
http://www.weforum.org/pdf/Global_Competitiveness_Reports/Reports/gender_gap.pdf
[full-text, 23 pages]

See Press Release [16 May 2005]
World Economic Forum Launches New “Gender Gap Index” Measuring Inequality between Women and Men in 58 Countries
http://www.weforum.org/site/homepublic.nsf/Content/World+Economic+Forum+Launches+New+%E2%80%9CGender+Gap+Index%E2%80%9D+Measuring+Inequality+between+Women+and+Men+in+58+Countries


16 May 2005 - Geneva, Switzerland

REPORT FINDS SWEDEN AND OTHER NORTHERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES DO BEST ­ THE UNITED STATES (17), SWITZERLAND (34), JAPAN (38), BRAZIL (51), INDIA (53) AND TURKEY (57) DO LESS WELL

The World Economic Forum is releasing today the first ever study that attempts to quantify the size of the “gender gap” in 58 countries.

Entitled Women’s Empowerment: Measuring the Global Gender Gap, the report measures the size of the gap between women and men in five critical areas based on UNIFEM’s (United Nations Development Fund for Women) findings of global patterns of inequality between men and women:
1) economic participation ­ equal remuneration for equal work; 2) economic opportunity ­ access to the labour market that is not restricted to low-paid, unskilled jobs; 3) political empowerment ­ representation of women in decision-making structures; 4) educational attainment ­ access to education; 5) health and well-being ­ access to reproductive healthcare.

The study ranks Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Denmark and Finland at the top of the list, as the countries with the smallest “gender gap.” Characterized by strongly liberal societies, with an impressive record of openness and transparency in government, and comprehensive safety nets that provide security to vulnerable groups in the population, women in these countries have access to a wider spectrum of educational, political and work opportunities and enjoy a higher standard of living than women in other parts of the world. While no country has yet managed to eliminate the gender gap, the Nordic countries have succeeded best in narrowing it and, in a very clear sense, provide a workable model for the rest of the world.

The report covers all 30 OECD countries and 28 other emerging markets. The study uses a large number of “hard data” indicators drawn from international organizations and qualitative information from the Forum’s own Executive Opinion Survey. The study measures the extent to which women have been able to achieve full equality with men in a number of critical areas.1

“The Forum has undertaken this study in order to facilitate the work of governments, aid agencies and NGOs by providing a benchmarking tool to assess the size of the gender gap in these countries, ranking them according to the level of advancement of their female population and identifying successes and failures, based on economic, political, educational and health-based criteria. Our aim is essentially to allow countries to identify their strengths and weaknesses in an area of critical importance for the development process and to provide opportunities for countries to learn from the experiences of others that have been more successful in promoting the equality of women and men,” said Augusto Lopez-Claros, Chief Economist and Director of the Global Competitiveness Programme at the World Economic Forum.

AND MORE....

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ILO Director-General says global jobs crisis puts democracy, freedom at risk
Says creating trillions in growth, but only a trickle of jobs is unsustainable
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/2005/26.htm


Monday 6 June 2005 (ILO/05/26)

GENEVA (ILO News) - The huge gap between the trillions in wealth but only a trickle of jobs being created by the global economy poses a growing threat to international security, development and democracy and must be addressed urgently, International Labour Organization (ILO) Director-General Juan Somavia said today.

"This global jobs crisis is the most pressing political issue of our time", Mr. Somavia told more than 3,000 government, worker and employer participants in the ILO's < http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/2005//public/english/standards/relm/ilc/ilc93/index.htm >93rd International Labour Conference here. "The warning light is blinking on today's global economy."

Citing ILO data illustrating the contrast between a healthy global growth rate of 5 per cent and a disappointing expansion in employment of only 1.7 per cent in 2004, Mr. Somavia said: "In other words, world output increased by nearly US$ 4 trillion - yet global unemployment was reduced by only 500,000".

"Trillions in wealth creation, a trickle of jobs", Mr. Somavia said. "The global jobs crisis is putting security, development, open economies and open societies all at risk. This is not a sustainable course."

The ILO Director-General told Conference delegates that the global economy has evolved into "an ethical vacuum - with policies that many feel are organized too much around market values and too little around human values. The overall effect is more insecurity and less freedom".

Mr. Somavia said concern was growing worldwide over the imbalance between globalization and growth and job creation. This was illustrated, he said, by the fact that more than one billion people are unemployed or considered working poor, with almost half the world's labour force living on less than US$ 2 per day.

He also said that up to nine out of 10 people in some countries were working in the "unorganized, unprotected, unstable" informal economy and that less than half the young people available for work worldwide were holding jobs last year.

"We must repair the disconnect between economic growth and job creation, rebalance priorities, revalue work and target the right investment policies", Mr. Somavia told the tripartite delegates. "We must move employment and decent work fully into the mainstream of the international development debate."

Noting that "work is at the epicenter of the economic, political and social concerns of people," the ILO Director-General said the Organization had responded to the global jobs crisis by reorienting its agenda toward a focus on the ILO's core values, re-energizing its operations and promoting its decent work agenda.

Mr. Somavia cited growing support for the decent work agenda. This support was manifested in such forums as the < http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/2005//public/english/bureau/inf/event/ouagadougou/index.htm>African Union Extraordinary Summit on Employment and Poverty last September, the ILO's < http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/2005//public/english/bureau/inf/event/budapest/index.htm >European Regional Meeting in Budapest last February, recent Latin American Heads of State meetings, and the European Union's Commission Social Agenda. In addition, he said that the 2004 report of the < http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/2005//public/english/fairglobalization/index.htm>World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization had prompted worldwide debate on making globalization fair and had received the support of the United Nations General Assembly in a resolution adopted last September.

The annual International Labour Conference agenda also reflects this support, Mr. Somavia noted, citing such initiatives as: efforts to help youth to find decent jobs "and ensure that we don't have a 'lost generation'"; describe and propose solutions to employment problems of workers facing "terrible limitations (and) extremely hard" conditions for themselves and their families in the occupied Arab territories; address the "open wound" of forced labour on the global economy; develop a robust new framework for occupational health and safety standards; finalize a comprehensive new standard for the world's fishing industry; review the impact of standards on hours of work; and scrutinize ILO member States on their application of conventions and standards.

The ILO Director-General said that making decent work a global goal requires three interlinked sets of actions:
   * "building our collective capacity" by strengthening trade unions, employers' organizations and ministries of employment, labour and social affairs;
   * strengthening the ILO's efforts to promote decent work at the national and regional level to equip the ILO to contribute more effectively to national priorities; and
   * moving employment and decent work fully into the mainstream of the development debate by putting growth, investment and jobs at the centre of international cooperation.
"Our decent work agenda is key to accelerating the progress towards reaching the Millennium Development Goals", Mr. Somavia said. "Macroeconomic, financial, trade, investment and labour policies must converge making decent work an objective of policy-making, rather than a hoped-for result. We cannot do it alone. But it cannot be done without us. If we have the will to play that role, these things can be done."

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Cornell University
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New York, NY 10016                        Director, IWS News Bureau
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Entrepreneurship Research Institute
The Eugenio Pino and Family Global Entrepreneurship Center/Florida International University


Entrepreneurship in the U.S.: 2004 Assessment [1 June 2005]
http://www.entrepreneurship.fiu.edu/entrepreneurship_us.htm
or
http://www.entrepreneurship.fiu.edu/pdf/all.pdf
[full-text, 142 pages]

[excerpt]
Entrepreneurship, an important feature of economic growth and adaptation, is a major
activity in the United States. About 18 million in the U.S. were actively engaged in starting or
managing a new firm in 2004. The U.S. continues to be a major—but not the largest—source
of global entrepreneurial activity. The importance of new firm creation to the future of the
U.S. economy has led to a program of annual assessment of U.S. entrepreneurship. The U.S.
Entrepreneurial Assessment project is the only source of longitudinal data that is based directly
on individual reports of entrepreneurial activity; the procedures are consistent over time and
harmonized with those implemented in 43 other countries.

The major findings in 2004 include:

Levels of Activity
• Evidence of a substantial rise in U.S. activity from 1993-2000, and a subsequent decline
through 2004.
• In the year 2000, about 23 million between 18-74 years of age were actively engaged in a
start-up or new fi rm management; this declined to about 18 million in 2004.
• There has been a statistically signifi cant drop in activity of 20% from 2003 to 2004;
representing a one-year reduction of 4 million involved in the entrepreneurial process.
• This decline in participation is concentrated among young adult men and women, 18-34
years of age, and mid-career men, 35-54 years of age.
• This decline is associated with a less positive personal context for entrepreneurship
among these gender-age specifi c groups.

Global Comparisons
• The U.S. continues to be in the upper third of all countries in terms of overall and
opportunity based entrepreneurship, creating fi rms that may have a major market impact,
and creating growth fi rms.
• The U.S. remains the dominate context for entrepreneurial activity—in terms of total
counts—among developed or high income countries; the U.S. has more than twice the
total activity of all of Western and Central Europe.
• There are, however, substantial levels of activity in developing countries, with high
participation rates and much higher levels of total activity in the Third World; particularly
China and India—each of which have five times as many involved in entrepreneurship as
the U.S.

Regional Differences within the U.S.
• There are statistically significant differences across the nine U.S. census divisions, but
these are differences of 25%, compared to differences of 3 to 5 times when smaller, more
homogenous U.S. labor market areas are compared.
• Counties included in major metropolitan regions with service-oriented or diverse
economic bases appear to have higher levels of entrepreneurial activity; these counties
are home to the majority of the U.S. population.

Differences across the Firm Life Course
• About 31 million people are involved as business principals in the U.S., with 13.7 million
involved in 7.4 million start-ups; 7.6 million owner-managers of 4.5 million new fi rms
[less than 3.5 years old]; and 15 million as owner-managers of 8.6 million existing fi rms.
• Business entities at all stages of the life course are representative of all U.S. economic
sectors.
• A small proportion of firms, about 2%, expect to have a major impact on the markets or
the economic structure; more than half are concentrated among the start-up efforts. The
majority — 91%— of all start-up, new, and established fi rms­expect to little or no impact
on the market structure—they are replicating existing business activity.
• A small proportion of firms, about 3%, consider that they are technologically
sophisticated; more than half of high-tech firms are in the start-up phase. About
15% consider that they have some technological emphasis, and 91% has low or no
technological component.

Human Participation in Start-ups and the Business Life Course
• About one in five (18%) people active in the business life course is involved in two
business activities at the same time, such starting a new firm while managing an
established business.
• Men are about twice as active as women in all phases of the business life course; younger
adults are more prevalent in the start-up phase, and older adults are more prevalent as
owners of established businesses. There are, however, individuals of all ages and both
genders involved in all stages of the business life course.
• Relative to their representation in the population, blacks and Hispanics are much more
active in the start-up phase than whites. Whites, however, are much more prevalent as
owners of established businesses.
• While basic sociodemographic factors—age, gender, ethnicity, educational attainment,
household income and net worth—all have a systematic relationship to participating in
business start-ups; these factors appear to have a major impact on a positive personal
context for entrepreneurial activity. Those with a positive personal entrepreneurial
context, in turn, are much more likely to be involved in start-ups and new firms.
• A positive personal entrepreneurial context reflects confidence in personal skills to
implement a new business, knowing others engaged in entrepreneurship, and perception
of good opportunities for new firms; targeted programs and public policy initiatives may
affect all components.

Informal and Accredited Investors
• The prevalence and number of informal investors has declined in proportion to the level
of entrepreneurial activity, reflecting a strong association but no clear causal relationship;
there were about 8 million informal investors in 2004 in the U.S.
• The aggregate amounts of informal funding considerably surpass $100 billion per
year, far greater that the $20 billion provided to start-ups in 2002 and 2003 by the
venture capital sector or the $200 million from SBA programs. This is the same order of
magnitude as the $175 billion a year required by start-up firms.
• There appear to be from 6 to 9 million accredited investors1 in the U.S.; about 80% are
accredited households, the remainder accredited persons. They are 3 to 20 times more
active as informal investors—particularly with regards to amounts in excess of $50,000.

The major implications of this assessment are that:
• Entrepreneurial activity continues at a high level in the United States, compared to all other
advanced economies.
• The U.S. context continues to be unique in several ways: the potential for substantial informal
financial support, the presence of a substantial research and development sector, a system
of regulations and procedures that is not excessively burdensome for business creation and
termination, and a society that accepts entrepreneurship as an appropriate and respectable
career option.
• There is no evidence that significant regulatory or policy issues require immediate attention.
• There is substantial evidence that the U.S. should not be complacent regarding the entrepreneurial
sector and should continue to assess, adjust and refine the national, state, and local
entrepreneurial context.

[Thanks to Gary Price at Resourceshelf.com for the tip]


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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
________________________________________________________________________

European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA)

Evaluation Instruments Bank (EIB) [DATABASE] [3 June 2005]
http://eib.emcdda.eu.int/

[includes Alcoholism & Workplace information]


The EMCDDA's Evaluation Instruments Bank is a document archive of tools created to encourage evaluation using reliable methods, and to help to standardise these tools at European level. The Instruments Bank contains tools for evaluating both prevention and treatment programmes. By entering the specific criteria of the intervention to be evaluated, the database provides the user with the most suitable evaluation tool, together with comments on its use and references to related studies.

The Evaluation Instruments Bank is continuously updated and now holds 170 evaluation instruments in the treatment field and 70 in the prevention field (some clustered) - it now holds  a total of 18 languages (sixteen EU languages - Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian,Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Slovenian and Swedish - plus Norwegian and Russian).

Please bear in mind that the EIB is a collection of free none-copyright protected evaluation instruments and that some of them translated language versions might have undergone considerable adjustments and hence might look considerably different than their respective originals.

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European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO) Online
Thematic Feature

Unskilled workers (May 2005)
http://www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int/thematicfeature10.html

In recent years, labour market developments have altered the demand for labour. Increasingly, employers are looking for adaptable workers, with more 'transversal' and 'relational' competences. The nature of skills required to be considered efficient in a job has thus evolved. In this situation, there is a growing risk of exclusion among unemployed workers whose profiles do not match the job characteristics needed, while the low-skilled or unskilled workforce is more at risk of unemployment. In this context, in February 2005 the EIRO national centres in 26 European countries were asked, in response to a questionnaire, to give a brief overview of the industrial relations aspects of the topic, looking at: national definitions of unskilled workers or work, including those used or provided in laws, statistics or collective agreements; figures or estimates on the number of unskilled workers and workers in unskilled jobs, and the extent of unskilled work; employment and unemployment among unskilled workers; the regulatory framework, including any specific laws or collective agreements, and trade union organisation among unskilled workers; the pay and conditions of unskilled workers and workers in unskilled jobs, or for unskilled jobs; any recent initiatives to improve the situation of unskilled workers; and the views of trade unions and employers' organisations on the issue and its implications for collective bargaining. Their responses, or 'thematic features', are available below (along with the questions asked).

[Individual Country Reports]

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Comparative Civilian Labor Force Statistics, 10 Countries, 1960-2004 [13 May 2005]
ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ForeignLabor/flslforc.txt
or
http://www.bls.gov/fls/flslforc.pdf
[full-text, 37 pages]

[excerpt]
                            GENERAL NOTES

This document presents selected international labor force statistics for 10
countries: the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, and 6 European
countries. The data are adjusted to approximate U.S. concepts except for the
data in table 3, which are published by the originating country.


CONTENTS

Contents............................................................Page 1

General Notes.......................................................Page 2

Country Notes.......................................................Page 4

Tables

1. Civilian Working Age Population Approximating U.S. Concepts, 1960-2004................Page 9

2. Civilian Labor Force, Employment, and Unemployment Approximating U.S. Concepts, 1960-2004.....Page 10

3. Civilian Labor Force, Employment, and Unemployment Published by Originating Country, 1960-2004....Page 14

4. Civilian Labor Force Participation Rates Approximating U.S. Concepts by Sex, 1960-2004..........Page 19

5. Civilian Employment-Population Ratios Approximating U.S. Concepts by Sex, 1960-2004...........Page 22

6. Civilian Employment Approximating U.S. Concepts by Economic Sector, 1960-2004..............Page 25

7. Percent Distribution of Civilian Employment Approximating U.S. Concepts by Economic Sector, 1960-2004.....Page 30

8. Civilian Unemployment Rates Approximating U.S. Concepts by Sex, 1960-2004....................Page 34

9. Civilian Unemployment Rates Approximating U.S. Concepts by Age, 2000-04...................Page 36


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New York, NY 10016                        Director, IWS News Bureau
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United States International Trade Commission (USITC)

The Impact of Trade Agreements Implemented Under Trade Promotion Authority
Investigation No. TA-2103-1
Publication 3780
1 June 2005
http://hotdocs.usitc.gov//docs/pubs/332/pub3780.pdf
[full-text, 142 pages]

ABSTRACT
This report was prepared in response to a requirement of the Trade Act of 2002. The
Commission was required by section 2103(c)(3)(B) of the Trade Act to submit a report
to Congress on the economic impact on the United States of all trade agreements
implemented since enactment of the Trade Act of 2002. In that period, trade
agreements have been negotiated and implemented with Singapore, Chile, and
Australia.
Assessing the impact on the United States of the three agreements is complicated by
two factors. First, the effect of the agreements on the U.S. economy can be expected to
be rather small because Singapore, Chile, and Australia account for a relatively small
share of U.S. trade; because prior to the agreements trade with these partners was
already quite open; and because the terms of the agreements have not yet been fully
implemented. Second, the agreements have not had time to establish an empirical
record that would allow their effects to be detected and isolated econometrically from
other events influencing trade and the U.S. economy, because so little time has passed
since implementation of the agreements (17 months for Singapore and Chile, and five
months for Australia).
Findings contained in the report are derived from several sources, many of whichwere
available before the implementation of the agreements. A review of economic
literature, all of which dates from before implementation, covers estimates of likely
effects of the agreements. An analysis of selected industry sectors examines the
implications of the agreements for trends in their trade and output. And a
mathematical simulation analysis of patterns of trade provides an estimate of the
potential long-term impact of the three agreements on U.S. trade, output, and
employment. The principal findings are that the three agreements will collectively have
very little effect on the the U.S. economy in the aggregate, though trade in some sectors
(notably meat products, and textiles and apparel) with the three partners will increase
substantially. Even in these sectors, the change is small relative to U.S. trade with the
world and to U.S. output.

Principal Findings
The Commission simulation of the quantifiable tariff components of the three trade
agreements suggests that the welfare value to the United States of the tariff
liberalization under the agreements is $464 million. This means that, when fully
implemented, the FTAs would provide annual benefits to consumers worth $464
million, in the economy of 2004. This represents an increase of less than 0.01 percent
of welfare in the baseline year. Total imports increase by a little over $1.3 billion (0.08
percent) on a landed-duty paid basis and total exports increase by about $1.8 billion
(0.15 percent) on a free on board (f.o.b.) basis.
The trade volumes with the three FTA partners increase substantially more than
aggregate trade with the world. Simply put, the increase in imports from the three FTA
partners diverts some of the imports from other sources. U.S. imports from the partners
increase by about $2.2 billion, with increases of about $1.1 billion, $0.3 billion, and
$0.9 billion from Australia, Chile, and Singapore respectively. Comparing these
findings to the aggregate change in U.S. imports of about $1.3 billion, the simulated
FTAs divert the difference of about $930 million of trade away from countries other
than the three FTA partners.
In general, the sectors facing the greatest trade barriers are the ones experiencing the
greatest import effects of eliminating the trade barriers. U.S. imports of goods in five
categories—meat products (which includes beef); other processed foods and tobacco;
textiles, apparel, and leather products; petroleum and chemicals; and other
machinery and equipment such as industrial machinery—increase substantially,
accounting for about $2 billion of the total increase in imports.
The three FTAs are likely to result in expansion in the output of industries that
experience increased export demand owing to the removal of tariffs abroad, and
indirectly in the expansion of those industries that provide inputs to them. In addition,
the reallocation of resources and direct competition from imported goods that are
given preferential import treatment into the United States likely will indirectly cause
declines in some U.S. industries. In the simulation, the biggest proportional increase in
output quantity, 0.1 percent, is felt by themotor vehicles and parts industry. The biggest
decline (-0.18 percent) is in the meat products sector.
The qualitative analysis of industry characteristics and likely effects of the trade
agreements shows that, in general, the trade agreements are expected to have small
effects on trade in the covered sectors. Some increases in imports of fruits and
processed (but not raw) macadamias are expected, as well as of meat from Australia
and textiles and apparel from Chile. Effects on exports are expected to be negligible or
very small.

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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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Press Release [3 June 2005]
2005 Report:
Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000: Trafficking in Persons Report
http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2005/


2005 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/47255.pdf
[full-text, 258 pages]

[excerpt]
This Report is intended to raise global awareness and spur foreign governments to take effective actions to counter all forms of trafficking in persons — a form of modern day slavery. The Report has increasingly
focused the efforts of a growing community of nations to share information and to partner in new and important ways to fight human trafficking. A country that fails to take significant actions to bring itself into compliance with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking in persons receives a negative “Tier 3” assessment in this Report. Such an assessment could trigger the withholding of non-humanitarian, non-trade-related assistance from the United States to that country.


TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................5
The 2005 Trafficking in Persons Report: Its Purpose ......................................5
The Common Thread of Servitude ......................................................................9
“Trafficking in Persons” Defined.....................................................................10
The Human and Societal Costs of Trafficking..................................................12
The Human Rights Dimension .................................................................13
Promoting Social Breakdown...................................................................13
Fueling Organized Crime .........................................................................13
Depriving Countries of Human Capital and Inhibiting Development.......14
Public Health Costs.................................................................................14
Erosion of Government Authority .............................................................14
The Methods of Traffickers .............................................................................15
The Myriad Causes of Trafficking ....................................................................17
Effective Strategies in Combating Trafficking ................................................20
More About the 2005 TIP Report......................................................................25
What the Report Is and Is Not .................................................................25
The Special Watch List: Tier 2 Watch List ...............................................26
Why This Year’s Report Contains More Country Assessments..................28
How the Report Is Used ...........................................................................29
Methodology ............................................................................................29
Step One: Significant Number of Victims ................................................30
Step Two: Tier Placement.........................................................................30
Potential Penalties for Tier 3 Countries ...................................................31
II. INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICES .........................................................................33
Heroes Acting to End Modern-Day Slavery ......................................................38
III. TIER PLACEMENTS ................................................................................................42
IV. MAPS (WITH REGIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT STATISTICS).......................................43
V. COUNTRY NARRATIVES (A to Z) .............................................................................51
VI. SPECIAL CASES...................................................................................................232
VII. UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT EFFORTS ...............................................................239
VIII. INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS­MATRIX ..............................................................248
IX. TRAFFICKING VICTIMS PROTECTION ACT .............................................................252
X. GLOSSARY OF ACRONYMS ...................................................................................254
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New York, NY 10016                        Director, IWS News Bureau
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European Monitoring Centre on Change (EMCC)

EMCC user survey
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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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Global Companies - Global Unions Global Research - Global Campaigns: An International Conference
Crowne Plaza Times Square, 1605 Broadway, New York, NY 10019
February 9 - 11, 2006

CONFERENCE HOME PAGE
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/globalunionsconference/

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION and CALL FOR PAPERS
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/globalunionsconference/papers/en/en.pdf
[full-text, 3 pages]

The conference will be co-sponsored by Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, University of California Institutes of Industrial Relations, the UMass Amherst Labor Relations and Research Center, the Douglas A. Fraser Center for Workplace Issues, the Cardiff School of Social Sciences, the Monash University Institute for Regional Studies, Queens College Labor Resource Center, and CRIMT (Interuniversity Research on Globalization and Work - Montreal University, Laval University and HEC Montreal). Through fundraising with universities, foundations, and unions, the sponsors
of the conference will seek to have the resources to ensure participation from academics and trade unionists from both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

Conference BROCHURE (Flyer)
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/globalunionsconference/pdfs/flyer.pdf

REGISTRATION
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/globalunionsconference/registration/

REGISTRATION FORM
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/globalunionsconference/registration/form/registration.pdf

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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
________________________________________________________________________

Japan Institute for Labor Policy and Training (JILPT)

[JAPAN]  Main Labor Economic Indicators [updates on 2 June 2005]
http://www.jil.go.jp/english/estatis/eshuyo/200506/index.htm

General Economy

   * Productivity and Wage Cost
   * Other Economic Indicators

Population, Employment and Unemployment

   * Employment Indices for Regular Employees
   * Unemployment Rate of Principal Country

Wages

   * Average Monthly Cash Earnings of Regular Employees

Working Hours

   * Total Hours Worked and Scheduled Hours Worked
   * Non-scheduled Hours Worked



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