IWS Documented News INTERNATIONAL: December 2007

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
________________________________________________________________________

International Center for Journalists (ICJF)

10 Steps to Citizen Journalism Online
http://www.ijnet.org/Director.aspx?P=Training&ID=303003&LID=1

To start the MODULE, use the following URL
http://www.ijnet.org/interactive/blog_guide/1/module.html

or for full-text in PDF go to
http://www.ijnet.org/interactive/blog_guide/1/10_steps_english.pdf
[full-text, 13 pages]

[excerpt]
We all have news and stories to tell. But the Internet lets us tell our stories to the world.

If you want to tell something important to others, this guide will help you. It's a basic outline that will help you build the machinery that runs your blog: your words and images.

Other guides are technological. This guide tells you how to gather information and how to tell it -- and tell it accurately.

AND MUCH MORE....
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Cornell/ILR School
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Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
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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
________________________________________________________________________

ILO

Disability in the world of work - Interview with Actress Marlee Matlin [21 December 2007]
http://www.ilo.org/global/About_the_ILO/Media_and_public_information/I-News/lang--en/WCMS_089903/index.htm

Actress Marlee Matlin often says that the only thing deaf people can't do is hear. With access to communication and the right tools, people with disabilities have shown themselves to be exemplary workers.

See also Video Messages
http://www.ilo.org/global/About_the_ILO/Media_and_public_information/Broadcast_materials/B-rolls/lang--en/docName--WCMS_088113/index.htm
and
http://www.ilo.org/global/About_the_ILO/Media_and_public_information/Broadcast_materials/Video_News_Release/lang--en/WCMS_088117/index.htm

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Cornell/ILR School
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Telephone: (607) 255-2703
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# posted by SBasefsky : 10:35 AM

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
________________________________________________________________________

European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
and
European network of Cities for Local Integration Policies for Migrants' (CLIP)

Housing and integration of migrants in Europe [20 December 2007]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef0794.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2007/94/en/1/ef0794en.pdf
[full-text, 112 pages]

Author:
Bosswick, Wolfgang; Lüken-Klaßen, Doris; Heckmann, Friedrich

Summary:
Housing is a fundamental issue that affects the quality of life of citizens as well as being an important indicator of the degree of integration. Successful housing policies play an important role in shaping social policymaking at the local level, affecting the future integration of migrants and their descendants. This report, published jointly with the Council of Europe, presents successful practices and strategies from 20 cities participating in the first module of the European Network of Cities for Local Integration Policies for Migrants (CLIP).

Contents
Foreword iii
Introduction 1
Purpose of research project 1
Policy context 2
Research questions 3
CLIP network 4
Policy rationale to improve migrant integration 5
through local housing policies
1 Challenges, policies and measures 9
Segregation 11
Measures of an explicit anti-segregation character 16
Measures of an implicit anti-segregation character 20
Access to housing 24
Affordability and housing supply 29
Measures regarding demand side 31
Measures regarding supply side 32
Mixed measures 34
Physical housing conditions 36
Urban renewal 38
Soft urban renewal 40
Local partnership and cooperation 42
Direct involvement of citizens 43
Housing and quality of social environment 46
Community relations 48
Housing and personal security 54
Empowerment measures 58
Housing and governance issues 62
2 Quantitative overview of local policies and measures 71
Local policies 71
Measures implemented 72
3 Conclusions and recommendations 75
Recommendations to European policymakers 77
Recommendations to EU Member States 79
Recommendations for local policymakers 85
References 97

Annex 1: Research concept 99
Key analytical dimensions 99
Local conditions and their effects on migrant integration 100
Annex 2: CLIP European research group 107

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****************************************
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Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
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New York, NY 10016

Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
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# posted by SBasefsky : 9:22 AM

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
________________________________________________________________________

European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
COMPARATIVE STUDY

Impact of the working time directive on collective bargaining in the road transport sector [19 December 2007]
December 2007
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/tn0704039s/index.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/tn0704039s/tn0704039s.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/docs/eiro/tn0704039s/tn0704039s.pdf
[full-text, 47 pages]

This report explores the impact of the Working Time Directive on collective bargaining in the road transport sector. It first gives an overview of the road transport sector across the European Union, looking at its employment structure and collective bargaining actors, processes and issues. The report then examines implementation of the directive in the different countries and its impact on key areas such as working time, rest breaks and night work, as well as those cases where derogations from the directive are permitted. Finally, it looks at a range of issues facing the road transport sector in the areas of recruitment and retention, pay, and health and safety.

The study was compiled on the basis of individual national reports submitted by the EIRO correspondents. The text of each of these national reports is available below. The reports have not been edited or approved by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions. The national reports were drawn up in response to a < http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/docs/eiro/tn0704039s/finalquestionnaireWTdirective.doc > questionnaire and should be read in conjunction with it.

CONTENTS
Introduction
Overview of the road transport sector
Social partners' roles and levels of collective bargaining
Implementation of the Working Time Directive
Main issues and problems
Commentary

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Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016

Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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# posted by SBasefsky : 8:50 AM

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

Statistical Abstract of the United States 2008 [20 December 2007]
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract.html
or
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/

Press Release 20 December 2007
Demand for Digital Skyrockets, Says U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/miscellaneous/011095.html

     Factory sales of MP3 players will rise from $424 million in 2003 to nearly $6 billion in 2007, according to projected sales. Additionally, sales of digital television sets and monitors for the same period are estimated to increase from $8.7 billion to $26.3 billion.

     The transition in consumer electronics from analog to digital format is just one of the many changes taking place in American life that can be tracked in the U.S. Census Bureau's < http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/> Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2008. Published since 1878, it is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on everything from the number of public school teachers to hotel accommodations, from online shipping to marital status.

     Products are not the only things going digital; the process for acquiring them is as well. Of the $3.7 trillion in retail sales in 2005, $93 billion (2.5 percent) were recorded as e-commerce sales (Table 1019).

     In 2005, electronic shopping and mail-order houses accounted for 70 percent ($65 billion) of e-commerce sales, most notably from computer hardware (14 percent), clothing (12 percent), and drugs and beauty aids (10 percent). Motor vehicle and parts dealers made up another 18 percent of e-commerce sales (Table 1019 and 1020).

     Between 2004 and 2005, Internet publishing and broadcasting operating revenue increased by 19 percent. Revenue from online advertising space increased by 29 percent (Table 1116). Meanwhile, the number of daily newspapers continued to decline, from 1,611 in 1990 to 1,437 in 2006. Circulation fell from 62.3 million subscribers to 52.3 million (Table 1102).

     The 127th Statistical Abstract has 64 new tables. Although emphasis in this compendium is primarily given to national data, many tables present data for regions and individual states, and a smaller number for metropolitan areas and cities.

     Other highlights include:

     Motor vehicle safety
   * In 2004, New York state had the lowest death rate caused by motor vehicle accidents, with 8.2 per 100,000; Mississippi had twice the national rate with 31.5 per 100,000 (Table 114).

     Prescription drugs
   * In 1995, $72 billion was spent on retail prescription drug sales. The amount spent in 2006 increased to $250 billion (Table 130).

     Cosmetic surgery
   * Almost 11.5 million cosmetic surgical and nonsurgical procedures were performed in the United States in 2006, with women accounting for almost 92 percent of the procedures (Table 161).

     Schoolteachers
   * Of public schoolteachers who left teaching after the 2003-04 school year, 31 percent did so to retire and 25 percent to pursue a position other than that of a K-12 teacher (Table 244).

     Elected officials
   * Since 1970, the number of black elected officials at all levels of government has risen from 1,469 to 9,430 in 2002. Since 1985, the number of Hispanic elected officials has risen from 3,147 to 4,932 in 2006 (Tables 402 and 403).

     Volunteerism
   * In 2006, 61 million people volunteered (27 percent of the population) an average of 52 hours per year (Table 568).

     International travel
   * International passengers arriving and departing from U.S. airports on nonstop commercial international flights increased 6.1 percent from 2004 to 2005 (Table 1242).

   Consumer expenditures
   * In 2005, consumer expenditures averaged $46,409 per household with $5,931 for food, $426 for alcohol, $15,167 for housing, $8,344 for transportation and $2,664 for health care (Table 662).

     Serving as the official federal summary of statistics, the Statistical Abstract of the United States is derived from many sources, both government and private. Sources of data include the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and other federal agencies and private organizations. Statistics in this edition are generally for the most recent year or period available by the summer of 2007.

     The 2008 Statistical Abstract may be obtained by calling the U.S. Government Printing Office at 202-512-1800 (ISBN No. 978-0-16-079581-7, $35 for the soft cover edition; and No. 978-0-16-079584-8, $39 for the hard cover edition << http://bookstore.gpo.gov/>).

     It also may be obtained by calling the National Technical Information Service at 800-553-6847 (PB2008965801, $35 for the softbound edition; and PB2008965301, $39 for the hardbound edition << http://www.ntis.gov/>http://www.ntis.gov/>).

     A CD-ROM version of the book will be available later.

Every edition of the Statistical Abstract, dating from 1878, is available in PDF or zip files on the Census Bureau's Web site at
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/past_years.html

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****************************************
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Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
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New York, NY 10016

Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
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# posted by SBasefsky : 9:12 AM

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
________________________________________________________________________

OECD

Jobs for Youth: Korea [20 December 2007]

This is the latest report in a series launched by the OECD in some sixteen countries.
The report can be purchased in paper or electronic form through the OECD's < http://www.oecd.org/library> Online Bookshop. Subscribers and readers at subscribing institutions can access the online version via < http://www.sourceOECD.org> SourceOECD.

Press Release
Korea "could do more" to enhance job prospects for its young generation, says the OECD
http://www.oecd.org/document/22/0,3343,en_2649_201185_39807382_1_1_1_1,00.html

20/12/2007 - Labour market outcomes for young people in Korea deteriorated in the aftermath of the financial crisis of the late 1990s. Though the government has introduced a wide range of measures since the early 2000s, much remains to be done to restore the dynamism of the youth labour market, according to a new OECD report.

The report, Jobs for Youth: Korea, notes that the youth unemployment rate is still below the OECD average of 14.7%. But from 6-8% before the financial crisis it has risen to exceed 10% since 2003. The employment rate of young people remains relatively low, at 27% in 2006, compared with the OECD average of 43% (< http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/6/40/39808834.pdf>see table). The low employment rate is partly due to Korea's relatively high level of participation in tertiary education.

The proportion of young people who are neither in employment nor in education or training (NEET) is close to the OECD average for the age group 15-24, but for the age group 15-29 this NEET rate is 17%, considerably above the OECD average. The high NEET rate among older youth reflects both late entry to the labour market due to mandatory military service and nearly-universal participation in tertiary education and high non-employment among tertiary graduates.

At the same time, many young workers are often trapped in so called "non regular" jobs, i.e. jobs of short duration which offer limited career prospects. Over 33% of workers aged 15-29 had a non-regular contract in 2006. Furthermore, a growing number of young graduates do not find jobs corresponding to the skills they have acquired in education (an issue of so called "over education").

These problems reflect several factors. First, the rapid expansion of tertiary education has led to increasing mismatches between the skills provided by the education system and the requirements of the labour market. Second, there are demand-side obstacles to youth employment. Employment regulations (e.g. the gap in employment protection between regular and non-regular workers) may have aggravated labour market duality, thereby making it difficult for workers employed on non-regular contracts, youth in particular, to move to regular employment. Third, non employed youth (particularly those with lower educational attainment) do not receive adequate support when seeking a job, despite recent efforts by the government to change the situation.

Overall, the education system and labour market regulatory framework, which served Korea very well for several decades, need to be further modernised in view of the rapidly changing requirements of today's more complex, globalising Korean economy.

To tackle these issues, the OECD report makes a number of recommendations:

* Strengthen the links between university and the world of work. While universities and colleges have launched various initiatives to improve their connections with labour markets, more systematic efforts to enhance these linkages are needed. One option would be to encourage universities and colleges to expand internships and other types of work-experience spells and to include them in the curriculum. Another approach is to make part of government funding of universities and colleges conditional on the labour market outcomes of their graduates. For the latter option to work, it would have to be complemented by an institutional set-up which permits effective monitoring of students' labour market outcomes.

* Provide career guidance services to all students to ensure that their decisions on courses of study are based on informed and guided choices. Given virtually universal participation in tertiary education in Korea and the associated mismatch problems in the labour market, it is extremely important to provide good-quality career information and guidance to secondary students. Promisingly, the government announced in 2006 a five year plan to promote lifelong career development, which includes measures to provide students at all levels with work experience opportunities and career-related information. It is essential to implement this plan in a systematic way.

* Pursue more comprehensive reform of employment protection legislation. To address increasing labour market dualism and to enhance job prospects for young people, it is necessary to reduce the gap in employment protection between regular and non-regular workers while at the same time reinforcing overall workers' security in the labour market. In this regard, the recent labour law reform is a promising first step. However, more reforms are needed in such areas as the time-consuming dismissal settlement system and collective dismissal procedures. In the longer term, Korea should consider developing an appropriate form of "flexicurity", i.e. a model that combines flexible contractual arrangements with an adequate level of income security and effective active labour market policies.

* Give more priority in youth labour market policies to the NEET group of young people and streamline existing programmes for youth. The design of youth employment policies will need to change in order to cover all youth who are neither in education nor in employment, not only the unemployed, and to give greater attention to the problems of less-educated youth. Meanwhile, there are many small programmes for youth run by various government authorities. This makes it more difficult for young people to orient themselves among the multiple options, and increases the difficulties of programme monitoring and evaluation. Streamlining of these programmes following a wide-ranging evaluation of their organisation and impacts would be a cost effective approach.

* Continue efforts to strengthen the public employment service and make it more pertinent to the needs of young job-seekers. Notwithstanding the government's recent investments in the public employment service (PES), so far only a limited number of youth are using PES services. The PES should boost its market share, facilitate young people's access to its services and extend its career guidance and job assistance services to all youth in need.

______________________________
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.

****************************************
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016

Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
****************************************

# posted by SBasefsky : 6:22 AM

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
________________________________________________________________________

ILO
Economic and Labour Market Papers

Security in labour markets: Combining flexibility with security for decent work [December 2007]
Peter Auer
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/download/elm/elm07-12.pdf
[full-text, 20 pages]

[excerpt from Forward]
Trade liberalization, offshoring and technological advances entail more volatility in
labour markets and imply that labour market risks of workers increase. They have
thus to be adequately insured by new types of security outside the stable employment
relationship. Flexicurity has become a buzzword describing such developments
aiming at both labour market flexibility and security. The term drives the labour
market policy agenda of the European Commission and is now becoming attractive as
an alternative to "flexibility only" reform agendas in other parts of the world. This
article describes definitional issues and shows that it seems indeed possible to have
flexible labour markets and workers' security if certain conditions are observed. It
needs some investment in labour market policies and social rights, requires also
balancing of employer and worker oriented flexibility, internal and external flexibility
and, on the process side, a genuine social dialogue. Several configurations are
possible and a cross-country analysis of selected EU member states shows that some
countries have succeeded in organizing their labour markets in a manner that
combines flexibility with security with beneficial effects on decent work.

Contents
Foreword..................................................................................................................... iii
1. Introduction..............................................................................................................1
2. The concept...............................................................................................................2
3. From job to employment security and beyond......................................................4
4. Internal and external adjustments .........................................................................5
5. Employment stability...............................................................................................7
6. The solution to the paradox: flexi-curity? ...........................................................11
7. Country differences ...............................................................................................12
8. Conclusions.............................................................................................................12
Bibliography ...............................................................................................................14
Annex I........................................................................................................................16

Figures
Figure 1: From Job to labour market security .........................................................5
Figure 2: Configurations of flexibility .......................................................................5
Figure 3 :Enterprise-and worker oriented flexibility in Europe.............................7
Figure 4: Average employment tenure EU 15 / 1992 and 2005 ...............................8
Figure 5: Employment insecurity and tenure 1996 (left) and 2000 (right).............8
Figure 6: Relationship between tenure and productivity.......................................10
Figure 7: Job insecurity and Labour Market Policies, 2000..................................11

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****************************************
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016

Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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# posted by SBasefsky : 5:50 AM

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
________________________________________________________________________

New Zealand
Quality of Life Project

Quality of Life '07 in Twelve of New Zealand's Cities
http://www.bigcities.govt.nz/
or
http://www.bigcities.govt.nz/pdfs/2007/Quality_of_Life_2007.pdf
[full-text, 246 pages]

[excerpt]

The 2007 Quality of Life report presents a picture of life in
metropolitan New Zealand and allows us to identify what is
going well and where improvements are required. This enables
us to evaluate our own planning, policies and decision making
and to advocate, where appropriate, to central government,
non-governmental agencies and the private sector to address
the identified needs. A better quality of life for all city residents
will come about only if we work toward common outcomes
in partnership with each other, central government and our
communities.

This is the third Quality of Life report which follows the five
yearly census. It is clear from the increased number of cities
participating in this report that quality of life is a priority
commitment for metropolitan councils. To assist local authorities
with monitoring their community outcomes the indicators in the
report have been structured around the social/cultural, economic
and environmental wellbeing areas identifi ed in the Local
Government Act (2002).

Contents
Executive summary 4
Introduction 7
Key results 11
One: People 15
Two: Knowledge and skills 32
Three: Health 47
Four: Safety 77
Five: Housing 99
Six: Social connectedness 122
Seven: Civil and political rights 143
Eight: Economic standard of living 157
Nine: Economic development 173
Ten: Natural environment 190
Eleven: Built environment 215
Conclusions 230
Data collection 234
Consultation and contributions 236
Definitions 237
Index of tables and graphs 238

Press Release
Hon Nanaia Mahuta
27/11/2007
Quality of Life Report key to good communities
http://www.beehive.govt.nz/ViewDocument.aspx?DocumentID=31451

Setting priorities and planning for the future is at the heart of the Quality of Life Report 2007, launched today by Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta.

Nanaia Mahuta welcomed the release of the report, the third of its kind, which focused on key issues including sustainability, housing, and youth.

"While the primary aim is to provide decision-makers in urban areas particularly, with a greater level of information, I know it will also be valuable for councils, central government and community organisations," said Nanaia Mahuta

"Sustainable growth is a key issue for councils and communities, and is at the heart of the Labour-led government's agenda. Being sustainable involves improving the quality of life for today's generation, without compromising the wellbeing of tomorrow's generation."

Nanaia Mahuta also welcomed the report's focus on housing and on caring for young people.

"One of the issues raised in the Quality of Life Report is housing, where it has noted that home ownership is lowest in some communities, namely Maaori and Pasifika communities, as well as those on lower incomes," said Nanaia Mahuta. "The government is developing a bill aimed at providing more affordable housing.

"As Youth Affairs Minister, I was also interested to note the report highlighting the importance of our young people. The young are our future and I firmly believe that to achieve in the future, we must look after our young." said Nanaia Mahuta.

"One of the key things for this report has been the importance of working together. When there is a joint effort put in by local government, central government, and our combined communities, the chances of achieving something that has everyone's interests at heart, is that much greater.

"The report is comprehensive and well researched, and undoubtedly will be an invaluable resource for councils. I congratulate everyone who have been a part of this very important process," said Nanaia Mahuta.

[Thanks to Kevin Adams, Information Specialist, ESR, Christchurch, New Zealand for the tip]
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ILO
Conditions of Work and Employment Programme (TRAVAIL)

SAFE MATERNITY and the WORLD OF WORK [November 2007]
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/condtrav/pdf/safemat_07.pdf
[full-text, 34 pages]

CONTENTS
Preface v
Introduction 1
Maternal mortality: The realities, the reasons 1
The world of work: An entry point for promoting safe maternity 2
Improving maternity protection and health through the workplace 5
The importance of maternity protection at work for maternal and newborn health and for gender equality 5
Maternity protection at work 5
Making maternity protection a reality 6
Workplace education and services 8
Addressing the needs of HIV-positive women during pregnancy 9
Improving maternity protection and health through the workplace: Moving forward 10
Implementing, extending and improving social health protection 11
Achieving universal coverage in social health protection: The ILO strategy towards universal access to health care 12
Maternity benefits schemes 14
Implementing, extending and improving social health protection: Moving forward 15
Promoting decent work for health workers 15
Better working conditions for health workers 15
HIV/AIDS takes a toll on health workers 16
Migration 16
Social dialogue: Building consensus for sustainable solutions 17
Partnerships 17
Conclusions: Mobilizing support, working together 19
Documents and references 21
Annex : Ratifications of international labour standards with particular relevance to maternity and to health workers 25
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Cornell University
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________________________________________________________________________

Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

The GLOBAL REMITTANCES GUIDE [19 December 2007]
http://www.migrationinformation.org/datahub/remittances.cfm

Remittances are among the most tangible links between migration and development. Officially recorded flows totaled over US$280 billion worldwide in 2006. Nearly three-quarters were sent to developing countries. In 22 countries, remittances were equal to more than 10 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2006; in six countries they were equal to more than 20 percent of GDP.

Learn about remittance trends and patterns of the world, six regions, and the top remittances-receiving countries in terms of the volume and the share of GDP, by selecting the geography of interest. Click on one of the two maps below to visualize global remittance flows, either numerically or as a share of GDP.

Note: These data only capture remittances sent through formal channels such as banks and money transfer operators. Currently, no uniform and authoritative historical data on informal flows exist. However, where estimates of informal remittances are available, we include them in the remittances profiles. Given the widespread use of informal remittance channels in many countries, the remittance data presented in this guide should be regarded as underestimates of the total flows.

For ALL REMITTANCE PROFILES see-
http://www.migrationinformation.org/dataHub/remit_pdf/All_regions.pdf
[full-text, 55 pages]
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School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
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________________________________________________________________________

INDIA LEGAL INFORMATION INSTITUTE (INDLII)
http://www.indlii.org/index.aspx

For example, in the top margin click on the circle next to the word LAW. Then enter in the search box the word LABOUR. Numerous acts and laws will appear all of which will be available full-text.

Mission Statement

EVERYONE HAS A RIGHT TO KNOW THE LAW OF THE LAND FREE OF COST

We are committed to:

1. Collect legal information about India for all available sources.

2. Publish the same on the Internet with free and full public access.

3. Grant rights to the public to use the legal resources without any restrictions.

4. Create awareness about the availability of free legal resources.

5. Remove hurdles coming in the way of providing free legal information.

6. Coordinate with others Institutions to explore sources & utilisation of legal information.

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# posted by SBasefsky : 1:43 PM

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Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)

Research Department Working Papers: WP-592

The Economic Effects of Employment Protection: Evidence from International Industry-Level Data
http://www.iadb.org/res/publications/pubfiles/pubWP-592.pdf
[full-text, 40 pages]

Author:
Pagés-Serra, Carmen; Micco, Alejandro

Published:
December 2007

Abstract:
This paper examines the economic effects of employment protection legislation in a sample of developed and developing countries. Implementing a difference-in-differences test lessens the potentially severe endogeneity and omitted variable problems associated with cross-country regressions. This test is based on the hypothesis that employment protection regulations are more binding in sectors of activity exposed to higher volatility in demand or supply shocks. The analysis indicates that more stringent legislation slows down job turnover by a significant amount, and that this effect is more pronounced in sectors that are intrinsically more volatile. The paper also finds that employment and value added decline in the most affected sectors, and employment and output effects are driven by a decline in the net entry of firms. In contrast, average employment per plant is not significantly affected.
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# posted by SBasefsky : 12:37 PM

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Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL PROGRESS IN LATIN AMERICA 2008 REPORT [IPES 2008]

OUTSIDERS?
The Changing Patterns of Exclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean
http://www.iadb.org/res/ipes/2008/index.cfm
or
http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=1154386
[full-text, 304 pages]

Contents
Annotated Table of Contents. v
Preface. ix
Acknowledgments. xi

Part I The Changing Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion
Chapter 1
Outsiders? . 3
Chapter 2
Traditional Excluding Forces: A Review of the Literature . 15
Chapter 3
Discrimination in Latin America: The Proverbial Elephant in the Room?. 31
Chapter 4
State Reform and Inclusion: Changing Channels and New Actors . 45
Chap er 5
Bad Jobs, Low Wages, and Exclusion . 71
Chapter 6
Social Mobility and Social Exclusion . 101
Chapter 7
To What Extent Do Latin Americans Trust and Cooperate? Field Experiments .
on Social Exclusion in Six Latin American Countries . 123

Part II Beyond Material Deprivation
Chapter 8
Privatization and Social Exclusion in Latin America. 149
Chapter 9
Exclusion and Politics . 159
Chapter 10
Social Exclusion and Violence. 171
Chapter 11
Exclusion and Financial Services. 183
Chapter 12
Modern Forms of Program Delivery and Exclusion. 193

Part III Advancing inclusion
Chapter 13
Inclusion and Public Policy. 203
Chapter 14
The Inclusion Process in Motion in Latin America and the Caribbean . 215

References. 245
Index . 275

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# posted by SBasefsky : 12:29 PM

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________________________________________________________________________

OECD

Latin American Economic Outlook 2008 [7 December 2007]
http://www.oecd.org/document/40/0,3343,en_2649_201185_38789800_1_1_1_1,00.html

The Latin American Economic Outlook 2008 (LEO) is designed to be an indispensable reference on Latin America's economic trends, challenges and opportunities. LEO 2008 is organized around four broad themes that focus on one specific dimension:
   * Policy coherence: improving fiscal policy
   * Finance: deepening pension reform
   * Business: investment and telecommunications
   * Trade: growing trade with China and India

Containing innovative indicators and cross-regional case studies, LEO 2008 stimulates informed debate on how to maximize development opportunities in all these areas.

How to obtain this publication

The complete edition of the Latin American Economic Outlook 2008 is available from:
   * < http://www.sourceoecd.org> SourceOECD for subscribing institutions and many libraries

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# posted by SBasefsky : 12:04 PM

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________________________________________________________________________

European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)

Employment guidance services for people with disabilities [18 December 2007]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/areas/socialcohesion/egs/search.php

This database of employment guidance services contains case studies from 16 EU Member States. These have been selected on the basis that they adopt new or enhanced approaches to providing employment services for the target group of people with disabilities or chronic illness. The database consists of employment guidance services that are relatively new, that seek to integrate a range of services, that seek to mainstream the target groups into general employment services and those that seek to provide integrated pathways to work.

These cases are of potential interest to a range of people. These include professionals operating in employment guidance services, be they in the mainstream or specialist sectors, rehabilitation professionals, policy makers, employers and others.

Browse case studies:

By target groups
< http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/areas/socialcohesion/egs/egstargetgroups.htm >

By country
< http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/areas/socialcohesion/egs/egsbycountry.htm >

By type of initiative
< http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/areas/socialcohesion/egs/egstypeofinitiative.htm >

Advanced search for case studies

The options on the form below allow you to restrict your search to case studies from a particular country or by some other criteria. If you leave the form unchanged, the search will cover all 30 case studies.

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# posted by SBasefsky : 11:32 AM

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_______________________________
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Cornell University
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________________________________________________________________________

European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
European Working Conditions Observatory (EWCO)

Attractive workplace for all: company cases [26 November 2007]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/areas/qualityofwork/betterjobs/search.php

The Lisbon strategy aims to make the EU by 2010 'the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth, with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion'. Recent research from the Foundation shows that there are companies across Europe implementing innovative employment policies, practices and agreements, and, therefore, contributing to the Lisbon strategy objectives.

These cases are examples of 'win-win situations', showing that it is possible to combine quality of work and employment with economic performance. They deal with key dimensions of the Lisbon strategy such as
business creation and entrepreneurship,
< http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/areas/qualityofwork/betterjobs/Bycategory1.htm >
employability,
< http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/areas/qualityofwork/betterjobs/Bycategory2.htm >
increasing the labour market participation of underrepresented groups
< http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/areas/qualityofwork/betterjobs/Bycategory3.htm >
and
people at risk of exclusion,
< http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/areas/qualityofwork/betterjobs/Bycategory4.htm >
pay,
< http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/areas/qualityofwork/betterjobs/Bycategory5.htm >
and
flexibility.
< http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/areas/qualityofwork/betterjobs/Bycategory6.htm >

The involvement of the social partners at company and sectoral level is a significant aspect of the development of these policies and their outcomes.

Browse case studies:

By category
< http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/areas/qualityofwork/betterjobs/bycategory.htm >

By country
< http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/areas/qualityofwork/betterjobs/bycountry.htm >

By sector
< http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/areas/qualityofwork/betterjobs/bysector.htm >

Advanced search for case studies

The options on the form below allow you to restrict your search to case studies from a particular country or sector or by some other criteria. If you leave the form unchanged, the search will cover all 82 case studies.

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# posted by SBasefsky : 11:25 AM

IWS Documented News INTERNATIONAL

Friday, December 21, 2007

[IWS] 10 STEPS to CITIZEN JOURNALISM ONLINE (Web-based Guide)

[IWS] ILO: DISABILITY in WORLD OF WORK--ACTRESS MARLEE MATLIN INTERVIEW [21 December 2007]

[IWS] Dublin Foundation+: MIGRANT HOUSING & INTEGRATION in EUROPE [20 December 2007]

[IWS] Dublin Foundation: WORKING TIME DIRECTIVE & ROAD TRANSPORT SECTOR [19 December 2007]

Thursday, December 20, 2007

[IWS] Census: STATISTICAL ABSTRACT OF THE UNITED STATES 2008 [20 December 2007]

[IWS] OECD: JOBS for YOUTH: KOREA [20 December 2007]

[IWS] ILO: SECURITY in LABOUR MARKETS: COMBINING FLEXIBILITY with SECURITY for DECENT WORK [December 2007]

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

[IWS] New Zealand: QUALITY OF LIFE '07 in TWELVE CITIES [27 November 2007]

[IWS] ILO: SAFE MATERNITY & the WORLD OF WORK [November 2007]

[IWS] MPI: THE GLOBAL REMITTANCES GUIDE [19 December 2007]

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

[IWS] INDIA LEGAL INFORMATION INSTITUTE (INDLII)

[IWS] IADB: The Economic Effects of Employment Protection: Evidence from International Industry-Level Data [December 2007]

[IWS] IADB: ECONOMIC & SOCIAL PROGRESS in LATIN AMERICA 2008 Report

[IWS] OECD: LATIN AMERICAN ECONOMIC OUTLOOK 2008 [7 December 2007]

[IWS] Dublin Foundation: CASE STUDIES--P/W DISABILITIES EMPLOYMENT GUIDANCE SERVICES [18 December 2007]

[IWS] EWCO: COMPANY CASES: Attractive Workplace for All [26 November 2007]

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