Thursday, April 30, 2009
[IWS] BLS: MONTHLY LABOR REVIEW, April 2009, Vol. 132, No. 4 [30 April 2009]
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Monthly Labor Review Online
April 2009
Vol. 132, Number 4
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/home.htm
Trends in labor force flows during recent recessions
Harley Frazis and Randy Ilg
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2009/04/art1full.pdf
[full-text, 16 pages]
An analysis of labor force status flows reveals that the current
recession, characterized by the slowing of flows into employment,
differs from the recession of 2001 and most earlier recessions,
which were marked more by increasing flows out of employment
Business employment dynamics: tabulations by size of employment change
Sheryl L. Konigsberg, James R. Spletzer, and David M. Talan
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2009/04/art2full.pdf
[full-text, 11 pages]
Business Employment Dynamics data are quarterly series
of gross job gain and loss statistics for the U.S. economy;
in autumn 2008, for the first time BLS published
BED data that display gross job gain and loss statistics
grouped by the number of jobs that were gained or lost
China's manufacturing employment and compensation costs: 200206
Erin Lett and Judith Banister
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2009/04/art3full.pdf
[full-text, 9 pages]
Both employment and compensation costs in China's
manufacturing sector increased rapidly from 2002 to 2006;
employment increased more than 10 percent during those 4 years,
to 112 million, while compensation costs increased
more than 40 percent, to $0.81 per hour worked
______________________________
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
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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
________________________________________________________________________
Monthly Labor Review Online
April 2009
Vol. 132, Number 4
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/home.htm
Trends in labor force flows during recent recessions
Harley Frazis and Randy Ilg
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2009/04/art1full.pdf
[full-text, 16 pages]
An analysis of labor force status flows reveals that the current
recession, characterized by the slowing of flows into employment,
differs from the recession of 2001 and most earlier recessions,
which were marked more by increasing flows out of employment
Business employment dynamics: tabulations by size of employment change
Sheryl L. Konigsberg, James R. Spletzer, and David M. Talan
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2009/04/art2full.pdf
[full-text, 11 pages]
Business Employment Dynamics data are quarterly series
of gross job gain and loss statistics for the U.S. economy;
in autumn 2008, for the first time BLS published
BED data that display gross job gain and loss statistics
grouped by the number of jobs that were gained or lost
China's manufacturing employment and compensation costs: 200206
Erin Lett and Judith Banister
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2009/04/art3full.pdf
[full-text, 9 pages]
Both employment and compensation costs in China's
manufacturing sector increased rapidly from 2002 to 2006;
employment increased more than 10 percent during those 4 years,
to 112 million, while compensation costs increased
more than 40 percent, to $0.81 per hour worked
______________________________
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
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