Thursday, July 01, 2010
[IWS] BLS: MONTHLY LABOR REVIEW, JUNE 2010, VOL. 133, NO. 6 [30 June 2010]
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Monthly Labor Review
June 2010, Vol. 133, No. 6 [30 June 2010]
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2010/06/home.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2010/06/mlr201006.pdf
[full-text, 119 pages]
Articles
Effects of imported intermediate inputs on productivity
Lucy P. Eldridge and Michael J. Harper
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2010/06/art1full.pdf
[full-text, 13 pages]
A framework for estimating the effects of imported
intermediate inputs on U.S. major-sector labor productivity
is used together with the Solow multifactor productivity
equation to show that private business sector multifactor
productivity may have grown about 0.1 percent
more slowly than what the BLS published series indicates
Nonmanufacturing industry contributions to multifactor productivity, 1987–2006
Michael J. Harper, Bhavani Khandrika, Randal Kinoshita, and Steven Rosenthal
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2010/06/art2full.pdf
Compensation costs in manufacturing across industries and countries, 1975–2007
Elizabeth Zamora and Jacob Kirchmer
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2010/06/art3full.pdf
[full-text, 23 pages]
Rankings of manufacturing industries based on employers’ labor costs
for production workers changed very little from 1975 to 2007
and also did not tend to differ much from country to country;
however, trends in the range and dispersion of labor costs
have varied substantially across countries
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