Monday, August 29, 2011
[IWS] USITC: U.S. MULTINATIONAL SERVICES COMPANIES: EFFECTS OF FOREIGN AFFILIATE ACTIVITY ON U.S. EMPLOYMENT [August 2011]
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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United States International Trade Commission (USITC)
OFFICE OF INDUSTRIES WORKING PAPER ID-29
U.S. Multinational Services Companies: Effects of Foreign Affiliate Activity on U.S. Employment
by Lisa Alejandro, Richard Brown, Erick Oh, Joann Peterson, Samantha Brady Pham, Matthew Reisman, and Isaac Wohl
[full-text, 81 pages]
Abstract
This working paper examines the effect that U.S. services firms’ establishment abroad has on
domestic employment. Whereas many papers have explored the employment effects of foreign
direct investment in manufacturing, few have explored the effects of services investment. We
find that services multinationals’ activities abroad increase U.S. employment by promoting
intrafirm exports from parent firms to their foreign affiliates. These exports support jobs at the
parents’ headquarters and throughout their U.S. supply chains. Our findings are principally
based on economic research and econometric analysis performed by Commission staff, services
trade and investment data published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and employment data
collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In the aggregate, we find that services activities
abroad support nearly 700,000 U.S. jobs. Case studies of U.S. multinationals in the banking,
computer, logistics, and retail industries provide the global dimensions of U.S. MNC operations
and identify domestic employment effects associated with foreign affiliate activity in each
industry.
CONTENTS
Abstract i
Introduction 1
1: Estimation of Employment Effects 6
Domestic employment effects
2: Banking Services 15
Summary 15
Industry overview 15
Operations of Multinational Banks and Links to Employment 18
3: Computer Services 23
Summary 23
Overview 23
Employment in computer services 26
Effects on multinational’s foreign activities on U.S. employment 27
Conclusions 31
4: Logistics Services 33
Summary 33
Industry overview 33
Operations of MNCs in the logistics industry 36
International operations of logistics services providers 36
Overall employment trends 37
International employment 38
Employment in the United States 39
Employment at firms that rely on logistics networks 42
Conclusion 42
5: Retail Services 45
Summary 45
Overview: An increasingly international business 45
Employment in the retail industry 48
Operations of multinational retailers and U.S. employment 52
Directions for future research 55
Conclusion 57
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Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
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New York, NY 10016
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[IWS] Dublin Foundation: QUALITY OF LIFE IN ETHNICALLY DIVERSE NEIGHBOURHOODS [19 August 2011]
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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European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions [Dublin Foundation]
European Quality of Life Survey
Quality of life in ethnically diverse neighbourhoods [19 August 2011]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef1122.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2011/22/en/1/EF1122EN.pdf
[full-text, 89 pages]
Author:
Davies, Rhys; Wilkins, Clair; Harrison, Eric; Sibley, Elissa; Owen, David
Summary:
Many European countries have seen high levels of immigration from all parts of the world in the past two decades and the population of visible minority ethnic groups has grown rapidly. This report presents the results of a research programme analysing the quality of life in ethnically diverse neighbourhoods in EU15 countries based on the 2007 European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS). The findings confirm that material poverty is often combined with higher degrees of social exclusion in such neighbourhoods. The perceived quality of life is also lower in these areas and in general they have higher levels of social tension. From a policy point of view, this underlines the need for an integrated and comprehensive social and housing policy intervention in affected high-diversity neighbourhoods, with strong involvement of local communities. An executive summary is available.
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Cornell/ILR School
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New York, NY 10016
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Friday, August 26, 2011
[IWS] BEA: GDP & Corporate Profits, 2nd Qtr. 2011 (estimate) [26 August 2011]
IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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National Income and Product Accounts
Gross Domestic Product, 2nd quarter 2011 (second estimate)
Corporate Profits, 2nd quarter 2011 (preliminary estimate)
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2011/gdp2q11_2nd.htm
or
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2011/pdf/gdp2q11_2nd.pdf
[full-text, 16 pages]
or
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2011/xls/gdp2q11_2nd.xls
[spreadsheet]
and
Highlights
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2011/pdf/gdp2q11_2nd_fax.pdf
Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property
located in the United States -- increased at an annual rate of 1.0 percent in the second quarter of 2011,
(that is, from the first quarter to the second quarter), according to the "second" estimate released by the
Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the first quarter, real GDP increased 0.4 percent.
The GDP estimates released today are based on more complete source data than were available
for the "advance" estimate issued last month. In the advance estimate, the increase in real GDP was 1.3
percent (see "Revisions" on page 3).
The increase in real GDP in the second quarter primarily reflected positive contributions from
nonresidential fixed investment, exports, personal consumption expenditures (PCE), and federal
government spending that were partly offset by negative contributions from state and local government
spending and private inventory investment. Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP,
increased.
The acceleration in real GDP in the second quarter primarily reflected a deceleration in imports,
an upturn in federal government spending, and an acceleration in nonresidential fixed investment that
were partly offset by decelerations in PCE and in exports and a downturn in private inventory
investment.
AND MUCH MORE...including TABLES....
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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) 262-6041
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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[IWS] INDIA STATISTICS: STATISTICAL YEAR BOOK INDA, 2011
IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Government of India
Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
INDIA STATISTICS
http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/Site/India_Statistics.aspx?status=1&menu_id=14
See CHAPTER 32—LABOR & EMPLOYMENT and CHAPTER 41—TRADE UNIONS [Below]
see also the following
STATISTICAL YEAR BOOK INDIA, 2011
http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/statistical_year_book_2011.htm
India Statistics
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This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
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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) 262-6041
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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