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New CWW Study: Policy Matters, Public Policy, Paid Leave for New Parents, and Economic Security for U.S. Workers
by Eugene McElroy 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

The Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University, in conjunction with the National Partnership for Women Families, has released today a new study entitled *Policy Matters, Public Policy, Paid Leave for New Parents, and Economic Security for U.S. Workers. * According to the CWW's summary, "...public policies can substantially increase workers’ utilization of paid leave as well as the duration of leave following the birth of a child. Given the variety and magnitude of positive health and economic benefits associated with paid leave in previous studies." Further, the study concludes that "... paid leave policies can be viewed as proactive public investments in the health and well-being of children and families in the United States." click here for the CWW summary of the study, which includes a link to the study itself: *http://smlr.rutgers.edu/news-events/cww-study-policy-matters* -- Eugene McElroy Library Associate School of Management and Labor Relations SMLR Library Rutgers University 50 Labor Center Way New Brunswick, NJ 08901 (732) 932-9513

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ILO: World of Work Report 2012 'Better Jobs for a Better Economy'
by Eugene McElroy 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

The International Labor Organization (ILO) has issued its *2012 World of Work Report*. Subtitled *Better Jobs for a Better Economy*, the 128 page study new study, according to the introduction, "examines the performance of different countries since the start of the global crisis through the prism of the quantity and quality of jobs". The report addresses the following questions: • To what extent has the slow recovery aggravated social conditions, including falling incomes, deepening poverty and worsening inequality? • Have countries gone too far, too fast with fiscal consolidation? How should they support recovery while meeting fiscal goals in the medium term? • What can be expected from recent labor market reforms? • How can investment be boosted so as to ensure a long-lasting recovery in both the economy and jobs? • What have been the barriers to implementing a more job-centered and equity-enhancing policy approach? Why has the business-as-usual scenario maintained its centrality despite the increasing risk of social unrest? click here for a link to the ILO summary of the article, which includes a link to the article itself: * http://www.ilo.org/global/publications/books/world-of-work/WCMS_179453/lang… * -- Eugene McElroy Library Associate School of Management and Labor Relations SMLR Library Rutgers University 50 Labor Center Way New Brunswick, NJ 08901 (732) 932-9513

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(EPI) The Wedges between Productivity and Median Compensation Growth
by Eugene McElroy 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

On April 26, the Economic Policy Institute released a paper by Lawrence Mishel entitled *The Wedges between Productivity and Median Compensation Growth**. *According to Mishel's summary of the paper: *"*The objective of our new paper is to provide a comprehensive and consistent decomposition of the factors explaining the divergence between growth in real median compensation (note the paper focuses on median wages while I have simplified the analysis here to focus on median compensation) and labor productivity since 1973 in the United States, with particular attention to the post-2000 period. In particular, the paper identifies the relative importance of three wedges driving the median compensation-productivity gap: 1) rising compensation inequality, 2) declining share of labor compensation in the economy (the shift from labor to capital income), and 3) divergence of consumer and output prices." Click below for a link the the summary, which includes a link to the paper itself:* http://www.epi.org/blog/understanding-wedge-productivity-median-compensatio… * -- Eugene McElroy Library Associate School of Management and Labor Relations SMLR Library Rutgers University 50 Labor Center Way New Brunswick, NJ 08901 (732) 932-9513

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WashPost: Two can play the airline bankruptcy game
by noreply＠washingtonpost.com 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

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NYTimes.com: Wal-Mart's U.S. Expansion Plans Complicated by Bribery Scandal
by mcelroy＠work.rutgers.edu 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

This page was sent to you by: mcelroy(a)work.rutgers.edu. Wal-Mart's U.S. Expansion Plans Complicated by Bribery Scandal http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/30/business/wal-mart-bribery-scandal-complic… ---------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THIS E-MAIL This e-mail was sent to you by a friend through NYTimes.com's E-mail This Article service. For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help(a)nytimes.com. NYTimes.com 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 Copyright 2012 The New York Times Company

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NYTimes.com: Economix: Not Wanting Jobs
by mcelroy＠work.rutgers.edu 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

This page was sent to you by: mcelroy(a)work.rutgers.edu. BUSINESS DAY | April 30, 2012 Economix: Not Wanting Jobs By NANCY FOLBRE Too many Americans -- and their leaders -- seem relatively unconcerned with high levels of unemployment, an economist writes. http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/30/not-wanting-jobs/?emc=eta1 ---------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THIS E-MAIL This e-mail was sent to you by a friend through NYTimes.com's E-mail This Article service. For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help(a)nytimes.com. NYTimes.com 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 Copyright 2012 The New York Times Company

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[IWS] WORKERS' MEMORIAL DAY 2012--28 APRIL 2012
by Eugene McElroy 27 Apr '12

27 Apr '12

*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* *** ________________________________________________________________________**** ** ** BLS; DOL; NIOSH; CDC; OSHA**** ** ** *Fatal Occupational Injuries and Workers’ Memorial Day* [28 April 2012]**** http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/worker_memorial.htm**** ** ** ** ** In 2010, a total of 4,690 workers died from injuries they suffered at work. That works out to one U.S. worker dying every 2 hours from a work-related injury.**** ** ** DOL**** *Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis observes Workers' Memorial Day at Action* *Summit for Worker Safety and Health, announces fall prevention campaign* http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=NEWS_RELEASES… **** ** ** ** ** NIOSH eNews FLASH**** *Statement by John Howard, M.D.,* *Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH),* *For Workers Memorial Day 2012* http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/enews/flash/enewsFLASH18.html**** ** ** ** ** CDC**** *Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)* *Workers Memorial Day — April 28, 2012* http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6116a1.htm?s_cid=mm6116a1_x**** ** ** ** ** ** ** OSHA**** *Radio actuality in honor of Workers' Memorial Day available from* *Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health David Michaels* https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=NEWS_RELEASE… **** -- Eugene McElroy Library Associate School of Management and Labor Relations SMLR Library Rutgers University 50 Labor Center Way New Brunswick, NJ 08901 (732) 932-9513

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[IWS] Census: USA COUNTIES [Updated 27 April 2012]
by Eugene McElroy 27 Apr '12

27 Apr '12

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NYTimes.com: Attorney General in Mexico Will Investigate Wal-Mart
by ciudadviejo＠yahoo.com 27 Apr '12

27 Apr '12

This page was sent to you by: ciudadviejo(a)yahoo.com. Attorney General in Mexico Will Investigate Wal-Mart http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/27/business/global/attorney-general-in-mexic… ---------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THIS E-MAIL This e-mail was sent to you by a friend through NYTimes.com's E-mail This Article service. For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help(a)nytimes.com. NYTimes.com 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 Copyright 2012 The New York Times Company

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[IWS] BLS: EMPLOYMENT CHARACTERISTICS OF FAMILIES -- 2011 [26 April 2012]
by Eugene McElroy 26 Apr '12

26 Apr '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Stuart Basefsky <smb6(a)cornell.edu> Date: Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:36 PM Subject: [IWS] BLS: EMPLOYMENT CHARACTERISTICS OF FAMILIES -- 2011 [26 April 2012] To: *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* *** ________________________________________________________________________**** ** ** *EMPLOYMENT CHARACTERISTICS OF FAMILIES -- 2011* [26 April 2012]**** http://www.bls.gov/news.release/famee.nr0.htm**** or**** http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/famee.pdf**** [full-text, 12 pages]**** ** ** In 2011, 11.5 percent of families included an unemployed person,**** falling from a peak of 12.4 percent in 2010, the U.S. Bureau of**** Labor Statistics reported today. Of the nation's 78.4 million**** families, 79.8 percent had at least one employed member in 2011.**** ** ** These data on employment, unemployment, and family relationships**** are collected as part of the Current Population Survey (CPS), a**** monthly sample survey of approximately 60,000 households. Families **** are classified either as married-couple families or as families **** maintained by women or men without spouses present. For further **** information about the CPS, see the Technical Note.**** ** ** Families and Unemployment**** ** ** The number of families with at least one member unemployed**** decreased from 9.7 million in 2010 to 9.0 million in 2011. The**** proportion of families with an unemployed member also declined**** from a peak of 12.4 percent in 2010 to 11.5 percent in 2011. In**** 2011, black and Hispanic families remained more likely to have an**** unemployed member (18.9 and 16.3 percent, respectively) than**** white and Asian families (10.4 and 10.9 percent, respectively).**** (See table 1.)**** ** ** Most families with an unemployed member also have at least one**** family member who is employed. Among families with an**** unemployed member in 2011, 67.2 percent also had an employed**** family member, about the same as in 2010. (See table 1.)**** ** ** Among married-couple families with an unemployed member in 2011,**** 79.2 percent contained at least one employed family member. Among**** families maintained by men (no spouse present) with an unemployed**** member, 53.6 percent had an employed member in 2011; for families**** maintained by women (no spouse present), the proportion was 45.9**** percent. These proportions were little changed from 2010 for the**** three family types. (See table 3.)**** ** ** Families and Employment**** ** ** The share of families with an employed member edged down from**** 80.0 percent in 2010 to 79.8 percent in 2011. The likelihood of**** having an employed family member declined to 74.2 percent in **** 2011 for black families. The share for Asian families rose to **** 88.0 percent, while the likelihood for white and Hispanic **** families showed little or no change at 80.2 and 84.2 percent,**** respectively. (See table 1.)**** ** ** In 2011, families maintained by women with no spouse present**** remained less likely to have an employed member (71.7 percent)**** than married-couple families (81.9 percent) or families maintained**** by men with no spouse present (80.2 percent). Both the husband and**** wife were employed in 47.5 percent of married-couple families in**** 2011. The husband was the only worker in 19.9 percent of **** married-couple families, and the wife was the only worker in **** 8.3 percent. (See table 2.)**** ** ** Families with Children**** ** ** Forty-four percent of all families included children (sons,**** daughters, step-children, or adopted children) under age 18.**** Among the 34.3 million families with children, 87.2 percent had**** an employed parent in 2011, compared with 87.4 percent in 2010.**** The mother was employed in 65.9 percent of families maintained by**** women with no spouse present in 2011, down from 67.0 percent in**** 2010. The father was employed in 79.6 percent of families maintained**** by men with no spouse present in 2011, up from 75.8 percent in 2010.**** Among married-couple families with children, 95.8 percent had an**** employed parent in 2011, little changed from the prior year. The**** share of married-couple families where both parents worked edged**** up to 58.5 percent in 2011 from 58.1 percent in 2010. (See table 4.)**** ** ** Mothers**** ** ** The labor force participation rate--the percent of the population**** working or looking for work--for all mothers with children under**** age 18 was 70.6 percent in 2011, little different from 70.8 percent**** in 2010. In 2011, the participation rate for married mothers with**** a spouse present (68.7 percent) remained lower than the rate for**** mothers with other marital statuses (74.6 percent). (Other marital**** status refers to persons who never married or are widowed, divorced,**** separated, or married but living apart from their spouse.) Married**** mothers were about as likely to be employed as mothers with other**** marital statuses in 2011, but their unemployment rate was **** substantially lower--6.0 percent, compared with 15.0 percent for**** mothers with other marital statuses. (See table 5.)**** ** ** Mothers with younger children are less likely to be in the labor**** force than mothers with older children. In 2011, the labor force**** participation rate of mothers with children under 6 years old**** (63.9 percent) was lower than the rate of those whose youngest**** child was 6 to 17 years old (76.1 percent). The participation**** rate of mothers with infants under a year old was 55.8 percent.**** Among mothers with infants, there was little difference in the**** participation rate of married mothers (56.9 percent) and those**** with other marital statuses (53.2 percent). However, the**** unemployment rate for married mothers of infants, at 6.4 percent,**** was considerably lower than the rate for mothers with other**** marital statuses (24.2 percent). (See tables 5 and 6.)**** ** ** ** ** ** ** **· **Employment Characteristics of Families Technical Note <http://www.bls.gov/news.release/famee.tn.htm>**** **· **Table 1. Employment and unemployment in families by race and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, 2010-2011 annual averages <http://www.bls.gov/news.release/famee.t01.htm> **** **· **Table 2. Families by presence and relationship of employed members and family type, 2010-2011 annual averages <http://www.bls.gov/news.release/famee.t02.htm>**** **· **Table 3. Unemployment in families by presence and relationship of employed members and family type, 2010-2011 annual averages <http://www.bls.gov/news.release/famee.t03.htm>**** **· **Table 4. Families with own children: Employment status of parents by age of youngest child and family type, 2010-2011 annual averages <http://www.bls.gov/news.release/famee.t04.htm>**** **· **Table 5. Employment status of the population by sex, marital status, and presence and age of own children under 18, 2010-2011 annual averages <http://www.bls.gov/news.release/famee.t05.htm>**** **· **Table 6. Employment status of mothers with own children under 3 years old by single year of age of youngest child and marital status, 2010-2011 annual averages <http://www.bls.gov/news.release/famee.t06.htm>*** * **· **HTML version of the entire news release <http://www.bls.gov/news.release/famee.htm>**** -- Eugene McElroy Library Associate School of Management and Labor Relations SMLR Library Rutgers University 50 Labor Center Way New Brunswick, NJ 08901 (732) 932-9513

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