October 2004

w10817

From the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)

Framework Agreement on WORK-RELATED STRESS

[full-text, 4 pages]

Press Release-

Brussels, 8 October 2004

ETUC, UNICE/UEAPME and CEEP sign AGREEMENT on work-related stress

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION (ILO)

Sectoral Activities Programme

The future of work and quality in the Information Society: The media, culture, graphical sector

Report for discussion at the Tripartite Meeting on the Future of Work and Quality in the Information Society: The Media, Culture, Graphical Sector [18 to 22 October 2004]

Geneva, 2004

[full-text, 116 pages] - See CONTENTS BELOW

From the KOREA LABOR INSTITUTE (KLI)

e-Labor News

LABOR TRENDS, No. 35, 2004 [8 October 2004

[in FRAMES]

or

[Separate Document]

Census: Consolidated Federal Funds Report for Fiscal Year 2003 Issued September 2004

CFFR/03 State and County Areas [7 October 2004]

[full-text, 110 pages]

Census: Federal Aid to States for Fiscal Year 2003 [7 October 2004]

FAS/03

Issued September 2004

[full-text, 56 pages]

GAO: Private Pensions: Airline Plans' Underfunding Illustrates Broader Problems with Defined Benefit Pension System, by David M. Walker, comptroller general of the United States, before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

GAO-05-108T, October 7.

or

[full-text, 13 pages]

and

Highlights -

The Effect of College Curriculum on Earnings: Accounting for Non-Ignorable Non-Response Bias

[full-text, 38 pages]

Daniel S. Hamermesh, Stephen G.

Donald

NBER Working Paper No. w10809

Issued in October 2004

---- Abstract -----

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Southwest Economy

Issue 5, September/October 2004 [1 October 2004]

Is the Pension System a Liability?

or

[scroll down for article, - full-text, 7 pages]

From the Asian Development Bank (ADB]

Asian Development Outlook 2004 Update [4 October 2004]

[scroll down to find access by chapter including Statistical Appendix]

or

[full-text, 134 pages]

From the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work [27 September 2004]

Issue 313 - Mainstreaming occupational safety and health into education

18/06/2004

Mainstreaming occupational safety and health into education - Good practice in school and vocational education

[full-text, 154 pages]

Press Release-

Start early and stay safe [27 September 2004]

Data on Disabled Population from the Census of INDIA 2001 [August 2004]

(by India, State/Union territory)

What is the economic outlook for OECD countries?

An interim assessment

Paris, 21st September 2004

Jean-Philippe Cotis, Chief Economist

[full-text, 12 pages]

OECD: The following is a background paper presented at the Workshop on Decentralisation and Poverty Reduction: From Lessons Learned to Policy Action, 29 - 30 September 2004, Paris, France

For additional documentation, see-

and press release at

OECD DEVELOPMENT CENTRE

Working Paper No. 236

DECENTRALISATION AND POVERTY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: EXPLORING THE IMPACT

by Johannes Jütting, Céline Kauffmann, Ida Mc Donnell, Holger Osterrieder, Nicolas Pinaud and Lucia Wegner

Research programme on: Social Institutions and Dialogue

[full-text, 59 pages]

OECD Policy Brief:

Economic Survey of FINLAND, 2004 [5 October 2004]

[full-text, 12 pages]

For more information, see-

Economic Survey - Finland 2004

From the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)

Economic Report on Africa, 2004 [29 September 2004]

(access by chapter)

or

[full-text, 232 pages]

(This is very slow to load - not recommended).

Press release at-

World Bank:

World Development Report 2005: A Better Investment Climate For Everyone [28 September 2004]

[by chapter]

or

[full-text, 288 pages]

BLS: National Compensation Survey: Occupational Wages in the United States, July 2003 [28 September 2004]

U.

S. Department of Labor

Elaine L. Chao, Secretary

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Kathleen P.

Utgoff, Commissioner

September 2004

Bulletin 2568

[full-text, 188 pages]

U.S. import and export prices in 2003

Melissa Schwartz

[full-text, 7 pages]

Declining union density in Mexico, 19842000

David Fairris and Edward Levine

[full-text, 8 pages]

The diurnal pattern of on-the-job injuries

Kenneth N.

Fortson

[full-text, 8 pages]

Accounting for wages and benefits using the ECI

Jonathan A. Schwabish

[full-text, 16 pages]

Employment in the information sector in March 2004

[full-text, 6 pages]

Post-recession trends in nonfarm employment and related indicators

[full-text, 8 pages]

Census: Issued August 2004

A Profile Of Older Workers In Maryland [5 October 2005]

Local Employment Dynamics

[full-text, 23 pages]

For additional Profiles of Older Workers by State see--

See Press Release at-

NIOSH Publication No. 2004-175:

Nanotechnology and Workplace Safety and Health

30 September 2004

[full-text, 2 pages]

Universal Access-NY is a complete online planning toolkit, developed by Cornell University's Employment and Disability Institute, that enables a One-Stop Delivery System to assess its practices, and develop work plans to improve physical and programmatic accessibility for all One-Stop customers.

What is Universal Access-NY?

Mellon:

2004 Survey of Cash Balance Plans -- Highlights

[full-text, 20 pages]

Analysis and Commentary on 2004 Survey of Cash Balance Plans

[full-text, 17 pages]

BEA: PERSONAL INCOME AND OUTLAYS: AUGUST 2004 [30 September 2004]

or

[full-text, 13 pages]

or

[spreadsheet]

and highlights at-

BLS: International Comparisons of Manufacturing Productivity and Unit Labor Cost Trends, Supplementary Tables [1 October 2004]

BLS: EMPLOYEE TENURE IN 2004 [21 September 2004]

or

[full-text, 11 pages]

BLS: METROPOLITAN AREA EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT: AUGUST 2004 [29 September 2004]

or

[full-text, 18 pages]

and

Supplemental Files Table of Contents

Facts for Features from the Census Bureau

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