Daytona State College Business News and Resources

Personal Income for Metropolitan Areas, 2008

2009-08-10T13:43:00.002-04:00

From the Bureau of Economic Analysis:

"Personal income growth slowed in 2008 in most of the nation's Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs)."

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/regional/mpi/2009/pdf/mpi0809.pdf

The Effect of Spring Training on Florida's Economy

2009-08-07T09:03:00.003-04:00

This report, from the Florida Sports Foundation, shows that the total economic value of Major League Baseball spring training in Florida is $752.3 million. Here is a link to the full report:

http://www.flasports.com/pdfs/2009%20MLB%20FLORIDA%20SPRING%20TRAINING%20ECONOMIC%20IMPACT%20STUDY.%20FINAL..pdf

World Demographic Trends 2009

2009-02-12T12:03:00.000-05:00

From the United Nations:

http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/lib/dhlrefweblog.nsf/dx/10022009013033PMUNRPQ7.htm

Two new e-commerce books in the library

2009-01-26T14:44:00.002-05:00

We have received two more books on e-commerce; both of these are textbook-type books, with case studies and reviews.

Electronic Commerce, 8th Edition
Gary P. Schneider
Location in library: HF 5548.32 .S39 2009

E-Commerce: Business, Technology, and Society, 5th Edition
Kenneth C. Laudon and Carol Guercio Traver
Location in library: HF 5548.32 .L38 2009

Both of these are on shelf # 11 Right in the Daytona Beach campus library.

New book - Marketing and E-Commerce

2009-01-23T14:23:00.003-05:00

We have received a new book on online marketing and e-commerce:

The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use News Releases, Blogs, Podcasting, Viral Marketing and Online Media to Reach Buyers Directly

David Meerman Scott, author

Daytona Beach campus library

Call number: HF 5415.1265 .S393 2009
Shelf # 11 Right

Latin America and the Caribbean, Economic and Social Data, 2008

2009-01-16T10:58:00.002-05:00

From USAID:

http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNADM600.pdf

U.S. Employment Situation, December 2008

2009-01-16T10:48:00.003-05:00

This is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and details unemployment statistics for 12/08.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

Business Dynamics Statistics: The Changing Economy

2009-01-09T11:28:00.003-05:00

This is a new site from the Census Bureau. From their description: "New tool gives insights into dynamics of changing economy." Their tables show the number of establishments, establishment openings and closings, employment, job creation/job destruction, and job expansions/job contractions, from 1976-2005.

http://www.ces.census.gov/index.php/bds

New business search engine

2008-11-13T10:13:00.002-05:00

Biznar (http://biznar.com/biznar/) is a free business search engine - "a publicly available business research website." According to the description, "Biznar scans the best business websites on the internet, including blogs, news sites, patent sources, search engines, and deep web sources, returning the most relevant results to one, easily navigable, ranked page."

Since this searches deep web (invisible web) sites, and is specific to business, it will return more relevant information than a Google search.

The Stock Market

2008-11-11T10:36:00.004-05:00

The stock market has certainly been in the news a lot lately! But what is the stock market? How does it work? What do the numbers mean?

Here are some answers.

How stocks and the stock market work: http://money.howstuffworks.com/personal-finance/financial-planning/stock.htm

How does the stock market work? http://life.familyeducation.com/personal-finance/lifestyle-and-home/47414.html

The stock market: what does it do and how has it performed? http://mailer.fsu.edu/~dmacpher/garnet-dmacpher/teaching/ECO2023/Lectures/10_S04.ppt
Dow Jones Industrial Average: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average

Standard and Poor's 500: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S&P_500

NASDAQ: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASDAQ, http://www.nasdaq.com/

Russell 2000: http://www.russell.com/Indexes/characteristics_fact_sheets/US/Russell_2000_Index.asp

The Global Economy and the Group of 20

2008-11-10T11:27:00.004-05:00

This article is from today's New York Times:

"The Group of 20 finance ministers and central bankers met over the weekend here with the intent of laying the groundwork for a critical meeting of world leaders in Washington next Saturday to tackle the global financial crisis."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/business/worldbusiness/10g20.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

"Instead, Mr. da Silva and Mr. Mantega sought to assert the role of the Group of 20 in discussions typically dominated by the Group of 7 organization of advanced economies — Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States. The Group of 20, formed in the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, is composed of the Group of 7 and 13 developing countries."

The countries in the Group of 20 (also known as the G-20) are the Group of 7 countries, named in the paragraph above, and Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, and the European Union. These are not the top 20 economies in the world, but together they account for 90% of global gross national product, 80% of world trade, and 2/3 of the world's population (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G20_industrial_nations). Individual members of the G-20 are the finance ministers and central bank governors of these countries, the president of the European Union (if the president's country is not already a member), and several other global economy leaders such as the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the president of the World Bank.

Brazil, Russia, India and China are collectively known as the BRIC countries. They are four of the world's fastest-developing nations, and would like to have more input into the issues facing the global economy. The head of the IMF agrees, saying that the only global growth that will occur next year will come from these countries and others like them.

The G-20 countries are facing economic problems because of the problems of the G-7 economies. The problems of one country, or a few countries, cannot be isolated to just those countries. The global economy is too integrated for that.

For more information:

G-20: http://www.g20.org/G20/

International Monetary Fund: http://www.imf.org/external/index.htm

BRIC countries: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=a92MjLFTwrkg&refer=asia

The World Bank: http://www.worldbank.org/

The global economy: http://wage.wisc.edu/

New format for blog

2008-11-10T11:17:00.003-05:00

The format for this blog will be changing; it will now include business news from various sources, with suggestions for research on the given topic, as well as new books, useful links, and other new library resources. It will combine this blog, the New Books and Business Resources blogs into this blog.

Please feel free to leave comments!

Search engines for business research

2007-08-22T12:04:00.001-04:00

Zibb: The Global Business Search Engine

http://www.zibb.com/

New York Public Library Science, Industry and Business Library - Research Guides

http://www.nypl.org/research/sibl/guides/

Harvard Business School Baker Library Research Guides

http://www.library.hbs.edu/guides/

The Virtual Chase: Database of Sources

http://www.virtualchase.com/topics/index.html

BusinessDictionary.com

http://www.businessdictionary.com/

The Way We Worked: Photographs from the National Archives (Business History)

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/twww/

Florida - related information

2007-08-16T13:11:00.000-04:00

How Disasters Affect Local Labor Markets: The Effects of Hurricanes in Florida

http://ftp.iza.org/dp2976.pdf

Innovation

2007-08-15T11:17:00.001-04:00

Value, Protect, Exploit: How Managing Intellectual Property Can Build and Sustain Competitive Advantage

http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/cda/doc/content/us_tmt_ManagingIP_072607.pdf

A Comparative Approach to the Protection of Fashion Innovations

http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1040&context=bclt

Leadership and supervision

2007-08-06T16:08:00.000-04:00

Training Supervisors to be Leaders: A Missing Element in Efforts to Improve Federal Performance

http://www.govexec.com/pdfs/ALI_thompsonreport.pdf

Executive Excess 2007: The Staggering Social Cost of U.S. Business Leadership

http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/070829-executiveexcess.pdf

Hospitality and tourism

2007-05-31T12:11:00.000-04:00

The Effects of Organizational Standards and Support Functions on Guest Service and Guest Satisfaction in Restaurants

http://www.hotelschool.cornell.edu/chr/research/abstract.html?repid=14462

Cornell University Center for Hospitality Research

http://www.hotelschool.cornell.edu/chr/

Workplace injuries and illness

2007-05-09T10:20:00.000-04:00

NIOSH Fatal Occupational Injury Cost Fact Sheets

http://www.docuticker.com/?p=8341

Workplace injuries and illnesses in 2005

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/news.release/osh.text

Postal Service’s Workplace Safety and Workplace-Related Injury Reduction Goals and Progress

http://www.uspsoig.gov/FOIA_files/HM-AR-07-002.pdf

National Census of fatal occupational injuries in 2006

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cfoi.pdf

Workers' Compensation: Benefits, Coverage and Costs, 2005

http://www.nasi.org/usr_doc/NASI_Workers_Comp_2005_Full_Report.pdf

Older workers

2007-05-09T10:14:00.001-04:00

Why do boomers plan to work so long?

http://www.bc.edu/centers/crr/papers/wp_2006-19.pdf

Age, women and hiring: an experimental study

http://www.bc.edu/centers/crr/papers/wp_2006-23.pdf

How do age discrimination laws affect older workers?

http://www.bc.edu/centers/crr/issues/wob_5.pdf

Engaging and retaining older workers

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d07438sp.pdf

Older Americans Update 2006: Key Indicators of Well-Being

http://www.agingstats.gov/agingstatsdotnet/Main_Site/Data/2006_Documents/OA_2006.pdf
Labor Market Rigidities and the Employment Behavior of Older Workers

http://ftp.iza.org/dp2996.pdf

What explains trends in labor force participation of older men in the United States?

http://ftp.iza.org/dp2991.pdf

Business and the environment

2007-05-09T09:59:00.000-04:00

EarthTrends Searchable Database: Economics, Business and the Environment:

http://earthtrends.wri.org/searchable_db/index.php?theme=5

2006 Corporate Governance and Climate Change: Making the Connection

http://www.ceres.org/pub/publication.php?pid=84

Energy Strategy for the Future: U.S. EPA

http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=business.bus_energy_strategy

International and immigrant labor

2007-05-09T09:22:00.000-04:00

International comparisons of hourly compensation costs for production workers in manufacturing

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ichcc.toc.htm

Global manpower employment outlook survey 2007

http://www.manpower.com/mpcom/VisualLibraryMEOS.jsp?quarterID=63&articleID=373

A visual essay: international labor market comparisons

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/04/ressum.pdf

The role of immigrants in the U.S. labor market

http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=8024&sequence=0

Comparative civilian labor force statistics, ten countries, 1960-2006:

http://www.bls.gov/fls/flscomparelf.htm

Foreign-born workers: labor force characteristics in 2006

http://www.bls.gov/news.re.ease/pdf/forbrn.pdf

International comparison of labour statistics 2006:

http://www.jil.go.jp/english/estatis/databook/index.htm

Hourly compensation costs for production workers in manufacturing, 33 countries or areas, 22 manufacturing industries, 1992-2005

http://www.bls.gov/fls/flshcindnaics.htm

Farm Labor Shortages and Immigration Policy

http://opencrs.cdt.org/document/RL30395/

A visual essay: international labor market comparisons

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/04/ressum.htm

International Comparison of Labour Statistics 2007

http://www.jil.go.jp/english/estatis/databook/index.htm

Working time flexibility in European companies

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef0739.htm

Working Time Around The World - One in five workers worldwide are putting in "excessive" hours: New ILO study spotlights working time in over 50 countries

http://www.ilo.org/global/About_the_ILO/Media_and_public_information/Press_releases/lang--en/WCMS_082827

The flexibility of working time arrangements for women and men [European Union]

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-SF-07-096/EN/KS-SF-07-096-EN.PDF

1995-2005: Foreign-born Latinos make progress on wages

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/572/latino-wages

Department of Labor's Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, 2001-2006

http://www.dol.gov/ILAB/media/reports/iclp/main.htm

Intellectual Property, the Immigration Backlog, and a Reverse Brain-Drain: America's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1008366

China

2007-05-08T14:00:00.000-04:00

Trade balances and jobs: Canada, the U.S. and China

http://policyalternatives.ca/documents/National_Office_Pubs/2007/Trade_Balances_and_Jobs.pdf

China's trade with the U.S. and the world

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL31403.pdf

Is China a threat to the U.S. economy?

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL33604.pdf

China's banking sector: growing towards diversification

http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/cda/doc/content/dtt_Boao_BankingEng041807.pdf

Growing pains: the evolving U.S.-China trade relationship

http://www.freetrade.org/pubs/FTBs/FTB-028.html

What's the difference? - Comparing U.S. and Chinese trade data

http://opencrs.cdt.org/document/RS22640

Doing Business in China:

http://www.buyusainfo.net/docs/x_3265405.pdf

Five challenges that China must overcome to sustain economic growth:

http://www.house.gov/jec/publications/109/07-27-06china_economy.pdf

China's car makers 10 years away from being competitive in US and Europe

http://graphics.eiu.com/files/ad_pdfs/eiu_Roland_Berger_China_Cars.pdf

China and India: The reality beyond the hype

http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/cda/doc/content/US_ChinaIndiaReality_Research.pdf

Surviving the China riptide: How to profit from the supply chain bottleneck

http://www.bcg.com/publications/files/ChinaRipTideMay07.pdf

China’s economic prospects 2006-2020

http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/cp_83_polaski_final.pdf

What are the High-Probability Challenges to Continued High Growth in China?

http://www3.brookings.edu/views/papers/20070522woo.pdf

China's economic fluctuations and their implications for its rural economy

http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/keidel_report_final.pdf

China’s Growing Demand for Oil and Its Impact on U.S. Petroleum Markets

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/71xx/doc7128/04-07-ChinaOil.pdf

Doing Business In China: A Country Commercial Guide for U.S. Companies

http://www.buyusainfo.net/docs/x_3265405.pdf

China - U.S. Trade Issues

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL33536.pdf

China's Currency: Economic Issues and Options for U.S. Trade Policy

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL32165.pdf

Strengthening China's Technological Capability

http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/IW3P/IB/2007/08/09/000158349_20070809111012/Rendered/PDF/wps4309.pdf

China's Economic Prospects 2006-2020

http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/cp_83_polaski_final.pdf

What's the Difference? Comparing U.S. and Chinese Trade Data

http://opencrs.cdt.org/document/RS22640

Global Value Chain Self-Assessment Tool: Overview of Results for China

http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_pubs/task,view/id,4015/type,1/

Is the Chinese Growth Miracle Built to Last?

http://ftp.iza.org/dp2995.pdf

Health and Safety Concerns over U.S. Imports of Chinese Products: An Overview

http://www.opencrs.com/rpts/RS22713_20070828.pdf

China's Holdings of U.S. Securities: Implications for the U.S. Economy (01/09/08)

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL34314.pdf

China's Economic Fluctuations: Implications for Its Rural Economy (2007)

http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/keidel_china_fluctuations_final.pdf

Business ethics and related issues

2007-05-04T11:52:00.000-04:00

Rethinking corporate social responsibility: a U.S. perspective

http://www.csrresults.com/

Racial diversity initiatives in professional service firms: what factors differentiate successful from unsuccessful initiatives?

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-019.pdf

Ethical and scientific issues of nanotechnology in the workplace

http://www.ehponline.org/members/2006/9456/9456.pdf

Implicit discrimination in hiring: real world evidence

http://ftp.iza.org/dp2764.pdf

Reluctant gatekeepers: corporate ethics on a filtered internet

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=978507

How do age discrimination laws affect older workers?

http://www.bc.edu/centers/crr/issues/wob_5.pdf

Evidence of unequal treatment in hiring against obese applicants: A field experiment

http://ftp.iza.org/dp2275.pdf

Social Isolation and American Workers: Employee Blogging and Legal Reform

http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/articles/pdf/v20/20HarvJLTech287.pdf

2007 World's Most Ethical Companies

http://ethisphere.com/2007-worlds-most-ethical-companies/

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Releases 2006 Ethical Sourcing Report

http://www.walmartfacts.com/articles/5235.aspx

Knowledgable consumers? Corporate fraud and its devastating impacts

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/rel/ccjs/knowledgeable-consumer-2007.pdf

Why We Aren't as Ethical as We Think We Are: A Temporal Explanation

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5763.html

Women in the workforce

2007-05-04T11:23:00.000-04:00

U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau

http://www.dol.gov/wb/

Women in the labor force 2005

http://www.dol.gov/wb/factsheets/Qf-laborforce-05.htm

Ask a working woman survey report 2006

http://www.stirringthepot.org/media/AWWsurvey.pdf

Changes in behavioral and characteristic determination of female labor force participation, 1975-2005:

http://www.frbatlanta.org/filelegacydocs/erq206_hotchkiss.pdf

Age, women and hiring: an experimental study

http://www.bc.edu/centers/crr/papers/wp_2006-23.pdf

Moms and Jobs: Trends in Mothers’ Employment and Which Mothers Stay Home

http://www.contemporaryfamilies.org/subtemplate.php?t=factSheets&ext=momsandjobs

Women at Work: A Progress Report

http://dallasfed.org/research/eclett/2007/el0705.html

The Impact of Minimum Wage Increases on Single Mothers

http://www.epionline.org/study_detail.cfm?sid=109

Marketing

2007-05-04T10:34:00.000-04:00

How do consumers make choices? A summary of evidence from marketing and psychology

http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2007/wp2007-005.pdf

The world's best brands

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_32/b3996410.htm

Consumer Expenditure Survey

http://www.bls.gov/cex/home.htm

U.S. Commercial Service Market Research Library

http://www.buyusainfo.net/adsearch.cfm?loadnav=no&RequestTimeout=2500

Purchasing, Pricing, and Quick Response in the Presence of Strategic Consumers

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/paper.cfm?paperid=1350

Internet Advertising Revenues Grow 35% in '06, Hitting a Record Close to $17 BILLION

http://www.iab.net/news/pr_2007_05_23.asp

It's From Where? College Students Clueless on Where Favorite Brands Come From

http://www.andersonanalytics.com/newsfiles/20070524.htm

Information or Persuasion? An Empirical Investigation of the Effect of Advertising on Brand Awareness and Perceived Quality using Panel Data

https://gsbapps.stanford.edu/researchpapers/detail1.asp?Document_ID=2984

Trade

2007-05-04T10:25:00.000-04:00

Trade agreements: impact on the U.S. economy

http://opencrs.cdt.org/document/RL31932

U.S. trade policy and the Caribbean: from trade preferences to free trade agreements

http://opencrs.cdt.org/document/RL33951

What's the difference? - Comparing U.S. and Chinese trade data

http://opencrs.cdt.org/document/RS22640

2007 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers

http://www.ustr.gov/Document_Library/Reports_Publications/2007/2007_NTE_Report/Section_Index.html

2006 Surface Trade with Canada and Mexico Rose 8.9% from 2005

http://www.bts.gov/press_releases/2007/bts010_07/html/bts010_07.html

Are trade deficits a drag on U.S. economic growth?

http:/www.freetrade.org/pubs/FTBS/FTB-027.html

China's trade with the U.S. and the world

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL31403.pdf

Basic information and online sources for NAFTA and CAFTA research

http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/NAFTA_CAFTA_Research.htm

U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, 2006

http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrelarchive/2006/trad0706.pdf

U.S. trade strategy: free vs. fair

http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/CPCTrade.pdf

Probable effect of certain modifications to the North American Free Trade Agreement Rules of Origin

http://hotdocs.usitc.gov/docs/pubs/103/pub3881.pdf

U.S.: 2006 National Export Strategy

http://www.ita.doc.gov/media/Publications/pdf/nes2006FINAL.pdf

The Doha round: no help for America's trade deficit?

http://www.morici-dohareport.org/index.asp

2007 AGOA Report Shows Growth in US Africa Trade

http://www.ustr.gov/assets/Trade_Development/Preference_Programs/AGOA/asset_upload_file762_11294.pdf

U.S. Freight Shipments with Canada and Mexico Reached a Record High in 2005, According to Three-Country Database

http://www.bts.gov/press_releases/2006/bts053_06/html/bts053_06.html

The Year in Trade 2006

http://hotdocs.usitc.gov/docs/pubs/year_in_trade/pub3927.pdf

Shifts in U.S. Merchandise Trade 2006

http://www.usitc.gov/tradeshifts/2007/default.htm

Labor and union issues

2007-05-02T13:36:00.000-04:00

Discounting Rights: Wal-Mart's Violation of US Workers' Right to Freedom of Association

http://hrw.org/reports/2007/us0507

The potential impact of National Labor Relations Board's supervisor cases

http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/pm115

Unions and Upward Mobility for Low-Wage Workers

http://www.cepr.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1279&Itemid=8

Changes

2007-04-26T11:10:00.000-04:00

In case anyone is watching...I'm changing this blog so that it only addresses issues related to business and management. I'm leaving everything that might possibly have to do with business, and moving everything else to del.icio.us. This will make the blog more user-friendly for our students.

It will take me a while to get everything moved over, so the non-business-related entries will disappear slowly.

Worker issues

2006-09-07T12:37:00.000-04:00

The state of the American worker, 2006:

http://www.aei.org/publicopinion17/

The American Dream Survey 2006: Hope and Fear in Working America

http://www.changetowin.org/features/the-american-dream-survey.html

Work-related violence and threats and the risk of depression and stress disorders:

http://press.psprings.co.uk/jech/september/771_ch42986.pdf

Earnings-related severance pay:

http://ftp.iza.org/dp2232.pdf

Changing patterns in the world of work:

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/relm/ilc/ilc95/pdf/rep-i-c.pdf

Characteristics of minimum wage workers, 2005:

http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2005.htm

The State of Working America 2006-2007:

http://www.stateofworkingamerica.org/

Interpersonal styles and labor market outcomes:

http://ftp.iza.org/dp2466.pdf

Labor force characteristics of second-generation Americans:

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/09/art2full.htm

Are they really ready to work? Employers' perspectives on the basic knowledge and applied skills of new entrants to the 21st century U.S. workforce

http://www.conference-board.org/pdf_free_BED-06-Workforce.pdf

Occupational pay relatives, 2005: relative occupational pay comparisons between metropolitan areas and the U.S. as a whole

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ncspay.pdf

Salary search database

http://www.indeed.com/salary

Worker displacement: 2003-2005

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/news.release/disp.txt

No booze? You may lose: why drinkers earn more money than nondrinkers

http://www.reason.org/pb44.pdf

Institute for the Study of Labor

http://www.iza.org/

A leaner, more skilled U.S. manufacturing workforce

http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/current_issues/cil2-2/cil2-2.html

Effects of ESOP adoption and employee ownership: Thirty years of research and experience

http://repository.upenn.edu/od_working_papers/2/

Characteristics of minimum wage workers, 2006

http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2006.htm

Bureau of Labor Statistics

http://www.bls.gov/home.htm

Regional and state unemployment, 2006 annual averages

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/news.release/srgune.txt

Employee tenure, 2006

http://www.ebri.org/publications/notes/index.cfm?fa=notesDisp&content_id=3801

Annual Talent Shortage Survey

http://www.manpower.com/investors/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=235798

Labor Productivity: Developments since 1995

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/79xx/doc7910/03-26-Labor.pdf

U.S. Department of Labor’s OSHA unveils new pandemic flu guidance for healthcare workers

http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/osha/osha20070742.htm

Offshoring and Unemployment

http://ftp.iza.org/dp2805.pdf

Managers Say the Majority of Information Obtained for Their Work Is Useless, Accenture Survey Finds

http://newsroom.accenture.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=4484

Unauthorized Employment in the United States: Issues and Options

http://opencrs.cdt.org/document/RL33973

2006 Background Screening Hit Ratio Report

http://www.kroll.com/library/pdf/2006BackgroundScreeningHitRatioReport.pdf

Preliminary multifactor productivity trends, 2006

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/prod3.pdf

Economic mobility: is the American dream alive and well?

http://www.economicmobility.org/assets/pdfs/EMP%20American%20Dream%20Report.pdf

Drinking social norms and drinking behaviors: a multilevel analysis of 137 workgroups in 16 worksites

http://press.psprings.co.uk/oem/may/om31765.pdf

EEOC ISsues New Guidance on Work/Family Balance and Promotes Employer Best Practices

http://www.eeoc.gov/press/5-23-07.html

Can California Import Enough College Graduates to Meet Workforce Needs?

http://www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=750

Salary Search: Search salaries from over 50 million jobs in the past year

http://www.indeed.com/salary

Understanding Productivity: A Primer

http://www.statcan.ca/english/research/15-206-XIE/15-206-XIE2006002.pdf

2006 UBS Study "Prices and Earnings": A global comparison of purchasing power in 71 cities around the world

http://www.ubs.com/1/e/media_overview/media_americas/mediareleases?newsId=103130

Are Those Who Bring Work Home Really Working Longer Hours? Implications for BLS Productivity Measures

http://www.bls.gov/ore/abstract/ec/ec070050.htm

Ignoring Productivity at our peril: Slowing Productivity Growth and Low Business Investment
Threaten Our Economy

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/08/pdf/productivity.pdf

Day Labor in the Golden State

http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/cep/EP_707AGEP.pdf

Addressing longstanding gaps in unemployment insurance coverage

http://www.cbpp.org/7-20-07ui.htm

Job-Worker Mismatch and Cognitive Decline

http://ftp.iza.org/dp2956.pdf

Job Assignments under Moral Hazard: The Peter Principle Revisited

http://ftp.iza.org/dp2973.pdf

Why AIDS is a workplace issue: HIV/AIDS country profiles

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/trav/aids/

The labor market effects of rising health insurance premiums

http://repositories.cdlib.org/ccpr/olwp/CCPR-038-06/

Employment and unemployment among youth, summer 2007

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/youth.nr0.htm

Study: Long-term productivity growth in Canada and the United States, 1961-2006

http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/070828/d070828a.htm

Minimum wages in Europe

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2007/83/en/1/ef0783en.pdf

Monster U.S. Employment Index

http://www.monsterworldwide.com/Press_Room/MEI/Aug07/US/MEI_US_Aug07.pdf

Explaining the Spread of At-Will Employment as an Inter-Jurisdictional Race-to-the-Bottom of Employment Standards

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=989013

Low-Income Workers and Their Employers: Characteristics and Challenges

http://www.urban.org/publications/411532.html

Where the hottest job markets are, September 2007

http://www.bizjournals.com/edit_special/55.html?t=printable

America's Dynamic Workforce - August 2007

http://www.dol.gov/asp/media/reports/workforce2007/

Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness: The Part-Time Work Puzzle

http://ftp.iza.org/dp3020.pdf

Economy's Gains Fail to Reach Most Workers' Paychecks

http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/bp195

The Decline of Job Loss and Why it Matters (01/03/08)

http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.27356/pub_detail.asp

Business - industry information

2006-04-21T10:25:00.000-04:00

From the Business Reference course given by ALA.

http://yahoo.investor.reuters.com/

http://www.vault.com/nr/ht_list.jsp?ht_type=7

http://www.library.hbs.edu/guides/#3

http://www.census.gov/econ/census02/index.html

http://www.marketresearch.com/

http://www.ita.doc.gov/td/industry/otea/outlook/

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/toc/05_02/B39150502industry.htm

http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/industries/

http://www.fuld.com/Tindex/I3.html

http://www.loc.gov/rr/business/assists/indsur.html

Ratio and commonsize analysis:

http://www.netmba.com/finance/statements/common-size/

http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/biz/bizcalcs/ratiocalcs.asp

http://www.bizstats.com/

Also:

Reports from U.S. census on manufacturing: 2005 annual survey of manufacturers; statistics for industry groups and industries, product shipments, and geographic area statistics

http://www.docuticker.com/?p=8805

Preliminary study shows R & D comtributes to economic growth

http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrelarchive/2006/rdreport06.pdf

Aviation industry:

2006 airline quality rating

http://www.aqr.aero/aqrreports/AQR2006final.pdf

Airline statistics

http://transtats.bts.gov/carriers.asp

Airport statistics

http://transtats.bts.gov/airports.asp

Aviation statistics

http://transtats.bts.gov/dtabases.asp?Mode_ID=1&Mode_Desc=Aviation&Subject_ID2=0

Productivity and costs by industry: Manufacturing, 2005

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/prin.pdf

Private goods and private services sectors accelerated in 2006

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/industry/gdpindustry/2007/pdf/gdpind06.pdf

National Cable and Telecommunications Association 2007 Industry Overview

http://i.ncta.com/ncta_com/PDFs/NCTA_Annual_Report_04.24.07.pdf

Airline Industry Data bibliography

http://www.resourceshelf.com/2007/01/11/resource-of-the-week-airline-industry-data/

Nearly 109,000 Auto Retailing Positions Available in the U.S.

http://www.autoretailing.org/release052207.html

Arts as an Industry: Their Economic Impact on New York City and New York State

http://www.allianceforarts.org/research/artsasindustry_2007.pdf

Financial News for Independent Energy Companies, First Quarter 2007

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/perfpro/news_i/index.html

Retail and consumer aspects of the organic milk market

http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/LDP/2007/05May/LDPM15501/ldpm15501.pdf

Automotive industries: Concentration and change

http://www.bls.gov/opub/ils/pdf/opbils59.pdf

Multifactor productivity trends for detailed manufacturing industries, 2005

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/prin3.pdf

New York Public Library Science, Industry and Business Library Research Guides

http://www.nypl.org/research/sibl/guides/

Business Plans and Profiles Index: A subject guide to sample business plans and profiles for specific business types

http://www.carnegielibrary.org/subject/business/bplansindex.html

American Greyhound Track Operators Association Report to the Community

http://www.agtoa.com/community.asp

Worker Substance Use by Industry Category

http://oas.samhsa.gov/2k7/industry/worker.cfm

Productivity and costs by industry: Wholesale trade, retail trade, and food services and drinking places, 2006

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/prin.pdf

Rising incomes cushion economy: Finding highly-skilled workers remains a long-term challenge for manufacturers. The 10th annual Labor Day report.

http://www.nam.org/s_nam/bin.asp?CID=147&DID=239205&DOC=FILE.PDF

Study results detail cruise industry's $35.7 billion contribution to U.S. economy

http://www.cruising.org/CruiseNews/news.cfm?NID=273

Eleven measures of airline performance, 2001-2006

http://www.bts.gov/programs/airline_information/performance_measures_in_the_airline_industry/2006_summary/

Small business resources

2006-04-21T10:17:00.000-04:00

From the Business Reference 101 course given by ALA.

http://www.sba.gov/

http://www.score.org/

http://www.carnegielibrary.org/subject/business/bplansindex.html

http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/business-plans/

http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/small/

http://www.library.hbs.edu/guides/venture/

http://www.hillsource.org/asbdc/

http://www.irs.gov/

Also - state and local government sites

Other small business information:

Volatility and asymmetry of small firm growth rates over increasing time frames

http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs285tot.pdf

Small business survival index 2006: ranking the policy environment for entrepreneurship across the nation

http://www.sbecouncil.org/Media/pdf/SBSI_2006.pdf

Small business-state economic profiles

http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/profiles/

Firm size data

http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/data.html

Half of U.S. businesses are home-based, majority of firms self-financed, Census Bureau reports

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/business_ownership/007537.html

Small Business Association Frequently Asked Questions

http://www.sba.gov/advo/stats/sbfaq.pdf

Small businesses and workplace fatality risk: an exploratory analysis

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2006/RAND_TR371.pdf

Franchise high performers list

http://www.startupjournal.com/franchise/performers/index.asp

Small Business Week 2006

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/006601.html

National Association of Manufacturers' Small Manufacturers Operating Survey Results

http://www.nam.org/s_nam/bin.asp?CID=372&DID=237415&DOC=FILE.PDF

The value to banks of small business lending

http://www.sba.gov/advo/press/07-14.html

Banking Deregulation, Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-033.pdf

NFIB Releases Small Business Health-Care Survey Results

http://www.nfib.com/object/IO_33470.html

Family to Family: Laird Norton Tyee Family Business Survey 2007

http://www.familybusinesssurvey.com/

Nearly Half of Small Firms Had No Employee Turnover in Past 12 Months

http://www.nfib.com/object/IO_34275.html

Second Quarter 2007: The Economy and Small Business

http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/sbqei0702.pdf

Entrepreneurship and Firm Formation Across Countries

http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/IW3P/IB/2007/08/13/000158349_20070813105025/Rendered/PDF/wps4313.pdf

Business Plans and Profiles Index: A subject guide to sample business plans and profiles for specific business types

http://www.carnegielibrary.org/subject/business/bplansindex.html

Occupational licensing: Ranking the states and exploring alternatives

http://www.reason.org/ps361/

What Is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research

http://ftp.iza.org/dp3014.pdf

Business sources - company and finance

2006-04-21T09:57:00.000-04:00

These are from the Business Reference 101 course given by ALA.

Free online company information sources:

http://www.hoovers.com/

http://finance.yahoo.com/

http://www.specialissues.com/lol/

http://www.loc.gov/rr/business/company/rankings.html

http://www.sec.gov/

Fee-based online company directories:

http://www.dnbmdd.com/mddi/

http://www.referenceusa.com/

http://www.valueline.com/

Historical stock prices:

http://www.bigcharts.com/

Sources for learning about corporate finance:

http://www.duke.edu/~charvey/Classes/wpg/glossary.htm

http://philanthropy.ml.com/ipo/resources/pdf/howtoreadfinreport.pdf

http://www.ibm.com/investor/tools/financials.phtml

http://www.sos.mo.gov/securities/pubs/How%20to%20Read%20A%20Prospectus_01.2005.pdf

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_20/b3732001.htm

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_09/b3772114.htm

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_05/b3768111.htm

Finding and using economic statistics:

http://www.nabe.com/publib/links/index.html

Also:

Which states are best for business? The 2007 state business tax climate index:

http://www.taxfoundation.org/press/show/1923.html

CEO compensation, 2006

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/04/17/06ceo-compensation_land.html

100 Smartest Companies

http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,1945941,00.asp

Best performing cities, 2005: Where America's jobs are created and sustained

http://www.milkeninstitute.org/publications/publications.taf?function=detail&ID=478&cat=ResRep

America's most admired companies, 2006

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/mostadmired/index.html

Business Plans and Profiles Index

http://www.carnegielibrary.org/subject/business/bplansindex.html

Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce

http://www.bea.gov/index.html

Companies: Beware hazards of getting big too fast

http://mansci.journal.informs.org/cgi/reprint/53/4/683.pdf

Wal-Mart's #1 Business Problem

http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/feature/bizproblems/

20 Investments: Introduction

http://www.investopedia.com/university/20_investments/

Government information and statistics

2005-11-16T12:05:00.000-05:00

University of Michigan Documents Center:

http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/

Governments on the WWW:

http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/

FirstGov:

http://www.usa.gov/

Directory of online statistics sources:

http://www.berinsteinresearch.com/stats.htm

USA Statistics in Brief:

http://www.census.gov/statab/www/brief.html

FedStats:

http://www.fedstats.gov/

CIA World Factbook:

http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

Government Printing Office:

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/

THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet:

http://thomas.loc.gov/

Bureau of Labor Statistics home page:

http://www.bls.gov/

Florida Electronic Federal Depository Library:

http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/fefdl/

Another American president site:

http://www.millercenter.virginia.edu/programs/ampres/index.html

Background Notes, U.S. Department of State:

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/

NationMaster - country statistics portal:

http://www.nationmaster.com/

OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web:

http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/stats/offstats/

State and Metropolitan Area Data Book 2006

http://www.census.gov/compendia/smadb/

U.S. Adds 112,000 New Employer Establishments in 2005

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/county_business_patterns/010192.html

International business

2005-11-10T12:33:00.000-05:00

GlobalEDGE at Michigan State University:

http://globaledge.msu.edu/ibrd/ibrd.asp

Others:

http://www.nationmaster.com/

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/global500

http://www.ipl.org/div/news/

http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/stats/offstats/

http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Page.asp?intltemID=1717<=1

Country information:

Harvard Business School Library Country Guides

http://www.library.hbs.edu/guides/#4

Intersource Country Insights from the Centre for Intercultural Learning

http://www.intercultures.ca/cil-cai/country_insights-en.asp?lvl=8

Country Briefings from the Economist

http://www.economist.com/countries/

CIA World Factbook

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

Country Analysis Briefs from the Energy Information Administration

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/contents.html

State Department Country Background Notes

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/

Export.gov's Country and Industry Market Reports

http://www.export.gov/marketresearch.html

International Monetary Fund Country Information

http://www.imf.org/external/country/index.htm

International search engine

http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/

Annual reports for foreign companies

http://www.carol.co.uk/

http://www.sedar.com/

Individual country websites

World Competitiveness Scoreboard 2006:

http://www02.imd.ch/documents/wcc/content/overallgraph.pdf

Top 100 European companies:

http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=17675&hed=Top+100+European+Companies

Europe's work force:

http://epp.eurostat.cec.eu.int/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-NS-06-011/EN/KS-NS-06-011-EN.PDF

International labor market comparisons:

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/04/ressum.pdf

The World's Most Innovative Companies:

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06-17/b3981413.htm

International Economic Statistics database:

http://liber8.stlouisfed.org/iesd/

KPMG's guide to international business costs:

http://www.competitivealternatives.com/

U.S. Barriers to Trade and Investment 2005:

http://trade-info.cec.eu.int/doclib/docs/2006/march/tradoc_127632.pdf

Economic survey of Brazil, 2006

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/47/47/37667205.pdf

International Market Research

http://www.buyusainfo.net/

China and India: The reality beyond the hype

http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/cda/doc/content/US_ChinaIndiaReality_Research.pdf

International Association of Outsourcing Professionals

http://www.outsourcingprofessional.org/content/23/152/1197/

Competitive alternatives: KPMG's guide to international business costs

http://www.competitivealternatives.com/

Country profiles, Federal Research Division, Library of Congress

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/profiles.html

South Africa: Macroeconomic challenges after a decade of success

http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/Reserch/wpaper.nsf/rwp/RWP07-021

Economic survey of New Zealand 2007

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/30/20/38418204.pdf

2007 Economic Developments and Prospects: Job creation in an era of high growth - Middle East and North Africa

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTMENA/Resources/EDP_2007_REPORT_APRIL13.pdf

Statistical yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean 2006

http://websie.eclac.cl/anuario_estadistico/anuario_2006/eng/index.asp

U.S. Commercial Service - Guides to doing business in other countries:

http://www.buyusainfo.net/

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

http://opencrs.cdt.org/document/RS21128

Beyond microfinance: Getting capital to small and medium enterprises to fuel faster development

http://www.brookings.edu/comm/policybriefs/pb159.htm

The challenge of economic reform in the Arab world: Toward more productive economies

http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/cmec_1_econ_reform_final.pdf

World Economic Situation and Prospects 2007

http://www.un.org/esa/policy/wess/wesp.html

Issues in International Political Economy - The U.S. Midterm Elections and Globalization

http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_pubs/task,view/id,3594/type,1/

Energy Information Administration Country Analysis Briefs

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/index.html

Informality in LAC – A Barrier to Growth and Social Welfare [Latin America and Caribbean]

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:21345369~pagePK:34370~piPK:34424~theSitePK:4607,00.html

Economic and social survey of Asia and the Pacific 2007

http://www.unescap.org/survey2007/download/index.asp?q=1

World Competitiveness Yearbook 2007

http://www.imd.ch/research/publications/wcy/announcing.cfm?bhcp=1

2007 World-wide quality of living survey

http://www.mercerhr.com/pressrelease/details.jhtml/dynamic/idContent/1173105;jsessionid=C1XLGVEBTMIAQCTGOUFCIIQKMZ0QUI2C

International Perspectives on Management & Employment: The Global Call Center Report

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/globalcallcenter/

World Economic Situation and Prospects 2007

http://www.un.org/esa/policy/wess/wesp.html

The Growth of China and India in World Trade: Opportunity or Threat for Latin America and the Caribbean?

http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/IW3P/IB/2007/08/14/000158349_20070814104424/Rendered/PDF/wps4320.pdf

The Arab World Competitiveness Report 2007

http://www.weforum.org/en/initiatives/gcp/Arab%20World%20Competitiveness%20Report/index.htm

Nationmaster: World statistics, country comparisons

http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php

U.S. Department of State Background Notes: Country information

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/

Zibb: The Global Business Search Engine

http://www.zibb.com/

U.S. Commercial Service : Your Global Business Partner
Market Research Library

http://www.buyusainfo.net/adsearch.cfm?search_type=int&loadnav=no

Florida's Global Economic Competitiveness

http://www.eflorida.com/intelligencecenter/reports/Florida_Global_Economic_Competitiveness.pdf

The State of Business and HIV/AIDS 2006: A Baseline Report

http://www.businessfightsaids.org/site/pp.asp?c=gwKXJfNVJtF&b=1716123

Energy Information Administration Country Analysis Briefs

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/index.html

Cultural Awareness and Country Information Resources

http://www.resourceshelf.com/2007/02/15/resources-of-the-week-cultural-awareness-and-country-information/

Latin America and the Caribbean in the World Economy 2006. Trends 2007.

http://www.eclac.cl/cgi-bin/getProd.asp?xml=/publicaciones/xml/8/29528/P29528.xml&xsl=/comercio/tpl-i/p9f.xsl&base=/comercio/tpl/top-bottom.xsl

Economic and demographic statistics

2005-11-01T16:25:00.000-05:00

Economic indicators:

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/indicators/browse.html

United Nations Statistics Division:

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/default.htm

Economic survey of the United States 2007: Executive summary

http://www.oecd.org/document/47/0,2340,en_2649_34487_38630639_1_1_1_1,00.html

OECD Factbook 2007 - Economic, Environmental and Social Statistics

http://titania.sourceoecd.org/vl=29517506/cl=21/nw=1/rpsv/factbook/

2007 World-wide quality of living survey

http://www.mercerhr.com/pressrelease/details.jhtml/dynamic/idContent/1173105;jsessionid=C1XLGVEBTMIAQCTGOUFCIIQKMZ0QUI2C

The Changing Demographic Profile of the United States

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL32701.pdf

Liber8: The Research Library of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

http://liber8.stlouisfed.org/

Bureau of Labor Statistics home page

http://www.bls.gov/

NationMaster: World Statistics, Country Comparisons

http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php

U.S. Department of State Background Notes: Country information

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/

Consumer Price Indexes, Sixteen Countries, 1950-2006

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ForeignLabor/flscpian.txt