The Stock Market

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

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

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

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

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

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

Innovation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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