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CSSRR-Economics is a weekly email report produced by the Data and Information Services Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It seeks to help social science researchers keep up to date with the latest developments in the field. This report will contain selected listings of new: reports, articles, bibliographies, working papers, tables of contents, conferences, data, and websites. For more information, including an archive of back issues and subscription information see:
http://www.disc.wisc.edu/reports/cssrindex.html
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CSSRR-Economics is compiled and edited by Jack Solock and Charlie Fiss.
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Index to this issue:
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CENTRAL GOVERNMENT AND NGO STATISTICAL PUBLICATIONS
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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIESLEGISLATION INFORMATION UPDATES
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CENTRAL GOVERNMENT STATISTICAL AND NGO PUBLICATIONS
1. Bureau of Labor Statistics Periodicals:
A. Monthly Labor Review (Vol. 131, No. 11, November 2008, .pdf format).
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/home.htm
Note: This is a temporary address. When the next MLR is released, this one, along with all others back to 1981, will be available at:
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/archive.htm
B. Employment and Earnings Online (Vol. 55, No. 11, November 2008, .pdf format, 218p.).
http://www.bls.gov/opub/ee/empearn200811.pdf
2. Bureau of Economic Analysis Periodical: Survey of Current Business (Vol. 88, No. 12, December 2008, .pdf format).
http://www.bea.gov/scb/toc/1208cont.htm
3. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service Report: "Behavioral Economic Concepts To Encourage Healthy Eating in School Cafeterias: Experiments and Lessons From College Students," by David R. Just, Brian Wansink, Lisa Mancino, and Joanne Guthrie (Economic Research Report No. ERR-68, December 2008, .pdf format, 28p.).
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/ERR68/
4. US Government Economic Releases from the National Bureau of Economic Research: Links to releases for Dec. 10-16, 2008 are available at the site.
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Alaska:
Labor and Workforce Development Periodical: Alaska Economic Trends (December 2008, .pdf format, 15p.). The topic of this issue is "Retail Trade in Alaska."
http://labor.state.ak.us/trends/
Indiana:
Stats Indiana Updates: The following files have been updated:
U.S. Employment and Unemployment, Nov 2008
Local Unemployment (all counties & places with population 25,000 plus), Oct 2008
Help-Wanted Advertising Index, Oct 2008
New items are under "Just Released" on the right side of the page.
Maryland:
State Data Center Reports:
A. "State and Local Government Employees per 10,000 Population: November 2008 (December 2008, .pdf and Microsoft Excel format).
http://www.mdp.state.md.us/msdc/dw_GovEmp.htm
B. "Annual Jobs and Personal Income for States and Regions of the U.S. Through 2007" (November 2008, .pdf and Microsoft Excel format).
http://www.mdp.state.md.us/MSDC/bea/Sa07/SA07_index.htm
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European Community:
Eurostat Periodicals:
A. Statistics in Focus: The latest issues (111/2008-115/2008) are now available.
B. Data in Focus: The latest issues (47/08--49/08 .pdf format) is now available on the DIF website:
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page?_pageid=0,62992791&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
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International Monetary Fund Periodical, Country Reports:
A. Finance and Development (Vol. 45, No. 4, December 2008).
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2008/12/index.htm
B. The latest Country Reports (.pdf format) span the time period from Dec. 10-Dec. 16, 2008 (No. 08-318--08-319, 08-370--08-372).
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/scr1_sp.cfm?s_year=2008&e_year=2008&brtype=default
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World Bank Report: "Global Economic Prospects 2009: Commodity Markets at the Crossroads," (December 2008, .pdf format, 180p.).
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Armenia:
National Statistical Service Report: "Report on Sample Survey of Individual Housing Construction" (December 2008, .pdf format, 54p.).
http://www.armstat.am/en/?nid=80&id=775
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Canada:
Statistics Canada/Statistique Canada Reports: "Aboriginal People Living Off-reserve and the Labour Market: Estimates from the Labour Force Survey, 2007," by Dominique Perusse (December 2008, HTML and .pdf format, 23p.).
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/71-588-x/71-588-x2008001-eng.htm
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Finland:
Statistics Finland News Releases:
A. "One-half of wood material used in Finland is burned" (Dec. 16, 2008).
http://www.stat.fi/til/mettp/2006/mettp_2006_2008-12-16_tie_001_en.html
B. "Greenhouse gas emissions exceeded the Kyoto target by approximately 10 per cent in 2007" (Dec. 12, 2008).
http://www.stat.fi/til/khki/2007/khki_2007_2008-12-12_tie_001_en.html
C. "Total energy consumption fell in 2007" (Dec. 12, 2008).
http://www.stat.fi/til/ekul/2007/ekul_2007_2008-12-12_tie_001_en.html
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Hong Kong:
Census and Statistics Department Press Release: "External direct investment of Hong Kong in 2007" (Dec. 12, 2008).
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Hungary:
Central Statistical Office Report: "Agriculture in Hungary: Farm typology, 2007" (December 2008, .pdf format, 38p.). The report is in Hungarian and English.
http://portal.ksh.hu/pls/ksh/docs/hun/xftp/idoszaki/momg/momg07.pdf
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Iceland:
Statistics Iceland Reports:
A. "Building cost index 2008" (December 2008, .pdf format, 11p.). The report is in Icelandic, with an English summary. Table heads are in Icelandic and English.
http://www.statice.is/Pages/452?itemid=41b550ab-f337-43a3-9ad4-aeb09ad614a4
B. "Household expenditure survey 2005-2007" (December 2008, .pdf format, 43p.). The report is in Icelandic, with an English summary. Table heads are in Icelandic and English.
http://www.statice.is/Pages/452?itemid=9f7160f8-1617-4a2c-a959-b17cd00d1487
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Ireland:
Central Statistics Office/An Phriomh-Oifig Staidrimh Reports:
A. "Output, Input and Income in Agriculture: 2008--Advance Estimate" (December 2008, .pdf format, 4p.).
http://www.cso.ie/releasespublications/documents/agriculture/current/oiiadv.pdf
B. "Institutional Sector Accounts: Financial 2001-2007 (Revised)" (December 2008, .pdf format, 27p.).
http://www.cso.ie/releasespublications/documents/economy/current/isafinre.pdf
C. "Information Society Statistics First Results 2008: Household Statistics" (December 2008, .pdf format, 2p.).
http://www.cso.ie/releasespublications/documents/industry/current/issh.pdf
D. "Information Society Statistics First Results 2008: Enterprise Statistics" (December 2008, .pdf format, 2p.).
http://www.cso.ie/releasespublications/documents/industry/current/isse.pdf
E. "Census of Industrial Production: 2006" (December 2008, .pdf format, 165p.).
http://www.cso.ie/releasespublications/documents/industry/cip_2006/entirecip_2006.pdf
F. "2007 Census of Industrial Production (New Basis) Early Estimates" (December 2008, .pdf format, 10p.).
http://www.cso.ie/releasespublications/documents/industry/current/cipest.pdf
G. "International Sourcing - The Movement of Irish Business Activity Abroad" (December 2008, .pdf format, 78p.).
http://www.cso.ie/releasespublications/documents/services/current/miba.pdf
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Malta:
National Statistics Office News Release: "ICT Usage in Households and individuals: 2004" (December 2008, .pdf format, 6p.).
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Netherlands:
Statistics Netherlands: SN has updated its Web Magazine, Economic Monitor, and Press Releases from Dec. 10-16, 2008).
http://www.cbs.nl/en-GB/menu/_unique/_nieuws/default.htm
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Norway:
Statistics Norway News Releases: SN has updated its news releases from Dec. 10-16, 2008).
http://www.ssb.no/english/previous14days/
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Poland:
Central Statistical Office Reports:
A. "Prices in the National Economy (October 2008)" (December 2008, .zip compressed and uncompressed .pdf format, 74p.). The report is in Polish and English.
http://www.stat.gov.pl/gus/45_727_ENG_HTML.htm
B. "Insurance companies 2006-2007" (December 2008, .pdf format, 246p.). The report is in Polish and English.
http://www.stat.gov.pl/gus/45_820_ENG_HTML.htm
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Romania:
National Institute of Statistics Periodicals:
A. Monthly Statistical Bulletin - No.10 (December 2008, .pdf format, 199p.). The periodical is in Romanian and English.
B. Industry Statistical Bulletin - No.10 (December 2008, .pdf format, 87p.). The periodical is in Romanian and English.
http://www.insse.ro/cms/rw/pages/index.en.do
Click on the title page icon under the title(s) of interest.
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Scotland:
Scottish Government Report: "Scottish Economic Statistics 2008" (December 2008, .pdf format, 177p.).
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008/12/10081129/0
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Slovenia:
Statistical Office News Releases:
A. Purchasing power parities and gross domestic product in purchasing power standards, 2005-2007," by Zdenka Repotocnik (Dec. 15, 2008).
http://www.stat.si/eng/novica_prikazi.aspx?id=2063
B. "Research & development activity, Slovenia, 2007--provisional data," by Katja Goricar (Dec. 11, 2008).
http://www.stat.si/eng/novica_prikazi.aspx?id=2046
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Sweden:
Statistics Sweden Press Releases:
A. "Household's finances 2007: Households pay slightly less for housing" (Dec. 11, 2008).
http://www.scb.se/templates/pressinfo____256518.asp
B. "Household expenditure 2005-2007: Transport expenditures increasingly burden household budgets" (Dec. 12, 2008).
http://www.scb.se/templates/pressinfo____255900.asp
C. "Local taxes 2009: Increased local tax rates due to higher tax in county councils" (Dec. 12, 2008).
http://www.scb.se/templates/pressinfo____256373.asp
D. "Research and development in the business enterprise sector 2007: R&D expenditures of enterprises continue to increase" (Dec. 15, 2008).
http://www.scb.se/templates/pressinfo____257080.asp
E. "Unlet dwellings in multi-dwelling buildings 2008: Decreasing number of vacant dwellings" (Dec. 15, 2008).
http://www.scb.se/templates/pressinfo____256703.asp
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Switzerland:
Federal Statistical Office Reports:
A. "NOGA 2008 General Classification of Economic Activities Titles" (December 2008, .pdf format, 78p.).
http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/news/publikationen.html?publicationID=3297
B. "NOGA 2008 General Classification of Economic Activities Structure" (December 2008, .pdf format, 7p.).
http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/news/publikationen.html?publicationID=3298
C. "NOGA 2008 General Classification of Economic Activities: Explanatory notes" (December 2008, .pdf format, 238p.).
http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/news/publikationen.html?publicationID=3296
D. "Monitoring Sustainable Development: Switzerland in a Globalised World" (December 2008, .pdf format, 4p.).
http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/news/publikationen.html?publicationID=3444
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UK:
National Statistics Office Periodicals:
A. Economic and Labour Market Review (Vol. 2, No. 12, December 2008, .pdf format, 82p.).
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/prep/14692.asp
B. Finanicial Statistics, edited by Natu Somabhai Patel (No. 560, December 2008, .pdf format, 287p.).
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/prep/376.asp
Click on "Latest release" for link to full text.
C. "Foreign Direct Investment: 2003-2007" (December 2008, .pdf format, 15p., with tables in Microsoft Excel format).
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Product.asp?vlnk=728
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OTHER REPORTS, ARTICLES, ETC.:
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Report: "State Budget Troubles Worsen," By Elizabeth McNichol and Iris J. Lav (December 2008, HTML and .pdf format, 9p.).
http://www.cbpp.org/9-8-08sfp.htm
More information about CBPP:
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Pew Hispanic Center Report: "Latino Workers in the Ongoing Recession: 2007 to 2008," by Rakesh Kochhar (December 2008, .pdf format, 26p.).
http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=99
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Public Policy Institute of California Report: "California's Future Workforce: Will There Be Enough College Graduates?" by Deborah Reed (December 2008, .pdf format, 20p.).
http://www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=809
More information about PPIC:
http://www.ppic.org/main/about.asp
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Federal Reserve Banks:
District 1: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (Massachusetts):
http://www.bos.frb.org/economic/wp/index.htm
NEW: No. 08-7 "The Responsiveness of Married Women's Labor Force Participation to Income and Wages: Recent Changes and Possible Explanations," by Katharine Bradbury and Jane Katz.
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District 3: Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (Pennsylvania):
http://www.philadelphiafed.org/research-and-data/publications/working-papers/
NEWS: No. 08-31 "The (Un)Importance of Unemployment Fluctuations for Welfare," by Philip Jung and Keith Kuester.
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District 10: Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (Missouri):
http://www.kansascityfed.org/home/subwebnav.cfm?level=3&theID=10386&SubWeb=7
NEW:
08-09 "Price-Level Targeting and Risk Management in a Low-Inflation Economy," by Roberto Billi.
08-10 "Alternative Methods of Solving State-Dependent Pricing Models," by Edward S. Knotek II and Stephen Terry.
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District 11: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (Texas):
http://dallasfed.org/research/papers/index.html
NEWS: 0815 "The Most-Favored Nation Rule in Club Enlargement Negotiation," by Edwin L.C. Lai.
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District 12: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (California):
http://www.frbsf.org/publications/economics/papers/index.php
NEW: 08-31 "The Bond Premium in a DSGE Model with Long-Run Real and Nominal Risks," by Glenn Rudebusch and Eric Swanson.
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US Bureau of Labor Statistics: "Bayesian Multiscale Multiple Imputation with Implications to Data Confidentiality," by Scott H. Holan, Daniell Toth, Marco A. R. Ferreira and Alan F. Karr (December 2008, .pdf format, 7p.).
http://www.bls.gov/osmr/abstract/st/st080010.htm
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National Bureau of Economic Research: NBER has released the following working papers for the week of Nov. 7- Dec. 13, 2008:
http://www.nber.org/new.html#latest
New papers are: 14544-14575
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International Monetary Fund: IMF has recently added several new working papers. The papers are No. 275-286.
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/wp1_sp.cfm?s_year=2007&e_year=2008&brtype=default
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Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Economics Department:
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/49/29/40284939.pdf
NEW: 652-654. Links are available from the .pdf to the papers.
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World Bank Policy Research Programme: PRP has recently released several new working papers. See the list at:
http://econ.worldbank.org/resource.php?type=5
New Papers are: 4794-4795
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) [University of Bonn, Germany]: IZA has recently released several new working papers.
The new working papers are: 3876-3885.
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Center for Economic Studies/Ifo Institute for Economic Research (CESifo) [Munich, Bavaria, Germany]: CESifo has recently released several new working papers:
and "Browse Working Paper List" for 2008.
The new papers are numbered 2494-2501
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European Central Bank:
http://www.ecb.eu/pub/scientific/wps/date/html/wpsall.en.html
NEW: 975: "Early estimates of euro area real GDP growth: a bottom up approach from the production side," by Elke Hahn and Frauke Skudelny.
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Bank of Canada:
http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/res/wp/wp(y)_2008.html
NEW: WP 2008-47: "How Important Is Liquidity Risk for Sovereign Bond Risk Premia? Evidence from the London Stock," by Ron Alquist.
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Bank of Finland/Finlands Bank:
http://www.bof.fi/en/julkaisut/tutkimukset/keskustelualoitteet/index.htm?year=2008
NEW: WP 30/2008: "Shattered on the Rock? British financial stability from 1866 to 2007," by Alistair Milne and Geoffrey Wood.
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Bank of Greece:
http://www.bankofgreece.gr/en/publications/papers.asp
NEW: WP 91: "A Note on the Use of Moving Average Trading Rules to Test For Weak from Efficiency in Capital Markets," by Alexandros E. Milionis and Evangelia Papanagiotou.
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Bank of Japan:
http://www.boj.or.jp/en/theme/research/ron/wps/keizai/index.htm
NEW: WP 08-E-10: "Central bank's two-way communication with the public and inflation dynamics," by Kosuke Aoki and Takeshi Kimura.
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Narodowy Bank Polski/National Bank of Poland: The National Bank of Poland has recently released the following working paper:
http://www.nbp.pl/Homen.aspx?f=en/publikacje/materialy_i_studia/2008_en.html
NEW: WP 53: "Macroeconomic determinants of Polish banks' loan losses - results of a panel data study," by Adam Glogowski.
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New Economic Papers (NEP)-ALL. The latest list of New Economic Papers (Dec. 7, 2008).
http://ideas.repec.org/n/nep-all
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JOURNAL TABLES OF CONTENTS (check your library for availability):
American Economic Review (Vol. 98, No. 5, December 2008). Note: Full text of this journal is available in the ProQuest Research Library and the EBSCO Host Academic Search Elite Database. Check your library for availability of these databases and this issue.
http://www.aeaweb.org/issue.php?journal=AER&volume=98&issue=5
Econometrica (Vol. 77, No. 1, January 2009). Note: Full text of this journal is available in the ProQuest Research Library. Check your library for availability of these databases and this issue.
http://www.econometricsociety.org/issue.asp?ref=0012-9682&vid=77&iid=1&oc=&s=
Economic Journal (Vol. 119, No. 534, January 2009).
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117984601/home
Economic Modelling (Vol. 26, No. 1, January 2009).
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02649993
Journal of Economic Theory (Vol. 144, No. 1, January 2009).
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00220531
Management Science (Vol. 54, No. 12, December 2008).
http://mansci.journal.informs.org/content/vol54/issue12/index.dtl
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Rand Corporation Graduate Student Summer Associate Program: Applications will be accepted until January 2009. For more information see:
http://www.rand.org/about/edu_op/fellowships/gsap/
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American Economic Association: AEA has updated it's conference announcement page with two new Conferences:
- The Institute for Business & Finance Research (Atlantic City, New Jersey--Jan. 6, 2009)
- Association for Evolutionary Economics (San Francisco, California--Jan. 3, 2009)
http://rfe.org/conferences.php
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Chronicle of Higher Education:
Economics positions has been updated through Dec. 16, 2008.
http://chronicle.com/jobs/100/200/2000/
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LEGISLATION INFORMATION UPDATES:
US House Financial Services Committee Hearing Testimony: "Oversight Concerns Regarding Treasury Department Conduct of the Troubled Assets Relief Program, a hearing held Dec. 10, 2008 (selected testimony in .pdf format). A video transcript of the hearing (Windows Media format, running time: 5 hours, 28 minutes, 22 seconds) is available at the site.
http://www.house.gov/apps/list/hearing/financialsvcs_dem/hr121008.shtml
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US House Committee on Education and Labor, Subcommittee On Workforce Protections Hearing Publications:
A. "Family-Friendly Leave Policies: Improving How Workers Balance Home And Family," a hearing held June 9, 2008 (House Serial Publication No. 110-94, .pdf and ASCII text format, 26p.).
ASCII:
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_house_hearings&docid=f:42727.wais
.pdf:
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_house_hearings&docid=f:42727.wais.pdf
B. "The Growing Income Gap In The American Middle Class," a hearing held July 31, 2008 (House Serial Publication No. 110-107, .pdf and ASCII text format, 61p.).
ASCII:
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_house_hearings&docid=f:43629.wais
.pdf:
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_house_hearings&docid=f:43629.wais.pdf
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US Census Bureau: The Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) program of the Census Bureau has released estimates for 2006 and 2007. Estimates are available for states, counties, and school districts.
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/saipe/index.html
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Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research: ICPSR at the University of Michigan released several new datasets on Dec. 15, 2008 which may be of interest to Economics researchers. Note: Some ICPSR studies are available only to ICPSR member institutions. To find out whether your organization is a member, and whether or not it supports ICPSR Direct downloading, see:
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/membership/index.html
New and updated data:
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/announce.html?startdate=2008-07-28&enddate=2008-12-15
All new and updated data in the last 90 days can be found at:
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/access/recent.html
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UK Data Archive (Essex University, Colchester, UK): The UK Data Archive has recently added the following datasets to its holdings. Note: There maybe charges or licensing requirements on holdings of the UK Data Archive. For more information see:
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/
For new data or new editions of new data in the last month:
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/findingData/newdata.asp
and pick "1 month" for either.
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Israel Social Sciences Data Center [Hebrew University of Jerusalem]: ISDC has recently added:
821. Labour Force Survey, 2007 (Source: Israel Central Bureau of Statistics).
http://geobase.huji.ac.il:8080/catalog/?dataset=0821
607. Income Survey, 2007 (Source: Israel Central Bureau of Statistics)
http://geobase.huji.ac.il:8080/catalog/?dataset=0607
469. Household Expenditure Survey, 2007 (Source: Israel Central Bureau of Statistics)
http://geobase.huji.ac.il:8080/catalog/?dataset=0469
Data access: