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The geeks strike back: despite enduring an industry bubble and the threat of outsourcing, Software Engineer ranks as the Best Job of 2011: “In recent years, the job market has increasingly rewarded math whizzes at the expense of less technical professionals. Jobs like Actuary, Mathematician and Accountant have all ranked among the best in America …
How the Recession Changed Us – What a difference two years makes, by Timothy Lavin “Officially, the Great Recession lasted from December 2007 to June 2009. A mere 18 monthsabout average, as recessions go. Yet if the trauma this time feels deep and lasting, that may be because, as the figures on these pages show, …
The U.S. housing bubble and bust: impacts on employment, Kathryn J. Byun, an economist in the Division of Industry Employment Projections, Office of Occupational Statistics and Employment Projections, Bureau of Labor Statistics “Employment Projections Program data are used to estimate employment impacts due to the recent housing market cycle, and alternative nonbubble demand scenarios indicate …
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke – The Economic Outlook and Monetary and Fiscal Policy Before the Committee on the Budget, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C., January 7, 2011 The economic recovery that began a year and a half ago is continuing, although, to date, at a pace that has been insufficient to reduce the rate of unemployment …
Presentation: Race and Ethnicity Asian-Americans and Technology Director Lee Rainie spoke at the Organization of Chinese Americans Broadband Summit on January 6, 2011 about Pew Research examining how Asian-Americans use technology, including broadband adoption and online activities. He spoke with Tom Powers, chief of staff of the NTIA, who presented NTIA’s broadband data from its …
The 2011 Statistical Abstract: “The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the standard summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. It is also designed to serve as a guide to other statistical publications and sources. The latter function is served by the introductory text to each section, …
News release: “The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today released its third quarter 2010 mortgage fraud report, Mortgage Loan Fraud SAR Filings. The report shows that suspicious activity reports (SARs) characterized by filers as indicating possible mortgage loan fraud (MLF) increased 2 percent to 16,693 in the third quarter of 2010 up from 16,339 MLF …
Preliminary Analysis of H.R. 2, the Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act, January 6, 2011 Letter to the Honorable John Boehner “..this letter describesin broad terms and on a preliminary basisCBOs assessment of the effects that repealing PPACA and the relevant provisions of the Reconciliation Act would have on federal budget deficits, the federal …
News release: “Following the publication of a Communication on 20 October 2010 on a European crisis management framework for the financial sector (see IP/10/1353), the European Commission has today launched a consultation on technical details underpinning that framework. Today’s consultation should be read in conjunction with that Communication. The Commission intends to come forward with …
News release: “This report presents findings from a year-long study designed and executed by OCLC Research, the HathiTrust, New York University’s Elmer Bobst Library, and the Research Collections Access & Preservation (ReCAP) consortium, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The objective of the project was to examine the feasibility of outsourcing management of …
How Large are Housing and Financial Wealth Effects? A New Approach – Christopher D. Carroll, Johns Hopkins University – Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Jiri Slacalek, European Central Bank (ECB), Misuzu Otsuka, December 17, 2010, ECB Working Paper No. 1283 “This paper presents a simple new method for measuring ‘wealth effects’ …
Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books, Published Online 16 December 2010, Jean-Baptiste Michel et al. Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1199644. “We constructed a corpus of digitized texts containing about 4% of all books ever printed. Analysis of this corpus enables us to investigate cultural trends quantitatively. We survey the vast terrain of culturomics, focusing …
