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Amid Winter Blooms, Wondering What That Means for Spring “One concern with premature flowers is pollination. While honeybees were in evidence at the New York Botanical Garden, there were fewer at the United States Botanic Garden. When plants get in this off-kilter blooming, sometimes it doesnt coincide with the life cycle of the pollinator, Ms. …
Inflation Dynamics in the Presence of Informal Labour Markets – by Paul Castillo and Carlos Montoro, Working Papers No 372, February 2012 “In this paper we analyse the effects of informal labour markets on the dynamics of inflation and on the transmission of aggregate demand and supply shocks. In doing so, we incorporate the informal …
Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information Quality – New Report and Infographic, the Berkman Center, by Urs Gasser, Sandra Cortesi, Momin Malik, & Ashley Lee. “Building upon a process- and context-oriented information quality framework, this paper seeks to map and explore what we know about the ways in which young users of age …
Privacy management on social media sites, by Mary Madden, Feb 24, 2012 “Social network users are becoming more active in pruning and managing their accounts. Women and younger users tend to unfriend more than others. About two-thirds of internet users use social networking sites (SNS) and all the major metrics for profile management are up, …
Mass Layoffs January 2012 [Each mass layoff involved at least 50 workers from a single employer.] “Employers took 1,434 mass layoff actions in January involving 129,920 workers, seasonally adjusted, as measured by new filings for unemployment insurance benefits during the month. Mass layoff events in January 2012 increased by 50 from December 2011, while …
Volunteering in the United States – 2011: “The volunteer rate rose by 0.5 percentage point to 26.8 percent for the year ending in September 2011, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. About 64.3 million people volunteered through or for an organization at least once between September 2010 and September 2011. The increase in the …
A License is Not a ‘Contract Not to Sue’: Disentangling Property and Contract in the Law of Copyright Licenses – Christopher M. Newman, George Mason University School of Law, February 24, 2012, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 12-23 “The assertion that a license is simply a contract not to sue has become …
Do People Understand Monetary Policy? Carlos Carvalho, PUC-Rio and Fernanda Nechio, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, January 2012 “We combine questions from the Michigan Survey about the future path of prices, interest rates, and unemployment to investigate whether U.S. households are aware of the so-called Taylor (1993) rule. For comparison, we perform the same …
“The volume of data that businesses collect is exploding: in 15 of the US economys 17 sectors, for example, companies with upward of 1,000 employees store, on average, more information than the Library of Congress does. New academic research suggests that companies using this kind of big data and business analytics to guide their decisions …
