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“Where on earth is everybody?” The evolution of global bilateral migration: 1960-2000

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Where on earth is everybody? The evolution of global bilateral migration: 1960-2000, Çağlar Özden, Christopher Parsons, Maurice Schiff, Terrie Walmsley, 6 August 2011

  • “Until recently, efforts to construct bilateral migration datasets focused on the OECD countries as the destinations (OECD 2002, 2008), often including some disaggregation by other correlates such as age of entry, education, and gender. These data have informed the policy debate about various aspects of migration, for example the importance of various forms of brain drain (Beine et al. 2007, Bhargava and Docquier 2008) and the role of remittances (Ratha and Shaw 2008). We still lack a comprehensive overview of the evolution of migration patterns across geographic regions or income groups. In recent research (Özden et al. 2011), we try to address this gap in our knowledge. We construct five 226-by-226 bilateral matrices of migration stocks by gender for each decade. We use the raw data from over 1,000 national censuses and population registers and then perform various numerical exercises to fill the gaps in the data. The main source for the raw data is The Global Migration Database which is the foremost depository of primary data on international migration and is maintained by the United Nations Population Division (UNPD). Because the data covering migrant destinations in these thousands of separate national censuses are not directly comparable – and therefore not suitable for analysis – a major effort has been devoted to harmonising the matrices and verifying the reliability of the resulting estimates.”

    • CBO's 2011 Long-Term Projections for Social Security

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    CBO’s 2011 Long-Term Projections for Social Security: “CBO’s first infographic, released in conjunction with CBO’s 2011 Long-Term Projections for Social Security: Additional Information, summarizes some of the agency’s most recent projections for Social Security and provides background information on the program, including the number of beneficiaries and their distribution (among retired workers, disabled workers, and… Continue Reading

    First Periodic Review of Cancer for the WTC Health Program

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    First Periodic Review of Cancer for the WTC Health Program, Department of Health and Human Services, CDC, July 2011 The review is based on three information sources. First, a systematic search was conducted for peer-reviewed findings on exposure and cancer resulting from the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that have been published in the scientific… Continue Reading

    CBO Monthly Budget Review, July 2011

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    Monthly Budget Review, Based on the Monthly Treasury Statement for June and the Daily Treasury Statements for July 2011: The federal budget deficit was about $1.1 trillion in the first 10 months of fiscal year 2011, CBO estimates — $66 billion less than the roughly $1.2 trillion deficit incurred through July 2010. Revenues were about… Continue Reading

    Commerce Dept: Women in science, technology, engineering and math

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    Women in STEM: A Gender Gap to Innovation: “Our science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) workforce is crucial to America’s innovative capacity and global competitiveness. Yet women are vastly underrepresented in STEM jobs and among STEM degree holders despite making up nearly half of the U.S. workforce and half of the college-educated workforce. That leaves… Continue Reading

    Cato: The Elephant That Became a Tiger 20 Years of Economic Reform in India

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    The Elephant That Became a Tiger 20 Years of Economic Reform in India, by Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar “A foreign exchange crisis in 1991 induced India to abandon decades of inward-looking socialism and adopt economic reforms that have converted the once-lumbering elephant into the latest Asian tiger. India’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate has… Continue Reading

    Study: Flash Cookies and Privacy II: Now with HTML5 and ETag Respawning

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    Flash Cookies and Privacy II: Now with HTML5 and ETag Respawning (July 29, 2011), Ayenson, Mika, Wambach, Dietrich James, Soltani, Ashkan, Good, Nathan and Hoofnagle, Chris Jay, Available at SSRN In August 2009, we demonstrated that popular websites were using “Flash cookies” to track users. Some advertisers had adopted this technology because it allowed persistent… Continue Reading

    President Obama Directs New Atrocity Prevention Measures

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    “This week, President Obama directed a comprehensive review to strengthen the United States’ ability to prevent mass atrocities. The President’s directive states plainly that: “Preventing mass atrocities and genocide is a core national security interest and a core moral responsibility of the United States of America.” The directive creates an important new tool in this… Continue Reading

    World Trade Report 2011

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    World Trade Report 2011 – The WTO and preferential trade agreements: From co-existence to coherence, July 2011 “This year’s World Trade Report takes an in-depth fresh look at preferential trade. The choice of this topic reflects two significant trends in international trade relations, both of which carry far-reaching implications for the multilateral trading system. The… Continue Reading