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Daily Archives: September 5, 2011
Gallup: More U.S. Workers Unhappy With Health Benefits, Promotions
Gallup, September 5, 2011 – Workers least satisfied with on-the-job stress, tangible rewards for their work, by Lymari Morales: “U.S. workers are more dissatisfied today with their health insurance benefits and their chances for promotion than they were before the global economic collapse. These are the biggest movers since August 2008 on a list of… Continue Reading
Social Security and Retirement Around the World
Social Security and Retirement Around the World: Historical Trends in Mortality and Health, Employment, and Disability Insurance Participation and Reforms: Disability in Belgium: There is More than Meets the Eye. Alain Jousten, University of Liege – Department of Economics; Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA); Netspar; International Monetary Fund (IMF; Mathieu Lefèbvre, University of… Continue Reading
An Economic Model of Corporate Social Responsibility Under Global Warming
Barboza, Gustavo A. and Trejos, Sandra, An Economic Model of Corporate Social Responsibility Under Global Warming (September 5, 2011) “Abstract: This study develops a model for the profit maximizing firm with corporate social responsibility behavior as compatible and mutual goals to effectively reduce negative effects of global warming externalities. Our model results indicate that under… Continue Reading
U.S. Postal Service in Crisis
NYT: Postal Service Is Nearing Default as Losses Mount – “The United States Postal Service has long lived on the financial edge, but it has never been as close to the precipice as it is today: the agency is so low on cash that it will not be able to make a $5.5 billion payment… Continue Reading
The 2011 Federal Customer Experience Study
Uncle Sam at Your Service – The 2011 Federal Customer Experience Study, August 29, 2011. MeriTalk Government IT Network. “31% of Americans are very satisfied with Federal service this year, up from 24% in 2010 Americans report the biggest improvements in agency responsiveness and information consistency, where the percentage of very satisfied Americans grew from… Continue Reading
Stanford: 20 Facts about U.S. Poverty and Inequality that Everyone Should Know
“The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality (CPI) seeks answers to two questions: 1. Why is the United States so unequal and poverty-stricken? 2. What can or should be done about it? The facts are simple… Income inequality is extreme and increasing: The top 1% of Americans control nearly a quarter of… Continue Reading
Paper – The Logic of Child Soldiering and Coercion
The Logic of Child Soldiering and Coercion, by Bernd Beber/New York University and Christopher Blattman/Yale University, July 2011 “We adapt theories of industrial organization to rebellious groups and show how, being less able fighters, children are attractive recruits if and only if they are easier to intimidate, indoctrinate and misinform than adults. This ease of… Continue Reading
IMF: Apocalypse Then: The Evolution of the North Atlantic Economy and the Global Crisis
Apocalypse Then: The Evolution of the North Atlantic Economy and the Global Crisis. Tamim Bayoumi and Trung Bui. September 01, 2011 “The financial crisis, originated from the collapse of US housing markets in 2008, reverberates around the world. Its destructive force was felt nowhere more keenly than Western Europe. Indeed, it continues to mire in… Continue Reading
Payment, clearing and settlement systems in the CPSS countries – Volume 1
Payment, clearing and settlement systems in the CPSS countries – Volume 1, September 2011 [436 pages, PDF] “The Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) publishes – under the aegis of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) – reference works on the payment systems and other financial market infrastructures of various countries, widely known as… Continue Reading
Mobile Learning: The Current Landscape in the Department of Defense
Mobile Learning: The Current Landscape in the Department of Defense (DoD), Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Co-Laboratories, 10 August 2011 Version 1.0 “The Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative recognizes the ubiquity of mobile devices and believes continued research regarding their use is warranted. However, ADL recognizes that the selection of mobile technology should be driven by… Continue Reading
