News release: “Jobless rates among young people will get even worse globally as the spillover of the euro crisis spreads from advanced to emerging economies, according to an International Labour Organization paper titled Global Employment Outlook: Bleak Labour Market Prospects for Youth…The new forecasts show the youth unemployment rate in developed economies dropping gradually, from 17.5 per cent this year to 15.6 per cent in 2017. This is still far higher than the rate of 12.5 per cent registered in 2007, before the crisis struck. Much of this decline in the jobless rate is not due to improvements in the labour market, but rather to large numbers of young people dropping out of the labour force altogether due to discouragement. These discouraged youth are not counted among the unemployed.”
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Daily Archives: September 4, 2012
EIA – China is the world's most populous country and the largest energy consumer in the world
Country Analysis Brief: “China is the world’s most populous country and has a rapidly growing economy, which has driven the country’s high overall energy demand and the quest for securing energy resources. According to the International Monetary Fund, China’s real gross domestic product (GDP) grew at an estimated 9.2 percent in 2011 and 7.8 percent… Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com – Mass Incarceration and the "Degree of Civilization"
via LLRX.com – Mass Incarceration and the “Degree of Civilization”: Ken Strutin – law librarian, criminal defense attorney, and well-known writer and speaker, documents the preeminence of the United States as the world leader in incarceration. He states that incarceration is when a person loses their freedom pending trial or by serving a sentence –… Continue Reading
Pew – Politics on Social Networking Sites
Politics on Social Networking Sites, by Lee Rainie, Aaron Smith. Sep 4, 2012: “A portion of social networking site users say the sites are important for some of their political activities and the way they decide how to engage with campaigns and issues. At the same time, most users of the sites say they do… Continue Reading
A Behavioural Understanding of Privacy and its Implications for Privacy Law
A Behavioural Understanding of Privacy and its Implications for Privacy Law, Kirsty Hughes, University of Cambridge, September 2012. The Modern Law Review, Vol. 75, Issue 5, pp. 806-836, 2012 “This article draws upon social interaction theory (the work of Irwin Altman) to develop a theory of the right to privacy, which reflects the way that… Continue Reading
Big Data for Education: Data Mining, Data Analytics, and Web Dashboards
Big Data for Education: Data Mining, Data Analytics, and Web Dashboards, Darrell M. West “In this report, I examine the potential for improved research, evaluation, and accountability through data mining, data analytics, and web dashboards. So-called big data make it possible to mine learning information for insights regarding student performance and learning approaches.1 Rather than… Continue Reading
TRAC – Copyright Suits Trending Upward
Via Jeff Lamicela: “The latest available data from the federal courts show that during July 2012 the government reported 296 new copyright civil filings, according to the case-by-case information analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). This is the fourth straight month where filings have reached close to 300 or more per month —… Continue Reading
CDC Report – Getting Blood Pressure Under Control
CDC Vital Signs, September 2012, Many missed opportunities to prevent heart disease and stroke: “High blood pressure is a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke, both of which are leading causes of death in the US. Nearly one-third of all American adults have high blood pressure and more than half of them dont… Continue Reading
Working Paper – The Social Value of Policy Signals
The Social Value of Policy Signals, by Stefan Avdjiev, Patrick McGuire and Nikola Tarashev. BIS Working Papers No 386, September 2012. “Do public policy signals improve the alignment of market outcomes with economic fundamentals? Existing work contends that, when individual players have an incentive to coordinate their actions, public policy signals could steer these actions… Continue Reading
Research – Dedicated eReaders to Survive the Media Tablet Onslaught as a Niche Play
ABI Research: “Eleven million eReaders are projected to be shipped globally in 2012. Down from a peak volume in 2011 of 15 million devices, the growing popularity of media tablets along with declining US baby boomer population and lack of organized digital bookstores outside of the US and Western Europe will reduce the eReader opportunity… Continue Reading
Wharton – Why Do Women Still Earn Less Than Men?
Why Do Women Still Earn Less Than Men? Analyzing the Search for High-paying Jobs “Why do women continue to earn less money than men — approximately 20% less, according to some estimates — and what can be done about it? At least half the pay gap reflects the fact that women tend to work in… Continue Reading
Forrester: Industrializing IT Workload Automation
“In this study, Forrester developed a hypothesis that tested the need for automation, the issues raised by a tactical and punctual deployment of job scheduling solutions, and the benefits of a more strategic usage of enterprisewide workload automation. Key Findings Include: A majority of enterprises want a more efficient IT department Scattered efforts using ad… Continue Reading
