WSJ.com: “Women account for a third of the nation’s lawyers and doctors, a major shift from a generation ago when those professions were occupied almost exclusively by men, new Census figures show. Women’s share of jobs in the legal and medical fields climbed during the past decade even as their share of the overall workforce stalled at slightly less than half. Women held 33.4% of legal jobsincluding lawyers, judges, magistrates and other judicial workersin 2010, up from 29.2% in 2000. The share of female physicians and surgeons increased to 32.4% from 26.8% during that time. In 1970, women were 9.7% of the nation’s doctors and just 4.9% of its lawyers, according to Census data.”
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Daily Archives: December 4, 2012
Audit – Outdated Agency Regs Undermine Freedom of Information
National Security Archive: “A government-wide Freedom of Information Act audit by the National Security Archive has found that sixty-two out of ninety-nine government agencies have not updated their FOIA regulations since US Attorney General Eric Holder issued his March 19, 2009 FOIA memorandum to all heads of executive departments instructing them to make discretionary FOIA… Continue Reading
IMF – Shadow Banking: Economics and Policy
Shadow Banking: Economics and Policy. Stijn Claessens, Zoltan Pozsar, Lev Ratnovski, and Manmohan Singh, December 4, 2012 “Shadow banking is often seen as a form of regulatory arbitrage. It surely has such aspects, and they played a significant role in the run-up to global financial crisis. But beyond that, shadow banking also provides important financial… Continue Reading
Operationalising the selection and application of macroprudential instruments
Operationalising the selection and application of macroprudential instruments, CGFS Publications No 48, December 2012 This report – prepared by a Working Group chaired by José-Manuel González-Páramo, formerly European Central Bank – aims to help policymakers in operationalising macroprudential policies. Specifically, it draws out three high-level criteria that are key in determining the selection and application… Continue Reading
The U.S. Income Distribution and Mobility: Trends and International Comparisons
CRS – The U.S. Income Distribution and Mobility: Trends and International Comparisons. Linda Levine, Specialist in Labor Economics, November 29, 2012 The historically slow rebound in the labor market from the 2007-2009 recession appears to be partly responsible for the current focus of some within the public policy community on the unequal distribution of the… Continue Reading
New Handbook: Implementing EITI for Greater Impact
“The key to leverage extractive resources to attain beneficial development outcomes is to increase accountability and transparency as well as improve governance in the sector. A new publication, Implementing EITI for Impact: A Handbook for Policymakers and Stakeholders, analyzes the importance of implementing the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)to domestic economies, governance structures, and local… Continue Reading
Global Carbon Budget 2012
The Global Carbon Budget 2012. The Global Carbon Projects most recent analysis by scientists from the United States, Norway, Australia, France and the United Kingdom published in the current issue of the journal Nature Climate Change shows that a global economy fueled with coal, oil and natural gas is putting increasing pressure on the global… Continue Reading
The ECB and the Interbank Market
Giannone, Domenico, Lenza, Michele, Pill, Huw and Reichlin, Lucrezia, The ECB and the Interbank Market (November 20, 2012). ECB Working Paper No. 1496. Available at SSRN “We analyse the impact on the euro area economy of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) non-standard monetary policy measures by studying the effect of the expansion of intermediation of… Continue Reading
