Bipartisan Policy Center – Immigration Task Force: “Many nations, especially those with advanced economies, face significant demographic challenges. Due primarily to declining fertility rates, the populations of these countries are stagnating and, in some cases, even shrinking. In addition, most developed countries are “graying,” with seniors accounting for an increasingly larger share of their overall populations. In the… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: February 2014
Surveillance for Viral Hepatitis – United States, 2011
“As part of CDC’s National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System (NNDSS), viral hepatitis case-reports are received electronically from state health departments via CDC’s National Electronic Telecommunications System for Surveillance (NETSS), a computerized public health surveillance system that provides CDC with data regarding cases of nationally notifiable diseases on a weekly basis. Although surveillance infrastructure is in… Continue Reading
Rand Study – Intolerance in Western Europe
Intolerance in Western Europe – Analysis of trends and associated factors, by Jennifer Rubin, Jirka Taylor, Alexandra Pollitt, Joachim Krapels, Mafalda Pardal “This study, commissioned by the Open Society Foundations, aimed to situate the widely-shared perception of rising intolerance in Western Europe in the context of empirical evidence on high-level trends in intolerant attitudes in Western Europe. Through analysis of European datasets,… Continue Reading
2014 Poverty Guidelines
2014 Poverty Guidelines – One Version of the [U.S.] Federal Poverty Measure [ Federal Register Notice, January 24, 2013 — Full text ] [ Prior Poverty Guidelines and Federal Register References Since 1982 ] [ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) ] [ Further Resources on Poverty Measurement, Poverty Lines, and Their History ] [ Computations for the 2014 Poverty Guidelines ] Continue Reading
The Consumer Benefits of Increasing the Fuel Economy of Medium and Heavy-Duty Trucks
“In his recent State of the Union speech, President Obama called for improved fuel efficiency in the millions of semi-trucks, large vans, buses, and other large trucks – known as “medium and heavy-duty trucks” – that ply America’s highways. A new report from the Consumer Federation of America finds that new efficiency improvements for big… Continue Reading
Pew – 6 new facts about Facebook
Aaron Smith – “Facebook turns 10 tomorrow and reaches that milestone as the dominant social networking platform, used by 57% of all adults and 73% of all those ages 12-17. Adult Facebook use is intensifying: 64% of Facebook users visit the site on a daily basis, up from 51% of users who were daily users in… Continue Reading
WHO World Cancer Report 2014
“The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the specialized cancer agency of the World Health Organization, is today launching World Cancer Report 2014, a collaboration of over 250 leading scientists from more than 40 countries, describing multiple aspects of cancer research and control. Based on the latest statistics on trends in cancer incidence and… Continue Reading
Why More Educated Workers Enjoy Greater Employment Stability
Human Capital and Unemployment Dynamics: Why More Educated Workers Enjoy Greater Employment Stability, by Isabel Cairo and Tomaz Cajner, 2014-09. “Why do more educated workers experience lower unemployment rates and lower employment volatility? A closer look at the data reveals that these workers have similar job finding rates, but much lower and less volatile separation rates than… Continue Reading
Trade finance: developments and issues
“This report – Trade finance: developments and issues, prepared by a Working Group chaired by John Clark (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) – examines the structure and recent evolution of the global trade finance market, and the interplay between changes in trade finance and international trade. In particular, it reviews the available data sources and what they reveal… Continue Reading
Long-term finance: can emerging capital markets help?
BIS Papers No 75 – January 2014. “The volume presents and summarises the proceedings of the high level seminar jointly organised by the Bank of Russia and the Bank for International Settlements in Moscow on 18-20 July 2013 during the G20 meetings. Governors and deputy governors from around 30 BIS shareholder banks participated along with academic… Continue Reading
CRS – Federal Employees’ Retirement System
Federal Employees’ Retirement System: Benefits and Financing, by Katelin P. Isaacs, Analyst in Income Security. January 30, 2014. “Most civilian federal employees who were hired before 1984 are covered by the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS). Federal employees hired in 1984 or later are covered by the Federal Employees’ Retirement System (FERS). Both CSRS and FERS require participants to… Continue Reading
IMF Paper – Sub-National Credit Risk and Sovereign Bailouts
IMF Working Paper. Sub-National Credit Risk and Sovereign Bailouts: Who Pays the Premium? by E. Jenkner; Zhongjin Lu. January 30, 2014. “Studies have shown that markets may underprice sub-national governments’ risk on the implicit assumption that these entities would be bailed out by their central government in case of financial difficulties. However, the question of whether sovereigns pay… Continue Reading
