The CEP-OECD institutions data set (1960-2004)

This dataset contains information about the evolution of labour market institutions in twenty OECD countries from 1960 to 2004. The countries in the sample are: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States. Where possible the data refers to West Germany throughout. Note that the temporal coverage of these data differs from series to series and country to country. The accompanying data can be downloaded at the link below

The CEP-OECD Institutions Data Set (1960-2004)

This dataset contains information about the evolution of labour market institutions in twenty OECD countries from 1960 to 2004. The countries in the sample are: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States Where possible the data refers to West Germany throughout. Note that the temporal coverage of these data differs from series to series and country to country. The accompanying data can be downloaded at the link aboveOECD Institutions, Data

Morgan County - Selections from Morgan County History

Selections from Morgan County History: Sesquicentennial Volume by Helen Price Stacy and William Lynn Nickell published in 1972 and digitized in 1992

Olympian Plans and Ruins: the Makeover of Sochi

Au cours du siècle passé, Soči a subi deux reconstructions majeures. Dans les années 1930, l’ancienne petite bourgade s’est transformée en une station balnéaire soviétique moderne. Ces dernières années, la région a été redéveloppée pour devenir un lieu de rendezvous de la nouvelle Russie et un vecteur de ses investissements. Les deux projets ont été entrepris à une grande échelle et à un rythme rapide, et chacun d’entre eux a été pensé pour modeler et promouvoir des idéaux nationaux nouveaux. Le résultat aujourd’hui est un palimpseste architectural dramatique, où les empreintes de ces systèmes de valeurs très différents se chevauchent sans harmonie. Les pratiques architecturales et socio-économiques du récent projet de redéveloppement jurent avec la couche soviétique. Alors que beaucoup de bâtiments et de parcs représentant l’héritage soviétique ont été protégés, les commentateurs tombent d’accord pour dire que leur ancienne atmosphère a été perdue. Le Soči contemporain présente ainsi une étude de cas instructive concernant le paysage culturel comme problème de préservation architecturale.Sochi has undergone two major reconstructions in the past one hundred years: in the 1930s the formerly quiet town was rapidly expanded into a model Soviet health resort zone, and in recent years the area has been redeveloped as an event venue and investment vehicle for the new Russia. Both projects were undertaken on a massive scale and at a rapid pace, and each was intended to model and promote new national ideals. The result today is a dramatic architectural palimpsest, in which the imprints of these very different value systems overlap with particular contrast. Preservation efforts in the city have been especially attentive to the ways in which the architectural and socio-economic practices of the recent redevelopment project clash with those represented in the city’s Soviet layer. While many of the buildings and parks representing the city’s Soviet heritage have been protected, most agree that the former atmosphere they created has been lost. Contemporary Sochi thus provides an instructive case study on cultural landscape as a problem in architectural preservation

Collecting Open Source Intelligence via Tailored Information Delivery Systems

The Internet offers a plethora of freely available information for possible use in Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) operations. However, along with this information come challenges in finding relevant information and overcoming information overload. This paper presents the results of an ongoing research in a Tailored Information Delivery Services (TIDS) system that aids users in retrieving relevant information through various open intelligence sources. The TIDS provides a semantics-based query constructor that operates in a “What You Get is What You Need (WYGIWYNTM)” fashion and builds ontology based information tagging, theme extractor, and contextual model

A Coherent Measurement of Web-Search Relevance

We present a metric for quantitatively assessing the quality of Web searches. The relevance-of-searching-on-target index measures how relevant a search result is with respect to the searcher\u27s interest and intention. The measurement is established on the basis of the cognitive characteristics of common user\u27s online Web-browsing behavior and processes. We evaluated the accuracy of the index function with respect to a set of surveys conducted on several groups of our college students. While the index is primarily intended to be used to compare the Web-search results and tell which is more relevant, it can be extended to other applications. For example, it can be used to evaluate the techniques that people apply to improve the Web-search quality (including the quality of search engines), as well as other factors such as the expressiveness of search queries and the effectiveness of result-filtering processes

Learning to Get Real and Get Better: A Conversation with Learning Leaders

The article of record as published may be found at https://cimsec.org/learning-to-get-real-and-get-better-a-conversation-with-learning-leaders/Art Valeri, Paul Nickell, Daniel G. Betancourt and Jay Yelon are student authors

Intergenerational mobility in socio-economic status in Ethiopia

Using data from two comprehensive national Labour Force Surveys and monetary and non-monetary outcomes, we examine the extent of intergenerational mobility in Ethiopia. Results from OLS and Quantile regression suggest moderate to high levels of earnings persistence. Generalised Ordered Logit based results suggest significant mobility educationally, which may be linked to the significant widening of educational opportunities over the last two decades; but hardly any evidence of mobility occupationally. Sons are found to be relatively more mobile than daughters in all cases. Public policy may have to foster the equality of opportunities generally and along gender lines to enhance mobility