by gtdonovan on December 6, 2011 at 2:00 pm · Filed under Clinton, cybercity, dialogue, diplomacy, embassy, globalization, governance, identity, Iran, link, obama, SecurityPod
From the article: “More than three decades after the bricks-and-mortar U.S. embassy in Tehran was shuttered and diplomatic relations with Iran were severed following the Islamic revolution and hostage crisis, the Obama administration has opened a virtual embassy for Iran to encourage dialogue with the Iranian people.”
by gtdonovan on November 15, 2011 at 12:13 pm · Filed under education, Federal Researve Board, FEDS, immigration, link, methodology, participation, polarization, SecurityPod, work, youth
From the abstract: “This paper presents updated trends in teen employment and participation across multiple demographic characteristics, and argues that, in addition to immigration, occupational polarization in the U.S. adult labor market has resulted in increased competition for jobs that teens traditionally hold. Testing various supply and demand explanations for the decline since the mid-1980s, I find that demand factors can explain at least half of the decline unexplained by the business cycle, and that supply factors can explain much of the remaining decline.”