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Working it Out. Do you think that women do more total work (market and household) than men? If so, then the good news is that you’re in the company of most economists, including those from elite universities. The bad news is, you’re wrong. Total Work, Gender and Social Norms Michael Burda, Daniel S. Hamermesh, Philippe Weil Using time-diary data from…

According to reports, TEACHING students would not graduate from university unless they passed national skills tests, under a Labor plan to improve literacy and numeracy in Australian schools. Source: Labor plan to lift skills of teachers. Theage.com.au  

Reconfiguring government-public engagements: enhancing the communicative power of citizens. This working paper considers the implications of emerging trends in online communication, such as social networking tools and blogs, for governmental engagement with the public. [Creative Economy : Topic Articles]

Crisis in Darfur - The Google Effect. The new Crisis in Darfur layer, which was pushed out into Google Earth on Monday night (as first reported here), was formally announced on Tuesday in Washington, DC by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and Google. Google has featured this layer as a new default layer (turned on when you first bring up…

100% Pure New Zealand Layer in Google Earth. Buried in the new layers added to Google Earth on Monday, was a new sub-layer found under the Travel and Tourism layer. The new layer is the first example of a country getting a built-in GE layer celebrating the travel and tourist spots in Google Earth. The "100% Pure New Zealand" layer…

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