Tracking employment shocks using mobile phone data

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 12, Issue 107, 2015, Pages

  Toole, Jameson L ^a   Lin, Yu Ru ^b   Muehlegger, Erich ^c   Shoag, Daniel ^d   González, Marta C ^a   Lazer, David ^d,e  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex systems; Computational social science; Mobility; Social networks; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; CARRIER MOBILITY; CELLULAR TELEPHONES; COMPLEX NETWORKS; EMPLOYMENT; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; PLANT SHUTDOWNS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TELEPHONE SETS;

BAYESIAN CLASSIFICATION MODELS; CALL DETAIL RECORDS; COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE; ECONOMIC INDICATORS; MANUFACTURING PLANT; MOBILE PHONE DATUM; UNEMPLOYMENT; UNEMPLOYMENT RATES;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

ARTICLE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EMPLOYEE ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MOBILE PHONE; RELIABILITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL INTERACTION; UNEMPLOYMENT; EMPLOYMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CELL PHONES; EMPLOYMENT; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84930689729     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2015.0185     Document Type: Article

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