Mobile communication signatures of unemployment

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 10046 LNCS, Issue , 2016, Pages 407-418

  Almaatouq, Abdullah ^a   Prieto Castrillo, Francisco ^a,b,c   Pentland, Alex ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

^b NEW ENGLAND COMPLEX SYSTEMS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONES; COST EFFECTIVENESS; EMPLOYMENT; SURVEYS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

DEMOGRAPHIC MODELS; ECONOMICAL INDICATOR; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; MOBILE PHONE DATUM; MOBILE PHONE USAGES; MOBILITY PATTERN; SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84995503388     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-47880-7_25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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