Tracking employment shocks using mobile phone data

Tracking employment shocks using mobile phone data

Can data from mobile phones be used to observe economic shocks and their consequences at multiple scales? Here we present novel methods to detect mass layoffs, identify individuals affected by them and predict changes in aggregate unemployment rates using call detail records (CDRs) from mobile phone...

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Main Authors: Toole, Jameson Lawrence (Contributor), Lin, Yu-Ru (Author), Muehlegger, Erich (Author), Shoag, Daniel (Author), Gonzalez, Marta C. (Contributor), Lazer, David (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Royal Society, 2015-06-02T15:17:42Z.
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