workforce

The author uses a new data set of 24 large, labor-exporting countries using estimates of migration and educational attainment based on United States and OECD records. He uses these new data to address the key policy question: How pervasive is the brain drain from labor-exporting countries?

The paper investigates the effect of organizational and technological changes on job stability of different occupations in France. Findings indicate that the adoption of information technologies is positively correlated to labor flows of blue collar workers while most of the new workplace organizational practices positively influence the managers turnover.

Using a new sectoral panel for 60 countries and a methodology suitable for such a panel, the authors find that job security regulation clearly hampers the creative-destruction process, especially in countries where regulations are likely to be enforced.

This paper carries out four empirical illustrations of the potential magnitude of the “ghost country” problem, in which countries boom and then shrink to a fraction of their former population, by showing that the “desired population” of any given geographic region varies substantially. Its calculations suggest that even with “globalization” and complete “policy reform” there will remain substantial pressures for labor mobility

This paper reviews literature on the types of skills utilised by firms, the mechanisms by which skills contribute to firm productivity, and how skills are acquired. It identifies potential policy implications relating to work based skills training.

This study explores the information and communications technology industries and science-based industries of Canadas knowledge economy.

Using a conditional change score design to examine the
effects of seven major high technology policies on the change in high technology industry employment in metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) between 1988 and 1998, the authors find that two programs--technology grant and loan programs, and technology research parks--have direct effects net of controls for location and agglomeration factors.

The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the impression that outsourcing is exploding. As a result, workers in industrial countries are anxious about job losses. This paper aims to establish what are the hypes and what are the facts. The results show that although service outsourcing has been steadily increasing it is still very low, and that in the United States and many other industrial countries "insourcing" is greater than outsourcing.

This paper draws on the ICT Professionals Survey (carried out between December 2000-February 2001) and matching post-survey financial data to examine the determinants of ICT-related ‘internal skill gaps’ and their impact on company sales performance.

This paper uses data from the 1998 Technical Graduates Employers Survey, combined with post-survey financial data, to examine the effects of high-level skill shortages on firm-level performance in the UK. Cross-sectional and panel regression analysis of the determinants of sales per employee at firm level suggests that quality-related difficulties in recruiting ICTskilled engineers and scientists do not have any statistically significant effects on performance.