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This paper exams how the new technologies affect where people work and where they live, on
both the empirical and theoretical fronts. Its empirical contribution is to show two facts: (i) “back
office” activity like low skill secretarial work is increasingly concentrated in small cities, while “front
office” activity like high skill managerial work is increasingly specialized in large cities; (ii) workers
without college degrees are migrating to small cities, whereas workers with degrees are moving to
large cities.

How does the formation of cross-country teams affect the organization of work and the structure of wages? To study this question the authors propose a theory of the assignment of heterogeneous agents into hierarchical teams, where less skilled agents specialize in production and more skilled agents specialize in problem solving.

In this paper, the authors show on the example of Austria and Poland that with the new international division of labor emerging in Europe Austria, the high income country, is specializing in the low skill intensive part of the value chain and Poland, the low income country, is specializing in the high skill part. As a result, skilled workers in Austria are losing from outsourcing, while gaining in Poland.

In this paper, the authors show on the example of Austria and Poland that with the new international division of labor emerging in Europe Austria, the high income country, is specializing in the low skill intensive part of the value chain and Poland, the low income country, is specializing in the high skill part. As a result, skilled workers in Austria are losing from outsourcing, while gaining in Poland.

This paper has two objectives. The first is to develop a dataset that can be used to analyse employment and labour market trends in China. The second objective of the paper is to use the dataset to study the employment and labour market trends in a period when China achieved a growth miracle and emerged as a global economic power.

This research exploits a large employer-level panel dataset in order to analyse employment and worker flows for all establishments in a highly industrialized region in the North- East of Italy, the Veneto. Results have relevance for models of job creation, job destruction and labour excess reallocation.

This paper analyzes the nature of the organizational change implied in outsourcing, comparing it to mergersacquisitions and downsizing. Next, it identifies some critical aspects of the transition management process which, when dealt with effectively, may enhance the success of outsourcing. The theoretical analysis is contrasted with findings from an empirical study on outsourcing in the Netherlands.

The Work Environment Index (WEI) captures these differences and provides a basis for evaluating how well each state does in creating an economy that supports its working population. The purpose of this article is to detail the construction of the WEI and to explain the design of the Index. This paper serves as a technical companion to the report Decent Work In America: The 2005 Work Environment Index.

This paper investigates regional public-private wage differentials in Italy. Following the recent wave of reforms that significantly changed wage setting and employment relations in both sectors - increasing decentralisation in collective bargaining and enforcing a "privatisation" of public sector employment contracts - the authors present new estimates of the public-private wage gap by geographical location.

The first biennial State of Working Illinois report sets out to provide sound data as the basis for making the crucial policy decisions needed for the state to respond productively to the changing economic structure of the state.