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Recent concerns about the transfer of U.S. services jobs to overseas workers have deepened long-standing fears about the effects of trade on the domestic labor market. But a balanced view of the impact of trade requires that we consider jobs created through the production of U.S. exports as well as jobs lost to imports. The authors explore the relationship between trade and job creation in the United States.

The objective of this paper is to identify high employment industries in Australia, Japan and the U.S using input-output analysis. It is found that the high and low employment generating industries in 1980 and/or 1990 are almost the same as those in 1997.

This paper studies the effects of international outsourcing on individual transitions out of jobs in the Danish manufacturing sector for the period 1992-2001. Estimation of a single risk duration model, where no distinction is made between different types of transitions out of the job, shows that outsourcing has a clear significant positive effect on the job separation rate, but the effect corresponds to a limited number of lost jobs.

This article documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Estonia over the years 1995-2001, using a database containing the population of officially registered firms in Estonia (all in all 52,000). Results show that job creation and job destruction rates have been rather high in Estonia and are comparable to the levels documented for the US.

This paper uses employer-employee data from the Danish registers of persons and workplaces to show where jobs have been destroyed and where they have been created over the last couple of business cycles.

The report discusses how internships and volunteering during college can help make it easier for students to find a job right out of college.

Despite the evidence that jobs tend to follow people and their skills, many firms appear to be unaware just how rich many parts of rural America are in the resource, according to the report.

The report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond examines the employment trends of the Blacksburg region and reviews ideas such as research parks, aimed at turing around the downward employment trend for young people.

This paper provides an overview of the literature on four key issues surrounding the international mobility of skilled workers, while identifying potential directions for future research.

The report finds that despite measurable gains, progress has been slow and uneven across underrepresented groups and the various science and engineering fields. Several recommendations are offered to increase participation from underrepresented groups.