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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.

Competitive high ranking positions are largely occupied by men, and women remain scarce in engineering and sciences, according to the authors. Explanations for these occupational differences focus on discrimination and preferences for work hours and field of study. They examine if absent these factors gender differences in occupations may still occur.

This paper presents new results for aggregating labour inputs and outputs, in terms of restrictions on elasticities of scale and substitution. The empirical findings of the exact approach to aggregation are found to be rather pessimistic on the possibility to provide a simplified representation.

Analysis reveals that brain drain is strong in Eastern, Middle and Western Africa, Central America and the Caribbean. However, the Kernel approach suggests that the dispersion and the intradistribution dynamics of skilled migration rates strongly differ across regions.

This paper provides a systematic analysis of the determinants of transitions in the Turkish labor market by using the Household Labor Force Survey (HLFS) panel data of 2000 and 2001. The findings indicate negative duration dependence for women, but not for men.

This paper examines the causes of the observed increase in the average duration of unemployment over the past thirty years. The results indicate that more than 70 percent of the increase in the duration of unemployment over the past thirty years can be attributed to an increase in within-group wage inequality.

This paper reconsiders the cost of business cycles under incomplete markets. Primarily, the authors focus on the heterogeneity in the cost of business cycles among agents with different skill levels. Unskilled workers are subject to a much larger risk of unemployment during recessions than are skilled workers.