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This research reveals that, when controlling for full-time and year-round workers and the average education of workers, private sector workers are compensated at higher rates than public sector workers.

This article is the second in a series reporting on new regional asset indicators. The new metrics for measuring a region’s potential assets comprise five categories: Innovation, Workforce, Finance, Lifestyle, and Information. The article analyzes the often underused and overlooked local resource, underemployment, which is a critical workforce asset.

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 to determine how the formation of cross-country teams affect the organization of work and the structure of wages.

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.