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This paper deals with the alternation between self-employment, paid-employment and non-employment in Finland in 1987-1999, paying special attention to differences in self-employment dynamics between areas characterized by different labour market conditions, viz. rural and urban locations.

This paper describes the results of two specific primary surveys, one of IT professionals in the city of Bangalore and their role in making the city a corridor for international mobility of Indian professionals, and the second survey of health professionals in the city of New Delhi. These surveys were carried out as a supplement to a study on estimating the stocks, flows and international mobility of human resources in science and technology in India.

This paper examines the operation of the U.S. labor market in the 2001 recovery. Because the United States is in the middle of the recovery, ours is a real-time analysis; thus, some conclusions could change if the recovery stalls or employment grows suddenly.

The authors find that trade unions have a rational incentive to oppose the adoption of labour-saving technology when labour demand is inelastic and unions care much for employment relative to wages.

The study deals with the evaluation of employment effect of vocational training programs for unemployed in urban Russia. Evaluation of the potential differences in the employment effect of blue-collar and white-collar training programs indicate that participants of the blue-collar programs were better off relative to the participants of white-collar programs and non-participants of training programs.

The paper provides an additional channel through which inequality may influence growth, when labor migration is taken into account.

The paper examines the spatial distribution of jobs across U.S. counties and investigates whether sectoral employment is becoming more or less concentrated. The overall picture is one of increasing concentration.

The Jobs Task Force, a joint effort of Dallas Mayor Laura Miller and Dallas County Judge Margaret Keliher, put together the report on the state of employment in Dallas. Recommendations are provided for city leadership and public and private spheres to improve the workforce climate.

Drawing on a recent paper by Autor, Levy and Murnane about the impact of technology on the demand for different types of skills, the paper argues that the demand in the least-skilled jobs may be growing.

The paper reports results from a survey of the labor market experience of the 2001-02 class of Ph.D. economists. The authors estimate that 850 economics Ph.D.s were awarded by U.S. universities in 2001-02, down about 100 from five years earlier.