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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.

The paper examines the relationship between technology adoption and workforce skill in U.S. manufacturing plants. Using information on the use and adoption of seven different information technologies, the authors find that the relationship between technology adoption and workforce skill varies across the technologies.

The authors provide a first empirical attempt at understanding the scale and type of skilled migration from the Indian software sector and the consequences for firms experiencing loss of skilled workers. The paper draws on some unique survey evidence of software firms in India.

The paper examines whether foreign-owned firms pay higher wages than domestically owned firms, controlling for a number of firm characteristics. In particular, skilled labor seems to profit from working in foreign-owned firms.

The paper studies the employment effects of technological change when benefits are endogenous. Technological change is shown to have employment effects (only) if it is skill-biased and if this link exists.

The primary focus of the paper is the impact of knowledge creation and innovative activity on non-farm employment growth. The authors find strong evidence of local spatial employment growth spillovers contributing in a positive manner to explaining non-farm employment growth.

Empirical labour economics largely considers that wages and hours of work are sufficient indicators of job quality. Using information on 14,000 workers in 19 OECD countries, the author shows that workers actually say that wages and hours are amongst the least important characteristics of a job.