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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.

The study addresses the question: Are workers who hold a university degree increasingly filling job openings meant for people with lower levels of schooling? It focuses on Portugal, where the higher education system has been expanding at a fast pace and the share of university graduates in total labour force has been increasing, but where the unemployment rate for such workers has also been increasing.

The paper uses U.S. Census data from 1990 and 2000 to provide evidence on the labor market characteristics of European-born workers living in the U.S. It is found that there is a positive wage premium
associated with these workers, and that the highly skilled are overrepresented compared with the source country, more so when one moves up the skill ladder.

The paper uses U.S. Census data from 1990 and 2000 to provide evidence on the labor market characteristics of European-born workers living in the U.S. It is found that there is a positive wage premium
associated with these workers, and that the highly skilled are overrepresented compared with the source country, more so when one moves up the skill ladder.

The paper investigates the impact of the adoption of e-business technologies on workforce displacement. A case study approach is applied to examine both direct and indirect employment associated with the adoption and production of new technologies.