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The paper studies the effects of foreign direct investment on labour productivity in manufacturing industries of two transition countries, Estonia and Slovenia. The emphasis is on the dimension of export and local market orientation.

The paper studies the effects of foreign direct investment on labour productivity in manufacturing industries of two transition countries, Estonia and Slovenia. The emphasis is on the dimension of export and local market orientation.

The paper aims to establish what are the hypes and what are the facts behind outsourcing. 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. Using the United Kingdom as a case study, we find that job growth at a sectoral level is not negatively related to service outsourcing.

The authors examine the interrelation between intra-firm wage increases and firm performance. They argue that the dispersion of wage increases rather than wage levels is a crucial measure for monetary incentives in firms. Evidence from unique Danish linked employer employee data shows that large dispersion of wage growth within firms is generally connected with low firm performance.

The author examines wage differentials between domestic and foreign firms, drawing on a large Portuguese matched employer-employee panel. Using OLS, the foreign-firm premium is large and
significantly positive but falls substantially when firm and worker controls are added.

The paper examines the question, do workers benefit from the education of their co-workers? The author introduces a model of on-the-job schooling, which argues that educated workers may
transfer part of their general skills to uneducated workers and that this spillover is affected by the degrees of non-excludability, irreversibility and generality of those skills.

The author examines the determinants of inter-state migration of adults within western Germany, using the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984-2000. Same-employer migrants represent one fifth of all migrants higher education and pre-move wages than non-migrants.

Against the backdrop of concerns about the slow down in the growth of total work force in the 1990s (relative to the 1980s) and of “jobless growth”, the paper offers a more nuanced assessment of the growth of different types of employment opportunities.

Using OECD unemployment data, the authors infer the nature of unemployment shocks using factor analysis. Findings indicate that two principal
components can account for a large part of the variance of unemployment between and within countries.

The Milken Institute Best Performing Cities index ranks U.S. metropolitan areas based upon their economic performance and their ability to create, as well as keep, the greatest number of jobs in the nation. The top large metro on this years list is Fort Myers, Florida, one of seven Florida metros on the top 20. The top small metro is Missoula, Montana.