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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.

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.