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The report sets forth to better understand the overall efficacy of workforce-aid contingent programs, which assist individuals with education expenses in exchange for work in specified fields or locations. The study demonstrates that few states have examined the effectiveness of these programs.

The National Science Board’s report indicates that as the economies flourish in nations that traditionally have exported many of their brightest minds to the U.S. for schooling and careers, and as American corporate outsourcing expands into research and development activities, the prospect of foreign science and engineering graduates coming to school here or remaining after graduation diminishes.

The North Carolina Biotechnology Centers plan to grow North Carolinas biotech industry to 48,000 jobs by 2013 and 125,000 by 2023. Within the report, 54 action steps are discussed that span a variety of objectives.

The report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York analyzes the restructuring of the manufacturing workforce over the past two decades by investigating how the occupational distribution of workers has changed. The analysis reveals that the decline in manufacturing jobs since the 1980s has been accompanied by a shift in the remaining workforce composition toward high-skilled occupations.

The survey on Philadelphias college graduates indicates that from a practical standpoint, convincing more non-native college
students to stay is the region’s best way to replenish the thousands of high school
graduates who leave the region for college.

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

The paper demonstrates how state administrative data from Georgia can be used to decompose net employment growth in order to track establishment births, deaths, contractions, and expansions over time.