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The article recounts a variety of statistical trends among the Ninth District Indian Reservations population, with particular focus on Indians living on district reservations. Measurements include population growth, education and income.

This study reports on the findings of the Job Migration Task Force established by ACM to examine the issues surrounding the migration of jobs within the computing and information technology field and industry. The authors cited educational policy and investment in research and development as critical elements for countries to stay competitive in todays global environment for Information Technology.

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages. In contrast to the standard approach in the literature, the authors focus on domestic outsourcing as well as foreign outsourcing. They use a panel data set of workers in Danish manufacturing industries to show that domestic and foreign outsourcing affect wages as predicted by the theory.

This study examines the impact of raising the minimum wage in South Dakota. An analysis was conducted for four different scenerios regarding minimum wage. Based on standard economic theory, the analysis determined the impact in terms of the benefits and costs of an increase in the minimum wage rate.

The aim of this paper is to assess differences on homeworking and teleworking behaviour among genders considering age groups, professional statuses, household structures and car access. The analysis is based on a sample of more than 30,000 workers responding to the 2001 origin-destination (O-D) survey data in Quebec City (Canada).

The authors discuss the alternative statistical methodologies that the BLS considered for creating size class tabulations from the Business Employment Dynamics data. The primary focus is on four methodologies: quarterly base-sizing, annual base-sizing, mean-sizing, and dynamic-sizing. They discuss the evaluation criteria that BLS considered for choosing its official size class methodology.

This paper reconsiders the cost of business cycles under market incompleteness. Primarily, the authors focus on the heterogeneity in the cost among different skill groups. Unskilled workers are subject to a much larger risk of unemployment during recessions than are skilled workers.

This report, supported by the China Economic Research and Advisory Programme (CERAP), identifies the primary challenges facing China today and presents options for meeting them. The key recommendation of this report is a comprehensive package of policies with three main elements: reform measures to promote growth of consumption in the longer term, a public expenditureprogram to stimulate domestic demand in the short and medium term, and a managedappreciation of the currency.

This study examines the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) and of foreign outsourcing on the demand for skilled workers. Using data for 84 Canadian manufacturing industries over the 1981-1996 period, the authors find that both ICT and foreign outsourcing are important contributors to the demand for skills.

This study contributes to the expanding body of research in the area of information and communication technologies (ICT). Using data on business sector workplaces from the 1999 Workplace and Employee Survey (WES), the authors investigate factors related to the incidence and intensity of training. The study focuses on whether training incidence and training intensity are more closely associated with the technological competencies of specific workplaces than with membership in ICT and science-based industry environments.