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In this paper, the authors show on the example of Austria and Poland that with the new international division of labour emerging in Europe Austria, the high income country, is specializing in the low skill intensive part of the value chain and Poland, the low income country, is specializing in the high skill part. As a result, skilled workers in Austria are losing from outsourcing, while gaining in Poland. In Austria, relative wages for human capital declined by 2 percent during 1995-2002 and increased by 41 percent during 1994-2002 in Poland.

According to data from the OCDE, almost one third of the total quantity of on-the-job training is worker-provided. The aim of this paper is to study, in a labor market characterized by frictions, the effects of technological progress on the optimal worker-provided on-the-job training.

This article discusses the factors driving recent trends in labor force participation. Given that participation rates started to turn around in 2005, there is less concern about long-run trends than there was in the beginning of the year. Nonetheless, the experience in recent years has been unusual.

This paper exams how the new technologies affect where people work and where they live, on
both the empirical and theoretical fronts. Its empirical contribution is to show two facts: (i) “back
office” activity like low skill secretarial work is increasingly concentrated in small cities, while “front
office” activity like high skill managerial work is increasingly specialized in large cities; (ii) workers
without college degrees are migrating to small cities, whereas workers with degrees are moving to
large cities.

How does the formation of cross-country teams affect the organization of work and the structure of wages? To study this question the authors propose a theory of the assignment of heterogeneous agents into hierarchical teams, where less skilled agents specialize in production and more skilled agents specialize in problem solving.

In this paper, the authors show on the example of Austria and Poland that with the new international division of labor emerging in Europe Austria, the high income country, is specializing in the low skill intensive part of the value chain and Poland, the low income country, is specializing in the high skill part. As a result, skilled workers in Austria are losing from outsourcing, while gaining in Poland.

In this paper, the authors show on the example of Austria and Poland that with the new international division of labor emerging in Europe Austria, the high income country, is specializing in the low skill intensive part of the value chain and Poland, the low income country, is specializing in the high skill part. As a result, skilled workers in Austria are losing from outsourcing, while gaining in Poland.

This paper has two objectives. The first is to develop a dataset that can be used to analyse employment and labour market trends in China. The second objective of the paper is to use the dataset to study the employment and labour market trends in a period when China achieved a growth miracle and emerged as a global economic power.

This research exploits a large employer-level panel dataset in order to analyse employment and worker flows for all establishments in a highly industrialized region in the North- East of Italy, the Veneto. Results have relevance for models of job creation, job destruction and labour excess reallocation.

This paper analyzes the nature of the organizational change implied in outsourcing, comparing it to mergersacquisitions and downsizing. Next, it identifies some critical aspects of the transition management process which, when dealt with effectively, may enhance the success of outsourcing. The theoretical analysis is contrasted with findings from an empirical study on outsourcing in the Netherlands.