The paper provides a comprehensive assessment of quantitative and qualitative characteristics of human capital accumulated by the Russian economy. Using the cross-country perspective it investigates both educational attainment and quality of education of the Russian workforce. Labor market...

According to EVA's annual attitude and value survey, two out of three Finns believe that globalization means loosing increasing amounts of jobs to low-cost-countries. However, 70 percent of the respondents think that their job is not easily transferrable and only 8 % are afraid that their own...

To be competitive, firms have to maintain level and composition of workforce they consider optimal given utilized technology and expected output. The paper discusses what types of firms are unable to keep optimal employment, and why. Do firms still report excess of labor or do they face labor...