comparative data from three European countries: the Czech Republic, Finland and Norway. The analysis is undertaken in two steps …

Primary degree holders have extraordinarily low employment rates in Central and East European (CEE) countries, a bias … that largely contributes to their low levels of aggregate employment. The paper looks at the possible role for skills …

It has been well documented that employment outcomes often differ considerably across areas. This paper examines the … external effects on labor force participation and employment for U.S. metropolitan area residents. The empirical results … employment for both women and men. We also find that less educated workers generally receive the largest external benefits. …

employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct … employment boom - contributed only marginally, if at all, to the rise in female labor supply. The increasing proportion of women …

computing technologies. This paper surveys the evidence on the effects of technical change on skills, wages and employment by … level product innovations appear to raise employment growth, but there is no clear evidence of a robust effect (either …

India. It identifies three channels through which SEZs address these issues: employment generation, skill formation (human … interviews of entrepreneurs and workers across the three largest SEZs (in terms of their contribution to exports and employment …) : SEEPZ, Madras and Noida. The analysis reveals that `employment generation' has been the most important channel through which …