Introduction : people, jobs, and culture -- America's meltdown -- The 2010 crossroad -- The rise of the techno-peasants -- Feeding the sharks -- Where has the schoolhouse gone? -- Help wanted in America and the world -- Structuring renewal -- Signposts at the workforce crossroad -- The "sixth...

This paper examines whether increased import competition induces domestic workers to skill upgrade and/or switch industries. The analysis makes use of a large unique longitudinal matched employer-employee dataset that covers virtually all workers and firms in Portugal over the 1986-2000 period....

In our time of globalisation, the admission of migrant workers is one of the most debated public policy issues around the world. Over the past two decades, temporary migrant workers programmes (TMWPs) have expanded across all sectors and both ends of the skills spectrum in numerous advanced...

Does increased import competition lead to higher returns to skill within an industry and, therefore, to greater incentives for skill acquisition? Does it also induce skill upgrading by the industry?s existing workforce? To answer these questions, this paper follows individual workers across...

Deutschland wird auch in Zukunft ein bedeutendes Zuwanderungsziel in Europa sein. Angesichts der längerfristigen Arbeitsmarkterfordernisse und der EU-Osterweiterung wird aber in der Öffentlichkeit eine verstärkte Steuerung von Immigrationen diskutiert. Das neue Zuwanderungsgesetz erkennt zum...