Using data for German and Swedish multinational enterprises (MNEs), this paper assesses international employment patterns. It analyzes determinants of location choice and the degree of substitutability of labor across locations. Countries with highly skilled labor forces attract German MNEs, but...

El presente documento describe los principales indicadores del mercado laboral e indaga sobre los determinantes del desempleo y, alternativamente, del empleo en las ciudades colombianas. Se utilizan datos panel por ciudad de las encuestas de hogares. En general, los factores del lado de la...

Which and how many attributes are relevant for the sorting of agents in a matching market? This paper addresses these questions by constructing indices of mutual attractiveness that aggregate information about agents’ attributes. The first k indices for agents on each side of the market...

This paper analyses occupational changes in Britain between 1997 and 2006 from a task-based perspective using data from the UK Skills Surveys. In line with the existing literature, we show that employment has been polarizing. We analyse in detail the task content of the occupations which display...

This paper employs a new rich source of data on worker reallocation in transition economies and provides a decomposition of the aggregate changes into those attributable to sectoral reallocation, those attributable to transition per se and those attributable to demographics. Aghion and Blanchard...

The aim of this article is to examine and measure the importance of the development of the creative industry in the fight against youth unemployment in Cameroon. Based on data both from an existing data base and a small survey we undertook, we have conducted prior a statistical analysis of the...

Son 10 yilda endustrilesmis ulkelerin isgucu piyasalarinda uc onemli egilim on plana cikmistir : (i) hizmetler sektorunun agirligi artmis, (ii) meslekler vasiflarina gore siralandiklarinda, dusuk ve yuksek vasifli islerde istihdam payi artmis (isgucu kutuplasmasi), (iii) dusuk ve yuksek vasifli...

Several countries in the Asia-Pacific region are experiencing demographic changes. Over 60 per cent of the world's youth live in Asia and the Pacific, which translates into more than 750 million young women and men aged 15 to 24 years. They represent a key asset for the countries of this region....

My purpose in this paper is to analyze how offshoring of intermediate goods affects different occupational groups in Swedish manufacturing firms using data for the period 2001-2008. Advances in ICT, along with improved infrastructure and lower cost of transportation have boosted the contracting...

Der Beitrag nutzt zwei verschiedene Datensätze zur Struktur der Arbeitsverdienste in Deutschland – das Sozio-oekonomische Panel und die Verdienststruktur­erhebung – um den Anteil der Beschäftigten zu ermitteln, die von dem im Koalitionsvertrag beschlossenen Mindestlohn betroffen wären....