Concerns that there are problems with the supply of skills, especially education-related skills, in the US labor force have exploded in recent years with a series of reports from employer-associated organizations but also from independent and even government sources making similar claims. These...

The Mahbub-ul-Haq Human Development Center, Islamabad, presented the Human Development Report for 2003. The report opined that the skills demanded by globalization were lacking in the workforce in South Asia, thus exacerbating unemployment. Ironically, educated unemployment has increased...

How do skilled migrant workers affect firms' performance and output? I estimate the causal effect of EU nurse withdrawal after the Brexit referendum on the performance of English hospitals. Exploiting variation in the reliance on EU workers across hospital providers in pre-referendum years, I...

The unprecedented COVID‐19 pandemic required millions of people across the world to become remote workers. However, little is known about how to achieve effective remote working for organizations. This study investigates the types of employees that are more suited to accepting remote working...

"German and European immigration policies have only recently begun to cope with the inevitable: growing labor demand in the face of high unemployment and a shrinking labor force due to demographic change. Despite the implementation of Germany's first immigration act and several European...

Understanding the characteristics of vacancies for which employers seek to recruit foreign workers could help to support the EU's economic migration policy, based on the demand-led approach. This working paper presents discussion of six potential approaches to using online job advertisements in...

Skill development is increasingly viewed as a way to escape the low education - high unemployment trap in developing countries. Consequently, policy makers in these countries are extensively investing in skill development programs. However, participation and completion rates in many of these...