Past research has emphasized two critical economic concerns that appear to generate anti-immigrant sentiment among native citizens: concerns about labor market competition and concerns about the fiscal burden on public services. We provide direct tests of both models of attitude formation using an original survey experiment embedded in a nationwide U.S. survey. The labor market competition mode...

Editorials 775 If the Association of SouthEast Asian Nations (ASEAN) were one country, its gross domestic product would be the seventh largest in the world. 1 The launch of the ASEAN Economic Community in 2015 will reduce tariffs, increase the flow of goods, services, labour and capital between the Association's member states, and lead to greater economic integration and improved economic outco...

Living the economic dream of globalization in the form of a locationand timeindependent world-wide employment market, today crowd sourcing companies offer affordable digital solutions to business problems. At the same time, highly accessible economic opportunities are offered to workers, who often live in low or middle income countries. Thus, crowd sourcing can be understood as a flexible socia...

This paper analyzes the career progression of skilled and unskilled workers, with a focus on how careers are affected by economic downturns and whether formal skills, acquired early on, can shield workers from the effect of recessions. Using detailed administrative data for Germany for numerous birth cohorts across different regions, we follow workers from labor market entry onwards and estimat...

Social organization among human foragers is characterized by a three-generational system of resource provisioning within families, long-term pair-bonding between men and women, high levels of cooperation between kin and non-kin, and relatively egalitarian social relationships. In this paper, we suggest that these core features of human sociality result from the learning- and skill-intensive hum...

Evidence from the United States, Britain, and France suggests that recent growth in wage inequality has been accompanied by greater segregation of highand low-skill workers into separate firms. A model in which workers of different skill-levels are imperfect substitutes can simultaneously account for these increases in segregation and inequality either through technological change, or, more par...

Until the global economic downturn of the new millennium, demand for information technology (IT) professionals exceeded supply mostly due to specific skill sets such as integrating legacy applications with Web development, project management , telecommunications, mobile commerce, and enterprise resource planning. More firms are turning externally not only to local vendors but also to services a...