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UK Urged To Import More Skilled IT Workers
News That's the warning from not-for-profit research organisation The Work Foundation, which has called on politicians and policy makers to do more to address looming pressures in the labour market as demand for knowledge workers in sectors such as IT...
[June 2, 2008, 8:55]
We Can Work It Out: The Impact Of Technological Change On The Demand For Low Skill Workers
White Papers In recent years, the idea of skill-biased technical change has become the consensus view about the current impact of technology on labour demand, namely that technical change leads to an increase in the demand for skilled relative to unskilled...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Malaysia Angles For Outsourcing
News India took the top spot in AT Kearney's 2004 offshoring index because of its cost advantages, as well as its depth and breadth of offshoring experience and the availability of skilled labour. To meet the demand for skilled IT labour, the report...
[September 3, 2004, 10:45]
Ex-Sun Worker Files Discrimination Suit
News Ultimately, Sun's scheme was successful, allowing it to keep certain positions filled while dramatically reducing its labour costs," the suit said. Carlini also said Sun has been cleared of similar charges that its H-1B practices violated labour laws.
[March 19, 2003, 13:50]
Rise In UK Work Permits Sparks Alarm
News The number of work permits allowing foreign IT workers to come to the UK has increased by a third in the last year, raising fears the scheme is being abused to import cheap labour. Intra-company transfers accounted for three-quarters of all the...
[February 21, 2007, 9:26]
US Report: Is The 'nerd' Factor Keeping Women Out Of High-tech?
News Carnes, the highest-ranking woman in the Commerce Department's Technology Administration bureau, also addressed an audience of several hundred technology professionals at the conference on the topic of the IT labour shortage.
[October 20, 1998, 14:01]
A Year Ago: Is The 'nerd' Factor Keeping Women Out Of High-tech?
News Carnes, the highest-ranking woman in the Commerce Department's Technology Administration bureau, also addressed an audience of several hundred technology professionals at the conference on the topic of the IT labour shortage.
[October 18, 1999, 7:00]
US Immigration Policy And The Plight Of Its Unskilled Workers
White Papers The implications of immigration to the US are explored in this paper with reference to the impact on low-skilled labour markets and inequality in the US. Recent research indicates that low-skilled American workers are the main losers, with the...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Human Capital And The HIV Epidemic In Sub-Saharan Africa
White Papers This paper analyses the loss of human capital in two important social sectors - health and education - as a result of AIDS, and suggests how to respond to AIDS-related loss of skilled and professional labour mainly through mobilizing governments...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Apprenticeship Summit 2004: "Building On Commitments" - CAF-FCA Conference Summary
White Papers CAF-FCA's objectives are to promote apprenticeship as an effective training and education system that contributes to the development of a skilled labour force and to provide a mechanism for the key stakeholders to support the apprenticeship...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Why Apprenticeship Makes Good Business Sense
White Papers Ensuring the availability of a strong labour force now, and in the future, is important for the sustainable growth of your business. Between 1991 and 2001, the number of people working in skilled trade occupations dropped by 3.8%.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Globalization Of Manufacturing Activity: Evidence And Implications For Industrialization In Developing Countries
White Papers The current debate on globalization focuses on the implications for labour markets in industrialized countries. Concerns are widespread that earnings and employment prospects, especially of low-skilled workers in these countries, are threatened by...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Gartner: Outsourcing To Boom This Year
News Research firm Gartner said there is increasing pressure on chief information officers in Western Europe to cut costs by taking advantage of cheap, highly-skilled labour outside the region. India is the leader in IT outsourcing because of its...
[April 11, 2003, 15:42]
Outsourcing Conference Draws Protests
News Those countries have cheap, plentiful and highly skilled labour markets. A group of about 50 labour organisers and out-of-work techies gathered at 8:30 a.m. They also have more relaxed environmental and labour regulations than in the United States...
[September 17, 2003, 9:25]
AOL Quietly Shifts Staffing To India
News AOL's Bangalore explorations come as US-based businesses are increasingly tapping cheaper labour abroad, typically to handle low-level jobs such as customer service. Besides raising concerns about exporting high-paying, high-skilled jobs abroad...
[December 23, 2003, 7:35]
Bush Hints Door May Open For More Tech Workers
News In his early January speech, Bush said: "Decent, hard-working people will now be protected by labour laws, with the right to change jobs, earn fair wages, and enjoy the same working conditions that the law requires for American workers.
[January 21, 2004, 13:59]
Industry Turnaround Fails To Spur Employment
News But the labour picture in the tech sector isn't so rosy. US tech labour woes have been blamed on factors including the transfer of IT work to lower-wage countries such as India. At first, IT job losses were concentrated in IT manufacturing...
[December 18, 2003, 8:20]
US Visitor Visas 'ship Middle-class Jobs Offshore'
News Shah said a subsidiary of computer services company Automatic Data Processing had kept her and other US technology professionals around temporarily to obscure its use of cheap foreign labour. It lets US employers import highly skilled workers, such...
[February 5, 2004, 11:35]
UK Shortage Of IT Skills Continues
News Employers continue to experience a shortage of core technical skills, according to a quarterly review of the ICT (Information and Computer Technology) labour market by E-skills UK. Redundancy figures from the Labour Force Survey peaked at just...
[May 30, 2002, 10:23]
US Report: High Tech Aliens See Vote Go To Senate
News But it is opposed by labour advocates, who say that it will take jobs away from Americans. The bill, which has received strong support from high-tech companies, would extend the quota of H1B visas granted to highly-skilled foreign workers.
[September 25, 1998, 6:54]
