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We examine the role of technological change in explaining the large and persistent decline in earnings following job loss. Using detailed skill requirements from the near universe of online vacancies, we estimate technological change by occupation and find that technological change accounts for 45 percent of the decline in earnings after job loss. Technological change lowers earnings after job loss by requiring workers to have new skills to perform newly created jobs in their prior occupation. When workers lack the required skills, they move to occupations where their skills are still employable but are paid a lower wage. (JEL J24, J31, J63, O33)

IN 1983, THE PRESIDING OFFICERS OF THE AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT INITIATED AN AMBITIOUS PROJECT TO DEVELOP COMPREHENSIVE TEACHING RESOURCE KITS ABOUT PARLIAMENT THAT COULD BE USED BY STUDENTS FROM PRIMARY SCHOOL TO THE UNIVERSITY LEVEL. THE GOAL WAS TO INSURE THAT THE ELECTORATE WAS WELL INFORMED ABOUT PARLIAMENT'S ROLE AND PROCEDURES. AS A RESULT, THE PARLIAMENTARY EDUCATION OFFICE WAS ESTABLISHED TO PROMOTE ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP AND POLITICAL LITERACY.

WAR VIOLATES BASIC HUMAN VALUES AND IGNORES LAW DESIGNED OVER CENTURES, EVEN MILLENNIA, THAT PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF ONE PERSON LIVING ADJACENT TO ANOTHER. IN THE 1980S, THE AVERAGE ANNUAL WORLDWIDE EXPENDITURE FOR DEFENSE WAS ONE TRILLION U.S. DOLLARS, WHICH IS A THOUSAND BILLION DOLLARS--TWO MILLION DOLLARS EVERY MINUTE. JIMMY CARTER SUGGESTS THAT THE WORLD COMMUNITY CAN AND MUST DO SOMETHING TO BREAK THE CYCLE OF DEATH AND DESTRUCTION AND DEPRIVATION. HE ADVOCATES THE LEARNING OF GENERIC PRINCIPLES ON WHICH HUMANITY CAN MOVE FORWARD TO A TIME WHEN WARS ARE NOT TREATED AS LITTLE NUISANCES OR, WORSE, IGNORED, BUT ARE ELEVATED TO THEIR PROPER PLACE AS MATTERS OF PRESSING INTERNATIONAL CONCERN.

ABSTRACTThe South Staffordshire Water Company serves a population of 1.25 million within an area of 1502 km2. This paper describes how the Company employs new technology across a broad spectrum of its activities, operational, scientific and administrative, and how it has benefited from these applications. It demonstrates how available technologies have been investigated, adapted and developed to meet the Company's particular requirements for improved efficiency, new regulations and standards, and cost savings. The Company is a leading innovator in the use of new technology, and the paper illustrates how this success has been achieved through the encouragement and development of new ideas and the careful control and monitoring of new projects.