This paper explores the effects of offshoring, technology and Chinese import competition on labor market polarization …, while the reallocation of employment away from less polarized industries towards more highly polarized industries also … outside of manufacturing, technological change and offshoring are the most relevant forces affecting within …

workers are affected the most, how employment and wages adjust to increased services trade, and the impact of policy settings … results underlying this report. Findings suggest that firms’ importing, offshoring and exporting activities are generally … associated positively with firm employment in advanced and emerging market economies, although the relationship is more uncertain …

, controlling for the dynamics of overall employment. The results suggest that some important drivers of structural transformation …

This paper examines the effects of exports on employment in China, Indonesia, Japan and Korea. It draws on input …-output data for the period from 1995 to 2009 to estimate the effects on each industry's employment (i.e. direct effects) and on … other industries' employment through intra-industry linkages (i.e. indirect effects). There are four major findings. First …

employment volatility during cyclical fluctuations, and leverage strengthens firm bargaining power in labour negotiations. Bank …

. Simultaneously, the development of services and the integration into global value chains have changed the composition of employment … same time, regional differences in labour market performance have grown. Raising the low employment rate of women with …