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 …

Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in … enforced remains to be seen. For the time being, de facto employment protection is far less than de jure, with an enduring … wages, nor are they effectively enforced. During the recent slowdown, average wages adjusted rapidly and employment was soon …

dynamics of employment and unemployment in order to identify key issues for the sources of the malfunctioning of these labour … passive labour market policies, and the structure of employment and output. …

origins on firm employment growth, exit, and skill upgrading. For this purpose, we use both industry-level and firm …-level imports by country of origin and further distinguish between firm-level offshoring of final versus intermediate goods. Results … reduces firm employment growth and induce skill upgrading in low-tech manufacturing industries. On the other hand, import …

This paper uses household survey (Sakernas) data from the 1996 and 2004 to estimate the determinants of earnings in … earnings data are available only for formal-sector workers (salaried employees). This posed problems for the estimation of … earnings equations, because selection into different labour market statuses is likely to be non-random. In order to describe …

We use twin data matched to register-based individual information on earnings and employment to examine the effect of … height on life-time earnings for men. Additional findings using capital income as the outcome variable suggest that …

This paper investigates the wage and employment effects of offshoring. I use firm-level data and two events in Mexico … as a natural experiment to identify the effects of a fall in the marginal cost of offshoring to Mexico. I find that … domestic wages actually rise at US firms likely to take advantage of this new offshoring opportunity. At the same time …