employment expansion, an effect quite different from the source of gains from trade in the conventional approach. Second, we show … workers at home and abroad. In an extension to our baseline model, we illustrate that offshoring production from the high …

product and in labour markets, in the determination of sectoral employment growth in Italy during the last forty years (1951 … markets were quantitatively more important than changes in product markets in the determination of sectoral employment growth … remained constant after 1973, our simulations suggest that, on average, industrial and service employment would have been …

The paper explores the influence of job security provisions on employment and unemployment. We show that this influence …’ bargaining power in wage negotiations. Specifically, costs of firing and hiring reduce employment and stimulate unemployment when …

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. …

product demand can affect employment under these conditions. The analysis suggests that the longer-term effectiveness of …

employment, using explanatory variables such as tax and social security benefit rates. Other variables represent the … estimates do not suggest that employment is significantly explained by the tax-benefit system. Nevertheless, we simulate the …