relative wages and the employment structure in US manufacturing. However, we present evidence to show that the recent … rise in offshoring. To analyze the relationship between globalization, offshoring and relative wages, we develop a general … equilibrium model of trade and offshoring. This reveals that globalization and offshoring have two opposing effects on relative …

We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment …-compliance tax generates strong employment effects for low-wage firms and weak effects for high-wage firms. We also find that growing …

to increases in R&D, patenting, IT and TFP within firms; and second it reallocated employment between firms towards more … in employment, profits, prices and the skill share. By contrast, import competition from developed countries had no …

A significant gap exists in the UK between the employment rate for Ethnic Minorities and that for Whites. From a policy … discriminatory behaviour in the labour market. In this paper, we use administrative data to estimate ethnic differences in employment …