paper is motivated by recent evidence that trade has greatly expanded on the extensive margin (aka fragmentation, offshoring …

Trade theory consists of a portfolio of models. What elements might be useful in modeling the offshoring of white … characteristics of offshoring, and then use those models to identify the effects of technological or institutional changes which allow … offshoring of white-collar services to occur. …

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 …

, the United Kingdom and the United States. The analysis of changes in wage bill shares and employment shares of more …

This paper investigates the impact of innovation on employment using a panel of UK manufacturing firms and a headcount … bargains. Innovation is found to have positive effect on company employment raising it by 9--12% in the short run and up to 40 … higher employment growth from new products and processes. …

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 …

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro … positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects … for larger firms (e.g. over 150 employees). We also find the policy raises area level manufacturing employment mainly …