We analyze students’ knowledge and risk perception of four technologies. The aim is to find out whether there is a … technologies regarding health, environment and society on the other. The four technology fields under study are renewable energies …, genetic engineering, nanotechnology and information and communication technologies (ICT). Key results are: Irrespective of …

We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers’ wages are unaffected or even tend to … effects on either wages or employment probabilities in manufacturing. In the service industries, workers are affected in terms …

Several authors have proposed staggered wage bargaining as a way to introduce sticky wages into search and matching … a series of estimated shocks from US data into a search and matching model with sticky prices and wages. I compare the … implications of how the sticky wages enter into the hiring decision, and there seems to be a tradeoff between generating business …

offshoring mainly through changes in relative wages rather than changes in relative employment. This runs counter to the …

ones who earn low wages). Second, by raising the payoff of low-skilled work relative to skilled work, low-wage subsidies …