This paper provides a theoretical and quantitative analysis of various types of wellknown employment subsidies. Two … important questions are addressed: (i) How should employment subsidies be targeted? (ii) How large should the subsidies be? We …) improve employment and welfare, (b) do not raise earnings inequality and (c) are self-financing. This criterion enables us to …

This paper examines the interactions between employment and training policies. Their effectiveness in stimulating … income and employment may be interdependent for various important reasons. For example, the more employment policies … stimulate the employment rate, the greater the length of time over which workers use the human capital generated by training …

This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on labour market inequalities between skill groups based on German … offshoring mainly through changes in relative wages rather than changes in relative employment. This runs counter to the …

according to their level of skill intensity or their intangible assets. This suggests that the provision of headquarter services …

employees, as well as, for those of high and low skill in US manufacturing for the period 1995 – 2005. We find strong evidence … on the positive and negative effect of intra-firm exports and imports respectively, on aggregate employment. The former …-firm exports but unaffected by intra-firm imports. The last two findings put together, suggest that low-skill intensive stages of …

positive effect on blue collar employment diminishes with increasing skill intensity of manufacturing industries. …We raise the question whether foreign direct investment (FDI) has contributed to employment generation in Mexico and … employment data covering almost 200 manufacturing industries. We estimate dynamic labor demand functions for blue and white …

Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional … answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired … firing in recessions, while leaving hiring in booms unchanged. Thereby insider power reduces average employment. …

We explore the far-reaching implications of low-wage subsidies on skill formation, aggregate employment and welfare …. Low-wage subsidies have three important effects. First, they promote employment of low-skilled workers (who tend to be the … reduce the incentive to become skilled. So they increase the low-skilled labor force which faces a relatively low employment …

Using data for German and Swedish multinational enterprises (MNEs), this paper assesses international employment … country, affiliate employment tends to substitute for employment at the parent firm. At the margin, substitutability is the … strongest with respect to affiliate employment in Western Europe. A one percent larger wage gap between Germany and locations in …

incentives for retaining employment, incentives for creating employment, incentives for seeking and keeping a job, incentives for …