First moves towards a real understanding of offshoring date back to very recent times. In particular for Japan, the … studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the … analysis of both the employment and productivity effects at the aggregate level of the industry, covering the years 1980 …

Total employment in the printing, publishing, and recorded media industry in 2006 amounted to 1.91 million jobs, which … is equivalent to 0.87% of overall EU employment and 5.54% of EU manufacturing employment. The printing and publishing … sector is a fairly important sector in terms for employment for most regions across the EU. Employment is most concentrated …

natural resources (e.g. silica sand, clay, natural stone and rock) into marketable products. Overall employment in the EU in … the non-metallic materials sector amounted to 1.62 million people, which is 0.74% overall employment and 4.72% of overall … manufacturing employment in the EU. …

Total employment for the sector aggregate Furniture and other industries amounted to 2,007,000 persons in 2006 in the … EU. Almost three-fourth of employment was concentrated in the furniture sector. The jewellery sector accounted for 6% of … total employment. Two-third of employment in furniture is still in the ‘old’ Member States, with Germany being ranked first …

The chemicals industry is a major contributor to the EU economy in terms of output, value-added, employment, and (net …

transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude … but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …

than it was in 1989. Last, the rate of self-employment has been falling gently in ISSP data; even so three to four times as … satisfied than are employees, one consistent interpretation of the above is that the barriers to self-employment have grown in …

The world's biggest and arguably most aggressive form of employment based affirmative action policy for minorities … exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its … effect on labor market outcomes of two distinct minority groups. My main finding is that employment quota significantly in …