workers in the middle of the wage distribution. In Offshoring in the Global Economy, noted economist Robert Feenstra offers a …, prices, and productivity on the macroeconomics of offshoring. In a concluding chapter, he addresses the broader implications … of both empirical and theoretical work on offshoring and suggests directions for future research. Ohlin Lectures series …

In today’s globalized economy, firms often consider offshoring when confronted by rising costs and fierce competition …. One mode of offshoring has continued to grow despite the current global economic turmoil: the captive center. Captive …-office activities. In Offshoring Strategies, Ilan Oshri examines the evolution of the captive center. He identifies basic captive center …

Full employment used to be an explicit goal of economic policy in most of the industrialized world. Some countries even … achieved it. In Back to Full Employment, economist Robert Pollin argues that the United States--today faced with its highest … level of unemployment since the Great Depression--should put full employment back on the agenda. There are good reasons to …

sector). The book examines the effects of insiders' activities on wages, employment, and unemployment; discusses the …

introduce a better macro model, one that can say useful things about the fluctuation of employment, the correlation between … wages and employment, and the role for corrective monetary policy. …

, countries will have more resources to concentrate on structural concerns. Welfare and Employment in a United Europe takes a … no guarantee that the European Monetary Union will result in fewer product market restrictions or less employment …

optimal pricing and the other on managerial riskbearing. Finally, Part IV, Prices, Income, and Employment, consists of two …