) can offshore routine tasks to a low-wage host country. The most productive firms self-select into offshoring, and the … impact on welfare in the source country can be positive or negative, depending on the share of firms engaged in offshoring … among entrepreneurs is higher with offshoring than in autarky. All results hold in a model extension with firm-level rent …

This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U … declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and … employment loss, and we show that the U.S. employment trends differ from those in the EU, where there was no change in policy. …

Although many have expressed concern over whether generous welfare policies discourage the employment of single mothers … employment. Using the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), we conduct a cross-national, multi-level analysis of the effects of social … policy generosity on single mother employment in 17 affluent democracies. We find high rates of single mother employment …

educational achievements, but that it may also leave a long-lasting imprint in terms of employment and fertility patterns. …

This paper examines the relationship between offshoring activity by U.S. multinational firms and the structure of U …, we find that offshoring multinational activity and preferential market access are positively and consistently correlated …

I study the effects of service offshoring on white-collar employment, using highly disaggregated occupational data for … service offshoring is skill-biased, because it raises employment among high-skilled occupations and lowers employment among … the high degree of censoring of the employment variable and the small cross-sectional dimension of the panel. I find that …

affect the volume of offshoring between U.S. companies and their affiliates. The suggested argument is stronger for the …

negative effect on the wage of the low-skilled at the bottom of the wage distribution. With lower returns from employment, the …. The findings provide evidence against the commonly used argument that wage flexibility improves the employment prospects …

, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The paper compares trends in the household living arrangements, employment … this general pattern. Between the mid-1980s and 2000 employment rates improved among young Americans in their late 20s and … early 30s, and earnings levels either remained stable or increased modestly. The stability of U.S. employment levels helped …