and the offshoring of tasks. At the firm-level, exporting leads to higher wages and employment, while offshoring of … production tasks reduces the wages paid to unskilled workers as well as their domestic employment. At the aggregate level, trade … firms restrict employment to keep wages low, resulting in too many firms that are on average too small. Offshoring on the …

analyses of a uniform minimum wage. The model with worker and firm heterogeneity does not restrict the sign of employment … opportunity cost of employment. …

, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …

. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less … adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test our main hypothesis that any relative labor-market advantage of … vocational education decreases with age, we employ a difference-in-differences approach that compares employment rates across …

exposure to these automation technologies affects employment and wages across these different phases of their life cycle. We … find that the negligible long term impact of automation on employment conceals significant short term positive and negative … effects within phases of the technology life cycle. We also find that the negative impact of ICT investment on employment is …

employment and wage of natives. I use a modified shift-share instrument based on past settlements to claim causality. Employment … effects were driven by increased entries to employment, while wage effects were limited to natives that were already employed …

negative effects on the employment prospects of low-wage workers. However, we provide suggestive evidence that young workers … employment elasticity with respect to the minimum wage of -0.021, and an own-wage elasticity of -0.033, suggesting that wage … gains dominated employment losses. …

the universe of cash transfer, unemployment insurance, and training beneficiaries. Negative employment effects take over a … permanently skilled workers while reducing unskilled workers. Brazilian workers suffer smaller employment losses in highly …, employment and productivity) downsizing. Unemployment insurance and cash transfers yield limited wage loss replacement (6 percent …

provision of labour market relevant information by former coworkers affects the employment probabilities and, if hired, the … results suggest a strong positive effect of a higher employment rate in a worker's network of former coworkers on his re-employment … probability after displacement: a 10 percentage point increase in the prevailing employment rate in the network increases the re-employment …

This paper estimates the effect of payroll tax cuts on firm-level employment and balance-sheet outcomes during economic … Great Recession, we estimate that the payroll tax cuts had limited effects on employment and balance-sheet outcomes of firms … by the previously enacted payroll tax cuts in treated firms. These employment effects are exacerbated for men and low …