This study analyses the 2004 Eastern Enlargement to the European Union to obtain evidence on the employment effects of … initial establishment productivity with employment changes over a long panel from 1995 to 2009. The estimates show that the … Enlargement had a negative effect on establishment-level employment growth, which is driven by increased worker separations and …

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. On 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 …

labor. It starts with an interrelated factor demand system. The "desired" level of employment, which is needed in such … cost and the share of each skill group in total employment only. It also proposes an approach to calculate long …

This article examines the impact of innovation on employment growth in innovating small and medium enterprises using a … quantile regression approach. The key findings are that innovation has a positive effect on employment in both growing and … strong growth than in their slower growing or shrinking counterparts. Thus, positive employment effects of innovations are …

It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To …