The advent of cloud computing promises to improve the way firms utilize IT solutions. Firms are expected to replace … large and inflexible fixed-cost investments in IT with more targeted variable spending in cloud solutions. In addition …, cloud usage is expected to increase the productivity of firms, as it allows them to quickly customize the IT they require to …

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. …

transfer pricing by the host country affect investment and employment of foreign subsidiaries. The results indicate that … about twice as large. Moreover, introducing such a rule or making it more tight exerts significant adverse effects on the …

Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe. …

It has been argued that vocational education facilitates the school-to-work transition but reduces later adaptability … difference-in-differences model that compares employment rates across education type and age. An initial employment advantage of …

individuals determine absence optimally. If sick pay is set by the government and not paid for by firms, it induces the trade … union to lower wages. This mitigates the positive impact on absence. Moreover, a union may oppose higher sick pay if it … and sick pay, we identify situations in which it will substitute wages for sick pay because adverse absence effects can be …

moments of the distributions of earnings, employment and wage shocks across individuals. Our main finding is that …

implications for employment and income of welfare schemes often advocated as less distortionary. We show that reducing unemployment … benefits in favour of income subsidies (social benefits) reduces employment in general equilibrium and also the income of low … skilled workers, for not too high distortions in the labour market. Furthermore, it leads to a higher tax burden and a welfare …

per capita income in OECD countries. It presents the overall macroeconomic impacts of reforms by aggregating over the … effects on physical capital, employment and productivity through a production function. On the basis of reforms defined as … impacts. By contrast, the long-term impact of policies coming only via the employment rate channel materialises at shorter …

ethnic identity on the immigrants’ employment outcomes. Using rich survey data from France and relying on a polychoric … identities. The paper investigates the impact of the ethnic identity measures on the employment outcomes of immigrants in France …. The results show that having multiple identities improves the employment outcomes of the migrants and contribute to help …