We investigate the potential for statistical forecasting of aggregate oil and gas investment on the Norwegian … random walk benchmark in an out-of-sample environment. Second, lags of investment growth, crude oil price growth and realized … volatility is found to be adequate predictors for the investment growth. Finally, there is a clear benefit from re-estimating the …

performance to vary with foreign direct investment (FDI) and shows that the foreign expansion itself is the dominant explanatory …

We estimate the causal impact of a sizable German infrastructure investment program on employment at the county level …'000 of investments. The employment gains reached their peak after nine months and dropped to zero quickly after the program …'s completion. The reductions in unemployment amounted to two-thirds of the job creation, and employment grew predominately in the …

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

We use a unique dataset to estimate the impact of a large credit supply shock on employment in Spain. We exploit marked … credit more than other banks. We compare employment changes from 2006 to 2010 at firms heavily indebted to weak banks before … the crisis and the rest. Our estimates imply that these firms suffered an additional employment drop between 3 and 13 …

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 …

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

self-employment. Output is reallocated to more productive firms but, given fast labor-productivity growth, this product …