We show that in a Ricardo-Viner-type trade model with unemployment due to search and matching the productivity effect … of offshoring emphasized by Grossman & Rossi-Hansberg (2008) emerges as a vehicle of job creation. Improvements in the … technology of offshoring causes job losses at the extensive margin where ever more tasks are performed abroad, but it also causes …

show that roughly 50% of the observed raw differential in individual dismissal rates can be explained by the estimated …

The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the well-being of the employed, but has a … the appropriate distinction may not be between employment and unemployment, but rather between higher and lower levels of … regional unemployment. However, the insecure employed and the poor-prospect unemployed are less negatively, or even positively …

Unemployment is at a low and stable level in Denmark. This achievement is often attributed to the so-called flexicurity … model may have, a low and stable unemployment rate is not automatically among them since the basic flexicurity properties … were also in place during the 1970s and 1980s where high and persistent unemployment was prevalent. Labour market …

sharing, which results in aggregate unemployment. In this extended model, offshoring furthermore has non-monotonic effects on …) 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 …

labour across firms affects economy-wide unemployment. Offshoring reduces unemployment when it is confined to high …We set up a general equilibrium model, in which offshoring to a low-wage country can lead to job polarisation in the … pay wages that are positively linked to their profits by a rent-sharing mechanism. Offshoring involves fixed and task …

of jobs, and on the economy-wide unemployment rate. A reduction in the offshoring cost affects intrafirm and … cost of offshoring affects jobs and unemployment. We also show that the implications of a reduction in the cost of trading … -- with labor market frictions to study the impact of offshoring on intrafirm, intrasectoral, and intersectoral reallocation …

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 … medium- and low-skilled ones. Within each skill group, service offshoring penalizes tradeable occupations and tends to …

-paying jobs are rationed due to oligopolistic market structures, insider-oriented unions and international offshoring. In this … increasing share of lower-wage workers. However, as the tax reform involves an increase in the offshoring intensity, which may …