We analyse the effects of imports on employment and earnings by distinguishing between import competition in final … products and firms' use of imports in production (offshoring). We use Finnish worker-firm data merged with product-level trade … occupations. An increase in import competition has larger negative effects than an increase in offshoring. Production workers …

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. …

zero to positive correlation with changes in native wages and native employment, in aggregate and by skill group. We …

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

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

market consequences. We use the Synthetic Control Group Method (SCGM) and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW …) to estimate the causal effect of mandated sick leave on employment and wages. Our findings do not provide much evidence … that employment or wages were significantly affected by the mandates which typically allow employees to earn one hour of …

We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U … growth in employment and wages in the U.S. than in Canada. We further compare longitudinal and cross-sectional trajectories …

The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation … implies that the effect of migrant labor supply on native employment is close to zero within this occupation, and may be …

characteristics to examine changes in employment composition and performance of Finnish service importers during a period of a … on their highly specialized service input structure, as an instrument to identify the impact of service offshoring. We … find that firms that increase imports of service inputs reduce employment of low-skill service workers, increase employment …

and the offshoring of tasks. At the firm-level, exporting leads to higher wages and employment, while offshoring of … firms restrict employment to keep wages low, resulting in too many firms that are on average too small. Offshoring on the … markets through exporting and through offshoring, and we show that due to monopsonistic competition our model makes sharply …