offshoring plays for domestic volatility of employment. Offshoring is modeled as in Antràs & Helpman (2004), but we assume … firm's employment decision in its domestic and offshore production. In this environment, offshoring is driven by … has a pro-offshoring effect. And 2), under this same condition, offshoring increases volatility in domestic employment of …

We develop a theoretical framework to explain firms' offshoring decisions in the presence of uncertainty. This model … sharp prediction of the prevalence of offshoring in a given industry: The propensity of firms to source intermediate inputs … particularly pronounced in industries with higher volatility. Combining industry-level data on the U.S. offshoring intensity with …

The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s … percent. We examine whether relatively standard wage and employment equations can account for the volatile economic … demand equations suggest that cuts in working time may have slightly increased employment as firms substituted workers for …

explanation for several seemingly unrelated facts about employment growth in macro and micro data. In particular, they generate … of employment growth to TFP shocks estimated from Census data induce significant skewness, movements in volatility and …