This paper examines the relationship between offshoring activity by U.S. multinational firms and the structure of U …, we find that offshoring multinational activity and preferential market access are positively and consistently correlated …

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. …

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

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 …

the participation of EU countries and industries in Global Value Chains (GVCs) and their employment structure over the … period 2000-2014. The empirical analysis is based on country/industry level data for 21 EU countries on employment, trade in … technology is analysed by taking into account both the technological intensity of offshoring industries and that of their GVC …

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 …

gainful employment. Our findings indicate that laws regulating health and safety conditions and restricting women’s night work … increased the likelihood of female employment by about 4% to 8%, accounting for about 10% to 20% from the total increase during … the largest increase in the likelihood of employment. We also document that native, higher-class and literate women were …

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and-through input-output linkages and other general …