spread of COVID-19 at the onset of the pandemic: While Denmark, Finland and Norway imposed strict measures (‘lockdowns …’), Sweden decided for much lighter restrictions. Empirically, we use novel administrative data on weekly new unemployment and … furlough spells from all 56 regions of the Nordic countries to compare the labor market outcomes of Sweden with the ones of its …

Voluntary public unemployment systems are limited to a handful of countries, including Finland, Sweden, and, more … substantially, Denmark. A voluntary system has the positive feature of other user-cost schemes, potentially efficient targeting of …

by relaxing it for temporary jobs. These countries are Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands …, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. The article explores the conditions of the reduction of employment protection and takes a closer …

on their highly specialized service input structure, as an instrument to identify the impact of service offshoring. We …

comprehensive and exhaustive dataset for outward FDI from the Netherlands, one of the most environmentally stringent countries and a …

Recent contributions on offshoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate … technologically determined sequence of production steps. In our model, cost savings from offshoring fluctuate along the production … from offshoring even if relocating individual steps would be advantageous. Conversely, small variations in model parameters …

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 … improvements in the technology of offshoring. -- offshoring ; trade in tasks ; unemployment ; search and matching …