First moves towards a real understanding of offshoring date back to very recent times. In particular for Japan, the … studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the … analysis of both the employment and productivity effects at the aggregate level of the industry, covering the years 1980 …

We study the relationship between offshoring and job stability in Italy in the period 1995-2001 by using an … stability. Service offshoring and material purchases from developed countries foster job-to-job transitions within manufacturing … material offshoring to low income countries which drives blue collar workers out of manufacturing. Therefore, policy …

immigrants' labour force participation rate and employment probability. For recent immigrants who arrived in Canada within the … positively related to their employment probability in all censuses. However, living in an enclave has no significant effect on …

through outsourcing. The objective is to raise domestic employment. Given that many of the important international markets … that even if a unilateral tax by the US raises its employment, this may turn around in a Nash policy equilibrium, where the … in recent years) and increased product differentiation tend to worsen the employment effects of the outsourcing tax. The …

, when detectable, result from the even faster declines in employment. …

employment among the least-skilled, especially when the laws cover business assistance recipients or are accompanied by similar …

employment, including hours, prices, turnover, training, performance standards, and non-labor costs. Exploiting variation in the … cost impact of the MW across restaurants, we find no significant effect of the MW increases on employment or hours over the …

laws reduce employment among the least-skilled workers they are intended to help. But they also increase wages for many of …

wages to identify the effects of reducing or eliminating the tip credit on employment and earnings in the U.S. restaurant … industry. Using data from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages and the Current Population Survey, we find that a … reduction in the tip credit increases weekly earnings but reduces employment in the full services restaurant industry and for …

The fear of massive job losses has prompted a fast-growing literature on offshoring and its impact on employment in … services offshoring on total employment for Belgium between 1995 and 2003. … advanced economies. This paper examines the situation for Belgium. It improves the offshoring intensity measure by computing a …