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 …

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 …

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 …

) econometric approach that identifies the effects of shocks resulting from hurricanes. Based on the Quarterly Census of Employment … and Wages (QCEW) data on earnings and employment, the earnings of an average worker in Florida will increase as much as … counties; however, this is coupled with a slower growth rate in employment. Powerful hurricanes have greater effects than their …

inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UK and Sweden over the past forty years and estimate … contributions of the labour share to the trajectories of inequality and employment during specific time intervals in the post-1990 … years. We find that during the nineties the cost of a one percent increase in employment was in the range of 0 …

. Concomitantly, employment falls between 1ư and 5% depending on hurricane strength. On the other hand, the effects of hurricanes on … better examine the specific shocks, we also observe sectoral employment shifts. Finally, we conduct a time-series analysis … and find that over time, there is somewhat of a cobweb with earnings and employment rising and falling each quarter over a …

After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high …-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings … rose in both low and high-skill jobs, leading to a distinct U-shaped relationship between skill levels and employment and …

In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and …. Finally we survey the literature that examines how offshoring affects employment and displacement. We highlight the recent … displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements …