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 …

zero to positive correlation with changes in native wages and native employment, in aggregate and by skill group. We …

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

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 …

We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U … growth in employment and wages in the U.S. than in Canada. We further compare longitudinal and cross-sectional trajectories …

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 …

. -- Retirement ; women’s labor supply ; labor force participation ; relative cohort size ; relative wage ; part-time employment …

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 …

other countries. However, these policies also appear to encourage part-time work and employment in lower level positions: US …