We analyze and assess new evidence on employment dynamics from a new data source the National Establishment Time Series … (NETS). The NETS offers advantages over existing data sources for studying employment dynamics, including tracking business … full decomposition of employment change into its six constituent processes, including job creation and destruction stemming …

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 …

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 …

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 …

individual characteristics, preferences over working hours, job-search strategies, and employment histories. We find substantial … unemployed do not directly compete with employed job seekers. -- on-the-job search ; unemployment ; job competition ; employment …

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 …

We analyze the effect of low-skill workers offshoring on the welfare of the economy. In the context of a matching model … offshoring, namely, an increase of the unemployment benefits and the flexibilization of the labor market. Our results suggest … unemployment benefits to compensate for the negative welfare effects of offshoring, it would only take a small reduction in the …

explanation is at odds with the sequence of observed facts. We propose and model an alternative scenario in which offshoring …

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 …

We present a model of offshoring of tasks to a developing nation, which is characterized by a minimum wage formal … informal sector. An improvement in the productivity in performing offshored tasks in the developing country raises offshoring … improvements in the informal sector expand both offshoring and outsourcing, and the developed nation wage must rise. When the …