The rapid growth of offshoring has sparked a contentious debate over its impact on the U.S. manufacturing sector, which … has recorded steep employment declines yet strong output growth - a fact reconciled by the notable gains in manufacturing … generally are not captured in input cost and import price indexes. To assess the implications of offshoring bias for …

Although many have expressed concern over whether generous welfare policies discourage the employment of single mothers … employment. Using the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), we conduct a cross-national, multi-level analysis of the effects of social … policy generosity on single mother employment in 17 affluent democracies. We find high rates of single mother employment …

educational achievements, but that it may also leave a long-lasting imprint in terms of employment and fertility patterns. …

growth of domestic and foreign outsourcing and offshoring. First, outsourcing and offshoring are poorly measured in U ….S. statistics, and poor measurement may impart a significant bias to manufacturing and, where offshoring is involved, aggregate … impossible to fully assess the impact that mismeasurement and cost savings from outsourcing and offshoring have had on measured …

negative effect on the wage of the low-skilled at the bottom of the wage distribution. With lower returns from employment, the …. The findings provide evidence against the commonly used argument that wage flexibility improves the employment prospects …

, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The paper compares trends in the household living arrangements, employment … this general pattern. Between the mid-1980s and 2000 employment rates improved among young Americans in their late 20s and … early 30s, and earnings levels either remained stable or increased modestly. The stability of U.S. employment levels helped …

.e. by differing probabilities of any employment? Across OECD countries there are large differences in the average level and … employment. The participation level is particularly important for inequality differences and there is persuasive evidence that … country attitudes to paid employment, particularly for women, differ significantly. This paper uses Luxembourg Income Study …