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 …

A multinomial choice framework is used to investigate the nature of women's transitions between full-time employment …, part-time employment and non-employment. The stochastic framework allows time varying and time invariant unobserved … true state dependence is found in both full-time and part-time employment. This finding is robust to the specification of …

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 …

exploiting offshoring. It implies that automation (offshoring) may reduce (raise) employment by lengthening (shortening … offshoring on the labor market can substantially deviate from standard neoclassical conclusions when search frictions hinder …

We discuss the effects of low-skill offshoring on the endogenous schooling decision of workers along with the potential …-deteriorating effects of offshoring. As a result, we aim at restoring welfare by increasing the opportunity cost of staying low-skill. In … offshoring that befall those in the lowest end of the skill ladder. …

unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. If, as a result, labor moves to the … intersectoral labor mobility, unemployment in the offshoring sector can rise, with an unambiguous unemployment reduction in the non-offshoring … unemployment in this sector rising. -- Trade ; offshoring ; search ; unemployment …