The impact of offshoring on domestic jobs is more complicated than it first appears. In the standard narrative …, offshoring production is thought to harm domestic workers by providing cheap alternative sources of labor. However, while … offshoring may directly displace domestic workers, the resulting foreign market access and lower production costs allow domestic …

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 …

Measuring employment and unemployment is essential for economic policy. Internationally agreed measures (e.g. headcount … employment and unemployment rates based on standard definitions) enhance comparability across time and space, but changes in real …