important factor from the 1990s onwards. -- wage inequality ; polarization ; occupational tasks ; offshoring ; RIF-regressions …

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 …

Based on data from a cross section of U.S. metro areas, we show that public employment correlates negatively with … business cycle volatility, hinting at a stabilizing effect of public employment, while public wages correlate weakly and … generate wage-reducing and stabilizing effects of public employment. Without this mechanism, a search and matching model cannot …

marginally attached displaying behavior lying between unemployment and non-attachment. The three non-employment states are …

. Although the U.S. case has been studied extensively, the importance of job finding and employment exit rates to unemployment …

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 …