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 …

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 …

Estimating the causal effect of offshoring on domestic employment is difficult because of the inherent simultaneity of … multinational firms' domestic and foreign affiliate employment decisions. In this paper, we resolve this identification problem …, demonstrating the simultaneity problem and showing how to resolve it using BTTs as an instrument for offshore employment. We confirm …

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 …

vanished, (ii) the relative volatility of employment has risen, and (iii) the relative (and absolute) volatility of the real …

inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UK and Sweden over the past forty years and estimate … contributions of the labour share to the trajectories of inequality and employment during specific time intervals in the post-1990 … years. We find that during the nineties the cost of a one percent increase in employment was in the range of 0 …

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 …