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 …

pollution haven hypothesis whereby offshoring is central to the mechanism - US manufacturers begin to source from abroad and …

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 …

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 …

that minimum wages reduce employment, with the exception of high school dropouts. In contrast, evidence strongly suggests … that the EITC boosts employment of young women (although not teenagers). We also explore how minimum wages and the EITC … the EITC boosts employment and earnings for minority women, and coupling the EITC with a higher minimum wage appears to …

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 …