The fear of massive job losses has prompted a fast-growing literature on offshoring and its impact on employment in … services offshoring on total employment for Belgium between 1995 and 2003. -- Offshoring ; imported intermediate inputs … advanced economies. This paper examines the situation for Belgium. It improves the offshoring intensity measure by computing a …

' employment decisions. The results for a sample of 32 countries show that both strategies have been more intense in the EU-15 …

We study the relationship between offshoring and the prevalence and intensity of labor market imperfections at the firm …-markdown pricing originating from firms' monopsony power in both countries. Offshoring benefits firms in that imports of final as well … offshoring on wage markdowns arises from an increase in productivity that is only imperfectly passed through into an increase in …

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of employment and child care payment decisions of single mothers in the … estimate a model that examines the effects of the price of child care and the wage rate on employment decision as well as the … decision to use paid child care among single mothers. The model distinguishes between the full-time and part-time employment …

operate through employment, education, and income. …

We document that fluctuations in part-time employment play a major role in movements in hours per worker, especially … margin based on a stock-flow framework. The evolution of part-time employment is predominantly explained by cyclical changes … in transitions between full-time and part-time employment, which occur overwhelmingly at the same employer and entail …

employment among low-skilled individuals by just over 2 percentage points. The effects of smaller increases are more variable and … with employment among low-skilled individuals, while relatively early and large increases are strongly negatively … correlated with employment. Analysis of future data will be needed to determine whether this apparent difference between short …

A nine-factor input model is developed to estimate the monthly demand for employment, capital, and weekly hours per … overtime and non-overtime employment. Policy simulations are conducted to examine the short-run effects on the monthly growth … rates for employment, labor earnings, capital usage, and the workweek from either a) raising the overtime premium to double …

intended to improve the terms of employment for domestic workers by deliberately shrinking the workforce. Recent advances in …' seasonal agricultural workers from the United States, with the stated goal of raising wages and employment for domestic farm ….S. agricultural wages or employment, and find that important mechanisms for this result include both adoption of less labor …