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

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …

that particular firm-specific features play a crucial role for the link between employment protection and relocation …. Stricter employment protection laws over time in the current production location discourage firms' relocation abroad. While …, they also face higher exit barriers if the country from which they consider relocating has strict employment protection …

offshoring (integration) and sourcing strategies and (4) location of firms and labor markets. Second, we overview existing … and thereby we highlight promising avenues for future research. -- offshoring ; outsourcing ; FDI ; trade ; labor markets …

, when detectable, result from the even faster declines in employment. …

operate through employment, education, and income. …

.S. employers to estimate the effects of financial access on employment growth. Our methods combine regressions with matching on … firm age, size, industry, year, and employment history, and with instrumental variables capturing ease of access to SBA … constraints impede small business growth prior to loan receipt. We also investigate the variation in estimated employment effects …

care subsidy and the effects of subsidy receipt on employment, school attendance, job search, and welfare participation. We … in welfare. Ordinary least squares estimates show positive and significant effects of subsidy receipt on employment …