analytically in a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous firms that a fall in variable offshoring costs boosts trade in … call the export-magnification effect of offshoring. More specifically, lower barriers to offshoring reduce the average … costs of inputs for offshoring firms and allow more firms to source cheap foreign intermediates, which improves firm …

develop a suite of models to provide a more timely estimate (nowcast) of euro area quarterly employment growth based on a … timely assessment of employment developments with unemployment rates and sentiment indicators containing most of the relevant …

2013. While we find that labour market reforms are overall effective in increasing employment, restricted access to bank … credit can undo up to half of long-term employment gains at the firm-level. Entrepreneurs without sufficient access to credit … cannot reap the full benefits of more flexible employment regulation …

We explore the impact of wage adjustment on employment with a focus on the role of downward nominal wage rigidities. We … results point to a negative effect of downward wage rigidities on employment at the firm level …

credit relationships with affected banks experienced a significant decline in employment and in labor compensation relative … to firms whose credit relationships were with healthy banks. We also find that the employment effect increases, and the … wage effect decreases with firm size. The decline in employment at firms attached to affected banks appears to be more long …

This paper analyses differences in employment volatility in foreign-owned and domestic companies using firm-level data … from 24 European countries. The presence of foreign-owned companies may lead to higher employment volatility because … more exposed to external shocks. We assess the conditional employment volatility of firms with foreign and domestic owners …

is directly aimed at reducing disparities in the employment sector. Against this background, the paper analyses the … impact of EU structural funds on employment drawing on a panel dataset of 130 European NUTS regions over the time period 1999 …

importance for structural and macroeconomic policy, for instance, in increasing the employment of both people and hours worked …