, little is known about the impact of institutional quality on offshoring. This is surprising, given that offshoring has become … between institutional quality and offshoring. The results suggest that weak institutions are negatively related to offshoring … in general and to offshoring of R&D-intensive goods in particular. Furthermore, firms that are able to establish long …

. Buyouts reduce agency problems, which triggers automation, offshoring, and tougher bargaining with labor unions. We show that …

.5 percent below the 1990 peak and a mere one percent above the 1993 trough. Employment rates tell a similar story. Our …

The paper answers two questions simultaneously. What is the effect of offshoring on firms' total factor productivity …? What is the effect of offshoring on skill-biased technological change? We estimate a model of firm production that allows … for the effect of offshoring on both total factor productivity and relative skilled labor productivity, and for spillovers …

The structure of employment in the Federal Republic of Germany has been diversifying increasingly since the 1980s. The … traditional 'regular employment relationship' has lost ground to other employment forms such as part-time, fixed-term or agency … work, though it is still by far the most common type of employment relationship. In Berlin, however, more substantial …

Since the 1980's the changing structure of employment in the Federal Republic of Germany is increasingly visible …. Whereas the socially secured, dependent and unlimited full time employment - the so called 'regular employment relationsship … article examines the alteration of employment forms between 1985 and 2005 and compares the development in the Federal Republic …

, regular employment has been withdrawn in favour of temporary employment or self-employment. There is a special social security … due to its popularity. The analysis in this paper focuses on the employment development of of musicians, performing … and characteristics of the artistic labour markets, as working patterns, earnings, human capital and employment status …