We study the relationship between offshoring and job stability in Italy in the period 1995-2001 by using an … stability. Service offshoring and material purchases from developed countries foster job-to-job transitions within manufacturing … material offshoring to low income countries which drives blue collar workers out of manufacturing. Therefore, policy …

, it delivers an expression for the employment rate and as side-products, a measure of the unemployment rate and the size … rationalizes differences in employment rates: in the U.S., we find a market productivity premium of +30% and market frictions of …

for employment protection, provided it is uniform across workers and not specifically higher for older workers. It …

The pattern of employment among men and women has changed remarkably over the past decades. While the employment rate … in employment levels. In this paper we attempt to measure the impact of the changes of women and men?s employment … examine the impact of employment changes on inequality in family income distribution and how this relationship has changed …

In this paper, we estimate the difference in long-run after-tax and transfer income from employment and from non-employment … they were to be employed, relative to their disposable income in the absence of employment, and that the median gain would … the fewest number of households (43%) would gain from employment. The share of households that would have in increase in …

simultaneously specifies three time-use choices - paid work, childcare, and housework - and wage and employment equations for each …

We study the impact of local economic structure on employment dynamics. Local employment is decomposed into the product …

employment stability enjoyed by workers. This implies that in Italy women with highly protected and stable jobs find it easier to …

The microeconomic empirical literature devoted to the link between innovation and employment tends to suggest that … investments, as in Italian manufacturing. Applying GMM-SYS to an employment equation augmented for technology and using a unique … in size - positive relationship between innovation and employment. While the links with sales and wages have the expected …