We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular …. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), linked with industry-level data on offshoring of materials and … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers' wages are unaffected or even tend to …

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 …

Barriers to outsourcing that are being currently implemented in the US effectively tax its companies who export jobs … through outsourcing. The objective is to raise domestic employment. Given that many of the important international markets … oligopolistic context. We find that while an outsourcing tax favors domestic workers by causing firms to switch to a greater use of …

unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. If, as a result, labor moves to the … intersectoral labor mobility, unemployment in the offshoring sector can rise, with an unambiguous unemployment reduction in the non-offshoring … sector with the lower (or equal) vacancy costs, there is an unambiguous decrease in economywide unemployment. With imperfect …

adverse impact of offshoring on unskilled unemployment. The unskilled wage can increase or decrease as a result of offshoring. …In this paper, we introduce two sources of unemployment in a two-factor general equilibrium model: search frictions and … fairness considerations. We find that a binding fair-wage constraint increases the unskilled unemployment rate and can at the …

High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well … exploiting sector-specific institutional differences in the exposure to economic shocks. Public servants have stricter dismissal … sensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in the public sector than in the private …

In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment …

Health and Retirement Study. Previous studies find a strong negative correlation between unemployment and health. To control …

EPL varying among workers of different skills on the level and composition of unemployment, job flows, productivity and …