We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start … offshoring across occupations. Finally, we survey the literature that examines how offshoring affects employment and displacement …

We estimate the impact of COVID-19 on business failures for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) using firm …-level data in seventeen countries. Absent government support, the failure rate of SMEs would have increased by 9.1 percentage … points, representing 4.6 percent of private sector employment. Resulting non-performing loans are modest, decreasing the risk …

This paper studies the efficient agreements about the dependence of workers' earnings on employment, when the … employment level is controlled by firms. The firms ' superior information about profitability conditions is responsible for this … form of contract governance. Under plausible assumptions, such agreements will cause employment to diverge from efficiency …

Policy makers often express concern about the impact of carbon taxes on employment and GDP. Focusing on European … and employment growth rates for various specifications and samples. Our point estimates suggest a zero to modest positive … impact on GDP and total employment growth rates. More importantly, we find no robust evidence of a negative effect of the tax …

Data availability is arguably the greatest impediment to advancing the science of science and innovation policy and … very flexible sources of data for serious research on many issues in the study of organizations in innovation systems in …

Research on the effects of patent protection on innovation and technology transfer in the cross-country pharmaceutical … industry adds to our understanding of the underlying forces driving a country's innovation level. Qian (2007) constructs a … not stimulate domestic innovation, as estimated by the US patent awards (both raw counts and citation-weighted) and …

Evidence on the "funding gap" for investment innovation is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for …

innovation endogenously determines the dynamics of technology, and, therefore, market leadership and trade flows, in a world with … innovation motive, (ii) the expansionary innovation motive, and (iii) technology spillovers. The theoretical investigation …, dynamically, intensified globalization boosts domestic innovation through induced international competition. Accounting for …