We examine the impact on U.S. labor markets of offshore outsourcing in services to China and India. We also consider … China and India. Using March-to-March matched CPS data for 1996-2006 we examine the impacts on (1) occupation and industry … experienced during 1996-2005 in business, professional and technical services i.e., in segments where China and India have been …

U.S. county data for the last 20 or 30 years show that manufacturing employment has been deconcentrating. In contrast …, the service sector exhibits concentration in counties with intermediate levels of employment. This paper presents a theory … dependence in growth rates. Young industries exhibit non-monotone relationships between employment levels and growth rates, while …

The distribution of employment among Agriculture, Industry, and Service within countries is closely related to the … level of real Gross Domestic Product per capita. As real income rises, Agriculture's share falls, Service employment rises … OECD cross-sections follow almost identical patterns of employment change. The decline of Agriculture is attributable …

implications of Renminbi (RMB) real exchange rate appreciation for adjustments in employment and wage rates. We stress differences … real exchange rate appreciation would likely have pronounced effects on both net employment and wage rates. A 10% RMB … appreciation would likely cause a net employment decline in Chinese manufacturing industries of between 4.1% and 5.3%, and a wage …

This paper studies the employment and productivity implications of new labor regulations in China. These new … restrictions are intended to protect workers' employment conditions by, among other things, increasing firing costs and increasing … employment, slightly increase labor reallocation and reduce exit. The estimated elasticity of labor demand is about unity so that …

.S. employment growth. We find that the increase in U.S. imports from China, which accelerated after 2000, was a major force behind … import competition from China over the period 1999 to 2011. The estimated employment effects are larger in magnitude at the …Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back …

Unemployment rates in countries across the world are typically positively correlated with GDP. China is an unusual … statistics. This paper calculates, for the first time, China's unemployment rate from 1988 to 2009 using a more reliable …, nationally representative household survey in China. The unemployment rates we calculate differ dramatically from those supplied …

Data on 2,355 married women from the 2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey are used to study how female employment … affects fertility in China. China has deep concerns with both population size and female employment, so the relationship … between the two should be better understood. Causality flows in both directions. A conceptual model shows how employment …