This paper examines the relationship between the share of employment potentially affected by offshoring and economic … and structural factors, including trade in business services and foreign direct investment (FDI), using simple descriptive … shares of potentially offshorable quot;non-clericalquot; and clerical occupations in total employment. The results show a …

We use firm-level data on U.S. multinationals to show how offshoring affects domestic employment within and across … by vertical multinationals drives declining employment among non-multinationals in the same industry, and firms opening …. We find substantial heterogeneity in effects. A 10 percent increase in affiliate employment drives a 1.3 percent increase …

nation-wide manufacturing shocks to develop an instrument for changing investment opportunities, and examine employment …This paper asks whether startups react more to changing investment opportunities than more mature firms do. We use the …

, Japanese firms resembled U.S. multinationals. A Japanese parent's employment, given the level of its production, tends to be … level. This relationship is similar to that found for Swedish and U.S. multinationals in parallel studies. A Japanese parent … similar to that of Swedish firms, but contrasts with that of U.S. firms. U.S. firms appear to reduce employment at home …

Many developing countries would like to increase the share of modern or formal sectors in their employment. One way to …, previous research on the issue has been limited by the paucity of long data sets for firm operations.We examine employment … from domestic ones. Employment growth is relatively high in foreign-owned establishments, although foreign firms own …

Capital income tax policy affects investment by the parent and affiliates of multinational corporations (MNCs). In a … model in which technical advances are embodied in new capital, investment will translate directly into productivity gains … growth than the sum of the contributions of parent and affiliate employment, and materials; (2) productivity has boomed since …

years 1988 to 2007, this study proposes an econometric investigation of the effects of the OECD Employment Protection … Legislation (EPL) indicator on capital intensity for four capital components, and on the share of employment for two skill … non-ICT physical capital intensity and the share of high-skilled employment; ii) non-significant effects for ICT capital …

We juxtapose the effects of trade and technology on employment in U.S. local labor markets between 1990 and 2007. Labor … employment, particularly in manufacturing and among non-college workers. Labor markets susceptible to computerization due to … nonmanufacturing but no net employment decline. Trade impacts rise in the 2000s as imports accelerate, while the effect of technology …

, when detectable, result from the even faster declines in employment …