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 …

level. First, we estimate the impact of COVID-19 and policy responses on small and medium sized enterprise (SME) business …. We find: (a) Absent government support, the failure rate of SMEs would have increased by 9 percentage points … significantly reduced the share of demand- constrained sectors, preserving employment in these sectors. (f) Fiscal policy exerted …

We estimate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures among small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in … aggregate supply, productivity, and demand shocks. We estimate a large increase in the failure rate of SMEs under COVID-19 of …, Education, and Other Services are among the most affected sectors. The jobs at risk due to COVID-19 related SME business …

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 …

trade credit and suffer smaller drops in profits and employment during banking crises than similar firms in low … employment …

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 …

We study the optimal allocation of R&D resources in an endogenous growth model with an innovation network, through … more R&D toward key sectors that are upstream in the innovation network. Second, we extend to an open-economy setting and … spillovers has less incentive to direct resources toward innovation-upstream sectors, leading to cross-country differences in …

pharmaceutical patent protection alone does not stimulate domestic innovation, as estimated by the US patent awards (both raw counts … innovation acceleration and technology transfer, conditional upon certain country variables. In particular, the interaction …Research on the effects of patent protection on innovation and technology transfer in the cross-country pharmaceutical …