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 "non-clerical" and clerical occupations in total employment. The results show a positive …

, increased foreign affiliate activity in vertically oriented multinational firms drives declining employment among non-multinationals …Estimating the causal effect of offshoring on domestic employment is difficult because of the inherent simultaneity of … multinational firms' domestic and foreign affiliate employment decisions. In this paper, we resolve this identification problem …

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 …

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 …

, 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 …

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 …

We examine the neoclassical investment model using a panel of U.S. manufacturing firms. The standard model with no … for firms with low (pre-sample) payouts (firms we expect to face financing constraints). Hem, investment is sensitive to … both firm cash flow and macroeconomic credit conditions, holding constant investment opportunities. Sample splits based on …

impact of HICT on labor, but what there is suggests no substantial negative effects on employment and earnings. Overall …

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 …