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 …

In this paper, we study the effects of FDI on domestic employment by examining the data of Taiwan's manufacturing … competitiveness. The expanded domestic output leads to more employment at home (output effect). The net effect of FDI on domestic … employment is a combination of substitution and output effects. For Taiwan, the net effect is positive in most cases but it …

domestic investment by 38% -- and by reducing domestic employment by 1.0 million jobs. We then show that the costs of … employment and income growth for over 15 years. We discuss implications of these results for other efforts to limit profit …

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 …, demonstrating the simultaneity problem and showing how to resolve it using BTTs as an instrument for offshore employment. We confirm …

nation-wide manufacturing shocks to develop an instrument for changing investment opportunities, and examine employment …

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 … similar to that of Swedish firms, but contrasts with that of U.S. firms. U.S. firms appear to reduce employment at home …-wage countries. We conclude that in Japanese firms and ancillary employment at home to service foreign operations outweighs any …

This paper brings out the special mechanism through which taxes influence bilateral FDI, when investment decisions are … determining whether aggregate FDI flows will occur at all, and a different set of factors determining the volume of FDI flows … corporate tax rate and high level of public good provision in the rich source country for FDI outflows and with low corporate …