demand, technology and international competition. The increasing international fragmentation of production, also known as … employment and on the way employment gains and losses are distributed across firms, industries, national economies and components … of the labour force. This paper assesses the employment impact of offshoring, in five European countries (Germany, Spain …

This paper studies the role of trade for the joint uptake of AI-enabled automation in manufacturing and engineering. It … two technology-related business models: engineering as a face-to-face consultancy service and engineering as automated … software. Switching to the software technology is costly for both manufacturers and engineers, but the cost declines with the …

previous results for the US, I then demonstrate that the same major employment shifts across routine and nonroutine jobs drive …-the-board declines of routine jobs from around the 1980s, as well as polarizing employment patterns not only between but also within …

shocks have a very limited impact on firm-level employment despite being important determinants of other firm … have adjusted their employment through reduced hires. …

This paper investigates the employment effects of foreign acquisitions in acquired firms in Swedish manufacturing …, we evaluate the effects of foreign acquisitions on the targeted firms' employment by combining propensity score matching … with difference-in-difference estimation. We find some evidence of positive employment effects in firms taken over by …

non-offshorable tasks in Swedish MNE parents (onshore) and their employment shares in affiliates abroad (offshore), as … instrumental variable estimates suggest that there is a causal relationship of increased employment shares in affiliates abroad … such offshore employment changes onshore is non-negligible. Furthermore, we estimate the relationships between absolute …

The employment in Sweden has become more concentrated to the larger cities in Sweden (Stockholm, Göteborg and Malmö … the association between offshoring within Swedish MNEs and changes their parent employment at regional level (in local … employment in various regions. The results suggest that MNE offshoring might be a factor contributing to diverging onshore …

(GOLE). Our main result is that offshoring generates a hump-shaped pattern of employment changes across industries. While … the relocation effect reduces employment in offshoring-intensive industries, labor demand in industries with a high … part, we test the non-monotonic employment effects across industries in response to an offshoring shock by focusing on …