implications of offshore outsourcing. In the first two essays, I use structural models to analyze the size of employment changes … aggregate employment effect is negative. The numerical analysis, however, shows that the negativity of the aggregate effect is … caused by the cleansing effect, and that the employment responses of outsourcers are ambiguous. In the second essay, firms …

Cyclical sensitivity in employment, wages, and hours worked are explored with reference to three industries and eleven … dominated by a long-run trend, and firms tend to adjust hours worked and only then employment in the short run. There are …

untersucht empirisch die Auswirkungen von Offshoring auf Arbeiterflüsse in Deutschland. Während Offshoring die Stabilität von … Dienstleistungssektor. Die Effekte von Offshoring hängen ferner stark vom Alter und der Bildung des einzelnen Arbeitnehmers ab. … through local subsidiaries. The essay demonstrates that the adverse employment effects of a unilateral wage floor increase …

choice for employers.A threshold is identified in terms of extent of local labor employment at which the viability oflocal … labor employment collapses. We show that even before this threshold is met, the laborforce benefits of the location vanish …

impact of foreign offshoring of intermediate inputs on the growing wage gap in U.S. manufacturing industries is larger than …

This dissertation consists of three essays in Macroeconomics. The first essay assesses the impact of offshoring on … increased offshoring are found to be substantial even after taking into account losses in specific human capital for workers in …