market. Finally, the impact of globalisation on employment is analysed from various angles. In general, trade with low … offshoring are comparable. Finally, while multinationals manage their workforce more flexibly than domestic firms, they have …

of competitive pressure: relocation of assembly operations and offshoring of automotive parts production. The knowledge … foreign direct investment in Central Europe may have helped the relatively favourable employment and earnings record of the … production. Employment and wages diverged considerably within the German automobile industry. Relative to skilled workers, the …

First moves towards a real understanding of offshoring date back to very recent times. In particular for Japan, the … studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the … analysis of both the employment and productivity effects at the aggregate level of the industry, covering the years 1980 …

We provide the first firm-level evidence of the impact of the trade in producer services (“offshoring”) on the labour … techniques, we show that firms which start importing intermediate services experience faster employment growth than equivalent …

we should expect a positive effect of services offshoring on employment, and a positive effect of materials offshoring on …First moves towards a real understanding of the offshoring phenomenon date back only to very recent times, with … employment and productivity effects occupying much of the literature around the subject. In particular for Japan, the studies …

firm heterogeneity offers new tools for analyzing the effects of offshoring on the employment dynamics within an individual … in the offshoring nation increases, the overall sector employment may increase or decrease. Policies promoting free trade …Offshoring has gained a significant momentum in recent years. Firm size appears to be the leading factor …

moderation in the volatility of employment and output. How the mistakes and subsequent successes of the last quarter century of …

private sector employment. Our analysis suggests that the dramatic decline of the skill premium in Sweden is the result of an …

Why is Europe's employment rate almost 10 percent lower than that of the United States? This "jobs gap" has typically … been blamed on the rigidity of European labor markets. But in <i>Services and Employment</i>, an international group of … actually a services gap. But, <i>Services and Employment</i> asks, why does the United States consume services at such a …