This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on employment generation for a group of Latin …-Bover/Blundell-Bond system estimator, I find that FDI has a positive and significant effect on the employment generation in host countries, which …

This paper estimates the possible effects of offshoring on Japanese employment. Both the positive and negative effects … offshoring as a source of sector-bias change in an era of major structural changes for Japan. I argue that, as a natural result … are here considered as a result of both the offshoring of production (or materials) and services. My main finding is that …

phenomenon is affecting the skill composition of employment. Measuring offshoring using the import-use matrices of input …-output tables, firstly we estimate the impact of offshoring on the general level of employment, and we don’t find any significant … relationship. Then, we examine the relationship between offshoring and employment composition by skills. Our results show that the …

means of System GMM allowing for the endogeneity of our right hand side regressors, especially our offshoring measures. Our … results bear a negative offshoring effect which is attributable exclusively to imports of intermediates from low income … for imports from high income countries. These findings are robust to the different measures of offshoring and to the …

This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U … declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and … employment loss, and we show that the U.S. employment trends differ from those in the EU, where there was no change in policy. …

This paper investigates the wage and employment effects of offshoring. I use firm-level data and two events in Mexico … markets and rent-sharing. Firms likely to take advantage of new offshoring opportunities increase their productivity and … as a natural experiment to identify the effects of a fall in the marginal cost of offshoring to Mexico. I find that …

Using a micro database of Tunisian firms, the paper investigates the dynamics of productivity growth, employment and …-off between employment growth and productivity as it appears that the sectors (services) and firms (the biggest) that create the … most jobs are not those characterized by the highest productivity growth. Moreover, we find evidence of a week contribution …

partial labour productivity in this industry, and the impact is twice as large when imports come from a poor country than from … a rich one. Trade would thus have induced a 13% increase of labour productivity in French manufacturing between 1977 and …