.S. labor force participation. However, there is a temporary increase in manufacturing employment as the United States is a net … importer of manufactured goods, which become costlier to obtain from abroad. By contrast, service and agricultural employment …

efficient assortative matching between firms with heterogeneous tasks and workers with heterogeneous skills. Our key hypothesis … exploiting offshoring. It implies that automation (offshoring) may reduce (raise) employment by lengthening (shortening …

the Americas – in Prussia during the first globalization (1871-1913). We show that this shock accelerated the structural … of globalization, but depend on labor mobility. For our analysis, we digitize data from Prussian industrial and …

efficient assortative matching between firms with heterogeneous tasks and workers with heterogeneous skills. Our key hypothesis … exploiting offshoring. It implies that automation (offshoring) may reduce (raise) employment by lengthening (shortening …

services offshoring - and immigration have negative direct employment effects on all occupations, but native clerks and manual … negative employment effect than does immigration. Our results also identify an important (labour demand) elasticity-channel of …

are matched in a frictional labor market with high- and low-tech firms. Mismatch employment occurs when high …

employment share of techies. Using the subsample of firms that are active over the whole period, we show that firms with more … market in France has polarized: employment shares of high and low wage occupations have grown, while middle wage occupations … analyze polarization in any country using firm-level data, and we show how polarization occurred within firms, but mostly due …

Using establishment-level data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey, we assess the market power of exporting firms …, we construct exchange rate-driven shocks to the marginal revenue product of individual firms. By examining firms …' employment and wage responses, we estimate the inverse elasticity of the labor supply they face-a direct indicator of labor …

skilled labour for headquarter tasks and unskilled workers to conduct a continuum of production tasks. Firms can enter foreign … and the offshoring of tasks. At the firm-level, exporting leads to higher wages and employment, while offshoring of … production tasks reduces the wages paid to unskilled workers as well as their domestic employment. At the aggregate level, trade …