effects of offshoring on aggregate demand and domestic employment. Offshoring is represented as labor-saving import … employment. If the markup remains constant, the net effect of offshoring on domestic demand and employment is ambiguous; it …

value-added flows across countries in relation to major trade agreement schemes. It considers also the effects on employment …

. One of the main concerns is the negative effects of growing import competition on employment. This paper focuses on … manufacturing sector employment because of its high trade exposure and potential for wider spillovers. It finds that while trade … appears to have only a minor association with manufacturing employment shares at the national level compared with technology …

by providing new evidence on employment embodied in value-added trade flows. Linking jobs data to the Trade in Value …-Added (TiVA) indicators first highlights that a large share of employment in OECD and key partner countries relies on consumption …. Within GVCs, there is also a shift from employment in core manufacturing activities to employment in service support …

This paper provides a review of the available literature on global value chains (GVCs) and employment markets in …

in domestic markets, and how it affects relative wages and formal employment between men and women. Using the Revealed … labour force surveys that contain information on sectoral employment and earnings. We find that sectors of comparative …

Theory and economic intuition suggest that domestic institutions influence the employment impact of economic reform … labour market flexibility shaped the impact of unanticipated economic reforms on employment in informal (unregistered … not associated with significant employment shifts in informal enterprises, a finding that may be attributable to the fact …

Development economists generally concur that the implications of economic reform for employment are influenced by an … shaped the impact of unanticipated economic reforms on employment in formal manufacturing firms in India in the 1990s, using … average and ceteris paribus in the 1990-1997 period, declines in input tariffs were associated with increased employment in …