bottom firms catching up with top firms in the Republic of Korea and the richest EU countries. Regarding employment and labor … skills, employment growth has generally been quite stagnant in all regions. Labor skills, for which we use the wage premium …. Our test of the productivity−employment link indicates that the size of employment tends to have a greater impact on …

). Offshoring influences jobs and wages differently depending on the type of industry and worker. We provide a nuanced view of …In South Africa, the manufacturing sector -- important for growth and employment creation -- has shown declining growth … countries, we find that offshoring generally lowers employment in manufacturing firms, and seems to increase the percentage of …

domestic labor force at the sector-level. In order to better elucidate the offshoring employment relationship, this paper … in which firms can move a part of their production process to foreign countries. This model allows us to examine how a … production-side shock that changes firms' offshoring decision can influence the local economy and its labor market. …

employment and wages of the local population. I show that male immigrants were fully integrated into the labor market, while … population's employment but not on wages. The initial displacement effects are particularly large for men, but they disappear …As a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union, five million Russian and Russian-speaking people repatriated to Russia …