shows that growing import competition from China differentially reduced earnings and employment rates for workers in more … largest for lower-skilled individuals. We show that domestic manufacturing employment declined much more in countries that saw …

This paper studies how a special wage increase for assistant nurses in Sweden affected income and employment. Workers … similar employment and income levels before the agreement was reached. Assistant nurses see higher increases in labor income …

We use twin data matched to register-based individual information on earnings and employment to examine the effect of … height on life-time earnings for men. Additional findings using capital income as the outcome variable suggest that …

domestic labor force at the sector-level. In order to better elucidate the offshoring employment relationship, this paper … production-side shock that changes firms' offshoring decision can influence the local economy and its labor market. …

countries, we find that offshoring generally lowers employment in manufacturing firms, and seems to increase the percentage of …In South Africa, the manufacturing sector -- important for growth and employment creation -- has shown declining growth …, poor productivity performance, decreased labour demand, and increased imports of intermediate goods (offshoring activities …

import competition has led to reduced employment in mid-wage occupations compensated by an increased likelihood of employment …

chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …-level, whereas the second framework relies on differences in relative factor endowments of the two countries involved in offshoring …