unemployment. The transitory restrictions for worker migration after the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007 exemplify the supposed … unemployment controlling for the high correlation between immigration and goods flows in order to prevent an omitted variable bias … migration flows and the high persistence of unemployment. We find no significant effect of immigration on unemployment on …

the cost of offshoring and unemployment. Starting from a high cost of offshoring, a decrease in the cost of offshoring … reduces unemployment first and then increases it. The non-monotonicity of unemployment in the cost of offshoring does not … between the cost of offshoring and unemployment is verified through a calibration exercise performed using parameters for …

While most of the offshoring literature focuses on the effects on relative wages, other implications do not receive the … industry where offshoring takes place. If offshoring takes place in high-skill intensive industries, the high-skill labor ratio … increases (vice versa if offshoring takes place in low-skill intensive industries). Results are in line with other empirical …

to workers’ incomes and employment, while firms that import intermediate production stages (“offshoring”) display bigger … employment responses to small changes in workers’ wages, and are more likely to shut down home factories. But offshoring also … helps firms weather economic shocks. Offshoring firms are more likely to survive and provide greater employment stability to …

While most of the offshoring literature focuses on the effects on relative wages, other implications do not receive the … industry where offshoring takes place. If offshoring takes place in high-skill intensive industries, the high-skill labor ratio … increases (vice versa if offshoring takes place in low-skill intensive industries). Results are in line with other empirical …