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 …

This paper analyses differences in employment volatility in foreign-owned and domestic companies using firm-level data … from 24 European countries. The presence of foreign-owned companies may lead to higher employment volatility because … more exposed to external shocks. We assess the conditional employment volatility of firms with foreign and domestic owners …

We present novel evidence on the effects of advanced technologies on employment, skill demand, and firm performance …. The main finding is that advanced technologies led to increases in employment and no change in skill composition. Our main … manufacturing firms. Our data directly measure multiple technologies and skills and track firms and workers over time. We …

. Labour demand is expressed by its structural parameters, such as the elasticities of employment to output and factor prices …. Institutional variables include employment protection legislation, the structure of wage bargaining, measures describing the tax and … transfer system and active labour market policies. As cointegration between employment, output and factor prices is detected …

In this paper, we present a comparative analysis of employment determination in four transition economies as they move …, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia to estimate dynamic employment equations for the period immediately before and after the start of … evidence of labor hoarding. There were significant cross-country variations in the determinants of employment during the reform …

seeming constant in the Anglophone countries: unions at the workplace are associated with reduced employment growth of around … representation - on employment change, 1993-2001. Works council plants have 2 to 3 percent lower employment growth having controlled …. That said, works councils do not seem to further slow the tortuous pace of employment adjustment in Germany …

employment or firing may occur after an initially weak response. Since these mechanisms may apply to other investment cases where …

To account for employment evolutions at the macro-economic level, we propose a modelling where employment is explained … in a multivariate framework for three sets of sectors. We get a relationship in which employment rises with growth and … permits to measure retrospectively the contributions of each of the variables to employment inflections since the mid-eighties …

This paper investigates the process of adjustment in employment. A dynamic model is applied to a panel of six Tunisian … manufacturing industries observed over the period 1971-96. The adjustment process is industry and time specific. The adjustment …, output, quasi-fixed capital stock and technology. The empirical results show that in the long run, employment demand responds …