U.S. manufacturing employment. Our findings suggest that offshoring by multinationals was a key driver of the observed …We provide new facts about the role of multinationals in the decline in U.S. manufacturing employment between 1993 … lower employment growth than a narrow control group and accounted for 41% of the aggregate manufacturing employment decline …

-intensive industries? We provide a decomposition of US manufacturing GHG emissions and find no evidence of offshoring either to or from the …

When materials offshoring is measured by estimating imported intermediate inputs, a common assumption used is that an … the 3-digit I-O industry level, there is a correlation of 0.68 between the offshoring shares made with and without the …

In a series of earlier papers we have examined the impact of exchange rate movements on employment and output in the … impact of exchange rate movements on manufacturing employment, disaggregated geographically, using census divisions, regions …, states and SMSA's as the unit of analysis. Empirical estimates of employment changes are first presented for the four census …

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable gains in employment rates it had achieved during the 1990s, with major contractions in manufacturing … employment being a prime contributor to the slump. The U.S. employment "sag" of the 2000s is widely recognized but poorly …

Does the offshoring of production degrade or enhance the innovative capabilities of manufacturing firms? We contribute … products to China. We find causal evidence that offshoring impacts both the level and nature of innovation. In the technologies … evidence of a second-order positive effect of offshoring on the levels of innovation--particularly product innovation--in other …

This study examines the impact of unions on wages and employment using data from Uruguay in a period where unions were …-specific bargaining (1992-1997). The relationship between wages and employment shifted significantly across these periods as evidenced by … changes. - Wages are exogenous to employment before 1985, but not afterwards. - The wage elasticity and the employment …