We discuss the effects of offshoring on the labor market in a matching model with endogenous adjustment of educational … skills. We carry out a comparative statics analysis and show that offshoring leads to a restructuring of the economy through … skill-biased technical change (SBTC) where overall welfare is improved. In a policy exercise we show that, if offshoring …

influence the labour market performance of skilled immigrants. Our estimates point to improvements in employment rates and …

marginally attached displaying behavior lying between unemployment and non-attachment. The three non-employment states are …

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and - through input-output linkages and other general …

Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe …

other countries. However, these policies also appear to encourage part-time work and employment in lower level positions: US …