This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …

and thereby increase their income from employment. We find that these reforms led to an average increase in the hours … income of between 8 and 12 percent, and an increase of between 20 and 29 percent in earnings from employment. Finally, the …

For the last two decades, the increase of employment among cohorts of individuals aged 50+ has been a policy objective … on the European employment agenda. The present paper takes stock of the situation as observed in Belgium over the time … period 1997-2011. First, we provide analysis on the evolution of older workers' employment in Belgium and its neighboring …

employment on children has been motivated by the rapid increase of female participation rates in the labour market and increased … employment (as opposed to part-time) has little or no effect on the propensity of adolescents to smoke, their life satisfaction …

endogeneity of EAL and a substantial problem of self-selection into employment we suggest a 3-step estimator (TSE). The properties …

In this paper, we analyse differences in the cyclical pattern of employment and wages of immigrants and natives for two …