This paper studies the welfare and policy implications of globalization when risk averse workers face the risk of … welfare of workers but could reduce social welfare as well. Both unemployment benefits and severance payments can protect … workers against labor income risk, but the latter enhances welfare more if job destruction is the source of unemployment. When …

factor. Offshoring jobs abroad may change the composition of domestic firms and employment and thus reduce union density … workers and firms in Denmark (1999-2017), which allows us to measure the exogenous threat of offshoring at the firm-level and … the unionization decisions of individual workers. The findings show that the threat of offshoring reduces unionization …

offshoring on the labor market can substantially deviate from standard neoclassical conclusions when search frictions hinder … exploiting offshoring. It implies that automation (offshoring) may reduce (raise) employment by lengthening (shortening …

There has been an intense debate as to the effects of offshoring and global value chains on labor, with the debate … capable of capturing job satisfaction in conjunction with the income and distributional effects of offshoring. Contrary to a … regression model that combines information on offshoring and job satisfaction, lends support to our theoretical explanations …

We study the role of labor market mismatch in the adjustment to a trade liberalization that results in the offshoring …-intuitively this type of job displacement is actually beneficial for the labor market in the country doing the offshoring. Mismatch …

impact of immigration and different measures of offshoring on the labour demand and demand elasticities of native workers in … important and occupation-specific direct and indirect effects of immigration and offshoring. Both offshoring - particularly … services offshoring - and immigration have negative direct employment effects on all occupations, but native clerks and manual …

versucht ein Verständnis des koreanischen "welfare state" herauszubilden. Im Zentrum der detailierten Untersuchung stehen die …