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 …

as they expand AI hiring. However, we find no discernible relationship between AI exposure and employment or wage growth …

tasks, we show that robots may reduce employment and wages, and that the local labor market effects of robots can be … estimated by regressing the change in employment and wages on the exposure to robots in each local labor market--defined from … the national penetration of robots into each industry and the local distribution of employment across industries. Using …

This paper studies how international trade influences U.S. presidential elections. We expect the positive employment … politically consequential. We also construct U.S. county-level measures of employment in high- and low-skill tradable activities …. We find increases in incumbent vote shares in counties with concentrations of employment in high-skilled tradable goods …

, when detectable, result from the even faster declines in employment …