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 …

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

. Adverse impacts of import competition on manufacturing employment, overall employment-population ratios, and income per capita … competition implies a reduction in the manufacturing employment-population ratio of 1.54 percentage points, which is 55% of the … employment rate. Reductions in population headcounts, which indicate net out-migration, register only for foreign-born workers …

cumulatively preserved between 2 and 3 million job-years of employment over 14 months at a cost of $170K to $257K per job … employment subsidies or business liquidity when the next pandemic or other large-scale economic emergency occurs, as it surely …

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

We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 … service occupations (employment polarization), experienced earnings growth at the tails of the distribution (wage polarization …

Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distorting production choices. Firms … Business Database, our estimates suggest that wrongful-discharge protections reduce employment flows and firm entry rates … mandated employment protections reduce productive efficiency as theory would suggest. However, our analysis also presents some …

actually narrowed) since the late 1980s. Furthermore we find that occupational employment growth shifted from monotonically ….S. labor market, with employment polarizing into high-wage and low-wage jobs at the expense of middle-wage work. We show how a …