employer, we analyze the effect of exposure to import competition on earnings and employment of U.S. workers over 1992 through … initial wages, low initial tenure, low attachment to the labor force, and those employed at large firms with low wage levels … adjustment is highly uneven across workers according to their conditions of employment in the pre-shock period …

Between 1984 and 2000, the share of non-elderly adults receiving benefits from the Social Security Disability Insurance … less skilled and their employment responses to adverse employment shocks. Following program liberalization in 1984, DI …