Kletzer adds to our understanding of the magnitude of the costs and benefits of free trade. She presents a focused … examination of the relationship between changes in international trade, employment, and job displacement for a sample of U ….S. manufacturing industries. The link between international trade and domestic jobs is also explored through studies of both net and …

The authors present a picture of how the effects of international trade on employment in U.S. manufacturing industries …, particularly the way fluctuations in exchange rates, overseas economic activity, and the altering of trade restrictions contribute …

and effectiveness of trade adjustment assistance. Most economists agree that protecting workers from the negative … consequences of the North American Free Trade Agreement is appropriate, since we believe that a measure is unambiguously good only … when some benefit, but no one is hurt. Even if trade liberalization is only a minor source of job loss, when many workers …

. In labor markets with high unemployment, such employment changes may have significant net efficiency benefits, which …

Over the past several decades, the rate at which regular unemployment insurance recipients run out of benefits before … recipients exhausted their benefits; in 2007 (with a similar unemployment rate) 35.6 percent exhausted. This paper documents the … increase in the exhaustion rate, along with the parallel rise in long-term unemployment; examines the consequences; and reviews …