This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U … declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and … employment loss, and we show that the U.S. employment trends differ from those in the EU, where there was no change in policy. …

The path breaking work of Card and Krueger (1993), showing higher minimum wage can increase employment turned the age … and we show that higher minimum wage can raise aggregate employment. Expansion in the non-traded sector following a wage …

This paper identifies globalization as a factor behind the rapid increase in executive compensation and inequality over ….S. inequality than previously thought, and that both higher returns to top talent and rent-capture are important parts of this story. …

higher import and consumer prices, lower investment, and slower real wage and GDP growth. However, at the aggregate level …

, employment and productivity) downsizing. Unemployment insurance and cash transfers yield limited wage loss replacement (6 percent … the universe of cash transfer, unemployment insurance, and training beneficiaries. Negative employment effects take over a … decade to dissipate fully, wage effects persist, and firm restructuring involves occupational adjustment, increasing …