the transformation of the German economy from manufacturing to information technology and service industries. The database …

The aggregate labor share in U.S. manufacturing declined dramatically over the last three decades: Since the mid-1980's …. The labor share of the typical U.S. manufacturing plants, in contrast, rose by over 5 percentage points. We reconcile … change in the trend of aggregate labor share in the manufacturing sector, with only a small role for exit of high …

Canada. The evidence provides weak support for optimal collusion in one industry, which is consistent with the idea that such …

manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage …, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and …

the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and — through input-output linkages and other general …Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back …

financial protection from climate risk via catastrophic weather risk transfer tools. Done well, a weather index insurance (WII … level data on past agricultural productivity and weather conditions, we present an algorithm that generates an effective and …

We measure to cost of extreme weather events (droughts and floods) on health care in Sri Lanka. We find that frequently …

monthly frequency. The econometric identification exploits exogenous monthly within-grid-cell variation in weather conditions …