Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … 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 …

, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and …

of trade shocks into national-level outcomes. Employment has fallen in U.S. industries more exposed to import competition …, as expected. So too has overall employment in the local labor markets in which these industries were concentrated …. Offsetting employment gains in non-tradables, export-oriented tradables, or imported-input-using industries have yet to …

We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through … adjustment costs that are highly unevenly distributed across workers according to their skill levels and conditions of employment …