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 …

earnings and riskier employment prospects. However, they may also have stronger incentives to train and upgrade their skills …

empirical results that help distinguishing 'good' from 'bad' jobs in terms of their impact on a worker's lifetime wage income … profile through wage jumps occurring upon changing job ('static effects') or through increases in the wage growth rate … empirical dividing line between employers providing 'good' and 'bad' jobs. First, in internationally active firms the experience-wage …

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