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 …

, as a technology platform, can automate tasks previously performed by labor or create new tasks and activities in which … on creating new tasks where labor can be productively employed. The consequences of this choice have been stagnating … labor demand, declining labor share in national income, rising inequality and lower productivity growth. The current …

by the reform significantly increased their education and experienced higher labor income. Our main result is that the …

, when detectable, result from the even faster declines in employment. …