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 …

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

connected economy. Disembodied technological change turns out to positively affect employment dynamics in the "upstream" sectors …