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. …

We juxtapose the effects of trade and technology on employment in U.S. local labor markets between 1990 and 2007. Labor … employment, particularly in manufacturing and among non-college workers. Labor markets susceptible to computerization due to …-manufacturing but no net employment decline. Trade impacts rise in the 2000s as imports accelerate, while the effect of technology …