We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international …, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and … earnings of young adult males. Consistent with Becker's model of household specialization, shocks to male's relative earnings …

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 …

We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 … service occupations (employment polarization), experienced earnings growth at the tails of the distribution (wage polarization …

After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high …-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings … rose in both low and high-skill jobs, leading to a distinct U-shaped relationship between skill levels and employment and …

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 …

reforms should have had an effect on the employment duration within temporary work agencies. Based on an informative … administrative data set we use hazard rate models to examine whether the employment duration has changed in response to these reforms … employment duration while the authorization of fixed-term contracts reduced employment tenure …

employment polarization – that is, rising employment in the highest and lowest paid occupations. Analyzing this phenomenon within …

.S. manufacturing employment. Transfer benefits payments for unemployment, disability, retirement, and healthcare also rise sharply in …

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 …