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 …

, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and …

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 …

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

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 …

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

Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distorting production choices. Firms … Business Database, our estimates suggest that wrongful-discharge protections reduce employment flows and firm entry rates … mandated employment protections reduce productive efficiency as theory would suggest. However, our analysis also presents some …