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 …

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 …

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

shows that growing import competition from China differentially reduced earnings and employment rates for workers in more … largest for lower-skilled individuals. We show that domestic manufacturing employment declined much more in countries that saw …

It is widely believed that globalization increases the volatility of employment and decreases the bargaining power of …

non-standard types of employment such as marginal employment. The model is estimated for both the number of workers and … total working hours using a new panel data set. For unskilled and skilled workers in full-time employment, we find labour … marginal employment range between -.4 (number of male workers in west Germany) to -1 (working hours for women). We illustrate …

Russian manufacturing sector are not able to optimize their employment and why. Do they suffer from a labor shortage induced … by rapid growth, or are they still struggling with employment overhang? What are the occupations and skills in which … there is a supposed surplus or shortage? What factors affect the probability that a firm will report non-optimal employment …