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

less skilled and their employment responses to adverse employment shocks. Following program liberalization in 1984, DI …

(TFP) that are common across countries. We find that automation displaces employment and reduces labor's share of value …-added in the industries in which it originates (a direct effect). In the case of employment, these own-industry losses are … employment across industries and the aggregate fall in the labor share over the last three decades. It does not, however, explain …

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable gains in employment rates it had achieved during the 1990s, with major contractions in manufacturing … employment being a prime contributor to the slump. The U.S. employment "sag" of the 2000s is widely recognized but poorly …

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

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 …