Employment rates in the United States fell dramatically between February 2020 and April 2020 as the repercussions of … document that the employment decline was particularly severe for immigrants. Historically, immigrant men were more likely to be … employed than native men. The COVID-related labor market disruptions eliminated the immigrant employment advantage. By April …

understate the actual rate of assimilation because of the sharp decline in the relative wages of unskilled U.S. workers. We also …

unemployment. We show that heterogeneity, reflecting differences in match quality and worker assets, reduces the extent of … fluctuations in separations and unemployment. We find that the model faces a trade-off--it cannot produce both realistic dispersion … in wage growth across workers and realistic cyclical fluctuations in unemployment …

substitutes for natives with similar education and age we find that they stimulated, rather than harmed, the demand and wages of …

We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start … offshoring across occupations. Finally, we survey the literature that examines how offshoring affects employment and displacement …

The cross-sectional association between pain and unemployment is well-established. But the absence of panel data … the measurement of pain and model specification. We contribute to this literature using large-scale panel data from the … German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for the period 2002 to 2018. We show that pain leads to job loss. Workers suffering pain …