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 … nonmanufacturing but no net employment decline. Trade impacts rise in the 2000s as imports accelerate, while the effect of technology …

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 …

-quarter of the contemporaneous aggregate decline in U.S. manufacturing employment. Transfer benefits payments for unemployment …

greater job churning and reduced lifetime income. At the national level, employment has fallen in U.S. industries more exposed … to import competition, as expected, but offsetting employment gains in other industries have yet to materialize. Better …

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

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