sector and the large decline in employment rates and hours worked among prime-aged Americans since 2000. We use cross …-region variation to explore the link between declining manufacturing employment and labor market outcomes. We find that manufacturing … decline in a local area in the 2000s had large and persistent negative effects on local employment rates, hours worked and …

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 …

to work. Controlling for housing reduces the negative coefficient of import exposure on manufacturing employment by 20 …-25%, with a significant indirect magnification through the housing market. Combining manufacturing and construction employment …, the indirect effect of the China shock through the housing market explains one-fifth as much of the variance in employment …

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

import competition had a weaker negative impact on manufacturing employment in Canada. These results are consistent with …

distribution) of wages, unemployment, employment growth, and migration remain remarkably constant in Japan for periods of up to 15 …

of government employment). Here we rule out this possibility by examining whether birthdates randomly called for …

States and the United Kingdom, two countries with quite different public/private employment trends. The results indicate that … public and private sectors increase over the past decade. Variability in public sector employment and wages over time is …

This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U … declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and … employment loss, and we show that the U.S. employment trends differ from those in the EU, where there was no change in policy …