different consequences for the costs of recessions. Using U.S. employer-employee data, we find that employment growth at low …

We examine the employment responses to import competition from China and to global export expansion from the United …

Job polarization refers to the shrinking share of employment in middle-skill, routine occupations experienced recently …, over the last 35 years. Jobless recoveries refers to the slow rebound in aggregate employment following recent recessions …, despite recoveries in aggregate output. We show how these two phenomena are related. First, essentially all employment loss in …

, both in gross and net terms. We employ a variety of measures of relative employment growth, employer size and … cyclical behavior. The differential growth rate of employment between large (gt;1000 employees) and small (lt;50) firms varies …

explanation for several seemingly unrelated facts about employment growth in macro and micro data. In particular, they generate … of employment growth to TFP shocks estimated from Census data induce significant skewness, movements in volatility and …

existing literature, we construct predicted employment growth indices that allow us to separately identify demand … health. These patterns, which are consistent with previous findings on the effects of individual parental employment and job …

, especially in sectors with higher employment volatility. Moreover, we find that the reform reduced firms' employment adjustments …