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

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 …

increased their employment within 20 minutes of commuting time from the border by four to five percentage points. The increased …, we find increases in wages, employment and firm-creation, especially in high-skilled manufacturing and knowledge …

, will have large effects on the pattern of employment across different sectors of the economy and will require a substantial …

International Adult Literacy Survey we find that employment of skilled to unskilled labour is unrelated to differences in skill … premium but that changes in relative employment are related to changes in relative wages raising the possibility of some … substitution behavior. Still, the differing dispersion of wages is not a major contributor to differences in employment rates. The …

This study measures the heterogeneity of establishment-level employment changes in the U.S. manufacturing sector over … reallocation and worker reallocation, to evaluate theories of heterogeneity in plant-level employment dynamics, and to establish …

whether increases in employment are associated with increased incidence of the flu. We use state-level data on the prevalence … percentage point increase in the employment rate increases the number of influenza related doctor visits by about 16 percent, and …

This paper summarizes the main lessons learned from Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean, a … microdata data. The evidence shows that regulation reduces labor market flexibility, reduces the employment of marginal workers …

, the employment rate of teenage workers rose, while their school enrollment rate fell …

employment. We argue that the minimum wage will impact employment over time, through changes in growth rather than an immediate … drop in relative employment levels. We conduct simulations showing that commonly-used specifications in this literature … panels of administrative employment data, we find that the minimum wage reduces job growth over a period of several years …