Job losses during the Great Recession were concentrated among middle-skill workers, the same group that over the long … cyclical than other occupations, in part because of the volatile industries that tend to employ middle-skill workers …. Unemployed middle-skill workers also appear to have few attractive or feasible employment alternatives outside of their skill …

flexibility in existing matches. But this is not true in our model. If wages of matched workers are stuck too high in a recession …

become more likely to start relatively capital-intensive household enterprises. …

Many large urban school districts are rethinking their personnel management strategies, often giving increased control …

. These effects are most pronounced for younger workers and in industries with a higher proportion of low-wage workers. …

between domestic and foreign workers, has altered the structure of labor demand in industrialized countries and fostered …

adjustment induced by the trade reform at the regional and individual level. Workers initially employed in harder hit regions … face continuously deteriorating formal labor market outcomes relative to workers employed in less affected regions, and … this gap persists even 20 years after the beginning of trade liberalization. Negative local trade shocks induce workers to …