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

productivity, real wages and employment. To quantify the effects of reallocation intensity on employment, we estimate regression … other variables as instruments. We find large positive effects of worker reallocation rates on employment, especially for …. These results suggest the U.S. economy faced serious impediments to high employment rates well before the Great Recession …

women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to …

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 …