find that policy uncertainty raises stock price volatility and reduces investment and employment in policy … foreshadow declines in investment, output, and employment in the United States and, in a panel VAR setting, for 12 major …

There has been a dramatic rise in disability employment in the US since the pandemic, a pattern mirrored in other … countries as well. A similar increase is not found for any other major gender, race, age or education demographic. At the same … microdata, we find the increase in disability employment is concentrated in occupations with high levels of working from home …

to increases in R&D, patenting, IT and TFP within firms; and second it reallocated employment between firms towards more … in employment, profits, prices and the skill share. By contrast, import competition from developed countries had no … effect on innovation. We develop a simple "trapped factor" model of innovation that is consistent with these empirical …