. Adverse impacts of import competition on manufacturing employment, overall employment-population ratios, and income per capita … in more trade-exposed U.S. commuting zones are present out to 2019. Over the full study period, greater import … competition implies a reduction in the manufacturing employment-population ratio of 1.54 percentage points, which is 55% of the …

import competition from China over the period 1999 to 2011. The estimated employment effects are larger in magnitude at the …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 …

expansions and contractions of firms' employment) as well as along the extensive margin (job flows due to births and deaths of … firms). This paper uses 1992-2011 employment data from the {universe} of U.S. establishments to construct job flows at both … China shock is accounted for by either the increase in Chinese import penetration in the U.S., or by the U.S. policy change …

immigration may have played in enabling U.S. commuting zones to respond to manufacturing job loss caused by import competition … exposed to the China trade shock, the overall contribution of immigration to labor market adjustment in this episode was small …. Because most U.S. immigrants arrived in the country after manufacturing regions were already mature, few took up jobs in …

, when detectable, result from the even faster declines in employment …

spurious evidence that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Using minimum wage variation within contiguous county pairs … sharing a state border, they find no relationship between minimum wages and employment in the U.S. restaurant industry. Using …

The competitive shock to the U.S. manufacturing sector spurred by rising China import competition could either catalyze … analysis of the effect of surging import competition on U.S. innovative activities. Applying a novel internet-based matching …-level and technology class-level patent production. Accompanying this fall in innovation, global employment, sales …

We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on local U.S. labor markets …, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization while … unemployment, lowers labor force participation, and reduces wages in local labor markets. Conservatively, it explains one …

Recent policy debate on minimum wages has focused not only on raising the minimum wage, but on eliminating the tip … credit for restaurant workers. We use data on past variation in tip credits - or minimum wages for restaurant workers - to … minimum wages (smaller tip credits) reducing jobs among tipped restaurant workers, without earnings effects on those who …