In this paper, I study the effect of economic integration with the United States on state-industry employment growth in … Mexico. I disentangle the effects of two opposing forces on regional labor demand: transport-cost considerations, which, all … liberalization has strong effects on industry location. Consistent with the transport-costs hypothesis, post-trade employment growth …

observations on most businesses located in California. The evidence indicates that enterprise zones do not increase employment. We … also find no shift of employment toward the lower-wage workers targeted by enterprise zone incentives. We conclude that the …

We estimate the effects of Wal-Mart stores on county-level retail employment and earnings, accounting for endogeneity … employment results indicate that a Wal-Mart store opening reduces county-level retail employment by about 150 workers, implying … retail employment. The payroll results indicate that Wal-Mart store openings lead to declines in county-level retail earnings …

To understand the elasticity of employment to local labor demand shocks, we develop a quantitative general equilibrium … local employment elasticities differ substantially across U.S. counties and commuting zones in ways that are not well … around 3.3 percent and employment reallocations from -20 to 30 percent …

or younger. In contrast, surviving Indian plants exhibit little growth in terms of either employment or output. Mexico is … aggregate manufacturing productivity on the order of 25% in India and Mexico relative to the U.S …

high-wage manufacturing employment throughout the postwar era. These benefits were shared by incumbent residents; we find …