Do job characteristics modulate the relationship between import competition and the wages of workers who perform those … using O*NET data. The linked employer-employee data allow us to model the effect of low-wage import competition on the wages … and highly complex jobs, increased import competition is associated with higher wages. Finally, workers in occupations …

relationship between productivity and immigration spawned urban diversity. Existing empirical work has uncovered a robust positive … and nontrivial spillovers for U.S. workers. This social return represents a distinct channel through which immigration …

that have enacted laws restricting immigrants enjoy no diversity spillovers whatsoever, while immigrants in these cities …

Employment rates of Hispanic males in the United States are considerably lower than employment rates of whites. In the … data used in this paper, the Hispanic male employment rate is 61 percent, compared with 83 percent for white men.1 The … question of the employment disadvantage of Hispanic men likely has many parallels to the question of the employment …

We test the effects of labor market networks defined by residential neighborhoods on re-employment following mass … employers by other network members. These network measures are linked to more rapid re-employment following mass layoffs, and to … re-employment at neighbors’ employers. We also find evidence that network connections – especially those that provide …

-proportions-inspired work on offshoring and heterogeneous firms in trade, we build industry-level measures of import competition. Combining … Manufactures, and transaction-level trade data, we find that rising import competition from China and other developing economies …

examine how low-wage country import competition in the U.S. influences the probability of manufacturing establishment closure …. These data are linked to measures of import competition built from individual trade transactions. Controlling for a variety … of plant and firm covariates, we show that low-wage import competition has played a significant role in manufacturing …