This paper explores the nature and the key empirical regularities of green employment in US local labor markets between … 2006 and 2014. We construct a new measure of green employment based on the task content of occupations. Descriptive … analysis reveals the following: 1. the share of green employment oscillates between 2 and 3 percent, and its trend is strongly …

NAFTA offered greater export opportunities to Mexican firms that may raise employment, it also opened the door to increased … import competition that may dampen employment gains. This paper finds that in the first decade of its existence, NAFTA had a … net positive impact on domestic employment of 870,000 workers, an increase of 13.7%. Production workers in Mexican gained …

-in-differences. We find that a one per thousand increase in infections causes a 2 to 3 percent drop in local employment. Non … that at most half of the job losses in the US and UK can be attributed to lockdowns. We also find that employment losses … modest recoveries in employment unless COVID-19 infection rates fall. …