After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high … accounted for by a single proximate cause - rising employment and wages in low-education, in-person service occupations. We … automation. We find that in labor markets that were initially specialized in routine-intensive occupations, employment and wages …

We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through … manufacturing. Earnings losses are larger for individuals with low initial wages, low initial tenure, and low attachment to the … adjustment costs that are highly unevenly distributed across workers according to their skill levels and conditions of employment …

We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through … manufacturing. Earnings losses are larger for individuals with low initial wages, low initial tenure, and low attachment to the … adjustment costs that are highly unevenly distributed across workers according to their skill levels and conditions of employment …

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and-through input-output linkages and other general …