The article presents tax policy of every president of the United States in 1975–2008. Starting from period which is previous to Ronald Reagan’s reforms, which is asummed as a starting period of carried analysis, through reaganomics, Bill Clinton’s reforms, up to the changes introduced by...

This study investigates job polarization in the United States and in France. In the data, the dynamics of employment shares for abstract, routine, and manual jobs appear very similar in the two countries. This similarity actually hides major differences in the dynamics of employment levels by...

Routine-biased technological change (RBTC), whereby routine-task jobs are replaced by machines and overseas labor, shifts demand towards high- and low-skill jobs, resulting in job polarization of the U.S. labor market. We test whether recessions accelerate this process. In doing so we establish...