The increase of emerging market economies in international trade and rapid rise in global trade intensity over the past three decades has been accompanied by growing, regionally concentrated, discontent with trade in advanced OECD countries. One of the main concerns is the negative effects of...

I propose a new method to decompose employment changes by skill type into changes caused by output, labor supply, production task concentration, and laboraugmenting technology, using market equilibrium conditions within a constant elasticity of substitution production framework. Studying...