We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of
outcomes over the period 2000 to 2019. The shock plateaued in 2010, enabling analysis of …

Robots in advanced economies have the potential to reduce employment in offshoring
countries by fueling reshoring. Using robots instead of humans for production may lower the …

We examine how to interpret estimates from a commonly used migration regression relating
changes in local population to exogenous local labor demand shocks. Using a simple model …

Does technological change fuel political disruption? Drawing on fine-grained labor market
data from Germany, this paper examines how technological change affects regional …

Los mercados de trabajo de América Latina y el Caribe enfrentan grandes transformaciones
que afectan la generación de empleo y sus características, al tiempo que aumentan el …

This paper studies the economic and political effects of a large trade shock in agriculture—
the grain invasion from the Americas—in Prussia during the first globalisation (1870–913) …

In this paper, we examine how robot adoption and Chinese import competition shaped
employment patterns in 352 cities across the United Kingdom. We find that cities whose …

Previous research finds that the greater geographic mobility of foreign than native-born
workers following economic shocks helps to facilitate local labor market adjustment to …

We examine the impact of labor market power on firms' adoption of automation technologies.
We develop a model that incorporates labor market power into the task-based theory of …

As industrial automation supplants labor, there are important consequences on the labor
market, especially for the vast rural population in developing countries. This study …