China's emergence as a great economic power has induced an epochal shift in patterns of
world trade. Simultaneously, it has challenged much of the received empirical wisdom about …

A large and growing literature spanning multiple fields has identified employee mobility as a
critical influence on several important organizational outcomes. However, extant research …

Abstract Research Summary Scholars have long recognized the theoretical and practical
implications of firm‐specific human capital. However, we highlight that firm‐specific …

This paper uses US local areas as a laboratory to test for long-term impacts of the Great
Recession. In administrative longitudinal data, I estimate that exposure to a 1 percentage …

The strategy literature often emphasizes firm-specific human capital as a source of
competitive advantage based on the assumption that it constrains employee mobility. We …

We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of US
workers from 1992 through 2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition …

We develop new evidence on the cumulative earnings losses associated with job
displacement, drawing on longitudinal Social Security records for US workers from 1974 to …

Hurricane Katrina destroyed over 200,000 homes and led to massive economic and
physical dislocation. Using a panel of tax return data, we provide one of the first …

Abstract Washington's" revolving door"-the movement from government service into the
lobbying industry-is regarded as a major concern for policy-making. We study how ex …

Job loss comes with large present value earnings losses which elude workhorse models of
unemployment and labor market policy. I propose a parsimonious model of a frictional labor …