This paper explores the nature and the key empirical regularities of green employment in US local labor markets between … 2006 and 2014. We construct a new measure of green employment based on the task content of occupations. Descriptive … analysis reveals the following: 1. the share of green employment oscillates between 2 and 3 percent, and its trend is strongly …

The decline of employment in middle-wage, routine task intensive jobs has been well documented for the USA. Increased … structure of employment in the USA by comparing the evolution of employment across 175 detailed occupational categories in both …. Industries with larger growth in imports from Mexico do not experience a decline in their routine employment share in the USA …

on the structure of employment? We use U.S. Census data from 1910 to 1940 and measure electrification with the length of …, electrification drove 15.7% of the decline in the share of agricultural employment and 28.4% of the increase in the share of … manufacturing employment between 1910 and 1940. Electrification was thus a key driver of structural transformation in the U …

say about its impact on the structure of employment? We use U.S. Census data from 1910 to 1940 and measure electrification … industry level, electrification drove 15.7% of the decline in the share of agricultural employment and 28.4% of the increase in … the share of manufacturing employment between 1910 and 1940. Electrification was thus a key driver of structural …

This paper explores the nature and the key empirical regularities of green employment in US local labor markets between … 2006 and 2014. We construct a new measure of green employment based on the task content of occupations. Descriptive … analysis reveals the following: 1. the share of green employment oscillates between 2 and 3 percent, and its trend is strongly …

This paper explores the nature and the key empirical regularities of green employment in US local labor markets between … 2006 and 2014. The main methodological novelty consists of a new measure of green employment based on the task content of … occupations. Descriptive analysis reveals that: 1. the share of green employment is between 2 and 3 percent, with a strongly pro …

We juxtapose the effects of trade and technology on employment in U.S. local labor markets between 1990 and 2007. Labor … employment, particularly in manufacturing and among non-college workers. Labor markets susceptible to computerization due to …-manufacturing but no net employment decline. Trade impacts rise in the 2000s as imports accelerate, while the effect of technology …

We investigate heterogeneous effects of new digital technologies on the individual-level employment- and wage dynamics … effects of new digital technologies on employment stability and wage growth are already observable at the individual level …

After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high …-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings … rose in both low and high-skill jobs, leading to a distinct U-shaped relationship between skill levels and employment and …

After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high …-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings … rose in both low and high-skill jobs, leading to a distinct U-shaped relationship between skill levels and employment and …