Abstract
Labor market changes and resulting distributional effects in the United States have led to significant social, economic, and political turbulence over the past two decades. Wage and occupational polarization, static or declining wages, a 30% decline in manufacturing employment, and stark differences in regional outcomes provide the sense that some people and places are flourishing, but meanwhile others struggle. While trade, urbanization, and workplace automation undoubtedly yield many benefits, neither the benefits nor the potential costs are evenly distributed. In this study, we combine and extend several recent studies on offshorability risk and automation risk to examine the […]
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