A vast literature seeks to measure and explain the apparent decline in the labor share in
national income that has occurred in recent times in the United States and elsewhere. The …

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 …

This article provides guidance to prudent use of the World Input–Output Database (WIOD) in
analyses of international trade. The WIOD contains annual time‐series of world input–output …

To show how fast Internet affects employment in Africa, we exploit the gradual arrival of
submarine Internet cables on the coast and maps of the terrestrial cable network. Robust …

This paper analyzes the extent of income inequality from a global perspective, its drivers,
and what to do about it. The drivers of inequality vary widely amongst countries, with some …

Adopting a new approach to historical data, Peter H Lindert and Jeffrey G Williamson have
charted the history of American incomes‐and income inequality‐since colonial times. Here …

Outsourcing Economics has a double meaning. First, it is a book about the economics of
outsourcing. Second, it examines the way that economists have understood globalization as …

We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on US
local labor markets, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from …

We study the effects of monetary policy shocks on—and their historical contribution to—
consumption and income inequality in the United States since 1980 as measured by the …

We employ data that match the population of Danish workers to the universe of private-
sector Danish firms, with product-level trade flows by origin-and destination-countries. We …