Year: 2018
Type: report
Abstract: We use relatively unexplored dimensions of US microdata to examine how US manufacturing employment has evolved across industries, firms, establishments, and regions.We show that these data provide support for both trade-and technology-based explanations of the overall decline of employment over this period, while also highlighting the difficulties of estimating an overall contribution for each mechanism.Toward that end, we discuss how further analysis of these trends might yield sharper insights.
DOI: 10.3386/w24490
Authors: Teresa Fort, Justin Pierce, Peter Schott
Language: English
Topic: Global trade and economics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4300215929