Fort, Teresa C. <br/><br/>
New Perspectives on the Decline of US Manufacturing Employment / 
Teresa C. Fort, Justin R. Pierce, Peter K. Schott. 
 - Cambridge, Mass.  National Bureau of Economic Research  2018. 
 - 1 online resource:  illustrations (black and white); 
 - NBER working paper series  no. w24490 .
 - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)  no. w24490. .
<br/><br/> April 2018. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
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