Puzzles and Surprises in Employment and Productivity in U.S. Manufacturing After the Great Recession

Though U.S. manufacturing output recovered more slowly from the Great Recession than historical experience would have predicted, manufacturing employment, which peaked in 1979, grew between 2010 and 2017. This was the second-longest period of manufacturing employment growth in the entire postwar per...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Richard Schmalensee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre for the Study of Living Standards 2018-09-01
Series:International Productivity Monitor
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Online Access:http://www.csls.ca/ipm/35/Schmalensee.pdf