sector and the large decline in employment rates and hours worked among prime-aged Americans since 2000. We use cross …-region variation to explore the link between declining manufacturing employment and labor market outcomes. We find that manufacturing … decline in a local area in the 2000s had large and persistent negative effects on local employment rates, hours worked and …

. Using official county-level voting data and a variety of OLS and TSLS models, we find that increases in wages and employment … increases in employment lead to less use of the media and reduced political knowledge, and present associational individual …

groups. Using a local labor markets design, we estimate that manufacturing decline significantly reduced employment between … 2000 and 2006, while local housing booms increased employment by roughly the same magnitude. The effects of manufacturing … decline persist through 2012, but we find no persistent employment effects of local housing booms, likely because housing …