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Do differences in the exposure to Chinese imports lead to differences in local labour market outcomes? : an analysis for Spanish provinces

Donoso Donoso, Vicente; Martín, Víctor; Minondo, Asier - In: Regional studies 49 (2015) 10, pp. 1746-1764

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Are we engineering ourselves out of manufacturing jobs?

Schweitzer, Mark; Zaman, Saeed - In: Economic Commentary (2006) Jan

. This Economic Commentary explores the relationship between productivity and employment and points out why this apparently …

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Do technological improvements in the manufacturing sector raise or lower employment?

Chang, Yongsung; Hong, Jay H. - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2005

We find that technology's effect on employment varies greatly across manufacturing industries. Some industries exhibit … a temporary reduction in employment in response to a permanent increase in TFP, whereas far more industries exhibit an … employment increase in response to a permanent TFP shock. This raises serious questions about existing work that finds that a …

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Accounting for the secular “decline” of U.S. manufacturing

Marquis, Milton; Trehan, Bharat - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2005

The share of employment in manufacturing as well as the relative price of manufactures has declined sharply over the … unable to account for the entire decline in employment over this period, we expand the model to allow for manufactured … explain the decline in relative employment in the 1990s. However, larger errors in the 1970s remain unexplained. …

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Challenges and prospects for Midwest manufacturing: report on the 2003–04 Chicago Fed Manufacturing Project

Klier, Thomas; Mattoon, Rick; Testa, William - In: Chicago Fed Letter (2005) Feb

The Chicago Fed convened a series of conferences in 2003–04 to address the following three questions: What are the long-term underlying trends in manufacturing and have they fundamentally changed in recent years? Second, is the poor performance of recent years a transitory phenomenon? And,...

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