Between 2004 and 2017, Pensylvania is forecast to lose employment and experience declining numbers of job opening in occupations in its plastics manufacturing industry as a result of manufacturing productivity increases and in spite enjoying advantage relative to the entire US in delivered...

In this paper, we construct a Bayesian vector autoregressive model to forecast the industrial employment figures of the Southern California economy. The model includes both national and state variables. The root mean squared error (RMSE) and the Theil's U statistics are used in selecting the...