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Media pundits and some politicians would have us believe that industrial production has been declining in the United States. Some would even say that “we don't make things anymore.” However, the statistics show a different picture. This paper examines the trade statistics for the United...
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The paper explores the causes of China's rising manufacturing exports to the EU after WTO accession. While the European … of international policy negotiations and provide suggestive evidence on the nature of the fixed costs that manufacturing …
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This paper examines the relationship between business dynamics and employment effects in 320 U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA). Much of the theoretical work on industry dynamics focuses on the role of noisy selection and incomplete information on entry and survival. We extend this...
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This paper evaluates the recent literature claiming that the US economy has generally become less competitive causing the US economy to perform poorly and that lax antitrust policy is one important reason for the decline in economic performance. Although there certainly are empirical facts...
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This paper studies the sub-sectoral contributions to aggregate manufacturing labor share decline in the US between 1979 … and 2019. Using the Log Mean Divisia index (LMDI) decomposition, the decline in the manufacturing sector's labor share is … manufacturing. Moreover, low labor share sub-sectors (especially Chemical products, Food and Beverage and Tobacco products, and …
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In principle, the U.S. Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) offers uniform market access to exports from eligible developing countries for a broad set of GSP-eligible products. In practice, realized GSP tariff-exemptions demonstrate marked variation across countries, industries, and years. In...
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The analysis presented in this study focuses primarily on the LCA manufacturing industries in the United States and …
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lower portion of high-technology products but a larger share of agriculture-related and raw materials and energy products …
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perform physical transformation tasks in-house using foreign manufacturing plants in 2007 also own US manufacturing plants …; moreover manufacturing comprises their main domestic activity. By contrast, "factoryless goods producers" outsource all … distinct firm type is missing from standard analyses of manufacturing, growing in importance, and increasingly reliant on …
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