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Productivity growth and the decline of manufacturing in large metropolitan areas: 1959-78


Abstract: An examination of the role of productivity differences in explaining the decline of manufacturing activity in large metropolitan areas relative to the rest of the country, with special attention given to the decline of the large metropolitan areas of the Manufacturing Belt.

Keywords: Manufactures; Industrial location;

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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Part of Series: Working Papers (Old Series)

Publication Date: 1986

Number: 8607