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Putting U.S. manufacturing in perspective
Speech
Regional economy and manufacturing update
Remarks at the Quarterly Regional Economic Press Briefing, New York City.
Working Paper
War and pestilence as labor market shocks: manufacturing wage growth 1914-1919
This paper explores the effect of mortalities from the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic and World War I on real wage growth in the manufacturing sectors of U.S. states from 1914 to 1919. The general hypothesis is that both events caused a significant decrease in the supply of manufacturing labor, thereby initially increasing the marginal product of labor and thus wages. The empirical results reveal that influenza mortalities led to a greater overall increase in real manufacturing wage growth, but the marginal effect on wage growth from an additional World War I combat mortality was greater than ...
Journal Article
Financial developments in manufacturing and trade
Newsletter
Why are manufacturers struggling to hire high-skilled workers?
The authors examine the apparent lack of high-skilled workers for the U.S. manufacturing sector by focusing on the educational attainment and wage compensation of manufacturing workers and their nonmanufacturing counterparts over the period 1990?2007.
Journal Article
Update on the Kansas and Missouri economies : Aerospace manufacturing in Wichita
The Kansas and Missouri economies continued to improve during the beginning of 2011.
Journal Article
Manufacturing lots of work for little profit