Branson, William H.; Love, James P. - 2022
.S. manufacturing industries. We use a simple model of supply and demand to estimate the elasticity of manufacturing employment and … periods -- 1963:1 to 1985:1 and 1972:1 to 1985:1. The employment estimates include 20 manufacturing sectors at the 2-digit SIC … level, 125sectors at the 3-digit SIC level, 176 sectors at the 4-digit SIC level. In addition, we disaggregate manufacturing …