We use relatively unexplored dimensions of US microdata to examine how US manufacturing employment has evolved across … technology-based explanations of the overall decline of employment over this period, while also highlighting the difficulties of …

, the apparently robust growth in manufacturing real output and productivity have been driven by a relatively small industry …U.S. manufacturing experienced a precipitous and historically unprecedented decline in employment in the 2000s. Many … economists and other analysts - pointing to decades of statistics showing that manufacturing real (inflation-adjusted) output …