Replication data for: New Perspectives on the Decline of US Manufacturing Employment

We use relatively unexplored dimensions of US microdata to examine how US manufacturing employment has evolved across industries, firms, establishments, and regions. These data provide support for both trade- and technology-based explanations of the overall decline of employment over this period, while also highlighting the difficulties of estimating an overall contribution for each mechanism. Toward that end, we discuss how more careful analysis of these trends might yield sharper insights.

本研究采用尚未得到充分探索的美国微观数据维度，考察美国制造业就业在行业、企业、经营单位与区域层面的演化情况。该数据集既为解释该时期就业总量下滑的贸易与技术两类路径提供了实证支撑，同时也凸显了精准估算每种机制总体贡献量的现实困境。基于此研究目标，本文探讨了对上述趋势开展更为细致严谨的分析，将如何催生更具针对性的深刻洞见。