Overtime HoursImpulse ResponsesThe intensity of use of overtime hours has risen markedly since the early 1990s. Recent research suggests that there has been a structural break in manufacturing productivity beginning in the 1990s in the US. This paper investigates how a given increase or decrease ...
October marked the seventh consecutive month that the PMI remained below the 50 threshold, but above the 42.5 level that the ISM said over time generally indicates an expansion of the overall economy. The survey has, however, exaggerated the weakness in manufacturing. Goods spending increased at i...
Manufacturing is uniquely positioned to strengthen the US recovery over the long term because of its outsize economic contributions (Exhibit 1). 1 The industries with strong growth prospects include semiconductors, medical devices, communications equipment, and electronics. Those with the greatest ...
I saw this firsthand when I was at DOD: the impact of US manufacturing but then also, candidly, the decline of US manufacturing in some ways. We’ve lost about 25 percent of manufacturing firms since 1997. That reflects closures as well as fewer manufacturi...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. industrial production climbed 0.6 percent on surging output at mines and utilities. But manufacturing production was flat.
The U.S. manufacturing industry has experienced a lifetime of trauma over the past two decades—but we believe 2020 marks the bottom of that long and high-profile decline.
One of the top challenges US manufacturers face today is the widening skills gap. The numbers are astounding: US manufacturing is expected to grapple with upward of 2.1 million unfilled jobs by 2030. Three years ago, the industry was already facing historically low employment rates. Now, amid ...
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manufacturing industries responded, from 1983 to 1992, to stricter environmental regulation. The statistical results provide some support for the hypothesis that... S Bhatnagar - Vanderbilt University. 被引量: 0发表: 1998年 Research on the competitiveness evaluation model of the regional equipment manuf...
According to the White House Subcommittee for Advanced Manufacturing, the US will need to fill 3.5 million manufacturing jobs over the next decade. However, they project that as many as 2 million of these could remain empty because of a skill gap in the sector. “In fact, at this moment,...