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Title: The "Weighty" Manufacturing Sector: Transforming Raw Materials into Physical Goods
Citation Type: Book, Section
Publication Year: 2022
ISBN: 022681064X, 9780226810645
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DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226810645.001.0001
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Abstract: Manufacturing has historically played a significant role in productivity and R&D. Jorgenson (2001) suggests that advances in microprocessors alone were associated with 50 percent of total factor productivity growth in the US and worldwide in the 1990s. This outsized role in R&D and productivity appears to continue today, even with significant changes across the sector in technology and globalization. US manufacturing is a disproportionate source of private R&D spending relative to its share of employment and global value added (GVA) and has higher than average labor productivity relative to other sectors.
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Authors: Fuchs, Erica R. H.; Combemale, Christophe; Whitefoot, Kate S.; Glennon, Britta
Editors: Andrews, Michael J.; Chatterji, Aaron K.; Lerner, Josh; Stern, Scott
Pages: 31-91
Volume Title: The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publisher Location: Chicago
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS CPS
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Natural Resource Management
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