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Working Paper

Productivity Growth and the Decline of Manufacturing in Large Metropolitan Areas: 1959-78

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An examination of the role of productivity differences in explaining the decline of manufacturing activity in large metropolitan areas relative to the rest of the country, with special attention given to the decline of the large metropolitan areas of the Manufacturing Belt.
07.01.1986ISSN 2573-7953 WP 86-07

Working Papers of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland are preliminary materials circulated to stimulate discussion and critical comment on research in progress. They may not have been subject to the formal editorial review accorded official Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland publications. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland or the Federal Reserve System.

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Beeson, Patricia E. 1986. “Productivity Growth and the Decline of Manufacturing in Large Metropolitan Areas: 1959-78.” Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Working Paper No. 86-07.