Manufacturing
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Prior to 1980,
manufacturing
employment increased during every expansion and always exceeded the previous peak level.
Between 1980 and 2000,
manufacturing
employment continued to grow in expansions, but each time it failed to recover the previous peak.
This time,
manufacturing
employment has actually fallen during the expansion, something unprecedented in American history.
For a complex system such as the world economy, understanding the past – for example, the massive decline in
manufacturing
employment in almost all countries over the past two decades – is already hard enough.
According to the World Bank’s World Development Indicators, the share of
manufacturing
in GDP fell in 100 of the 124 countries reporting data since 1990.
As was the case with computer-aided design and manufacturing, it is easier to run a 3-D printer than to master all the steps needed to make the same part the traditional way.
Increased costs for investment in real assets would help to rein in property prices and reduce over-capacity in infrastructure and
manufacturing.
Likewise, if the US is consuming too much, why has it been closing
manufacturing
capacity, and why is there so much labor market softness?
Meanwhile, corporations reduce home country
manufacturing
capacity and investment, which reduces home country exports while increasing imports.
Millions of low-skilled workers who left farms in China’s interior to work in coastal
manufacturing
centers are now being forced to return to their villages.
Chinese officials also suggested the possibility of banning exports to Japan of rare-earth elements – raw materials crucial for many Japanese
manufacturing
processes – and appear to have done so informally.
For example, disability insurance has become a huge, rapidly growing problem in many countries, despite the dramatic decline in the share of workers in physically demanding and dangerous jobs like construction and
manufacturing.
One group – the “mercantilists” – argue that it is up to the state to maximize gold holdings and protect domestic
manufacturing
employment, by imposing tariffs, restricting the use of gold for imports, and forcing China to buy the same amount of goods from Venice that Venice buys from China.
While
manufacturing
jobs might be lost, retail jobs were gained, and spending – not just on Chinese goods, but also on local products and investments – rose.
China would receive no more Venetian gold, and it could use the V$ to purchase goods from Venice, thereby boosting local
manufacturing.
Though lower-value-added jobs in sectors like
manufacturing
shift to China, where labor costs are lower, jobs in higher-value-added sectors – such as technology, finance, media, and retail – flourish.
He sees that a subset of Venetians are upset about the loss of
manufacturing
jobs – they lacked the skills or flexibility to move to higher-value-added sectors – and he capitalizes on it.
A cornered President Donald Trump is likely to turn to a favorite tactic of autocrats everywhere:
manufacturing
foreign-policy crises to distract the public’s attention from problems at home.
The Ifo business climate indicator is generated every month by asking 7,000 firms, primarily from German
manufacturing
industry, about their current business situation and their expectations for the next six months.
And the US would not even be protected from
manufacturing
employment losses; the jobs would just go to Vietnam or Bangladesh, where labor costs are even lower than in China nowadays.
The steel tariff, for example, will help a small number of workers in the steel industry itself, while hurting a much larger number of workers in downstream industries like construction, oil and gas, and automobile
manufacturing.
Such measures have no chance of reversing the decline of traditional
manufacturing
industries in the US.
This has been most dramatic in
manufacturing.
Robots and automated machines have replaced production workers in
manufacturing
for many years, driving employment in the sector from 13 million in 1950 to only nine million now, even as the real value of
manufacturing
output rose by 75%.
And those who are no longer employed in
manufacturing
have found jobs elsewhere in the economy.
The share of workers in the US service sector increases year after year; it is where those who lose jobs in
manufacturing
or construction find new ones.
The key is to capture the window of opportunity for industrialization arising from the relocation of light
manufacturing
from higher-income countries.
Indeed, ever since the Industrial Revolution, the rise of light
manufacturing
has driven a dramatic rise in national income.
In Belgium, France, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, and Switzerland, light
manufacturing
led the way.
Until recently, few believed that Africa, too, could become a center for modern
manufacturing.
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