Measuring County-Level Deindustrialization in the United States

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Brief Overview

In this paper, I develop a new measure of county-level deindustrialization that takes into account a county's manufacturing job loss trajectory over several decades and the rate at which those jobs were lost.

Author

• Emily Lucinda Kurtz, Carleton College