Superstar firms: How the shift from manufacturing to services affects local concentration of sales and jobs

Autor, David, Patterson, Christina and Van Reenen, John ORCID: 0000-0001-9153-2907 (2023) Superstar firms: How the shift from manufacturing to services affects local concentration of sales and jobs. USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog (23 Jun 2023). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

The leading US firms in many industries have increased their national market share substantially over the last four decades – making these industries more concentrated. But locally the picture is more complex. David Autor, Christina Patterson and John Van Reenen show that while the local concentration of sales in the US has also risen, the concentration of local employment has fallen. These divergent trends are driven by the same underlying economic factor: the shift from manufacturing to services.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/
Additional Information:	© 2023 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Economics
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology J Political Science > JK Political institutions (United States)
Date Deposited:	11 Jul 2023 13:24
Last Modified:	23 Apr 2024 10:18
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/119690

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