Creative Destruction or Just Plain Destruction?: The U.S. Textile and Apparel Industries since 1972

Are the U.S. textile and apparel industries examples of creative destruction or are they just plain destructing? We investigate this question using both aggregate industry-level data and plant-level data from the U.S. Census' LRD. We find that while the aggregate-level evidence is consistent wi...

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Veröffentlicht in:	NBER Working Paper Series 2001-06, p.8348
Hauptverfasser:	Levinsohn, James A, Petropoulos, Wendy
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Clothing industry Competition Economic theory Employment Industrial Organization International Trade and Investment Manufacturing Productivity Textile industry
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