![]() I identified 105 local labor markets that exceed 200,000 in population and are manufacturing-intensive. I do not consider smaller communities, whose success could be due to one plant opening, and are unlikely to yield generalizable lessons. To identify determinants of success in manufacturing-intensive communities, my analysis focuses on local labor markets whose populations exceed 200,000. Success Is Possible for Manufacturing-Intensive Communities Effective skills development programs include the following: high-quality child care, high-quality preschool, K-12 education, college scholarships, and adult job training. Adult skills can be improved by programs from birth onward. Better skills for local workers help attract and grow higher-wage jobs. Increase public spending on services that increase local workers’ job skills.Job growth can be cost-effectively promoted by improving services in distressed neighborhoods, cleaning up brownfields, and investing in transportation infrastructure. Invest in infrastructure and services that make the community’s land better for business development.Customized job-training programs provide worker training specific to the firm’s skill needs. Manufacturing extension services provide individual firms with lower-cost access to high-quality advice on improving competitiveness. Manufacturing can be cost-effectively promoted by manufacturing extension services and customized job training. Expand customized services to small and medium-sized manufacturers.My analysis identifies three cost-effective development strategies: My analysis of these successful communities shows some commonalities in their economic development approaches. Of this successful group, about half have done much better than the United States in manufacturing job growth. ![]() Since 2007, a significant minority of manufacturing-intensive communities have had above-average job growth. Such policies can boost local manufacturing.We know what policies make sense to increase such communities’ job growth.Success for manufacturing-intensive communities is possible.Private job growth percentage change is change in jobs divided by the average of 20 jobs.Ĭan anything be done to help manufacturing-intensive communities? What local policies offer cost-effective ways to spur local job growth? Can these communities succeed by reviving manufacturing? This paper seeks to answer these questions. Data from the Upjohn Institute’s WholeData, which comes from County Business Patterns. includes entire country, including both manufacturing-intensive CZs and the rest of the U.S. Manufacturing-intensive communities are the 324 commuting zones (CZs) with a manufacturing location quotient in 2000 of 1.19 or higher. NOTE: See Bartik (2018b) for data sources and definitions.
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