{"id":347822,"date":"2025-09-05T20:49:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T01:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/05\/hows-manufacturing-doing-econbrowser\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T20:49:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T01:49:50","slug":"hows-manufacturing-doing-econbrowser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/05\/hows-manufacturing-doing-econbrowser\/","title":{"rendered":"How\u2019s Manufacturing Doing? | Econbrowser"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Since \u201cLiberation Day\u201d, so-so:<\/p>\n

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Figure 1:<\/strong> Manufacturing employment, production and nonsupervisory workers (blue), aggregate worker hours (green), manufacturing production (tan), real value added (red), all in logs, 2022M10=0. Aggregate hours calculated by multiplying employment by weekly average hours. Source: BLS, Federal Reserve, BEA, and author\u2019s calculations.<\/em><\/p>\n

Manufacturing production (a gross measure) is at best flat since just before \u201cLiberation Day\u201d, while labor market indicators are unambiguously down. When tariffs are more fully implemented, will employment rise? I doubt it, but even if production is on-shored, I suspect automation will result in little net employment increase (see Firooz, Leduc, and Liu, 2025<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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