US manufacturing rebound will create few jobs
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- Factors signalling renewal?
- Labour costs
- Productivity differentials
- Market proximity
- Little hard evidence of revival
- Future of US manufacturing
- Smaller and leaner.
- Increasing specialisation.
- Regional divergence.
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