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September 2002

Job flows and labor dynamics in the U.S. Rust Belt

R. Jason Faberman

From 1992 to 2000, high employment and wage growth occurred together with low unemployment in a number of U.S. Rust Belt metropolitan areas; localities with these characteristics had larger and younger establishments, on average, in environments with high rates of both job creation and job destruction.

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