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The Population Effects of U.S. Deindustrialization.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Population Effects of U.S. Deindustrialization./
Author:	Seltzer, Nathan Philip.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	201 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-02, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-02A.
Subject:	Sociology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27833420
ISBN:	9798516946684

The Population Effects of U.S. Deindustrialization.
Seltzer, Nathan Philip.

The Population Effects of U.S. Deindustrialization. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 201 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-02, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Since the 1980s, U.S. labor markets have shifted away from an occupational regime dominated by the production of manufactured goods to one characterized by the provision of services. This economic restructuring has resulted in the decline of middle-wage employment opportunities and the depletion of financial resources for American workers, especially for those without a college degree. Here, I investigate how these structural changes in U.S. labor markets have altered population processes and population health outcomes, reduced upward mobility, and created new fronts of inequality.Drawing on theories of economic change, including labor market polarization and precarious work, Chapter 1 develops a structural economic explanation for why U.S. fertility rates have declined to record lows in the decade since the Great Recession despite improvements in conventional economic indicators. Combining statistical and survey data with restricted-use vital registration records, I find that changes in industry composition-specifically, the loss of manufacturing and other goods-producing businesses-have a larger effect on reducing total fertility rates than changes in the unemployment rate.In Chapter 2, I assess how variation in state-level manufacturing decline predicts the rise of the current fatal drug and opioid epidemic that has taken the lives of over 700,000 Americans over the past two decades. The origins of the opioid epidemic are often exclusively attributed to the mechanistic role of pharmaceutical companies and pill mills in expanding the supply of opioid pain relievers to the public. But less recognized are the ecological contexts that shape demand for substance use. The findings demonstrate the considerable extent to which declining economic opportunity and the ascendance of economic "despair" are associated with drug mortality.In the final chapter, I develop a conceptual framework linking the study of labor market change to economic stratification. I examine how deindustrialization has altered opportunities for upward economic advancement in the U.S. Focusing on birth cohorts born in the 1980s, I find strong evidence that declines in manufacturing employment have contributed to growing geographic disparities in upward intergenerational income mobility. Children raised in counties that experienced larger contractions in manufacturing industries throughout adolescence experienced larger economic penalties in adulthood via reduced levels of upward mobility. The results demonstrate how long-term macroeconomic changes can disrupt and redistribute opportunities within societies.

ISBN: 9798516946684Subjects--Topical Terms:

516174
Sociology.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Fertility

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