The American Manufacturing Economy in the time of the Great Depression

本研究旨在分析1929-1935年间美国工业经济的经济行为。这段时期的需求出现了有史以来最大的降幅，对经济中的制造业造成了冲击。了解经济对需求急剧下降的反应，无论是在产出市场还是在劳动力市场，都具有巨大的分析重要性，对于理解大萧条是至关重要的。将汇编一个新的数据集，其中包括1929年、1931年、1933年和1935年制造业普查的单个工厂数据。这些数据比这一时期现有的任何数据集都要精细得多，这些机构级的微观数据将被用来分析产出和劳动力市场对这一时期总需求严重下滑的反应。该项目将为各种重要行业创建编制面板数据集。此外，人口普查时间表上的丰富信息将链接到关于拥有这些机构的公司和这些公司所使用的技术的额外信息。这个项目很重要，因为它将提供有关大萧条期间经济收缩的新信息和见解。

The purpose of this research is to analyze the economic behavior of the American industrial economy during the period 1929-1935. This period spans the largest decline in demand ever to strike the manufacturing sector of the economy. Understanding the response of the economy to this dramatic decline in demand, both in output markets and the labor markets is of enormous analytic importance and central to understanding the Great Depression. A new data set will be assembled which consists of individual- plant data form the Census of Manufacturing for 1929, 1931, 1933, and 1935. These data are far finer than any extant data set for the period, and establishment-level micro-data such as these will be used to analyze the response of the output and labor markets to the severe down turn in aggregate demand experienced during that period. The project will create establishment panel data sets for a variety of important industries. In addition, the rich information on the Census schedules will link in extra- Censal information about the firms owning the establishments and about the technology employed by the firms. This project is important because it will provide new information and insights about the contraction of the economy during the Great Depression.