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285.南加州和新英格兰
P1: 1990s economic downturn produced severe recession in both New England and South California. They both entered recession around one year before 1990.
P2: these two recessions have some common characteristics. In total of employment, they are around the same size. Before the recession, nonagricultural employment in New England peaked to 6.7 million in December 1988, and south California peaked 6.3 million in December 1989. The sectors in two regions are quite similar, except one thing, compare to south California, New England had a greater percentage of its workforce in service and a smaller percentage in finance, insurance, and real estate.
P3: in addition, the conventional wisdom regard the cause of two regional recession is also similar. Many think New England's downturn is because of declines in durables manufacturing, combined with extreme boom-bust cycle in real estate market. In south California, declines of durable goods manufacturing is also obvious. The main reason is the reduction of national defense spending, which caused large job losses. Also south California experienced real estate boom and followed by a collapse in the 1990s.
P3: because of all the similarities, can we think they are similar phenomena? There are analysis to examine the rule of policy in lessening severe regional downturns.
Authors opinion: introduced a few similarities, but haven't given the analysis yet, so author's opinion is not yet clear.
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