Production is again driving economic expansion in Ohio, with more than half of the counties in the State depends on the sector, according to a newspaper analysis.
Dayton Daily News reports that more than a third of the State jobs were in manufacturing sector during the recession and its aftermath. But manufacturing jobs are coming back, and industry payrolls are growing again.
Data from the U.S. Bureau of economic analysis show that in 2011, Ohio had about 52 out of 88 counties where economies were heavily dependent on manufacturing. Counties are employed in the manufacturing industry if the 20 percent or more of average annual earnings come from industry.
Nationally, only Indiana had more counties dependent on industry.
Ohio so had more workers-in 2011 than 638,400 in everyone, but in California and Texas, according to the u.s. Bureau of labor statistics.
"There are (very) well, and you can't build on economy on something you are bad," Edward Hill, Dean of the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University, said to the newspaper. "We are within 600 miles of 60 percent of the nation's market, which means that we have a natural advantage for production and logistics".
U.s. manufacturing employment has trended downward from the peak in 1979, and Ohio lost jobs in mid-2000, while the country has earned them. But the production has started to make a comeback in Ohio after the recession ended in December 2009 between 2010 and 2011, Ohio earned 49,616 net jobs and 35 percent-17,388-were in manufacturing, according to the economic research analyst in Cleveland George Zeller.
"Manufacturing is driving the recovery of Ohio, had given that we have such intense concentration" of jobs in the sector, said Zeller. "Manufacturing is not only important for its work of high-salary for workers in Ohio, but is extremely important because of its impact on the rest of the economy".
Experts say manufacture of the United States is in the midst of a revival because few companies are outsourcing jobs in Asia due to rising labor costs in China and other countries. Some companies are bringing jobs to the States due to cheaper production costs. Auto sales have rebounded and weak dollar means American-made goods are cheaper in international markets.
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