Figure 4 | Missile Manufacturing Sector in Grand Prairie, Texas Outperforms County in Employment Growth by Mid-2023,
One Year Post-Invasion
Percentage point difference between missile manufacturing sector employment growth in the county of Grand Prairie, Texas, and overall employment growth in the county.
The missile manufacturing sector of Grand Prairie, Texas undergoes a dip in employment growth below state performance from early 2021 to early 2023, when it begins to outperform the county (about one years after Russia's invasion of Ukraine). By mid-2024, the sector is outperforming the county by 5.4 percentage points.
