Doctoral Disseratation Research in Geography and Regional Science

斯科特教授和博士生安吉尔将通过问卷调查和个人访谈的方式，从美国半导体行业的个别公司和工人中收集有关生产和就业的详细数据。将特别关注工作匹配、工作更替以及半导体劳动力中熟练和非熟练部分的公司间流动问题。本研究的目的是确定美国半导体行业的当地劳动力市场是如何组织的，特别是当地劳动力市场的组织和运作产生外部规模经济的方式，这些经济导致并维持了该行业在集中地区的集聚，特别是在加利福尼亚州的圣克拉拉县。该项目还将深入了解企业在小型、通常非大都市的劳动力市场中选择分散地点进行部分生产的方式。从产业区位理论的角度以及从国家和国际经济和产业政策的角度来看，了解半导体等高科技产业的区位动态是很重要的。斯科特教授之前的研究对区位理论做出了重大贡献，而这项研究有望沿着类似的思路产生更多的见解。

Abstract Narrative Professor Scott and doctoral student Angel will gather detailed data on production and employment from individual firms and workers in the U.S. semiconductor industry, by means of questionnaires and personal interviews. Particular attention will be devoted to questions of job matching, job turnover, and the inter-firm mobility of skilled and unskilled segments of the semiconductor labor force. The purpose of this research is to determine how local labor markets are organized in the U.S. semiconductor industry, and in particular, the ways in which the organization and operations of local labor markets produce external economies of scale that cause and sustain the agglomeration of the industry in regions of concentration, especially in Santa Clara County, California. The project will also produce insights into the ways firms select dispersed locations in small, often non-metropolitan labor markets for some of their production. Understanding the locational dynamics of high-tech industries such as semiconductors is important from the standpoint of industrial location theory as well as from the perspective of national and international economic and industrial policy. Professor Scott's previous research has made major contributions to location theory, and this research promises to yield additional insights along similar lines.