Local-Labor-Market Impact of US Semiconductor-Industry Operations

哈林顿教授将对从事半导体元件制造的美国公司进行邮件调查。有关产品、市场、生产设施和劳动力特征的调查数据将与来自当地劳动力市场和半导体行业的其他来源的数据整合在一起。本研究的目的是将企业内部活动和经营战略与这些企业的区位行为和区域影响联系起来。这项研究将弥合专注于狭义行业内劳动空间分工的工作与研究由外资企业主导的地方经济之间的差距。它将产生关于产业区位和变化对企业具体影响的信息。除了加深我们对当地劳动力市场运作的一般理解外，哈林顿教授的研究还将提高经济发展规划者预测特定工业区位决策影响的能力。

Abstract Narrative Professor Harrington will conduct a mail survey of U.S. companies engaged in the manufacture of semiconductor components. Survey data on products, markets, production facilities, and workforce characteristics will be integrated with data from other sources on local labor markets and on the semiconductor industry generally. The goal of the research is to relate internal firm activities and business strategies to the locational behavior and regional impacts of those firms. This research will bridge a gap between work that focuses on the spatial division of labor within narrowly-defined industries and studies of local economies dominated by externally-owned establishments. It will produce information on the enterprise-specific effects of industrial location and change. In addition to deepening our general understanding of the operations of local labor markets, Professor Harrington's research will improve the ability of economic development planners to forecast the impacts of specific industrial location decisions.