Doctoral Disseratation Research in Geography and Regional Science

摘要叙事学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那里收集有关生产和就业的详细数据。将特别关注工作匹配、工作流动率以及半导体劳动力中熟练和非熟练部分的公司间流动性问题。这项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营如何产生外部规模经济，从而导致和维持该行业在集中区的聚集，特别是在加利福尼亚州圣克拉拉县。该项目还将深入了解公司如何在小型、通常非大都市的劳动力市场选择分散的地点进行部分生产。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，理解半导体等高技术产业的区位动态是重要的。斯科特教授之前的研究对区位理论做出了重大贡献，这项研究有望沿着类似的路线产生更多的见解。

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.