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ABSTRACTThis paper expands the shift‐share technique by developing a methodology for selecting and including both primary‐ and secondary‐base economies in the shift‐share model. This is useful when the shift‐share technique is applied to subregional economies, whose economic growth is typically tied to the economies of both the state and the nation. The expanded methodology is illustrated with data from the Lowell, Massachusetts, Primary Metropolitan Statistical Ar

ISSN:0017-4815    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1991.tb00537.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

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ABSTRACTThis paper analyzes the behavior of a general sample and an environmental interest group sample in a contingent market for wetlands preservation. Mail survey response rates and environmental values for wetlands preservation are significantly greater in the environmental interest group sample than in the general population sample. An estimate of the potential self‐selection bias in the benefits of wetlands preservation is made. These results suggest that self‐selection bias in contingent valuation mail surveys could upwardly bias aggregate benefit estimates as much as 50 percent. Potential, but costly, solutions to the problem of self‐selection bias are sugg

ISSN:0017-4815    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1991.tb00538.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTIn this paper, I deal with three main facets of the electronics assembly subcontract industry in Southern California: (a) its technological and organizational structure, (b) its employment characteristics, and (c) its transactional‐locational logic. I begin by describing production processes in the industry, and I suggest that the industry is marked by two distinctive kinds of flexible specialization. On the basis of a questionnaire survey, I show that the industry's labor force is composed for the most part of women and immigrants, and that there is a fairly distinctive gender and ethnic division of labor within individual establishments. I show too that the industry is typically arranged in an agglomerated locational pattern resulting from its transactions‐intensive nature. I end the paper with a brief allusion to some possible restructuring trends that may affect the future functioning and locational structure of the indus

ISSN:0017-4815    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1991.tb00539.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

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ABSTRACTThis article examines corporate services from a regional perspective, using the concept of “spatial divisions of labor.” We examine non‐routine, control‐related activity as well as routine activity, bridging the literatures on white‐ and pink‐collar work. Using theGeographic Profile on Employment and Unemployment, published by the U.S. Department of Labor, we examine occupational data across the nine census divisions continuously from 1983 through 1988. This data source is unique because it reports on occupational data annually, in relatively disaggregate form, and does so by geographic regions. Location quotients for the occupational data serve to identify a “core” with respect to concentrations of control‐related activity. This core comprises the New England, Middle Atlantic, and Pacific divisions. In contrast, routine activity generally is more dispersed, although some regional separation is evident for specific occupations, showing regional concentration in subordinate or “peripheral” regions. The results of the study identify regional patterns, which are heuristically valuable in raising questions regarding the complex processes responsible for spatial divisions of labor. In particular, the findings suggest a geography of modes of production, a subject that requires substan

ISSN:0017-4815    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1991.tb00540.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTBetween 1981 and 1987 the United States experienced a rate of immigration that had not been seen since before the First World War. Some 25 percent of these people came from the Americas south of the United States. While the great majority of these Latin and Caribbean immigrants tended to settle in a few select states, there are interesting nationality‐related differences in settlement preferences. In this paper the settlement patterns of persons from each of eleven different Latin and Caribbean nations who received immigrant status in 1987 are considered. Regression analysis suggests that social and economic forces were important, but that specific factors influenced different nationalities differently. Evidence is also found for a lagged adjustment in the settlement process. Furthermore, the attractive effect of a previously settled migrant stock is estimated to be strong for every nationalit

ISSN:0017-4815    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1991.tb00541.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTMany states are concerned hat they are losing a disproportionate amount of human capital through interstate migration. This may be happening not only because migrants tend to possess more human capital than nonmigrants, but also because of human‐capital selectivity in interstate migration. Using Public Use Microdata Sample A from the 1980 United States Census, human capital measures are developed and used to test whether states experience human‐capital migration that is significantly different from human migration. Strong evidence demonstrates that human‐capital migration differs significantly from human migration. For example, Arkansas and Vermont are shown to have a net in‐migration of people, but a net out‐migration of human capital. Conversely, the data for Connecticut and Minnesota indicate a net out‐migration of people and a net in‐migration of human capital. This study suggests that traditional models of interstate migration mask the flow of

ISSN:0017-4815    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1991.tb00542.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

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Book reviews in this article:Urban Western EuropePaul C. Cheshire and Dennis G. Hay.Uniqueness Of AgricultureSusan ArcherInnovation at the EdgesMattei Dogan and Robert Pahre.Attracting IndustryErnest J. Yanarella and William C. Green, eds.Muddy Mainstream?Marshall Kaplan and Franklin James, eds.Macrotheory and CasesDavid RosenbergEqual Pay?Mark R. Killingsworth

ISSN:0017-4815    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1991.tb00543.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY