Doctoral Dissertation Research in Economics: The Importance of Relocations in U.S. Manufacturing

经济学博士论文研究：美国制造业搬迁的重要性

• 批准号: 0136927
• 负责人: Mark Bils
• 金额: $ 1.77万
• 依托单位: University of Rochester
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-02-15 至 2003-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0136927&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Economics; Importance

Firms move operations to locations that are more favorable for their business. Competition among state and local governments to lure businesses has attracted considerable interest from economists, as well as legislators and policy makers, regarding issues influencing relocation of firms' manufacturing activities. Only a few studies have looked at how manufacturing firms geographically locate their production, and most of them have looked at small samples from manufacturing or small geographic regions. For an initial study, this dissertation research summarizes the patterns of plant relocation and the post-move performance of relocated plants in the U.S. manufacturing industries over the period 1972-1992 using non-publicly available plant and firm level data from the Longitudinal Research Database (LRD) or the Census of Manufactures (CM). Focusing on an individual firm's decision to relocate, this research tabulates and analyzes information on the relocation of firm's manufacturing activities in the following three subprojects. First, the research assesses the relative importance of the relocation across industries and regions by constructing industry level measures of entry, relocation, and exit. The study examines if relocation shows different patterns in plant openings and closings compared to de novo entry and permanent exit. Second, the research studies the characteristics of relocated plants and the decision to relocate. To analyze characteristics of individual firms' geographic shifts of production process, the research focuses on new production facilities for existing firms to produce a product in a new location. Estimation based on econometric models will demonstrate how taxes, unionization, factor prices, ownership, and other geographic and plant specific characteristics affect the relocation decision. Third, the research investigates the impact of geographic shifts on the firms by comparing the growth rates of output and productivity for newly relocated plants to those for existing plants in the original location. The inverse growth-age relation suggested by Jovanovic's (1982) firm-learning model is tested for relocating plants to examine whether the inverse growth-age relation observed among young firms holds also for the relocating plants that start over in a new space.

公司将运营转移到更有利的业务的地点。 州和地方政府之间在引诱业务的竞争引起了经济学家以及立法者和政策制定者的极大兴趣，这些问题就影响公司制造业活动的搬迁的问题引起了人们的兴趣。 只有少数研究研究了制造公司如何从地理上定位生产，其中大多数都研究了制造业或小地理区域的小样本。 为了进行初步研究，这项论文研究总结了1972 - 1992年期间，使用纵向研究数据库（LRD）或制造业人口普查（CM）中使用了非公开的植物和企业水平数据，总结了1972 - 1992年在美国制造业中搬迁工厂的移动模式。 该研究重点关注个人公司搬迁的决定，在以下三个副本上列出了有关公司制造活动的搬迁的信息。 首先，该研究通过构建行业级别的进入，搬迁和退出来评估跨行业和地区搬迁的相对重要性。 该研究检查了与从头进入和永久退出相比，搬迁是否显示出工厂开口和关闭的不同模式。其次，研究研究了搬迁植物的特征和搬迁的决定。 为了分析各个公司的生产过程的特征，研究集中在现有公司在新地点生产产品的新生产设施。 基于计量经济学模型的估计将证明税收，工会化，要素，所有权以及其他地理和植物特定特征如何影响搬迁决策。 第三，该研究通过比较新搬迁工厂的产出和生产率与原始位置的现有植物的生产率的增长率和生产率进行了比较，从而调查了地理转变对公司的影响。 测试了Jovanovic（1982）的公司学习模型提出的逆生长与年龄关系，以重新定位植物，以检查年轻公司之间观察到的逆生长与年龄关系是否也适用于重新定位在新空间中开始的植物。