Test de la relation entre l'échelle des établissements et la concentration régionale d'industries en utilisant les données d'un panel exhaustif d'emploi d'usines manufacturières irlandaises sur la période 1973-2000.
Use of natural gas in Trinidad and the Point Lisas pole de croissance
Caraïbes ; Complexe industriel ; Croissance économique ; Développement économique ; Energie ; Gaz naturel ; Géographie de l'Amérique ; Géographie industrielle ; Hydrocarbure ; Industrie ; Industrie pétrolière ; Point Lisas ; Pétrole ; Trinité-et
The development and characteristics of Trinidad's petroleum industry are summarized and the growth of the natural gas sector demonstrated. The potential of Point Lisas for becoming one of the largest energy-oriented industrial complexes in the Latin
Labor-market imperfections and the agglomeration of firms : evidence from the emergent period of the US semiconductor industry
Agglomération ; Economie urbaine ; Entreprise ; Etats-Unis ; Industrie ; Marché du travail ; Semi-conducteur ; Spécialisation
Agglomeration ; Enterprise ; Industry ; Labour market ; Specialization ; United States of America ; Urban economy
Utilizing two data sets containing information on the employment changes of US semiconductor engineers during the critical formative period (1950-75), the A. tests the pooling and anchoring hypotheses of urban economic theory while extending
the theory to incorporate the effects of labor and firm specialization. The results discount frequently offered explanations for the emergence of industrial agglomerations and suggest that agglomerations may be a product of entrepreneurship induced
Industrial and regional restructuring in the US women's dress industry, 1963-92
Disparités régionales ; Etats-Unis ; Industrie ; Industrie de l'habillement ; Organisation industrielle ; Productivité du travail ; Progrès technique ; Restructuration industrielle ; Stratégie économique
Clothing industry ; Economic strategy ; Industrial organization ; Industrial restructuring ; Industry ; Labour productivity ; Regional disparities ; Technical progress ; United States of America
Etude des impacts de la concurrence sur l'industrie de l'habillement féminin, et examen des réactions de cette branche en termes de progrès technique, de réorganisation industrielle et de délocalisation régionale. Les stratégies adoptées varient
Core-periphery ; Econometry ; Industrial branch ; Industrial employment ; Industrial location ; Industry ; Innovation ; Regional disparities ; United States of America
of this phenomenon in some of the US two-digit SIC industries.
Regional inversion is the name given to the phenomenon whereby the traditional industrial areas lose their weight in favor of what were formerly peripheral zones. The first objective of the paper is to offer a formal and rigorous definition
of the concept of regional inversion from an econometric standpoint. Such a process is related with the long-run concepts of convergence and catching-up. This definition is tested through the use of unit root statistics and applied to demonstrate the presence
US employment is foreign-owned high technology firms
Distribution spatiale ; Emploi ; Etats-Unis ; Géographie industrielle ; Industrie ; Industrie de pointe ; Investissement étranger ; Marché du travail ; Secteur d'activité
Economic sector ; Employment ; Foreign investment ; High-tech industry ; Industrial geography ; Industry ; Labour market ; Spatial distribution ; United States
L'A. analyse la répartition spatiale des industries étrangères à haute technologie aux Etats-Unis, par secteur d'activité et par pays d'origine, ainsi que la distribution des emplois correspondants, qu'il compare aux emplois des entreprises
Concept ; Industrial district ; Industrial space ; Industrialization ; Location ; Spatial economy ; Territory
This article analyses the accuracy of the term of industrial district (which is commun both to the industrial economy as well as to economic geography) and proposes clear delimitations between the use of this term as a territorial reality specific
to a certain type of spatial organization of industry, and its use as a fundamental concept in the scientific basis of the two sciences. - (C. Iaţu).
Théorie dynamique de la localisation industrielle. Développement et organisation de la production des semi-conducteurs aux Etats-Unis. Le complexe de production de Silicon Valley. Structure spatiale de l'industrie américaine des semi-conducteurs
: une analyse discriminante. L'industrie d'assemblage : liens internes à l'entreprise et liens inter-entreprises.
Geo-industrial shifts in advanced metropolitan economies in US urban policy.
Economie urbaine ; Electronique ; Emploi industriel ; Etats-Unis ; Géographie de l'Amérique ; Industrie de pointe ; Information ; Innovation technologique ; Politique urbaine ; Restructuration économique ; Suburbanisation
L'A. considère les régions urbaines comme des aires d'expérimentation pour de nouvelles industries ou de transformation des industries existantes du fait des innovations technologiques. Il étudie les effets de l'automation sur l'emploi dans les
industries de pointe et décrit le processus de restructuration en cours. Les secteurs de l'électronique, de l'informatique et de l'information servent d'exemple.
Agricultural cooperative ; Agroindustry ; Australia ; Capital accumulation ; Dairy industry ; Diet ; Economic restructuring ; Economic strategy ; Regulation ; United States of America
Tha A. argues that, for empirical research into concrete instances of agrifood restructuring, the food-regimes perspective is augmented by conceptualising regulation as a contestable social practice. In the dairy industries, producer cooperatives
The paper relates the uses of the term governance and the theoretical concepts to which it is attached in three bodies of literature : the new institutional economics, a geographic literature exploring spatial embeddedness, and the regulation
approach. The AA. try to provide a meaningful understanding of the industry and its governance. The industry is highlighted as an object of government and reveals industry governance and the constitution of the industry to be mutually constitutive processes
The break-up of an international labour union : uneven development in the North American auto industry and the schism in the UAW
Amérique du Nord ; Association ; Canada ; Conventions collectives ; Etats-Unis ; Géographie humaine ; Industrie ; Industrie automobile ; Restructuration industrielle ; Syndicalisme ouvrier
Through an analysis of restructuring and collective bargaining in the North American automobile industry, it is argued that the split in the UAW was rooted in the tensions that arose over the different strategies adopted by the Canadian and US
The geographical impact of telecommunication systems used within firms: reflexions on the decentralization of jobs and activities.
Communication présentée au Meeting of the Commission on industrial systems, Industrial geographical Union, qui s'est tenu les 5-15 août 1982 à l'Université de Sao Paulo, Brésil.
The effects of exchange rate and relative productivity changes on USindustrial output at the state level
Competition ; Economic impact ; Industrial production ; Inter-regional trade flow ; Money ; Productivity ; Regional economy ; Terms of trade ; United States
This paper considers the effects of a changing dollar on aggregate state output, and for the agricultural, manufacturing and all other sectors for the contiguous 48 US states during the period 1972-89. After controlling for productivity
differentials between the US and its major trading partners, the findings indicate that in the long run, states have more to fear from slow productivity growth than from fluctuations in the dollar.
Estimating the willingness to pay of industrial firms for Japanese industrial parks
Demand ; Distance from city centre ; Industrial park ; Industrialuse ; Industry ; Japan ; Land ; Local amenities ; Supply ; Transaction cost
Aménités locales ; Coût de transaction ; Coût foncier ; Demande ; Distance au CBD ; Foncier ; Industrie ; Japon ; Offre ; Parc industriel ; Usage industriel
Amenidades locales ; Bienes raíces ; Costo de transacción ; Demanda ; Distancia al centro de negocios ; Industria ; Japón ; Oferta ; Uso industrial
This article investigates the determinants of the willingness to pay (WTP) of industrial firms and the sales price of public companies for industrial parks, and the gap between the two. Testing the model reveals two important differences between
firms’ WTP and sales price. First, the sale price is decided in order to cover the development cost since only the sale price is influenced by the average land price of each region while WTP is not. Secondly, the current demand of the industrial sector
China ; Index ; Industrial concentration ; Industrial production ; Industry ; Spatial analysis ; Spatial autocorrelation ; Spatial concentration
Análisis espacial ; Autocorrelación espacial ; China ; Concentración espacial ; Concentración industrial ; Industria ; Producción industrial ; Índice
quotient (FLQ), to the local Moran's I. At the global level, the results show that this combination indexes could serve as useful dependent variables in modeling agglomeration effects across industries. At the local level, specific spatial patterns
This article measures geographical concentration of China's manufacturing industries by incorporating traditional indexes of inequality and measures of spatial autocorrelation at the global level and by applying and comparing the focal location
of production concentrations are identified for textiles, machinery, food manufacturing, and the electronics and telecommunication industries. FLQ tends to generate more generalized patterns than does the local Moran statistic.
Does unemployment affect the number of establishments ? A regional analysis for US states
and service industries with low entry barriers, the A. finds little or no evidence for that hypothesis. US regions with relatively high unemployment rates do not show relatively strong subsequent increases in the number of establishments across a broad range
Empirical tests of the unemployment push hypothesis that unemployed workers start up new enterprises to a greater extent that employed workers to escape unemployment have produced contradictory results. Using data of US establishments in retail