The Regional Growth of Manufacturing: Markets, Wages, and Labor Composition
Changes in two important location factors, markets and labor, are investigated for convergence and their relationship to the regional growth of manufacturing. Analysis of the spatial composition of labor suggests that the Manufacturing Belt has experienced skilled-labor-augmenting technical progress to a greater extent than other regions, especially the Southeast. Though wage rates continue to diverge in the Manufacturing Belt, biased technical change and improvement in markets may help the region maintain a residual hegemony. However, the central states may also compete, possibly forming a new manufacturing belt in the U.S.
Year of publication: |
2001
|
---|---|
Authors: | Duffy, Neal E. |
Published in: |
The Review of Regional Studies. - Southern Regional Science Association, ISSN 0048-749X. - Vol. 31.2001, 3, p. 255-276
|
Publisher: |
Southern Regional Science Association |
Saved in:
freely available
Saved in favorites
Similar items by person
-
Productivity growth and economic reform : evidence from Rwanda
Coulibaly, Kalamogo, (2008)
-
Productivity growth and economic reform : evidence from Rwanda
Coulibaly, Kalamogo, (2013)
-
The regional growth of manufacturing : markets, wages, and labor composition
Duffy, Neal E., (2001)
- More ...