Improving models of wood products plant locations with restricted access data

IF 4 2区 农林科学 Q1 ECONOMICS
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Abstract

The United States is the world's largest producer and consumer of forest products, but due to industry aggregation and data suppression for privacy reasons, we have limited knowledge of determinants of wood products manufacturing establishments' locations. We use restricted-access microdata to explore location determinants of several disaggregated employer wood products industry groups and compare results to the aggregated employer and non-employer categories in the wood products subsector. Results suggest important but differing relationships between restricted access variables and establishment counts at the local level. While trucking employment is consistently important, the significance and sign of clustering variables, electricity costs, and production wages vary depending on the specific activity. More specifically, Sawmills and Other Wood Products both exhibit within- and across-industry group externalities of agglomeration. However, not all wood product industry groups interact with one another in the same way. Veneer, Plywood, and Engineered Wood establishments show evidence of only benefiting from locating near downstream manufacturers while Other Mill Work establishments benefit from clustering near other similar establishments. The results should be useful to policy makers as they formulate ways to best position natural resources to contribute sustainable jobs to the local region and prevent future industry bottlenecks.

利用限制访问的数据改进木制品工厂位置模型
美国是世界上最大的林产品生产国和消费国,但由于行业汇总和出于隐私原因的数据压制,我们对木制品生产企业所在地的决定因素了解有限。我们使用限制访问的微观数据来探讨几个分类的木制品行业雇主群体的地点决定因素,并将结果与木制品子行业中的雇主和非雇主类别进行比较。结果表明,在地方层面,限制访问变量与机构数量之间存在重要但不同的关系。虽然卡车运输就业始终很重要,但集群变量、电力成本和生产工资的重要性和符号因具体活动而异。更具体地说,锯木厂和其他木制品行业都表现出行业组内和行业组间的集聚外部性。然而,并非所有木制品行业组之间的互动方式都相同。单板、胶合板和工程木制品企业显示出仅从靠近下游制造商中获益的证据,而其他工厂企业则从靠近其他类似企业的集聚中获益。这些结果应该对政策制定者有所帮助,因为他们可以制定方法,对自然资源进行最佳定位,为当地区域提供可持续的就业机会,并防止未来出现产业瓶颈。
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Forest Policy and Economics
Forest Policy and Economics 农林科学-林学
CiteScore
9.00
自引率
7.50%
发文量
148
审稿时长
21.9 weeks
期刊介绍: Forest Policy and Economics is a leading scientific journal that publishes peer-reviewed policy and economics research relating to forests, forested landscapes, forest-related industries, and other forest-relevant land uses. It also welcomes contributions from other social sciences and humanities perspectives that make clear theoretical, conceptual and methodological contributions to the existing state-of-the-art literature on forests and related land use systems. These disciplines include, but are not limited to, sociology, anthropology, human geography, history, jurisprudence, planning, development studies, and psychology research on forests. Forest Policy and Economics is global in scope and publishes multiple article types of high scientific standard. Acceptance for publication is subject to a double-blind peer-review process.
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