Evaluating the Long-Term Effect of NIST MEP Services on Establishment Performance

Clifford A. Lipscomb, J. Youtie, S. Arora, Andy Krause, P. Shapira
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This work examines the effects of receipt of business assistance services from the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) on manufacturing establishment performance. Several measures of performance are considered: (1) change in value-added per employee (a measure of productivity); (2) change in sales per worker; (3) change in employment; and (4) establishment survival. To analyze these relationships, we merged program records from the MEP’s client and project information files with administrative records from the Census of Manufacturers and other Census databases over the periods 1997–2002 and 2002–2007 to compare the outcomes and performance of “served” and “unserved” manufacturing establishments. The approach builds on, updates, and expands upon earlier studies comparing matched MEP client and non-client performance over time periods ending in 1992 and 2002. Our results generally indicate that MEP services had positive and significant impacts on establishment productivity and sales per worker for the 2002–2007 period with some exceptions based on employment size, industry, and type of service provided. MEP services also increased the probability of establishment survival for the 1997–2007 period. Regardless of econometric model specification, MEP clients with 1–19 employees have statistically significant and higher levels of labor productivity growth. We also observed significant productivity differences associated with MEP services by broad sector, with higher impacts over the 2002–2007 time period in the durable goods manufacturing sector. The study further finds that establishments receiving MEP assistance are more likely to survive than those that do not receive MEP assistance. Detailed findings of the study, as well as caveats and limitations, are discussed in the paper.
评估NIST MEP服务对机构绩效的长期影响
本研究考察了接受制造业延伸伙伴关系(MEP)的商业援助服务对制造业企业绩效的影响。考虑了几个绩效衡量标准:(1)每个员工的增值变化(生产力的衡量标准);(2)人均销售额的变化;(三)就业变动;(4)企业生存。为了分析这些关系,我们将1997-2002年和2002-2007年期间MEP客户和项目信息文件中的项目记录与制造商普查和其他普查数据库中的管理记录合并,以比较“服务”和“未服务”制造企业的结果和绩效。该方法建立在比较1992年至2002年期间匹配的MEP客户机和非客户机性能的早期研究的基础上,更新并扩展了这些研究。研究结果表明,2002-2007年期间,环境保护服务对企业生产率和人均销售额有显著的正向影响,但根据就业规模、行业和服务类型存在一些例外。在1997-2007年期间,环境保护服务也增加了企业生存的可能性。无论计量模型规格如何,拥有1-19名员工的MEP客户的劳动生产率增长水平在统计上显著且更高。我们还观察到,不同行业与环境保护服务相关的生产率存在显著差异,2002-2007年期间耐用品制造业的影响更大。研究进一步发现,接受环境保护援助的企业比没有接受环境保护援助的企业更有可能生存下来。本文讨论了研究的详细结果,以及注意事项和局限性。
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