Manufacturing on the Move

For decades, manufacturing has been moving away from its traditional home in the United States - the cold, northeastern states. To some extent, this migration simply reflects the shift of population to a more hospitable climate. But the country's manufacturing base has moved faster than the migration of population. New manufacturing plants are still morelikely to be built and to expand in the South and West than in the Northeast, and the result is a loss of high-wage jobs for northeastern workers. In this book, Robert Crandall examines the causes of this continuing pattern of industrial migration. He addresses the reasons the regional distribution of manufacturing has not reached an equilibrium after decades of shifting to the South and West. Crandall finds that much of the decline in Rust Belt manufacturing results from labor and market conditions, not from differences in taxes of government infrastructure. Manufacturing on the Move provides an important assessment of the consequences of this industry shift for workers in the Northeast and Midwest. Crandall asks whether there are any policies that might somehow stem the decline of manufacturing in this former industrial heartland. He contends that, although there is little government can do to offset the labor market disadvantages of the northern states, policies should be designed to ease the transitional difficulties caused by the sudden loss of employment in major industrial areas.

Business & Money

Crandall, Robert W.

Economics

Brookings Inst Pr

For decades, manufacturing has been moving away from its traditional home in the United States - the cold, northeastern states. To some extent, this migration simply reflects the shift of population to a more hospitable climate. But the country's manufacturing base has moved faster than the migration of population. New manufacturing plants are still morelikely to be built and to expand in the South and West than in the Northeast, and the result is a loss of high-wage jobs for northeastern workers.In this book, Robert Crandall examines the causes of this continuing pattern of industrial migration. He addresses the reasons the regional distribution of manufacturing has not reached an equilibrium after decades of shifting to the South and West. Crandall finds that much of the decline in Rust Belt manufacturing results from labor and market conditions, not from differences in taxes of government infrastructure.Manufacturing on the Move provides an important assessment of the consequences of this industry shift for workers in the Northeast and Midwest. Crandall asks whether there are any policies that might somehow stem the decline of manufacturing in this former industrial heartland. He contends that, although there is little government can do to offset the labor market disadvantages of the northern states, policies should be designed to ease the transitional difficulties caused by the sudden loss of employment in major industrial areas.

Book by Crandall, Robert W., Lave, Lester B.

The Scientific Basis of Health and Safety Regulation

Politics & Social Sciences

Lave, Lester B.

Social Sciences

U.S. Steel Industry in Recurrent Crisis: Policy Options in a Competitive World

Discusses the effectiveness of government regulations designed to reduce air pollution and recommends changes in air pollution policies and laws

Controlling Industrial Pollution

Discusses the effectiveness of government regulations designed to reduce air pollution and recommends changes in air pollution policies and laws

Controlling Industrial Pollution: The Economics and Politics of Clean Air

The U.S. telecommunications industry has undergone dramatic changes in recent years that have touched almost every American home and business. The average American can dial almost anywhere in the world directly, store and forward a message, or transmit a fax in less than a minute; often for less than the real cost of a 500-mile telephone call tweny-five years ago. The combination of telecommunications breakthroughs, competition among new and old carriers, and the AT&amp;T breakup has transformed the telephone industry and provided customers with a new array of equipment and services.
 Robert W. Crandall examines the effects of the AT&amp;T breakup and weighs the costs and benefits to the residential and business consumer. On balance, he finds that the efficiency gains from opening up the telephone industry have more than offset the possible efficiency losses, which may be caused by the sacrifice of economies of scale and scope or the absence of fully compatible equipment and services. The replacement of regulation with competition has led to greater productivity in the telephone industry, a more efficient rate structure, and lower equipment prices.
 Crandall traces the telecommunications evolution from its early beginnings as pairs of copper wires up through the historic 1982 decision to divest. He investigates the impact of technological changes, competition, and the advent of divestiture on the quality of service, local and interexchange service rates, productive efficiency, and income distribution. He also focuses on problems that linger after the breakup in the increasingly competitive but highly regulated sector.

After the Breakup : U.S. Telecommunications in a More Competitive Era

Brookings Institution Press

The U.S. telecommunications industry has undergone dramatic changes in recent years that have touched almost every American home and business. The average American can dial almost anywhere in the world directly, store and forward a message, or transmit a fax in less than a minute; often for less than the real cost of a 500-mile telephone call tweny-five years ago. The combination of telecommunications breakthroughs, competition among new and old carriers, and the AT&T breakup has transformed the telephone industry and provided customers with a new array of equipment and services. Robert W. Crandall examines the effects of the AT&T breakup and weighs the costs and benefits to the residential and business consumer. On balance, he finds that the efficiency gains from opening up the telephone industry have more than offset the possible efficiency losses, which may be caused by the sacrifice of economies of scale and scope or the absence of fully compatible equipment and services. The replacement of regulation with competition has led to greater productivity in the telephone industry, a more efficient rate structure, and lower equipment prices. Crandall traces the telecommunications evolution from its early beginnings as pairs of copper wires up through the historic 1982 decision to divest. He investigates the impact of technological changes, competition, and the advent of divestiture on the quality of service, local and interexchange service rates, productive efficiency, and income distribution. He also focuses on problems that linger after the breakup in the increasingly competitive but highly regulated sector.

After the Breakup: U.S. Telecommunications in a More Competitive Era

Talk Is Cheap: The Promise of Regulatory Reform in North American Telecommunications

The rapid pace of technological change is placing the world's telephone companies in a very difficult position. Fiber optics cables, wireless telephones, digital signal compression, and sophisticated new switching equipment are lowering the cost of providing service and opening the gates to new competition. At the same time, these new technologies are providing the telephone companies with a wide array of new market opportunities. Unfortunately, their status as regulated carriers makes it difficult to exploit these new opportunities and to fend off competitive assaults on their traditional telephone business. As long as they are regulated, they can be accused of using their monopoly services to cross-subsidize new competitive ventures. But partial deregulation and open entry would be a catastrophe for them unless they were allowed to revise their rate structure.
 There is a widespread misconception that the U.S. telecommunications industry has been "deregulated" and that Canadian authorities are following the U.S. lead. In fact, most services remain regulated, even though some markets, such as long-distance services, equipment sales and rentals, and local services, have been opened up. This book reviews the recent changes in the structure of U.S. and Canadian telecommunications industries and the changes in regulatory policy on both sides of the border. The authors analyze the effects of these changes in regulation on telephone rates in both the local and long-distance markets with particular emphasis on the impacts of regulatory reforms and competition on long-distance rates. They use their results to suggest how regulation should be structured to allow competition to replace monopoly on the road to the information superhighway.
 The authors contend that for decades misguided regulation of the telephone sector in both Canada and the U.S. denied consumers the benefits of competition, distorted local and long-distance telephone rates, and blocked entry of new carriers and new technologies. They warn that the continued regulation of the telecommunications industry could be responsible for slowing the transition from "plain old telephone service" to a telecommunications marketplace that offers a wide variety of services. They conclude by outlining the choices open to policymakers and calling for liberalized competition all along the information superhighway.

Talk is Cheap: The Promise of Regulatory Reform in North American Telecommunications

Leonard Waverman

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Manufacturing on the Move

Manufacturing on the Move

The Scientific Basis of Health and Safety Regulation

The Scientific Basis of Health and Safety Regulation

U.S. Steel Industry in Recurrent Crisis: Policy Options in a Competitive World

Controlling Industrial Pollution

Controlling Industrial Pollution: The Economics and Politics of Clean Air

After the Breakup : U.S. Telecommunications in a More Competitive Era

After the Breakup: U.S. Telecommunications in a More Competitive Era

Talk is Cheap: The Promise of Regulatory Reform in North American Telecommunications