In
most countries the research projects are concentrated on the manufacturing
industry sector apparently the most mobile sector of the nineteen sixties and
seventies and at the same time in most countries the main target sector for
regional development policies. Regarded from this policy perspective the long
distance moves are of course the most interesting category packers and movers pune and movers and packers pune.
Only
for the Netherlands and for the UK suitable information is available for the
nineteen fifties and sixties respectively that allow this type of analysis as
shown by SISWO 1967 and Keeble 1976. All European researchers agree about the
nature of the driving forces behind the firm relocation processes. Lack of
space transport related issues and labour market problems dominate the picture.
The
first two are the main causes for short distance moves in and around the urban
core areas, while labour shortage is the dominant motive for long distance
movements to development areas in national peripheries. However In the course
of the 1970s the importance of the labour market motive decreased. Due to the
economic recession unemployed went up sharply and labour shortages rapidly
disappeared in almost all regions.
For
various countries 1974 is indicated as the year of the trend rupture. After
this the magnitude of long distance relocation decreased. There are two reasons
for this trend. First the economic recession had various negative effects. Firm
mobility is related to firm growth and tends to diminish in an economic
recession. Firms are less likely to take far going investments decisions like a
re- location when the future economic prospects are rather uncertain.
The
economic recession also had negative effects on redistribution policies.
Redistribution of economic growth is a luxury problem. Without economic growth
there is nothing to redistribute and therefore these regional policies were
abandoned in the recession period following the oil crisis of 1973. A second
reason for the downward trend in long distance firm relocation was due to the
longer term cumulative effects of redistribution of economic growth in the
previous periods.
For
the Netherlands Pellenbarg 1976, 1985 argued that the more peripheral parts of
the country effectively diminished the potential of such regions to attract
industrial branch plants many of which are routine production facilities
looking for cheap and low skilled labour locations. No doubt the same argument
applied to other European countries in the same period.In the synopsis of their
European survey Klaassen and Molle 1983 don’t pay too much attention to the
regional policy dimension.
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