Research project SE/D2/01 (Research action SE)
There circulate an increasing number of new, alarming rumours concerning the location of businesses. Wage-earners in the most classic sectors
are the ones who fear most to lose their jobs -sooner or later- because of the possibility that production will relocate to low-wage countries.
The project analyses these problems as follows:
*first, via academic studies, vulnerable sectors are selected according to the innovative character of their determinants and the
investment climate. In the process, relocation is confronted in a general manner with the effects of inverse investment displacements;
*another university team is in charge of conducting a representative survey which probes what is anticipated regarding future
relocations and especially the consequences for employment. The aim of this survey is to understand the domino effect of relocation on
subcontracting businesses.
*In parallel the Planning Bureau, acting as co-ordinator and actively contributing in that capacity to the study as a whole, is specifically
in charge of the econometric analysis of how relocation affects the foreign trade balance and of the impact of innovation on the relocation
process.
Delokalisatie, innovatie en werkgelegenheid
Van Sebroeck, Herman Brussel: DWTC, 2000 (SP0620)
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