Richard Barff
Biographic Data
| ID | 839526 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Barff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Barff |
| SIGNATURE | BARFF R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dartmouth College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Small classes and research experience for new undergraduates: A first‐year seminar programme in a geography department
This paper describes the history and evolution of the First Year Seminar at Dartmouth College and the special qualities that Dartmouth's programme offers its incoming class. These limited‐enrolment classes act as antidotes to the large class typical of many first‐year courses. They also intensify the intellectual experience of the first few terms at university. The First Year Seminar provides all incoming students with a course early in their deg…
Pensions and Corporate Restructuring in American Industry: A Crisis of Regulation
Winners of the Anniversary Award
It's Gotta Be Da Shoes: Domestic Manufacturing, International Subcontracting, and the Production of Athletic Footwear
An apparent paradox exists in the geography of athletic footwear production. The industry is highly labor intensive; it is also locationally volatile. Although most production now takes place in Southeast Asia, the United States nevertheless still contains significant enclaves of athletic footwear production. Moreover, the cheapest shoes continue to be produced in the United States whereas more complex, expensive models tend to be manufactured in…
Defense Spending and Interregional Labor Migration
The impact of defense-related industry on labor migration within the United States is analyzed using census data for the period 1975-1980. The results "suggest that workers follow jobs in the defense industry, rather than vice versa, and indicate that a process of defense-related regional labor pool formation, amplified by interstate migration, adds to the volume of interregional labor flows."
Geographic Barriers to Child Health Services in Rural Northern New England: 1980 To 1989
Despite substantial recent increases in the number of rural physicians, it is unknown whether rural children still face significant barriers to medical care. To address this question, we determined travel times in 1980 and in 1989 to child health services for the rural pediatric population of northern New England–the area with the highest per‐capita primary care physician supply of any non‐metropolitan region in the United States. The study popul…
Linked Migration Systems: Immigration and Internal Labor Flows in the United States
The relationship between immigration to and labor movements within the United States is examined using a model that links migration, occupations, production and institutional relations in the economy, and economic restructuring. The authors conclude that "native blue-collar workers have been spatially displaced by recent immigration and that the process of capital accumulation, as manifested in economic restructuring, is the driving force behind …
The Operation of Regional Labor Markets for Highly Trained Manufacturing Workers in the United States
This paper analyzes the spatial structure of the labor market for highly trained labor employed in manufacturing industry in 1980. The locus of activity for this labor force is California-Metropolitan California in particular. Cities in the traditional manufacturing belt, such as Chicago and Detroit, also have a significant number of highly trained workers. The analysis confirms that this occupational group is concentrated at the metropolitan lev…
Shift-Share Analysis as a Linear Model
Shift-share analysis continues to be popular among geographers, regional scientists, and planners despite widespread criticism of the method. In this paper, it is argued that insufficient attention has been paid to model-based approaches to shift-share analysis. It is shown that conventional shift-share and stochastic shift-share yield identical conclusions. Stochastic shift-share is easily extended dynamically and along the lines suggested by Ar…
Geography of the Information Economy
Nike just did it: International Subcontracting and Flexibility in Athletic Footwear Production
DONAGHU M. T. and BARFF R. (1990) Nike just did it: international subcontracting and flexibility in athletic footwear production, Reg. Studies 24, 537–552. Over its twenty-five year history, Nike has developed a complex set of production alliances with manufacturers in South East Asia. Athletic shoe production now takes place under several different subcontracting arrangements. Based on interviews with company officials, this paper describes in d…
The Migration Response to the Economic Turnaround in New England
This paper is an investigation of the dynamics of interstate migration flows to and from New England since 1975. The main goal of the research is to study the timing and volume of the lagged migration adjustment to the regional economic turnaround and the temporal stability of patterns of regional inflows and outflows. The paper is an examination of the responsiveness of interstate migration to changing regional economic conditions based on annua…
Migration and labour supply in New England
Government Policy and Industrial Change
The Role of Federal Military Spending in the Timing of the New England Employment Turnaround
Industrial Clustering and the Organization of Production: A Point Pattern Analysis of Manufacturing in Cincinnati, Ohio
The clustering of urban manufacturers occurs for a number of reasons: this paper focuses on the importance of production technology in understanding the degree of industrial clustering. The present analysis uses a sample of Cincinnati manufacturing plants to test several hypotheses that address the relationships between industrial clustering and industrial production technology. Most of the tests use second-order methods to distinguish between th…
A Selective Review of Travel-Mode Choice Models
Major advances in travel-mode choice modeling are reviewed. These include a shift from aggregate to disaggregate models and a shift from physical and economic variables to cognitive and behavioral variables. Developments in mode-choice studies are assessed, and possible directions for future development are suggested
Nike just did it: International Subcontracting and Flexibility in Athletic Footwear Production
DONAGHU M. T. and BARFF R. (1990) Nike just did it: international subcontracting and flexibility in athletic footwear production, Reg. Studies 24, 537–552. Over its twenty-five year history, Nike has developed a complex set of production alliances with manufacturers in South East Asia. Athletic shoe production now takes place under several different subcontracting arrangements. Based on interviews with company officials, this paper describes in d…
Linked Migration Systems: Immigration and Internal Labor Flows in the United States
The relationship between immigration to and labor movements within the United States is examined using a model that links migration, occupations, production and institutional relations in the economy, and economic restructuring. The authors conclude that "native blue-collar workers have been spatially displaced by recent immigration and that the process of capital accumulation, as manifested in economic restructuring, is the driving force behind …
Shift-Share Analysis as a Linear Model
Shift-share analysis continues to be popular among geographers, regional scientists, and planners despite widespread criticism of the method. In this paper, it is argued that insufficient attention has been paid to model-based approaches to shift-share analysis. It is shown that conventional shift-share and stochastic shift-share yield identical conclusions. Stochastic shift-share is easily extended dynamically and along the lines suggested by Ar…
The Role of Federal Military Spending in the Timing of the New England Employment Turnaround
It's Gotta Be Da Shoes: Domestic Manufacturing, International Subcontracting, and the Production of Athletic Footwear
An apparent paradox exists in the geography of athletic footwear production. The industry is highly labor intensive; it is also locationally volatile. Although most production now takes place in Southeast Asia, the United States nevertheless still contains significant enclaves of athletic footwear production. Moreover, the cheapest shoes continue to be produced in the United States whereas more complex, expensive models tend to be manufactured in…
Industrial Clustering and the Organization of Production: A Point Pattern Analysis of Manufacturing in Cincinnati, Ohio
The clustering of urban manufacturers occurs for a number of reasons: this paper focuses on the importance of production technology in understanding the degree of industrial clustering. The present analysis uses a sample of Cincinnati manufacturing plants to test several hypotheses that address the relationships between industrial clustering and industrial production technology. Most of the tests use second-order methods to distinguish between th…
Defense Spending and Interregional Labor Migration
The impact of defense-related industry on labor migration within the United States is analyzed using census data for the period 1975-1980. The results "suggest that workers follow jobs in the defense industry, rather than vice versa, and indicate that a process of defense-related regional labor pool formation, amplified by interstate migration, adds to the volume of interregional labor flows."
The Operation of Regional Labor Markets for Highly Trained Manufacturing Workers in the United States
This paper analyzes the spatial structure of the labor market for highly trained labor employed in manufacturing industry in 1980. The locus of activity for this labor force is California-Metropolitan California in particular. Cities in the traditional manufacturing belt, such as Chicago and Detroit, also have a significant number of highly trained workers. The analysis confirms that this occupational group is concentrated at the metropolitan lev…
Small classes and research experience for new undergraduates: A first‐year seminar programme in a geography department
This paper describes the history and evolution of the First Year Seminar at Dartmouth College and the special qualities that Dartmouth's programme offers its incoming class. These limited‐enrolment classes act as antidotes to the large class typical of many first‐year courses. They also intensify the intellectual experience of the first few terms at university. The First Year Seminar provides all incoming students with a course early in their deg…
The Migration Response to the Economic Turnaround in New England
This paper is an investigation of the dynamics of interstate migration flows to and from New England since 1975. The main goal of the research is to study the timing and volume of the lagged migration adjustment to the regional economic turnaround and the temporal stability of patterns of regional inflows and outflows. The paper is an examination of the responsiveness of interstate migration to changing regional economic conditions based on annua…
Migration and labour supply in New England
A Selective Review of Travel-Mode Choice Models
Major advances in travel-mode choice modeling are reviewed. These include a shift from aggregate to disaggregate models and a shift from physical and economic variables to cognitive and behavioral variables. Developments in mode-choice studies are assessed, and possible directions for future development are suggested
Industrial Clustering and the Organization of Production: A Point Pattern Analysis of Manufacturing in Cincinnati, Ohio
The clustering of urban manufacturers occurs for a number of reasons: this paper focuses on the importance of production technology in understanding the degree of industrial clustering. The present analysis uses a sample of Cincinnati manufacturing plants to test several hypotheses that address the relationships between industrial clustering and industrial production technology. Most of the tests use second-order methods to distinguish between th…
The Role of Federal Military Spending in the Timing of the New England Employment Turnaround
Migration and labour supply in New England
Government Policy and Industrial Change
Nike just did it: International Subcontracting and Flexibility in Athletic Footwear Production
DONAGHU M. T. and BARFF R. (1990) Nike just did it: international subcontracting and flexibility in athletic footwear production, Reg. Studies 24, 537–552. Over its twenty-five year history, Nike has developed a complex set of production alliances with manufacturers in South East Asia. Athletic shoe production now takes place under several different subcontracting arrangements. Based on interviews with company officials, this paper describes in d…
The Migration Response to the Economic Turnaround in New England
This paper is an investigation of the dynamics of interstate migration flows to and from New England since 1975. The main goal of the research is to study the timing and volume of the lagged migration adjustment to the regional economic turnaround and the temporal stability of patterns of regional inflows and outflows. The paper is an examination of the responsiveness of interstate migration to changing regional economic conditions based on annua…
The Operation of Regional Labor Markets for Highly Trained Manufacturing Workers in the United States
This paper analyzes the spatial structure of the labor market for highly trained labor employed in manufacturing industry in 1980. The locus of activity for this labor force is California-Metropolitan California in particular. Cities in the traditional manufacturing belt, such as Chicago and Detroit, also have a significant number of highly trained workers. The analysis confirms that this occupational group is concentrated at the metropolitan lev…
Shift-Share Analysis as a Linear Model
Shift-share analysis continues to be popular among geographers, regional scientists, and planners despite widespread criticism of the method. In this paper, it is argued that insufficient attention has been paid to model-based approaches to shift-share analysis. It is shown that conventional shift-share and stochastic shift-share yield identical conclusions. Stochastic shift-share is easily extended dynamically and along the lines suggested by Ar…
Geography of the Information Economy
Geographic Barriers to Child Health Services in Rural Northern New England: 1980 To 1989
Despite substantial recent increases in the number of rural physicians, it is unknown whether rural children still face significant barriers to medical care. To address this question, we determined travel times in 1980 and in 1989 to child health services for the rural pediatric population of northern New England–the area with the highest per‐capita primary care physician supply of any non‐metropolitan region in the United States. The study popul…
Linked Migration Systems: Immigration and Internal Labor Flows in the United States
The relationship between immigration to and labor movements within the United States is examined using a model that links migration, occupations, production and institutional relations in the economy, and economic restructuring. The authors conclude that "native blue-collar workers have been spatially displaced by recent immigration and that the process of capital accumulation, as manifested in economic restructuring, is the driving force behind …
It's Gotta Be Da Shoes: Domestic Manufacturing, International Subcontracting, and the Production of Athletic Footwear
An apparent paradox exists in the geography of athletic footwear production. The industry is highly labor intensive; it is also locationally volatile. Although most production now takes place in Southeast Asia, the United States nevertheless still contains significant enclaves of athletic footwear production. Moreover, the cheapest shoes continue to be produced in the United States whereas more complex, expensive models tend to be manufactured in…
Defense Spending and Interregional Labor Migration
The impact of defense-related industry on labor migration within the United States is analyzed using census data for the period 1975-1980. The results "suggest that workers follow jobs in the defense industry, rather than vice versa, and indicate that a process of defense-related regional labor pool formation, amplified by interstate migration, adds to the volume of interregional labor flows."
Winners of the Anniversary Award
Small classes and research experience for new undergraduates: A first‐year seminar programme in a geography department
This paper describes the history and evolution of the First Year Seminar at Dartmouth College and the special qualities that Dartmouth's programme offers its incoming class. These limited‐enrolment classes act as antidotes to the large class typical of many first‐year courses. They also intensify the intellectual experience of the first few terms at university. The First Year Seminar provides all incoming students with a course early in their deg…
Pensions and Corporate Restructuring in American Industry: A Crisis of Regulation
Economics (13 works) · Business (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (6 works) · Labour economics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Demography (4 works) · Population (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works)