Interregional Migration of Defense Scientists and Engineers to the Gunbelt during the 1980s
研究了20世纪80年代美国国防建设期间，科学家和工程师向国防采购集中区域（枪带）的迁移模式，发现迁移主要发生在里根建设之前，且国防资助的专业人员跨区域流动性较低。
AbstractThe 1980s defense buildup largely benefited the preexisting centers of defense procurement in the “Gunbelt”: the Pacific, South Atlantic, New England, and Mountain regions. I examine whether the interregional distribution and movement of scientists and engineers paralleled this concentration of defense contracts, using the 1982–89 National Science Foundation Survey of Scientists and Engineers. The Gunbelt modestly increased its share of the nation's scientists and engineers during the 1980s, with employees leaving the Midwest and Middle Atlantic for defense jobs faster than those employed in civilian businesses. However, most Gunbelt migration predated the Reagan buildup, due in part to Gunbelt military spending between the 1940s and the 1970s. Defense-funded professionals were also less interregionally mobile in the 1980s than those without defense funding. There is also a dramatic difference in the regional distribution of defense vs. nondefense professionals. Though all four Gunbelt regions hav...