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UTB-CBIRD Report: “At The Crossroads” Economic Development 95 Trade, and Finance & Real Estate. The opportunity to educate local residents to fill these needed and desirable positions is clear. Sub-section B: INDUSTRY SPECIFIC OVERVIEW MANUFACTURING & MAQUILADORAS Table 5.3 provides an overview of the strength of Cameron County’s manufacturing base by cluster (as of Texas Labor Market 2000 data) and includes the following information: ⇒ Description of manufacturing jobs by cluster ⇒ Shift-share classification of each cluster ⇒ Numbers of employees and establishments, or businesses, in each cluster ⇒ Relative wages, expressed as a percent of the average annual private wage in Cameron County ⇒ Information about the concentration of manufacturing jobs in each cluster in the Texas economy Of the 111,467 jobs in Cameron County in 2000, 12,701 were manufacturingrelated. As previously noted, the share of the local workforce employed in Textiles & Apparels and Transportation equipment is above the national average while Food Products and Electronics hovered at the national average. The share of the local workforce employed in manufacturing overall is below the national average with the region having no meaningful employment numbers for the bottom five clusters of semiconductors, telecommunications equipment, agribusiness, energy resources, and computers and peripherals. Table 5. 3. Manufacturing Jobs, 2000: Cameron County and Texas CAMERON COUNTY TEXAS Cluster Name Shift-Share Jobs Firms LQ Wage Share Jobs Firms LQ Textiles & Apparels Challenge 4,398 30 4.24 91% 53,198 1,499 0.60 Transportation Equipment Challenge 1.954 31 1.54 175% 40,176 795 0.37 Food Products Limitation 1,549 42 1.08 115% 99,958 1,508 0.81 Electronics Challenge 693 14 0.97 170% 44,371 870 0.73 Industrial Supplies Challenge 1,139 51 0.68 133% 110,676 4,397 0.78 Materials Limitation 1,265 40 0.58 136% 149,549 4,167 0.79 Construction Asset 198 8 0.43 110% 47,185 1,040 1.20 Mass Media Challenge 523 26 0.40 115% 76,252 4,096 0.68 Chemicals & Plastics Limitation 526 24 0.34 132% 157,744 2,507 1.20 Consumer Goods Challenge 242 16 0.25 96% 51,223 1,822 0.62 Aerospace & Defense Limitation 116 3 0.19 347% 54,817 324 1.04 Biotechnology Asset 56 3 0.11 114% 22,084 401 0.50 Industrial Machinery Challenge 36 4 0.07 119% 28,570 505 0.63 Semiconductors Asset 4 -- 0.02 122% 48,567 159 2.37 Telecom Equipment Asset 3 -- 0.01 93% 36,753 265 1.57 Agribusiness NA -- -- 0 NA 4,467 123 0.49 Energy Resources NA -- -- 0 NA 26,194 514 8.96 Computers & Peripherals Limitation -- -- 0 NA 35,757 139 1.42 Manufacturing Jobs Limitation 12,701 294 0.84 $24,400 1,087,541 25,131 0.84 Total Jobs All Sectors 111,467 5,665 $19,500 9,562,882 473,705 Source: Minnesota IMPLAN Group, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Texas Labor Market Information One Region – One Future
UTB-CBIRD Report: “At The Crossroads” Economic Development 96 Figure 5. 6. Manufacturing Employment by Technology Cluster, 2000 Manufacturing Employment by Technology Cluster, 2000 Cameron Co. Location Quotient Cluster Jobs 0.00 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 Electronics Tech-Related Mfg. Aerospace & Defense Biotechnology Semiconductors Telecom Equipment Computers & Peripherals 693 871 116 55 4 3 0 0.19 0.11 0.02 0.01 0.00 0.33 0.97 Note: Includes only manufacturing components for each cluster. LQ 1.00 equals national average Source: Minnesota IMPLAN Group, Inc., Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Texas Labor Market Information Figure 5.6 illustrates there were 871 manufacturing jobs in technology-related clusters in Cameron County in 2000, one-third of what would be expected given national employment trends. The great majority of these jobs were in the Electronics cluster (693) which registered a near average LQ of .97 for year 2000. Aerospace & Defense and Biotechnology Manufacturing registered very small employment numbers and semiconductor, telecommunications equipment, and computers & peripherals did not register a measurable number of employees. Essential to economic growth in any community is access to a readily available labor force. Table 5.4 illustrates that while Cameron County’s population expanded rapidly during the 1990s (at 29%), it did so at a slower rate than nearby Hidalgo (49%) and Webb (45%) counties. Despite Cameron County having a low median age, it suffers like its neighbors from a low labor force participation rate. As noted in a previous section of this report, educational attainment levels in Cameron County severely lag Texas and the US. In short, compared to its regional counterparts, Cameron County possesses no significant advantage in the competition for low skilled manufacturing employment and perhaps more important for manufacturing jobs to be sustainable if not grow, they need to be more value-added using a skilled workforce. Una Region -- Un Futuro
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CAMERON COUNTY/MATAMOROS AT THE CRO
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For George and Ronya Kozmetsky Dedi
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University of Texas at Brownsville;
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SECTION 4. EDUCATION & TRAINING INT
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SECTION 6. CONCLUSIONS & RECOMMENDA
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Tables 3. 1. Respondents' Professio
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APPENDIX B. SURVEY INSTRUMENT Pleas
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APPENDIX C. CLUSTER ANALYSIS METHOD
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⇒ Top Five User Requirements 1. I
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Duca, John V. and Mine K. Yucel.
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Rylander, Carol Keeton. Texas Regio
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PROJECT PARTNERS
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