Inter-industrial relations and sectoral employment development in German regions

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This paper aims to find evidence for the positive impact of cluster structures on employment development in Germany. It develops a new way of measuring the co-location of suppliers and buyers of intermediate goods in a region as well as the importance for the employment development in individual industries. The findings indicate that co-location of inter-connected industries did have a positive effect on employment growth in 16 out of 56 industries between 1998 and 2007 supporting the assumption that agglomeration advantages tend to occur within regional clusters rather than within single industries. However, for the majority of industries such advantages cannot be identified.

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• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: HWWI Research Paper ; No. 127

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity ; General Regional Economics: Econometric and Input-Output Models; Other Models ; Particular Labor Markets: Other
• Subject: input-output ; shift-share ; regional cluster ; employment development ; Regionales Cluster ; Interindustrielle Verflechtung ; Beschäftigungseffekt ; Regionale Entwicklung ; Shift-Share-Analyse ; Schätzung ; Deutschland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Kowalewski, Julia
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Hamburgisches WeltWirtschaftsInstitut (HWWI)
• (where): Hamburg
• (when): 2012

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/59514