Characteristics of Regional Industry-specific Employment Growth - Empirical Evidence for Germany

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Regional growth dynamics significantly deviate from a normal process. Using industry-specific employment data for German regions, we find that the asymmetric Subbotin distribution is able to account properly for extreme positive and especially negative growth events. This result confirms previous studies on growth rates of firms and countries and fills an important research gap at the meso-level of regions. Furthermore, we show that regional growth patterns emerge to a considerable degree from the aggregation of micro-level firm growth rates distributions and that the knowledge intensity of the respective industries increases the regions'€™ risk of being effected by extreme growth events.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Papers on Innovation and Space ; No. 07.11

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Specific Distributions; Specific Statistics ; Econometric Modeling: General ; Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
• Subject: regional employment growth ; stochastic characteristics ; asymmetric Subbotin distribution ; extreme negative growth events

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Duschl, Matthias ; Brenner, Thomas
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Philipps-University Marburg, Department of Geography
• (where): Marburg
• (when): 2011

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/111876
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET