Mysteries of the Trade? Skill-Specific Local Agglomeration Economies

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Using longitudinal Swedish data, we document robust evidence of highly local spillovers between individuals in similar occupations. The results are consistent with the existence of knowledge spillovers between workers performing similar work tasks in the same city-district. We further demonstrate less distance-sensitive benefits of working in diverse districts and regions, characterized by high density of employees in other occupations. The diversity benefits exist only in metropolitan areas and pertain to workers performing advanced services or non-routine work tasks.

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• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IFN Working Paper ; No. 1352

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; General Regional Economics (includes Regional Data) ; Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
• Subject: Agglomeration economies ; Wages ; Spillovers ; Attenuation ; Clusters ; Economic proximity ; Relatedness

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Andersson, Martin ; Larsson, Johan P.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
• (where): Stockholm
• (when): 2020

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/240495