Location decisions in a changing labour market environment

Arbeitspapier

We study the location of various film-related services (such as camera rental, casting agencies or pyrotechnic services), the main determinant of interest being the human capital specificity. We show that firms which supply services with a lower firm specificity locate farther away from one another, and argue that it can be concluded that the "poaching" argument (fear of employees leaving for a competitor in large regional labour markets) has greater practical weight than the Marshallian labour pooling mechanism.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: DIW Discussion Papers ; No. 380

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location: General ; Labor Contracts ; Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs ; Entertainment; Media
• Subject: agglomeration ; film industry ; flexible specialisation ; labour pooling ; poaching ; regional labour markets ; turnover ; Standortwahl ; Filmwirtschaft ; Ballungsraum ; Regionaler Arbeitsmarkt ; Regionale Arbeitsmobilität ; Schätzung ; Deutschland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Frank, Björn
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
• (where): Berlin
• (when): 2003

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18136
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET