Urban specialization in the internet age: Empirical findings for Germany

Arbeitspapier

Declining spatial transaction costs will affect patterns of urban specialization. The underlying hypothesis is that production locations of goods and services which require face-to-face contacts will continue to be concentrated in core cities of large agglomerations even in the Internet age while locations of standardized production activities with a high codified information content will spread to more peripheral locations. The paper provides empirical evidence on changes in employment specialization patterns of nine different types of German districts (ranging from core cities of agglomerations to low density rural districts) for the period 1976 to 2002. Obviously there is an increasing concentration of "white collar" employees relative to "blue collar" workers in core cities which even gains momentum in particular in the second half of the 1990s.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Kiel Working Paper ; No. 1215

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure ; Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes ; Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
• Subject: Spatial Division of Labor ; E-commerce ; Regionale Arbeitsteilung ; E-Business ; Internet ; Schätzung ; Deutschland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Bade, Franz-Josef ; Laaser, Claus-Friedrich ; Soltwedel, Rüdiger
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Kiel Institute for World Economics (IfW)
• (where): Kiel
• (when): 2004

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/3423
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