Skill shortages and industry clusters: Empirical evidence from German establishment data

Arbeitspapier

Regional and sector-specific skill shortages are either foreseeable or a reality in Germany. It is unclear whether shortages of skilled workers are more apparent in industry-specific agglomerations due to competitive labor poaching or less apparent benefitting labor pooling. This paper analyses the association of skill shortages and the level of industrial clustering in Germany. The results show, that firms located in an industrial cluster have a significantly lower chance of experiencing skill shortages in terms of vacancies for qualified jobs. At the same time, if firms located in industrial clusters face skill shortage, they struggle more to fill such vacancies.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Papers on Innovation and Space ; No. 03.22

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Labor Demand ; Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs ; General Regional Economics (includes Regional Data)
• Subject: Skill shortage ; cluster ; location quotient ; Establishment panel data

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): König, Tobias ; Brenner, Thomas
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Philipps-University Marburg, Department of Geography
• (where): Marburg
• (when): 2022

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/270418
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:46 AM CET