Comparing Investment and Employment Specialisation Patterns of EU Regions

Arbeitspapier

This study analyses relative sectoral specialisation of EU regions on the basis of investment and employment patterns. Controlling for heteroscedasticity and potential endogeneity in the econometric analysis, we find that relative specialisation in manufacturing sectors is higher in central regions. Relative specialisation in services sectors, instead, is stronger in administrative centres as well as peripheral regions. A higher local level of sectoral economies of scale and of productivity strongly increases relative investments in manufacturing sectors. Lower (higher) regional labour costs attract, in particular, higher relative employment shares in labour-intensive (human capital-intensive) sectors.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 04-43

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables: General ; Economic Integration ; Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
• Thema: Regional Specialisation ; Sectoral Investments ; Sectoral Employment ; Cross-Section Time-Series Regressions ; Internationale Arbeitsteilung ; Regionale Arbeitsteilung ; Investition ; Sektorale Beschäftigungsstruktur ; Schätzung ; Deutschland

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Stirböck, Claudia
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
• (wo): Mannheim
• (wann): 2004

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/24052
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ