Regional diversification and labour market upgrading: Local access to skill-related high-income jobs helps workers escaping low-wage employment

Arbeitspapier

This paper investigates how the evolution of local labour market structure enables or constrains workers as regards escaping low-wage jobs. Drawing on the network-based approach of evolutionary economic geography, we employ a detailed individual-level panel dataset to construct skill-relatedness networks for 72 functional labour market regions in Sweden. Subsequent fixed-effect panel regressions indicate that increasing density of skillrelated high-income jobs within a region is conducive to low-wage workers moving to betterpaid jobs, hence facilitating labour market upgrading through diversification. While metropolitan regions offer a premium for this relationship, it also holds for smaller regions, and across various worker characteristics.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: KRTK-KTI Working Papers ; No. KRTK-KTI WP - 2023/15

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes ; Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
• Thema: skill-relatedness network ; local labour market ; low-wage workers ; diversification and structural change ; relatedness density

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Elekes, Zoltán ; Baranowska-Rataj, Anna ; Eriksson, Rikard
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies
• (wo): Budapest
• (wann): 2023

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/282236
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 12.07.2024, 13:20 MESZ