Causal relations between knowledge-intensive business services and regional employment growth

T. Brenner; Marco Capasso; M. Duschl; Koen Frenken; Tania Treibich

doi:10.1080/00343404.2016.1265104

Causal relations between knowledge-intensive business services and regional employment growth

T. Brenner, Marco Capasso^*, M. Duschl, Koen Frenken, Tania Treibich

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Macro, International & Labour Economics

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Causal relations between knowledge-intensive business services and regional employment growth. Regional Studies. This paper studies the causal relations between regional employment growth in knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) and overall regional employment growth using German labour-market data for 1999-2012. Adopting a recently developed technique, it uses a structural vector autoregressive model in which the causal directions between KIBS and other sectors are examined including various time lags. Results show that although regional growth has a negative short-term effect on KIBS, KIBS growth has a long-term positive effect on the whole regional economy. This confirms the claim that KIBS can play a key role in regional policies.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	172-183
Number of pages	12
Journal	Regional Studies
Volume	52
Issue number	2
Early online date	2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2016.1265104
Publication status	Published - 2018

Keywords

regional employment growth
growth spillovers
knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS)
industrial dynamics
financial geography
INNOVATION
SYSTEMS

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