Industry churning and the evolution of cities: Evidence for Germany

Findeisen, Sebastian; Südekum, Jens

doi:10.1016/j.jue.2008.02.003

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“…More specifically, while productivity enhancing regional change is more likely to occur in human capital rich regions, social returns to human capital necessitate dynamic labor markets to come about. In line with Suedekum/Findeisen (2008), we find productivity effects from the joint presence of industrial change and aggregate education to be most pronounced in growing industries.…”

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confidence: 84%

“…Glaeser/Saiz (2003) argue that a broad human capital base yields benefits first and foremost for declining regions, since it allows for successful industrial change through innovation and thereby over time positively influences the direction of growth. In contrast, Findeisen/Suedekum (2008) find that human capital is a key driver of growth and industrial change only in successful cities, while regional decline is, in contrast, driven by the demise of old industries which can hardly be altered by human capital endowments of whichever intensity.…”

Section: Ii1 the Role Of Aggregate Education For Successful Regionamentioning

confidence: 73%

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Reinventing the Skilled Region: Human Capital Externalities and Industrial Change

Heuermann

2009

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Bridging the gap between the literatures on industrial change and human capital externalities we investigate the complementarity between aggregate regional education and job turnover. On the level of regional industries in Germany we find strong evidence for such complementarity. Thus, regional human capital turns out to be a crucial ingredient for productivity enhancing industrial change, while human capital externalities arise first and foremost in dynamic labor markets. On the firm level, we find human capital externalities to accrue predominantly to growing firms which benefit from sharing, matching, and learning externalities arising from a large supply of highly qualified workers in skilled, dynamic labor markets. Despite the joint impact of human capital and industrial change on productivity, we find only weak evidence that inter-industry differences the job turnover of highly qualified workers shape the geography of industry location across regions. Terms of use: Documents in

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 84%

Section: Ii1 the Role Of Aggregate Education For Successful Regionamentioning

confidence: 73%

Reinventing the Skilled Region: Human Capital Externalities and Industrial Change

Heuermann

2009

SSRN Journal

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“…This is consistent with Findeisen and Sudekum (2008), who find that "cities specialized in these fairly "modern" sectors are less likely to change afterwards". It is not consistent, however, with the large change observed for business services 4 .…”

Section: The Fast and The Stillsupporting

confidence: 89%

“…Recife has the largest excess churning level, which is perhaps connected to the population decay observed in the last few decades. However, excess churning cannot be correlated with growth, a fact that was made evident by Findeisen and Sudekum (2008).…”

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The geographic dynamics of industry employment in Brazilian metropolitan areas: lessons for São Paulo

Biderman

Lopes

2015

Rev. Econ. Polit.

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We discuss historic trends in large metropolitan areas in Brazil showing that manufacturing has decreased its share in the country but the movement was, in general, more intense in large metropolitan areas and particularly in the São Paulo Metropolitan Area (SPMA). This movement was more intense in the 1980s and in the first half of the 1990s. From mid 1990s up to the end of the 2000s, the manufacturing share trend became flat. We speculate that the first period reflects the exhaustion of the process of import substitution that took place in the previous three decades (1950 to 1980). The second period, from 1993 to 2009, is representative of a new model of growth and the evidence that manufacturing share became flat is reinforcing the idea of a new period in terms of manufacturing employment. While concentration has risen from 1996 to 2005, it decreased again in the second half of the first decade of the 2000s. The SPMA reinvented itself very quickly from late 1970s to mid-2000s.

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“…However, there is no aggregate structural change at the national level in the model by Duranton (2007), and therefore it is not possible to distinguish whether particular regions develop along with, or against the national trend. Drawing on this work, Findeisen and Suedekum (2008) study the relationship between industry churning and local growth in Germany. They find that many growing regions only exhibit rather modest levels of industry turnover.…”

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