Comparing Investment and Employment Specialisation Patterns of EU Regions

Stirböck, Claudia

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URL:	http://ub-madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/624
URN:	urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-6247
Document Type:	Working paper
Year of publication:	2004
The title of a journal, publication series:	None
Publication language:	English
Institution:	Sonstige Einrichtungen > ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung
MADOC publication series:	Veröffentlichungen des ZEW (Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung) > ZEW Discussion Papers
Subject:	330 Economics
Classification:	JEL: R12 C30 F15 F2 ,
Subject headings (SWD):	Europäische Union , Region , Arbeit , Spezialisierung
Abstract:	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.
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