Agglomeration externalities, market structure and employment growth in high-tech industries: Revisiting the evidence

Andrzej Cieślik; Mahdi Ghodsi

doi:10.1515/mgrsd-2015-0007

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Agglomeration externalities, market structure and employment growth in high-tech industries: Revisiting the evidence

Miscellanea Geographica

Volume 19 (2015): Issue 3 (September 2015)

By: Andrzej Cieślik and Mahdi Ghodsi

Open Access

|Oct 2015

Abstract

In this paper we revisit the existing empirical evidence on the effects of various agglomeration externalities and the market structure on employment growth in the high-tech industries of the European Economic Area (EEA). Our study is based on the dynamic panel dataset of two-digit NACE rev 1.1. industries in 285 regions of the European Economic Area for the period 1995-2007. We find that employment growth is negatively related to competition, while localization and urbanization externalities do not seem to affect growth.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/mgrsd-2015-0007 | Journal eISSN: 2084-6118 | Journal ISSN: 0867-6046

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Language: English

Page range: 76 - 81

Submitted on: Nov 17, 2014

Accepted on: Jun 2, 2015

Published on: Oct 26, 2015

Published by: Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

Keywords:

Agglomeration externalities,

Employment growth,

High-tech industries,

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Volume 19 (2015): Issue 3 (September 2015)