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

• Authors: Andrzej Cieślik , Mahdi Ghodsi

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

Market structure; Agglomeration externalities; Employment growth; High-tech industries

• Publisher: Wydział Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 3

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Andrzej Cieślik

• Department of Macroeconomics and International Trade Theory, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw Poland

author

Mahdi Ghodsi

• The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, Austria

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/mgrsd-2015-0007

Biblioteka Nauki

2085500