Regional Job-Turnover and Industrial Policy. A Note on a Potential Time Pattern of Regional Industrial Policies and their Job Effects — the Case of the German City-State of Bremen

Wolfram Elsner

Local Economy, 2004, vol. 19, issue 3, 249-263

Abstract: Many regions have experienced long-run economic fluctuations generated by the life cycles of their dominant industrial clusters. During the downswings in the 1970s and 1980s, proactive structural policies were typically launched in German regions to combat job losses in their core clusters and to create new jobs in new industries. With respect to the German State of Bremen, this paper provides empirical evidence of: (1) a long-run regional downswing; (2) the potential job effects of proactive regional industrial policy programmes in terms of increasing regional employment, by safeguarding jobs in the regional core industries and creating new jobs in new growth industries; and (3) a time pattern in the job effects, which are related to the different generations of programmes.

Keywords: Regional policy; job turnover; industrial policy; job effects; regional econometric analysis; Bremen/Germany (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1080/0269094042000236184

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