Causal relations between knowledge-intensive business services and regional employment growth

Thomas Brenner (), Marco Capasso, Matthias Duschl, Koen Frenken and Tania Treibich

Regional Studies, 2018, vol. 52, issue 2, 172-183

Abstract: Causal relations between knowledge-intensive business services and regional employment growth. Regional Studies. This paper studies the causal relations between regional employment growth in knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) and overall regional employment growth using German labour-market data for 1999–2012. Adopting a recently developed technique, it uses a structural vector autoregressive model in which the causal directions between KIBS and other sectors are examined including various time lags. Results show that although regional growth has a negative short-term effect on KIBS, KIBS growth has a long-term positive effect on the whole regional economy. This confirms the claim that KIBS can play a key role in regional policies.

Date: 2018
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Working Paper: Causal Relations between Knowledge-Intensive Business Services and Regional Employment Growth (2015)
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DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2016.1265104

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