Location Decisions in a Changing Labour Market Environment

Björn Frank

No 380, Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin from DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research

Abstract: We study the location of various film-related services (such as camera rental, casting agencies or pyrotechnic services), the main determinant of interest being the human capital specificity. We show that firms which supply services with a lower firm specificity locate farther away from one another, and argue that it can be concluded that the "poaching" argument (fear of employees leaving for a competitor in large regional labour markets) has greater practical weight than the Marshallian labour pooling mechanism

Keywords: agglomeration; film industry; flexible specialisation; labour pooling; poaching; regional labour markets; turnover (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J41 J63 L82 R30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 p.
Date: 2003
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