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The roles of diversity, complexity, and relatedness in regional development – What does the occupational perspective add?

Tom Broekel (), Rune Fitjar and Silje Haus-Reve

No 2135, Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG) from Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Group Economic Geography

Abstract: Contemporary research highlights the importance of relatedness, diversity, and complexity for regional economic development. However, few empirical studies simultaneously test the relevance of all these dimensions or examine how their importance varies across distinct spatial contexts. The literature also concentrates on explaining regional diversification, whereas we know less about how they affect economic and employment growth. In addition, most studies have examined industrial relatedness at the expense of the at least similarly crucial occupational dimension when studying knowledge-based regional development. The chapter discusses these issues and presents a study on how occupational diversity, complexity and relatedness shape employment growth in Norway to illustrate how an occupational perspective on regional industries can add to the understanding of evolutionary economic development.

Keywords: relatedness; diversity; complexity; occupation; region; Norway (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 O31 O33 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-11, Revised 2021-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-evo, nep-geo, nep-hme, nep-lma, nep-tid and nep-ure
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