Related variety and employment growth in Italy

Niccolò Innocenti and Luciana Lazzeretti ()
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Luciana Lazzeretti: Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa

Working Papers - Business from Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa

Abstract: The aim of the present research is to investigate, for the Italian case, the role and importance of Related variety to foster employment growth. The Related Variety approach received increasing attention in the literature, as it tried to identify the key drivers for economic development at regional and national level. This work supports the study of economic and local development from a related-variety approach’s perspective, focusing on the need to have some degree of cognitive proximity at local level to foster innovation and economic development covering the period 1991-2011 for the Italian case. The results underline that variety has a positive impact on employment growth, and related variety matters even more.

Keywords: related variety; unrelated variety; employment growth. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O10 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2015
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