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Elekes, Zoltán [Author]; Baranowska-Rataj, Anna [Author]; Eriksson, Rikard [Author]

Regional diversification and labour market upgrading

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  • Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Regional diversification and labour market upgrading : local access to skill-related high-income jobs helps workers escaping low-wage employment
  • Contributor: Elekes, Zoltán [Author]; Baranowska-Rataj, Anna [Author]; Eriksson, Rikard [Author]
  • Published: Budapest: Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, [2023]
  • Published in: KRTK-KTI working papers ; 2023,15
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 43 Seiten); Illustrationen
  • Language: English
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  • Keywords: skill-relatedness network ; local labour market ; low-wage workers ; diversification and structural change ; relatedness density ; Graue Literatur
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  • Description: This paper investigates how the evolution of local labour market structure enables or constrains workers as regards escaping low-wage jobs. Drawing on the network-based approach of evolutionary economic geography, we employ a detailed individual-level panel dataset to construct skill-relatedness networks for 72 functional labour market regions in Sweden. Subsequent fixed-effect panel regressions indicate that increasing density of skillrelated high-income jobs within a region is conducive to low-wage workers moving to betterpaid jobs, hence facilitating labour market upgrading through diversification. While metropolitan regions offer a premium for this relationship, it also holds for smaller regions, and across various worker characteristics.
  • Access State: Open Access