Bericht

Industry space and skill-relatedness of economic activities: Comparative case studies of three eastern German automotive regions

The resilience and growth prospects of a region depend crucially on the extent to which industry-specific human capital can be redeployed across the industries of a regional economy. To this end, we present a toolbox to analyse a region's industrial structure, development prospects and economic resilience. With the help of this toolbox human capital similarities, or skill-relatedness, among industries are highlighted. The core of these analyses is the so-called industry space, a network that connects industries with similar human capital requirements. For the time period 1999 to 2008, a regional comparative analysis of three eastern German automobile regions, namely south-west Saxony (SWS), Eisenach region (EIS) and Leipzig region (LEI), is conducted. The objective is to highlight similarities and differences in the composition of the general automobile-oriented knowledge bases between these regions. In addition, the region-specific growth prospects of economic activities, in general and with a closer look at car manufacturers and automotive suppliers, are scrutinized and evaluated in greater detail for each region. This regional comparison is complemented by an investigation of the regional and industrial origins of labour inflows and by a simulation of labour shifts between shrinking and growing industries to figure out as to what extent redundant labour can be reallocated between skillrelated pairs of industries in each region under examination. [...]

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IAB-Forschungsbericht ; No. 8/2014

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Otto, Anne
Weyh, Antje
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB)
(wo)
Nürnberg
(wann)
2014

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Bericht

Beteiligte

  • Otto, Anne
  • Weyh, Antje
  • Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB)

Entstanden

  • 2014

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