Karl-Johan Lundquist
Professor
Technological Change and Geographical Reallocation of Labour: On the Role of Leading Industries
Författare
Summary, in English
This paper analyses inter-regional labour reallocation in Sweden over the period 1985–2008 and assesses the effects of technology-induced structural change on the ability of regions to attract and retain workers. The findings suggest that (1) the regional presence of leading industries associated with technological change has a significant effect; (2) the importance of leading industries is of dynamic character as various functional groups of leading industries play different roles at different stages of the technology-induced transformation process; and (3) while manufacturing branches act as a stabilizing factor, i.e. helping regions to retain workers, service industries drive labour reallocation in terms of attracting workers to regions.
Avdelning/ar
- Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi
Publiceringsår
2015
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Regional Studies
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Taylor & Francis
Ämne
- Economic Geography
Nyckelord
- Sweden
- Leading industries
- Labour reallocation
- Adjustment
- Industrial restructuring
- Technological change
Status
Published
Projekt
- • Radical innovations, structural change and long term regional growth and decline
- Structural change and labour mobility: A co-evolutionary perspective
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1360-0591