Technological Change and Geographical Reallocation of Labour: On the Role of Leading Industries

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.

• Författare: Mikhail Martynovich; Karl-Johan Lundquist
• Avdelning/ar: Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi
• Publiceringsår: 2015
• Språk: Engelska
• Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: Regional Studies
• Länkar: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2015.1052062
• 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