Regional skill relatedness. Towards a new measure of regional related diversification.

Autor/inn/en	Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Timmermans, Bram
Titel	Regional skill relatedness. Towards a new measure of regional related diversification. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Regionale Ähnlichkeiten in der Nutzung von Humankapital. Entwicklung eines neuen Maßes für die regionale Diversifizierung.
Quelle	In: European planning studies, 25 (2017) 3, S. 516-538 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0965-4313; 1469-5944
DOI	10.1080/09654313.2016.1244515
Schlagwörter	Wissenstransfer; Ländlicher Raum; Regionalforschung; Stadtregion; Branche; Arbeitsmarktforschung; Arbeitsmobilität; Berufsforschung; Qualifikationsbedarf; Qualifikationsstruktur; Heterogenität; Indikatorenbildung; Regionaler Vergleich; Norwegen
Abstract	"This paper proposes a novel index of regional skill-relatedness and calculates this measure for all Norwegian labour-market regions. Studies of regional related diversification rely on measures of related variety, which build on the industry classification hierarchy. However, the growing literature identifying similarities in knowledge and competences across industries demonstrates that these classifications fail to identify a great deal of actual skill relatedness, and that measures based on empirical measures of industry relatedness are required. The skill relatedness measure builds on labour mobility flows across industries to develop a relatedness matrix for Norwegian industries. It further uses social network analysis to identify the number of other regional industries to which each industry in a particular region is related. Comparing this measure to the related variety index, the analysis shows that the two measures are highly correlated, but that the regional skill relatedness index is able to identify more of the relatedness across industries. In particular, the related variety index tends to underestimate the level of relatedness in many of Norway's most technologically sophisticated manufacturing regions, whereas these rank highly in the regional skill relatedness index. Consequently, the regional skill relatedness index represents a promising new tool for identifying relatedness in regional systems." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2019/1