Does the presence of high-skilled employees increase total and high-skilled employment in the long run? Evidence from Austria.

Autor/inn/en	Sardadvar, Sascha; Reiner, Christian
Titel	Does the presence of high-skilled employees increase total and high-skilled employment in the long run? Evidence from Austria. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Erhöht die Präsenz von hochqualifizierten Arbeitnehmern langfristig die Gesamtbeschäftigung und die Beschäftigung von Hochqualifizierten? Erkenntnisse aus Österreich.
Quelle	In: Empirica, 44 (2017) 1, S. 59-89 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0340-8744; 1573-6911
DOI	10.1007/s10663-015-9311-5
Schlagwörter	Arbeitskräftestruktur; Beschäftigungsentwicklung; Mittlere Berufsausbildung; Niedrig Qualifizierter; Qualifikationsstruktur; Auswirkung; Regionaler Vergleich; Hoch Qualifizierter; Österreich
Abstract	"Studies conducted for the US have found a positive effect of human capital endowments on employment growth, with human capital endowments diverging at the same time. In contrast, studies for European countries have found convergence of human capital endowments. This paper tests these relationships for the 99 Austrian districts for the observation period 1971 - 2011 by estimating how the presence of high-skilled employment affects total, low-skilled and high-skilled employment growth. To this end, OLS, fixed-effects and first-difference regressions are estimated. The results indicate continuous convergence of high-skilled employment which, however, slowed down significantly since the 1990s. In contrast to previous studies, evidence for positive effects of high-skilled on total and low-skilled employment is only weak and varies over time. Furthermore, the results show that total and high-skilled employment in suburban areas grew faster than in other regions, while districts which bordered the Eastern Bloc were disadvantaged. Nevertheless, spatial neighbourhood effects within Austria are only weak." (Author's abstract, © Springer-Verlag).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2017/3