scholarly journals The Technological Progress of Regional Industry and Local Employment Growth

2016 ◽  
Vol 90 (null) ◽  
pp. 85-97
Author(s):  
최지혜 ◽  
KIMILTAE
Keyword(s):  
Technological Progress ◽  
Employment Growth ◽  
Local Employment

scholarly journals Agglomeration Economies in Small Cities and Business: The Impact of the Great Recession in Aragón (Spain)

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (14) ◽  
pp. 3770 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael González-Val ◽  
Miriam Marcén
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
Employment Growth ◽  
Population Distribution ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Annual Data ◽  
Small Cities ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Local Employment

In this paper, we analyze the effects of productive specialization and productive diversity on employment growth at the local level during the Great Recession in Aragon, a NUTS II region in Spain. This region is characterized by (i) a high population density in the capital city (around half of the total population), giving rise to a very uneven population distribution and therefore a lot of small cities and municipalities, and (ii) a large proportion of small businesses (95% of the firms in this region have fewer than ten employees). We use annual data from 2000 to 2015 and panel data models, and grouped local business activities into three main categories: industry, construction and services. Our results show that, during this period, local specialization in any of these activities hurt local employment growth, whereas diversity had a non-significant effect on employment growth. Only in the case of services did we obtain a positive effect of diversity on local employment growth, which was restricted to the most populated cities (i.e., cities with more than 3000 inhabitants). Therefore, only diversity in services activities located in large cities contributed to employment growth during the Great Recession.

The Determinants of Local Employment Growth in Spain

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 511-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Gutiérrez Posada ◽  
Fernando Rubiera Morollón ◽  
Ana Viñuela
Keyword(s):  
Employment Growth ◽  
Local Employment

Estimation of Local Employment Growth: Do Sectoral Aggregation and Industry Definition Matter?

2013 ◽  
Vol 48 (11) ◽  
pp. 1813-1828 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Mameli ◽  
Alessandra Faggian ◽  
Philip Mccann
Keyword(s):  
Employment Growth ◽  
Local Employment

Fourth industrial revolution and India's “employment problem”

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (7) ◽  
pp. 851-866
Author(s):  
Sujatra Bhattacharyya ◽  
Arup Mitra
Keyword(s):  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Employment Growth ◽  
Capital Intensity ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Employment Problem ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThis paper aims at assessing the impact of innovation on productivity as sustainable development can be attained primarily through non-resource-driven growth. Secondly, it also proposes to reflect on the rising capital intensity in the Indian industries as technology advancement, particularly in the light of the fourth industrial revolution, is expected to reduce the labour absorbing capacity of the industrial sector.Design/methodology/approachBased on panel data for different Indian firms in various groups of industries, this paper estimates TFPG and TE (following Cornwell et al. methodology) and assesses the impact of R&D expenditure on the performance indices. Secondly, it measures the capital intensity across various groups of industries to reflect on the “employment problem”.FindingsInnovation does not seem to enhance the performance index in a very significant manner across industry groups considered in the study. The lack of extensive evidence on impact of innovation on total factor productivity growth suggests that innovation does not necessarily result in technological progress while the need of the hour is to experience non-resource-driven growth on the one hand and employment growth on the other. The positive impact of innovation on efficiency as seen in the paper can be interpreted as the expenditure incurred to realize the potentiality of the technology which is possibly imported. However, capital accumulation is resulting in rapid productivity growth at the cost of employment.Research limitations/implicationsCapturing technological progress in terms of TFPG can be subjected to criticism.Practical implicationsPolicy implications for employment generation and inclusive growth are derived.Social implicationsThe study cautions us about the adverse implications in terms of employment growth.Originality/valueAssessing the impact of innovation on performance such as TFPG and TE is rather rare in the literature, and this paper tries to reflect on this aspect using the Indian firm-level data. Secondly, the trade-offs between productivity growth and employment growth are brought out distinctly in order to highlight the declining labour absorbing capacity of the industrial sector. This enables us to reflect on the adverse consequences of the fourth industrial revolution.

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