Regional diversification and labour market upgrading: local access to skill-related high-income jobs helps workers escaping low-wage employment

被引：1

作者：

Elekes, Zoltan ^{[1
,2
,3
]}

Baranowska-Rataj, Anna ^{[4
,5
]}

Eriksson, Rikard ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] ELKH Ctr Econ & Reg Stud, Agglomerat & Social Networks Res Lab, H-1097 Budapest, Hungary

[2] Umea Univ, Ctr Reg Sci, S-90187 Umea, Sweden

[3] Umea Univ, Dept Geog, S-90187 Umea, Sweden

[4] Umea Univ, Dept Sociol, S-90187 Umea, Sweden

[5] Umea Univ, Ctr Demog & Ageing Res, S-90187 Umea, Sweden

来源：

CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF REGIONS ECONOMY AND SOCIETY | 2023年 / 16卷 / 03期

基金：

瑞典研究理事会; 匈牙利科学研究基金会;

关键词：

skill-relatedness network; local labour market; low-wage workers; diversification and structural change; relatedness density; LOW PAY; GROWTH; POLARIZATION; MOBILITY; INDUSTRY; REALLOCATION; DYNAMICS; QUALITY; ENTRY;

D O I：

10.1093/cjres/rsad016

中图分类号：

F0 [经济学]; F1 [世界各国经济概况、经济史、经济地理]; C [社会科学总论];

学科分类号：

0201 ; 020105 ; 03 ; 0303 ;

摘要：

This article investigates how the evolution of local labour market structure enables or constrains workers as regards escaping low-wage jobs. Drawing on the network-based approach of evolutionary economic geography, we employ a detailed individual-level panel dataset to construct skill-relatedness networks for 72 functional labour market regions in Sweden. Subsequent fixed-effect panel regressions indicate that increasing density of skill-related high-income jobs within a region is conducive to low-wage workers moving to better-paid jobs, hence facilitating labour market upgrading through diversification. While metropolitan regions offer a premium for this relationship, it also holds for smaller regions, and across various worker characteristics.

引用

页码：417 / 430

页数：14