Causal relations between knowledge-intensive business services and regional employment growth

• Published in: Regional studies Vol. 52; no. 2; pp. 172 - 183
• Main Authors: Brenner, Thomas, Capasso, Marco, Duschl, Matthias, Frenken, Koen, Treibich, Tania
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Routledge 01.02.2018; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Autoregressive models; Autoregressive processes; Branchendynamik; Business; Business services; Courts; crecimiento de empleo regional; croissance de l'emploi régional; dinámicas industriales; dynamique industrielle; Economic Geography; Economic models; efectos secundarios del crecimiento; Ekonomisk geografi; Employment; financial geography; Finanzgeografie; geografía financiera; growth spillovers; géographie financière; industrial dynamics; knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS); Labor market; Regional development; regional employment growth; regionales Beschäftigungswachstum; Regression analysis; retombées de la croissance; Samhällsvetenskap; Services; services aux entreprises à haute intensité de connaissances (KIBS); servicios empresariales intensivos en conocimiento (SEIC); Social and Economic Geography; Social och ekonomisk geografi; Social Sciences; wissensintensive Unternehmensdienstleistungen; Übertragungseffekte von Wachstum; 区域就业成长; 成长外溢; 產业动态; 知识密集商业服务（KIBS）; 金融地理学
• ISSN: 0034-3404; 1360-0591
• DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2016.1265104

Causal relations between knowledge-intensive business services and regional employment growth. Regional Studies. This paper studies the causal relations between regional employment growth in knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) and overall regional employment growth using German labour-market data for 1999-2012. Adopting a recently developed technique, it uses a structural vector autoregressive model in which the causal directions between KIBS and other sectors are examined including various time lags. Results show that although regional growth has a negative short-term effect on KIBS, KIBS growth has a long-term positive effect on the whole regional economy. This confirms the claim that KIBS can play a key role in regional policies.