Location decisions in a changing labour market environment

Björn Frank

We study the location of various film-related services (such as camera rental, casting agencies or pyrotechnic services), the main determinant of interest being the human capital specificity. We show that firms which supply services with a lower firm specificity locate farther away from one another, and argue that it can be concluded that the "poaching" argument (fear of employees leaving for a competitor in large regional labour markets) has greater practical weight than the Marshallian labour pooling mechanism

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Year of publication:	November 2003
Authors:	Frank, Björn
Publisher:	Berlin, Germany : DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research
Subject:	agglomeration \| film industry \| flexible specialisation \| labour pooling \| poaching \| regional labour markets \| turnover \| Standortwahl \| Location choice \| Filmwirtschaft \| Film industry \| Ballungsraum \| Metropolitan area \| Regionaler Arbeitsmarkt \| Regional labour market \| Regionale Arbeitsmobilität \| Regional labour mobility \| Schätzung \| Estimation \| Deutschland \| Germany

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 18 Seiten) Illustrationen
Series:	Discussion papers / Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung. - Berlin : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ISSN 1619-4535, ZDB-ID 2125067-4. - Vol. 380
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/18136 [Handle]
Classification:	R30 - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location. General ; J41 - Contracts: Specific Human Capital, Matching Models, Efficiency Wage Models, and Internal Labor Markets ; J63 - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs ; L82 - Entertainment; Media (Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Broadcasting, Publishing, etc.)
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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