This article analyses how regional employment growth in Germany is affected by related variety, unrelated variety and the functions a region performs in the production process. Following the related variety literature, we argue that regions benefit from the existence of related activities that...

This paper explores the impact of industrial clusters on regional growth at level of German labour market regions within a regional convergence model. It focuses on vertically connected industrial sectors, which can emerge parallel to horizontal interconnections. Based on works of Schnabl (2000)...

Der Beitrag untersucht im Rahmen eines regionalen Konvergenzmodells den Einfluss, den industrielle Cluster auf das Wachstum der deutschen AMR von 1996 bis 2005 ausüben. Dabei erfährt insbesondere die Rolle der Ko-Lokalisierung von konzentrierten verbundenen Wirtschaftszweigen eine besondere...

We use the locational pattern of clubs in four major professional football leagues in Europe to test the causal effect of changes in premier league membership on regional employment and output growth at the NUTS 3 level. We rely on the relegation mode of the classical round-robin tournament in...