Regional Productivity: Trends, Explanations, and Policies

2021 ◽  
pp. 209-310
Author(s):  
Dana Vorisek ◽  
Gene Kindberg-Hanlon ◽  
Rudi Steinbach ◽  
Temel Taskin ◽  
Ekaterine Vashakmadze ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Regional Productivity

scholarly journals Effect of regional skill gaps and skill shortages on firm productivity

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (5) ◽  
pp. 933-952 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Morris ◽  
Enrico Vanino ◽  
Carlo Corradini
Keyword(s):  
Spillover Effects ◽  
Firm Productivity ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Regional Productivity ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
Skill Gaps ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Skill Shortages

This paper contributes to the literature on regional productivity, complementing previous education and skill-level perspectives with a novel approach analysing the impact of regional skill gaps and skill shortages. This allows us to reflect the idiosyncratic needs of the regional economic structure better, considering both the demand and supply side of the skills equation in localised labour markets. Controlling for unobserved time-invariant firm-level heterogeneity and other region–industry effects across a longitudinal data set for the period 2008–2014, our analysis reveals a negative direct effect of skill shortages on firm productivity. We further find negative spillover effects for both skill gaps and skill shortages in related industries and proximate regions. Results are also shown to be heterogeneous with respect to agglomeration levels and industrial sectors. Stronger negative effects are found in industries defined by a knowledge-intensive skill base, pointing to the loss of learning effects in the presence of skill deficiencies. Conversely, agglomeration effects appear to moderate the impact of skill deficiencies through more efficient matching in the local labour market. The findings presented thus suggest that policies aimed at improving productivity and addressing the increasing regional productivity divide cannot be reduced to a simple space-neutral support for higher education and skill levels but need to recognise explicitly the presence and characteristics of place-specific skills gaps and shortages.

Effects of FDI spillover on regional productivity

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 427-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murugesan Ramasamy ◽  
Dominic Dhanapal ◽  
Poovendhan Murugesan
Keyword(s):  
Regional Productivity

scholarly journals Creative Destruction and Regional Productivity: Evidence from the Polish Regions in 2004–2015

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (341) ◽  
pp. 201-215
Author(s):  
Sławomir Kuźmar
Keyword(s):  
Labour Productivity ◽  
Creative Destruction ◽  
Regional Productivity ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
Reverse Relationship ◽  
Development Levels ◽  
Reallocation Of Resources

A considerable and persisting diversity of the development levels of Polish regions makes it necessary to seek potential causes of this phenomenon. It can be presumed that some of the diversity is caused by institutional qualities, characteristic for each individual region, including the dynamics of the reallocation of resources available in a particular region, which can be identified with the creative destruction processes, indicated by J. A. Schumpeter. In the view of these facts, this study aims at identifying the mechanisms of creative destruction processes and assessing their influence on the levels of regional productivity of labour in Poland, in the 2004–2015 time period. The conducted analyses showed that the correlation between the measures of creative destruction and the labour productivity is ambiguous and limited, as it was confirmed for only a part of Polish regions. For the remaining part, contrary to the theoretical assumptions, a reverse relationship was observed, i.e. it is the dynamics of productivity that affects the level of reallocation of resources, identified with the processes of creative destruction.

scholarly journals Implications and Competitiveness of Regions on Regional Development of Central Java

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 158
Author(s):  
Daryono Soebagiyo
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Comparative Advantage ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Regional Competitiveness ◽  
Regional Productivity ◽  
Central Java ◽  
The City ◽  
Efficiency And Productivity

Regional Competitiveness be one of the issues in regional development policy since the enactment of regional autonomy. Based on the results of the efficiency analysis found 11 areas of the city and district have the efficiency and 4 districts do not have the efficiency. Regional Competitiveness in Central Java based Comparative Advantage and Competitive known regions that have a high comparative and competitive advantages consist of 4 areas. Regional Mapping Based on Efficiency and Productivity Local known areas that have high efficiency and productivity which consists of 4 areas. Based Competitive Advantage Regional Productivity is high and not found. Under the Regional Competitiveness and Regional Productivity high was not found. Based on Comparative Advantage and Regional Development area there are 4 high. Based Competitive Advantage and Regional Development of high there are 2 areas. Based on Regional Productivity and Regional Development of high there are 2 counties and cities

scholarly journals Selected regional geographical differences of the Czech Republic agriculture, after the transformation processes

2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (No. 5) ◽  
pp. 207-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Věžník ◽  
L. Bartošová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Agricultural Policies ◽  
Geographical Differences ◽  
Regional Productivity ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Moment

Transformation of Czech agriculture led to significant changes, which were mirrored in the crystallisation of rather large territorial differences. Clear regional disproportions are a fundamental problem for the state as a whole, therefore, it is important to provide aid for the regions that lag behind in economic development by introducing sensible regional policies. This situation is still more complicated in agriculture, as this transformation to  free market economy results in the unequal regional development in relation to  natural environment,  regional traditions and the level of rural settlement in addition to the phenomena such as price liberalisation  and the flow of goods, capital and population, among other. At the moment, the principal aims of regional agricultural policies are the preservation of regional productivity, the settlement of problematic and endangered regions and the support of a balanced regional development. The primary goal of this article is to indicate some of the largest regional differentiations in the agriculture of the Czech Republic. The purpose is to give an increased consideration to the restructuring of agricultural production, the environment and the social and general economic milieu in which it is located

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