TY - JOUR
T1 - Industrial specialization patterns across cities, agglomeration of skilled labour and technological growth
AU - Ikari, Hiroshi
AU - Kono, Tatsuhito
AU - Zhou, Yiming
N1 - Funding Information:
Financial support from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Government of Japan [Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research 20H01486], National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant number 71663023] and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [grant number FRFCU5710000520] is gratefully acknowledged. We appreciate the useful comments made by Masahisa Fujita, Hiroki Kondo, Hisa Morisugi, Ioan Voicu, Hangtian Xu, the editor and two anonymous referees. Despite this kind assistance from so many sources, any errors in the paper remain the authors’ responsibility.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - We investigate the cumulative causation between agglomeration of skilled workers and technological growth across cities with human capital externalities and agglomeration economies. We classify industry sectors in terms of technological growth: a modern sector with improving technology and a traditional sector with mature technology. Our model includes multiple specialization patterns of modern and traditional sectors across cities. We show that both ‘the cumulative causation between the agglomeration of skilled workers and technological growth’ and ‘the impacts of transport costs on that causation’ differ across industrial specialization patterns, implying that industrial specialization patterns matter for technological growth.
AB - We investigate the cumulative causation between agglomeration of skilled workers and technological growth across cities with human capital externalities and agglomeration economies. We classify industry sectors in terms of technological growth: a modern sector with improving technology and a traditional sector with mature technology. Our model includes multiple specialization patterns of modern and traditional sectors across cities. We show that both ‘the cumulative causation between the agglomeration of skilled workers and technological growth’ and ‘the impacts of transport costs on that causation’ differ across industrial specialization patterns, implying that industrial specialization patterns matter for technological growth.
KW - agglomeration of skilled labour
KW - industrial specialization pattern
KW - technological growth
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U2 - 10.1080/17421772.2021.2014944
DO - 10.1080/17421772.2021.2014944
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85122871228
SN - 1742-1772
VL - 17
SP - 311
EP - 331
JO - Spatial Economic Analysis
JF - Spatial Economic Analysis
IS - 3
ER -