This article investigates the geographical location of workers in jobs with high-knowledge requirements in the German … knowledge information for different jobs that comes from the US Department of Labor. We make use of the regional information … inherent to the GSOEP that can be accessed only through a special user contract. High-knowledge employment is differently …

The role of geographical proximity in fostering connections and knowledge flows between innovative actors ranks among … performance of these linkages. In this paper we address this underexplored issue and aim to complement the rare examples of … aspects. Our findings strongly support the assumption that the nature of knowledge involved determines the degree to which …

The importance of knowledge and innovation in modern economies justifies the in-creasing interest that scholars are … taking in studying knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS). The objective of this paper is to track the evolution of the … topic into three key conceptual dimensions: (i) knowledge; (ii) inno-vation and (iii) spatial proximity. The major …

A key feature of the knowledge-based economy is a remarkable increase in the number, foundation rates, and employees of … knowledge-intensive business service firms (KIBS). KIBS are knowledge-intensive, in the sense that they are founded upon highly … specialised knowledge. Based on the assumption that knowledge and knowledge organisation are tied to personal capabilities and …

We investigate the effects of job-specific knowledge for individual labor earnings of workers in the German economy …. The results indicate a positive effect for earnings stemming in particular from high-knowledge in the areas of sales and … concentrated in just a few places whereas workers with high-knowledge in law and government and administration and management are …