We examine how highway accessibility influences local employment outcomes. We exploit the stagewise expansion of the …-indifferences estimations and an event study approach show that highway access influences local employment outcomes in peripheral municipalities … within 10 km road distance. Improved accessibility decreases employment by 9%. These effects are driven by reduced commuter …

Regional growth dynamics significantly deviate from a normal process. Using industry-specific employment data for …

entrepreneurial and innovation activity is well documented. On the other hand, their influence on regional employment growth is less … and employees in research institutes and the growth of employment in a region. The analysis is done for nine industries … separately. We find that university graduates have a significant influence on employment growth in several industries, while an …

A major aspect of employment growth is discussed in relation to economic growth. This paper deals with the question as … to whether the relationship between economic and employment growth, subsumed under the idiom Verdoorn's Law, holds true … markets. The employees are differentiated into sectoral affiliation, education, national status and part-time employment. The …

This study investigates the effects of local broadband internet availability on establishment-level employment growth … variation in local broadband availability. The results suggest that broadband expansion had a positive effect on employment … broadband in the production process that leads to complementary hiring, respectively a slowdown of employment growth, in the …