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...

Regional politicians regard the cluster concept as a key factor for promoting regional economic performance. They refer to a comprehensive set of theoretical and empirical literature which provides the clusters' positive impact on regional development. Recent studies dealing with that topic...

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)...

Kleine und mittlere Betriebe stellen den Großteil des gesamtwirtschaftlichen Stellenangebots und damit auch den Großteil der Neueinstellungen in Deutschland. So gab es im Jahr 2016 insgesamt 3,65 Millionen Neueinstellungen im Bereich der sozialversicherungspflichtigen Beschäftigung, 44...