propose that specialization and diversity may offer externalities operating at different spatial scales. Using high …-level production function to show that close proximity to employment density in the own industry, as well as city-wide diversity …

controlled by foreign owners. Controlling for a series of determinants like, for example, the internal diversity of firms and …

-specific preferences of business services firms for location attributes such as diversity of economic activities and specialisation of … to locate near a group of firms that belong to the same sector, not necessarily business services firms, so diversity is … between-sector interactions (diversity). …

In this paper we study the impact of diversity on regional growth by extending the existing literature in such that we … differentiate between industry diversity and human capital diversity. In order to measure human capital diversity we construct a … evidence that regions with higher degrees of human capital diversity exhibit higher GDP-per-capita and employment growth, as …

economic agents. A frequently discussed source of such externalities is regional diversity of the industry structure. A large … number of empirical studies support the argument that regional diversity can be beneficial to regional employment, innovation …, and economic stability. It is not particularly surprising that diversity in the industry structure can be assumed to …