Human capital as a location factor:an empirical investigation of relocating firms and their labour force in the Netherlands
This paper examines the role of human capital as a location factor in the context of long-distance firm relocations. Using rich register data on single-plant firms in the Netherlands 2006-2011, the paper enquires into whether relocation is motivated by the wish to improve the access to employees and the quality of labour force. Not disrupting existing spatial relationships is a prominent consideration of relocating firms, yet in general relocation does not result in a better spatial match. Some evidence is found for firm-specific human capital functioning as a keep factor. Relocating firms ret... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2018 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Morkute , G & Koster , S 2018 , ' Human capital as a location factor : an empirical investigation of relocating firms and their labour force in the Netherlands ' , Papers in Regional Science , vol. 97 , no. 3 , pp. 595-616 . https://doi.org/10.1111/pirs.12257 |
Schlagwörter: | Firm relocation / human capital / location factors / embeddedness / KNOWLEDGE WORKERS / GREAT RECESSION / SKILL MISMATCH / UNEMPLOYMENT / SEARCH / MOVE / RISE |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27600584 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://hdl.handle.net/11370/4abd8808-1f46-47b3-99a2-e4b31fe7c672 |
This paper examines the role of human capital as a location factor in the context of long-distance firm relocations. Using rich register data on single-plant firms in the Netherlands 2006-2011, the paper enquires into whether relocation is motivated by the wish to improve the access to employees and the quality of labour force. Not disrupting existing spatial relationships is a prominent consideration of relocating firms, yet in general relocation does not result in a better spatial match. Some evidence is found for firm-specific human capital functioning as a keep factor. Relocating firms retain predominantly highly skilled employees, but general human capital itself does function neither as a keep factor nor as a pull factor.