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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Di Berardino, Claudio
• Onesti, Gianni
• Pinate, Adriana Carolina

Titel

Related Variety and Employment Growth in Italy: Testing Sectoral Heterogeneity through Pavitt's Taxonomy

Ist Teil von

• L'industria: rivista di economia e politica industriale, 2020-04, Vol.41 (2), p.291

Ort / Verlag

Bologna: Societa Editrice il Mulino

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

PAIS Index

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The present study aims to provide additional evidence for the role and importance of related variety in manufacturing in fostering employment growth among Italian provinces (nuts 3) over the period 2001-2011. The focus is on assessing the sectoral specificities by adopting Pavitt's taxonomy. Concerning potential complementarities between manufacturing industries, the results indicate that the positive influence of externalities on growth dynamics are not necessarily due to the variety among high-tech sectors. Specifically, we find that the effects on employment are influenced by related variety among specialised suppliers and scale intensive sectors, in which their success in the market is not primarily related to R&D.The findings are robust once we control for some important variables able to capture the productive structure and the innovation (trademarks) of Italian regions.