Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: George Deltas
Author-Name-First: George
Author-Name-Last: Deltas
Author-Name: Dakshina Garfield De Silva
Author-Name-First: Dakshina Garfield
Author-Name-Last: De Silva
Author-Name: Robert McComb
Author-Name-First: Robert
Author-Name-Last: McComb
Title: Spatial Persistence of Agglomeration in Software Publishing
Abstract: We estimate the effects of industrial localization on the spatial persistence of employment in the software industry, using micro-data from Texas for the 2000-2006 period. Locations with an initial concentration of software employment retain an excess number of employees, beyond that expected from job turnover and job persistence at the establishment level. This is not driven by differential establishment growth or survival, but it is due to (a) the retention by establishments in a location of jobs lost by other establishments in that location, and (b) the propensity of software establishments to enter in locations with prior software establishment presence. These findings are more consistent with labor channel effects than with human capital spillovers.
Creation-Date: 2018
File-URL: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/documents/lums/economics/working-papers/LancasterWP2018_012.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Number: 242312727
Classification-JEL: R32, L86, R12
Keywords: Agglomeration economies, labor pools, knowledge spillovers, firm growth, spatial effects
Handle: RePEc:lan:wpaper:242312727