Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 1215:
Urban Specialization in the Internet Age ; Empirical Findings for Germany
Franz-Josef Bade, Claus-Friedrich Laaser and Rüdiger Soltwedel
Abstract: Declining spatial transaction costs will affect patterns
of urban specialization. The underlying hypothesis is that production
locations of goods and services which require face-to-face contacts will
continue to be concentrated in core cities of large agglomerations even in
the Internet age while locations of standardized production activities with
a high codified information content will spread to more peripheral
locations. The paper provides empirical evidence on changes in employment
specialization patterns of nine different types of German districts
(ranging from core cities of agglomerations to low density rural districts)
for the period 1976 to 2002. Obviously there is an increasing concentration
of “white collar” employees relative to “blue collar” workers in core
cities which even gains momentum in particular in the second half of the
1990s.
Keywords: E-commerce, Spatial Division of Labor; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: O18,; O33,; R11; (follow links to similar papers)
32 pages, August 2004
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