Germany's Creative Sector and its Impact on Employment Growth

The creative sector is considered to impact on employment and creative sector's employment growth. Using a fixed effects model with time-lags, evidence is found that the creative sector fosters the growth rate of employment in German regions. Large shares of creative professionals lead to an increase in employment, but also reduce the growth rate of the creative sector. However, the growth rates are unequally distributed between the regions. Initially large shares of creative professionals further push the regional concentration of those professions in highly agglomerated regions. Driving forces for the concentration are specific characteristics, i.e. knowledge spillovers and cultural amenities. Moreover, for the evolution of the creative sector current policy strategies for the promotion of creative cities are presented.

Autorentext

Jan Wedemeier joined the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI) in 2007. He was a Research Fellow at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei in Milan. His main research interests include regional and creative economy. He studied economics at the University of Applied Science in Bremen and the Malmö University in Sweden.

Inhalt
Contents: Regional Employment Growth Creative Sector Human Capital Creative Professionals' and Ethnic-Cultural Diversity Self-Reinforcing Process Knowledge Spillovers and Cultural Amenities Hamburg's Creative Sector.