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The creative class: do jobs follow people or do people follow jobs?

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  • Stein Østbye
  • Mikko Moilanen
  • Hannu Tervo
  • Olle Westerlund

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Regional adjustment models are applied to explore causal interaction between two types of people distinguished by educational attainment, and two types of jobs: creative class jobs and other jobs. Data used are for labour market regions in Finland, Norway and Sweden from the 2000s. Creative class jobs follow people with high educational attainment (one way causation), but creative class jobs also follow other jobs and vice versa (circular causation). The results suggest that stimulating creative class job growth could be accomplished through attracting people with higher education, but also by attracting other jobs with the added benefit that the initial stimulus would be reinforced through circular and cumulative causation between job creation in the two sectors.

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  • Stein Østbye & Mikko Moilanen & Hannu Tervo & Olle Westerlund, 2018. "The creative class: do jobs follow people or do people follow jobs?," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 52(6), pages 745-755, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:52:y:2018:i:6:p:745-755
    DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2016.1254765
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