Actual clustering paths of economic sectors in Latvia by the labour flows
2011
Vilcina, A., Latvia Univ. of Agriculture, Jelgava (Latvia). Faculty of Economics | Boronenko, V., Daugavpils Univ. (Latvia). Inst. of Social Investigations
The empirical research of actual clustering paths of economic sectors in Latvia was carried out on the methodological statement that employment mobility constitutes a channel for knowledge and technology diffusion between economic industries/sectors/branches/segments, creating clusters at its level. The focus in this research is, in addition to empirically measuring the intensity of inter-sector labour mobility in the economy of Latvia, in establishing the employment transition linkages (or labour flow paths) between economic sectors. The authors use the experience of the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA) – the quantitative measuring of the patterns of worker flows between industries as well as anonymous individual data from the Labour Force Survey 2008-2009 of the Central Statistical Bureau of the Republic of Latvia to implement a Finnish research tool in Latvia. Within this empirical research the directions of the labour flows, i.e. from where to where the transitions are made as well as the strength of these linkages, namely, how common it is in relative terms that a worker in an industry moves to a different economic sector (or to non-employment). The method of labour flows explains partly the state and dynamics of some sectorial clusters as well as the modern performance of Latvia’s economic sectors in the human capital aspect.
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