Skill matching and mismatching: labour market trajectories of redundant manufacturing workers

Hane-Weijman, Emelie

doi:10.1080/04353684.2021.1884497

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“…In particular, studies show that in times of economic crisis, regions with a large variety of industries that share similar skill requirements (Neffke and Henning, 2013) are most resilient. This is because these skill-related industries provide alternative job opportunities for workers that have become redundant and enable laid-off workers to move to local sectors where their skills do not diminish in value (Diodato and Weterings, 2015; Hane-Weijman, 2021; Hane-Weijman et al, 2018; Holm and Østergaard, 2015). Specialized regions are most vulnerable when no related jobs are around.…”

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Skill-relatedness and employment growth of firms in times of prosperity and crisis in an oil-dependent region

Rørheim

Boschma

2021

Environ Plan A

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Many studies have shed light on the positive side of relatedness, but little attention has yet been devoted to possible downsides of relatedness for firm performance in regions. We found in a case study of the oil-dependent Stavanger region in Norway that plants in industries that are skill-related to the dominant oil and gas industry showed lower employment growth than plants in other industries. This was the case both in the boom and the crisis periods, even when controlling for supply linkages to the oil and gas sector. However, we also found that plants skill-related to the oil and gas industry increased their relative performance during the crisis to some degree, but they did not outperform the non-skill-related plants during the crisis.

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