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dc.titleDo Creative Industries Enhance Employment Growth? Regional Evidence from Colombia
dc.contributor.authorCampi, Mercedes
dc.contributor.authorDueñas, Marco
dc.contributor.authorCiarli, Tommaso
dc.contributor.orgunitCompetitiveness, Technology and Innovation Division
dc.coverageColombia
dc.date.available2022-02-18T00:02:00
dc.date.issue2022-02-18T00:02:00
dc.description.abstractDo creative industries have positive spillovers for the local economy in middle-income countries, for instance by attracting creative workers who benefit entrepreneurs and workers in other industries? Creative industries are considered highly innovative and productive and several studies in high-income countries have revealed such spillovers. However, the institutional and economic settings in middle-income countries may not be as conducive to them. Creative industries represented between 2.7 and 3.3 percent of Colombian employment in 2008 and 2017. Using granular employment data, we study their agglomeration patterns between 2008 and 2017. We nd agglomeration in the largest cities (Bogota, Medellin, and Cartagena) and in a few smaller cities. Using methodologies from prior studies yields a positive relationship between creative industry agglomeration and employment in non-creative services industries. However, after controlling for endogeneity using a shift-share instrumental variable approach, we nd, contrary to analyses of high-income countries, no signicant impact of an increase of creative industries employment on employment growth in other industries.
dc.format.extent35
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003993
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Do-Creative-Industries-Enhance-Employment-Growth-Regional-Evidence-from-Colombia.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectEmployment Rate
dc.subjectLabor
dc.subjectIndustry
dc.subjectCreative Industry
dc.subjectCreative Economy
dc.subjectCreativity
dc.subjectTechnology Service
dc.subjectEconomy
dc.subjectAgglomeration Economy
dc.subjectSmall Business
dc.subjectLabor Force
dc.subjectInnovation
dc.subject.jelcodeZ18 - Public Policy
dc.subject.jelcodeO10 - Economic Development: General
dc.subject.jelcodeD62 - Externalities
dc.subject.keywordsagglomerations;employment growth;Colombia
dc.typeWorking Papers
idb.identifier.pubnumberIDB-WP-01279
idb.operationRG-T2959
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