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- Title
The public sector and regional development: Why public sector employment remains a black box in economic geography, and how should we open it?
- Authors
Hansen, Høgni Kalsø; Eriksson, Rikard H
- Abstract
Despite increasing calls on the state to manage major challenges, in the existing literature, the state – and public sector activities more generally – tends to be overlooked as an agent of regional change. The role of public sector jobs is often taken for granted, with diverse empirical findings being strongly influenced by geography and time period, if they are considered at all. We discuss two main threads of research on contemporary public sector employment that could enhance our understanding of the role of the public sector in regional development (i.e. human capital formation and diversification).
- Subjects
REGIONAL development; PUBLIC sector; HUMAN capital; EMPLOYMENT; ECONOMIC geography; CHANGE agents
- Publication
Progress in Human Geography, 2023, Vol 47, Issue 6, p833
- ISSN
0309-1325
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/03091325231205094