Research Article
Human Capital, Skills, and Uneven Intraurban Employment Growth: The Case of Göteborg, Sweden, 1990–2008
Table 2
Variable definitions and descriptive statistics. All variables are measured in year 1990 if not stated otherwise.
| Variable | Definition | Mean | Std. Dev. | Min | Max |
| Dependent variables | | | | | | Emp9093 | Employment change (%) in 1990–93 (log) | −0.16 | 0.19 | −1.25 | 0.87 | Emp9000 | Employment change (%) in 1990–00 (log) | −0.10 | 0.51 | −1.89 | 1.00 | Emp9008 | Employment change (%) in 1990–08 (log) | 0.09 | 0.51 | −1.49 | 2.22 | Human capital | | | | | | HumanCap | Share (%) of workers with at least bachelor’s degree (log) | −1.33 | 0.34 | −2.81 | −0.63 | SkillCompLQ | Concentration of creative workers compared to city (LQ) | 1.04 | 0.44 | 0.32 | 2.62 | SkillCompLQ2 | Concentration of creative workers compared to city (LQ), squared | 1.26 | 1.26 | 0.10 | 6.88 | Controllers | | | | | | EmpLog | Total number of people employed in area in 1990 (log) | 8.56 | 1.01 | 4.53 | 10.13 | PopLog | Total number of people resident in area in 1990 (log) | 8.21 | 1.10 | 2.94 | 9.19 | EIncGrowth9093 | Change (%) in mean income of employed people in area 1990–93 | 0.99 | 0.06 | 0.81 | 1.49 | PIncGrowth9093 | Change (%) in mean income of residents in area 1990–93 | 0.87 | 0.08 | 0.57 | 1.09 | EIncGrowth9000 | Change (%) in mean income of employed people in area 1990–00 | 1.20 | 0.09 | 0.86 | 1.49 | PIncGrowth9000 | Change (%) in mean income of residents in area 1990–00 | 1.13 | 0.17 | 0.60 | 1.46 | EIncGrowth9008 | Change (%) in mean income of employed people in area 1990–08 | 1.36 | 0.17 | 0.84 | 1.83 | PIncGrowth9000 | Change (%) in mean income of residents in area 1990–08 | 1.26 | 0.24 | 0.23 | 1.70 | LQ_KM | Concentration of knowledge intensive manufacturing (LQ) | 0.85 | 1.36 | 0.00 | 5.36 | LQ_LM | Concentration of labour intensive manufacturing (LQ) | 0.99 | 1.57 | 0.00 | 8.35 | LQ_BS | Concentration of business related services (LQ) | 1.13 | 1.07 | 0.00 | 6.10 | LQ_LS | Concentration of labour intensive services (LQ) | 1.02 | 0.53 | 0.08 | 2.54 | PlantCompLog | Number of employees per plant (log) | 3.23 | 0.75 | 1.34 | 6.61 |
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