Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/306481 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Citation: 
[Journal:] Papers in Regional Science [ISSN:] 1435-5957 [Volume:] 96 [Issue:] Supplement 1 [Publisher:] Elsevier [Place:] Amsterdam [Year:] 2017 [Pages:] S51-S68
Publisher: 
Elsevier, Amsterdam
Abstract: 
This paper substantiates the debate following Richard Florida's suggestion to measure regional human capital by creative occupations rather than education. Consistent with Florida's notion of creativity, it suggests a microfoundation that relates creativity to workers’ cognitive and non‐cognitive skills. It shows that this microfoundation is similar to that of human capital in recent labour economics, which has facilitated important new insights. While the regional measures of creative occupations developed by Florida or others are too crude to make a difference, occupations may help project workers’ cognitive and non‐cognitive skills from the micro to the regional level.
Subjects: 
human capital
education
creativity
cognitive skills
non‐cognitive skills
JEL: 
I21
I25
J24
R12
R23
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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