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Do creative industries enhance employment growth? Regional evidence from Colombia

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posted on 2023-06-10, 02:55 authored by Mercedes Campi, Marco Dueñas, Tommaso CiarliTommaso Ciarli
Do creative industries have positive spillovers for the local economy in middle-income countries, for instance by attracting creative workers who bene?t 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 signi?cant impact of an increase of creative industries employment on employment growth in other industries.

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Inter-American Development Bank

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Washington DC

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2022-03-18

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2022-03-18

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2022-03-18

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