Concentration of Manufacturing and Service Sector Activities in Italy: Accounting for Spatial Dependence and Firm Size Distribution
Résumé
Traditionally the analysis of the spatial distribution of economic activity on a discrete space is based on measures that suffer from a series of important drawbacks. This paper proposes a methodological advance in two respects. First, we extend the analysis to take spatial dependence explicitly into account. Second, we control for differences in the size distribution of firms between territorial units. These problems have so far only been treated separately in the literature. Using data for Italy, we apply exploratory spatial data analysis to identify sectoral location patterns in both the manufacturing industry as well as in the business services. We find that large differences prevail in the geographical concentration of production across sectors. The results of the exploratory spatial data analysis reveal the existence of well-defined clusters of economic activities.
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Science politique
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