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Identifying Export Industries Using Parametric Density Functions

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  • Donald Nichols

    (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

  • David Mushinski

    (Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO)

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In this article, the authors present a new way of identifying the set of industries that may constitute a region’s economic base. The authors focus on the differences among regions in their regional employment shares (the percentage of total employment in a particular region attributable to a particular industry). They find that the distribution across regions of regional employment shares can be characterized by what they call a mixed-exponential distribution for industries that are easy to classify as being export industries—such as automotive manufacturing—while the distributions of regional employment shares for some easy-to-classify local industries tend to be normal. The authors then attempt to classify each of the remaining industries as being either export or local to determine whether the empirical distribution of employment shares in each industry is more like the mixed-exponential distribution or more like the normal distribution. The attempt is partially successful.

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  • Donald Nichols & David Mushinski, 2003. "Identifying Export Industries Using Parametric Density Functions," International Regional Science Review, , vol. 26(1), pages 68-85, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:inrsre:v:26:y:2003:i:1:p:68-85
    DOI: 10.1177/0160017602238986
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    1. David Mushinski & Donald Nichols, 2011. "Identifying the export component of industries that produce partly for local consumption," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 46(2), pages 313-329, April.
    2. repec:rre:publsh:v:33:y:2003:i:2:p:164-83 is not listed on IDEAS
    3. Eli Miloslavsky & Howard J. Shatz, 2006. "Services Exports and the States: Measuring the Potential," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 20(1), pages 3-21, February.

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