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An Account of Geographic Concentration Patterns in Europe

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Brulhart, Marius
Traeger, Rolf

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Using entropy indices and associated bootstrap tests, we describe the distribution of economic sectors across Western European regions over the 1975-2000 period. We decompose geographic concentration into its within-country and between-country components. In addition, we estimate centre-periphery gradients in sectoral location patterns and the impact of EU membership on countries' internal geography. It is found that manufacturing has become gradually more concentrated, although the locational bias towards central regions has become weaker. Conversely, market services have been relocating towards centrally located regions. EU integration appears to have strengthened countries' internal concentration trends.

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Paper provided by Hamburg Institute of International Economics in its series Discussion Paper Series with number 26155.

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Keywords: geographic concentration; EU regions; centre-periphery gradients; entropy indices; bootstrap inference; Community/Rural/Urban Development; R12; R14; F15;

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