Spatial persistence of Japanese unemployment rates

Keisuke Kondo

Japan and the World Economy, 2015, vol. 36, issue C, 113-122

Abstract: Regional interdependence can make a spatial structure persist, resulting in the formation of unemployment clusters. As such, this study investigates whether Japanese unemployment rates are spatially persistent using a six-period municipal panel dataset built by integrating the country's 1980–2005 population censuses. In order to capture spatially interdependent aspects of regional unemployment, this study takes a spatial statistical approach using the Moran's I and Getis–Ord Gi*(d) statistics. This study finds that municipal unemployment rates in Japan show significant positive spatial autocorrelation. Furthermore, this analysis provides evidence that some groups of spatially contiguous municipalities form unemployment clusters, with heterogeneities among different genders and age groups.

Keywords: Spatial persistence; Regional interdependence; Unemployment rate; Moran's I; Getis–Ord Gi*(d) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J64 R12 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.japwor.2015.11.001

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