 The dynamics of industrial geographic distribution: evidence from Brazil (2002-2014)Roberta de Moraes Rocha () and José Ewerton Silva Araújo () Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 2021, vol. 41, issue 4, 760-781 Abstract: The geographical distribution of Brazilian industries changed between 2002 and2014, and it was more significant for some industries. Based on Dumais et al. (2002), weexplore the dynamics of these changes by a decomposition of the employment variation andconcentration index for manufacturing industries grouped by technological intensity, and we identify the direction of the locational movements of the firms among microregions. In general., the results indicate that between 2002 and 2014, there was a trend of convergenceamong the microregions’ participation in industrial employment, contributing to industrialdeconcentration in the country, with the exception of the group of high-technology industries,which became more concentrated. Components of the life cycle of industries, especially thegrowth of employment generated by new industries in non-metropolitan microregions, areidentified as main propelling of this evidence. In general., the results are consistent with theimportance of agglomeration economies over historic accidents to explain the industrialconcentration in Brazil between 2002 and 2014. JEL Classification: R12; L60. Keywords: Industry concentration; decomposition of employment variation; industry mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ekm:repojs:v:41:y:2021:i:4:p:760-781:id:2263 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Brazilian Journal of Political Economy from Center of Political Economy |
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