Spatial dependence in self-employment in Spain

Begoña Cueto, Matías Mayor () and Patricia Suárez
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Begoña Cueto: Universidad de Oviedo
Patricia Suárez: Universidad de Oviedo

Revista de Economía Laboral - Spanish Journal of Labour Economics, 2021, vol. 18, No 1, 30-51

Abstract: According to the LFS, Spanish self-employment rate is around 15%. It is not homogeneously distributed across the country and differences are quite stable over time. Our purpose in this article is to analyse the spatial distribution of self-employment, studying the existence of clusters among provinces and taking into account differences between solo self-employed workers and employers. Using the Getis-Ord statistic, our results reveal the existence of two clear high self-employment clusters located in the North-West and the South-East. Regarding low self-employment clusters, they depend on the economic cycle and they are situated including the Basque Country, Navarra, La Rioja and, in several years, Madrid. For employers, clusters are small and their composition change over time. On the contrary, for solo self-employed workers, there are two high self-employment rate clusters that become one in 2013 when 15 provinces form this cluster.

Keywords: self-employment heterogeneity; spatial analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J82 L26 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
Note: Vol. 18, Núm. 1 (2021)
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