Die räumliche Konzentration von Industrie und Dienstleistungen in Deutschland

Björn Alecke and Gerhard Untiedt

Review of Regional Research: Jahrbuch für Regionalwissenschaft, 2008, vol. 28, issue 1, 92 pages

Abstract: In this contribution the spatial concentration of economic activities in Germany is investigated in 1998. Our examination includes additional to the industrial sectors, the agricultural and service sectors in contrast to all past analyses that solely looked at industrial sectors. To measure spatial concentration of economic actitivies the recently developed index of Ellison and Glaeser (1997) is used. The results show that almost all economic activities in Germany show a significantly higher geographical concentration than one would expect on a purely random base. However, the extent of the spatial concentration is small. For different regional and sectoral aggregation levels the concentration remains more or less stable: Industries bound to natural location advantages are most strongly spatially concentrated, while trade- and supply-oriented services possess a high spatial dispersion. Technology and R&D intensive industries do not exhibit the highest degree of spatial concentration. To explain the pattern of spatial concentration a dummy-variable approach is used. The classification of the economic sectors follows from there use of qualified labour, technology and knowledge. Again, it can be shown that sectors bound to natural or infrastructural location conditions show the highest spatial concentrations. Sectors with a high share of low qualified labour input exhibit significantly higher concentration than those which are classified as capital-intensive and technology-intensive branches. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2008

Keywords: Räumliche Konzentration; Industrie und Dienstleistungen; Cluster; Germany; Spatial concentration; Industry and services; Cluster; Germany (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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