Concentration of Economic Activity: An Analytical Framework

Olga Alonso-Villar and Coral del Rio Otero

Regional Studies, 2013, vol. 47, issue 5, 756-772

Abstract: Alonso-Villar O. and del R�o C. Concentration of economic activity: an analytical framework, Regional Studies . The goal of this paper is to offer an analytical framework within which relative concentration, including both the concentration of each sector and aggregate concentration, can be analysed. By borrowing properties from the literature on income inequality and segregation and adapting them to a location context, this paper characterizes the generalized entropy family of concentration indexes and shows the properties of the L -index. In addition, it offers other measures taken from the segregation literature. All these tools are used to analyse the spatial patterns of manufacturing industries in Spain from 1977 to 2008, paying special attention to their technological intensity.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2011.587796

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