The geography of public services employment in Europe: concentration or dispersion?

Mercedes Rodríguez and Jose A. Camacho ()

The Service Industries Journal, 2008, vol. 28, issue 3, 325-335

Abstract: It is widely known that the location of public services generates, directly and indirectly, important economic effects. The objective of this article is to examine the spatial distribution of employment in public services in 124 European regions in order to detect the existence of some pattern of spatial location. To do so we employ various exploratory spatial analysis techniques, such as the calculation of the Moran's I and the Geary's C statistics. The results obtained highlight the existence of remarkable differences among the European regions, and more concretely between the Scandinavian and the Mediterranean regions, differences that deserve further study.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1080/02642060701856183

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