The evolution of the geographical concentration of tertiary sector activities in Europe

Hugues Jennequin ()
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Hugues Jennequin: CARE - Centre d'Analyse et de Recherche en Économie - UNIROUEN - Université de Rouen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université, LASTA - Laboratoire d'Analyse des Sociétés, Transformations et Adaptations - UNIROUEN - Université de Rouen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université

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Abstract: The purpose of this article is to measure the concentration of tertiary activities in Europe. Usually, these sectors are depicted as ‘invisible goods' by international economics theories. However, the expansion of the tertiary sector in developed economies, liberalisation and an increasing number of studies argue that services have a serious influence upon the economy, most notably in the field of economic geography. This study measures the concentration of tertiary sector activities, breaking this field down into 21 distinct sectors. This research shows that Knowledge Intensive Business Services are highly concentrated, and are becoming even more so. This result points towards the desirability of explicitly including these activities in New Economic Geography models.

Keywords: concentration of activities; economic geography; enlargement; European integration; services location (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-04-04
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Published in Service Industries Journal, 2008, 28 (3), pp.291-306. ⟨10.1080/02642060701856142⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/02642060701856142

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