Evolving Geographical Specialisation of European Manufacturing Industries

Marius Brülhart

Cahiers de Recherches Economiques du Département d'économie from Université de Lausanne, Faculté des HEC, Département d’économie

Abstract: This paper analyses the geographical specialisation of 32 manufacturing sectors over the 1972-1996 period, based on annual employment and export data for 13 European countries. Specialisation has increased continuously over the sample period in employment terms, while remaining roughly unchanged in export terms. On average, increases in specialisation were stronger prior to the launch of the Single Market than afterwards. The sectors most sensitive to the Single Market, however, showed an acceleration in specialisation after 1986. There is also evidence that low-tech industries are the most strongly specialised, and that centre-periphery gradients across countries are losing importance for industrial location in the EU.

Keywords: industrial specialisation; European Single Market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F1 O52 R1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2000-03
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Published in Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, Bd. 137, Heft 2, Juni 2001

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