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Industry mobility and geographic concentration in the European Union

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Barrios, Salvador [UCL] Strobl, Eric [UCL]

We study the pattern of geographic concentration of industries in EU countries and regions between 1972 and 1995. We find that changes in concentration levels were mainly due to industry mobility rather than historical accidents and past levels of concentration as often argued by the New Economic Geography literature.

Document type Document de travail (Working Paper)
Access type Accès libre
Publication date 2003
Collection CORE Discussion Papers - 2003/43
Affiliation UCL - CORE - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics
Keywords Geographic concentration ; Industry mobility ; Europe
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Bibliographic reference Barrios, Salvador ; Strobl, Eric. Industry mobility and geographic concentration in the European Union. CORE Discussion Papers ; 2003/43 (2003)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/4922