Specialisation and Concentration Patterns in the Romanian Economy

Goschin, Zizi and Constantin, Daniela L. and Roman, Monica and Ileanu, Bogdan (2009): Specialisation and Concentration Patterns in the Romanian Economy. Published in: Journal of Applied Quantitative Methods , Vol. 4, No. 1 : pp. 95-111.

Abstract

The economic specialisation of the regions and the spatial concentration of the economic activities are reflecting the same reality from two different perspectives. Our research is an attempt to capture the main patterns and the evolution of regional specialisation and sectoral concentration in the Romanian economy for selected years during 1996-2007 period, on the basis of the Gross Value Added and employment data, by branch and by region. We employed standard statistical measures of specialisation and concentration, combined with methods envisaging the amplitude and the speed of structural changes in order to highlight the various sides of these two complex phenomena.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: specialisation, concentration, region, employment, Gross Value Added, Romania
• Subjects: R - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics > R1 - General Regional Economics > R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes; R - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics > R1 - General Regional Economics > R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity

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