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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/3817| Title: | Disproportionality measures of concentration, specialization, and polarization |
| Authors: | Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel |
| Keywords: | F15 R12 C43 ddc:330 statistical measures Regional specialization Industrial concentration Economic polarization Geographical weighting Wirtschaftskonzentration Regionale Konzentration Regionale Arbeitsteilung Regionale Disparität Disparitätsmaß Index Theorie |
| Issue Date: | 16-Oct-2013 |
| Publisher: | Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) Kiel |
| Description: | The paper extends the methodological toolbox of measures of industrial concentration and regional specialization. First, a taxonomy is proposed which gives rise to a modular construction system for disproportionality measures based on three characteristic features: the projection function, the reference distribution, and the weighting scheme. The taxonomy helps reduce the mismatch between research purpose, data and statistical measure which has been one of the major obstacles to reliable inferences in the literature. Second, the taxonomy is extended (i) to measures of polarization which evaluate specialization and concentration simultaneously and allow for a nested analysis at different spatial and industrial scales, and (ii) to spatial concentration measures which deal with the checkerboard problem and MAUP by taking into account information from neighboring regions. |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/3817 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/3817 ppn:512059233 |
| Appears in Collections: | EconStor |
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