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Measures for Geographical Concentration and Specialization with Administrative-area Data

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Economic Integration and the Location of Industries

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Abstract

Measures introduced here have been developed to understand tendencies in the distribution of economic activity. The merits of these measures are in the convenience of data collection and processing; the data used for constructing these measures is administrative- area data rather firm- level data, although the measures for firm-level data developed recently. In this chapter, the property of these measures, and the merits and limitations of using them, are summarized.

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Gokan, T. (2012). Measures for Geographical Concentration and Specialization with Administrative-area Data. In: Kuroiwa, I. (eds) Economic Integration and the Location of Industries. IDE-JETRO Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230389427_3

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