REGIONAL AND SPATIAL CONCENTRATION OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC PHENOMENA: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM THE CZECH REPUBLIC

• Authors: Nosek Vojtěch , Netrdová Pavlína
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Economic phenomena undoubtedly tend to form a large variety of agglomerations in space. It is thus natural to ask how significant these concentrations are, where they can be found and what the other aspects of these spatial arrangements are, including their practical implications. The main aim of this paper is to quantify the significance of spatial and regional concentration in respect to the overall inequality. In the empirical analysis economic variables are studied applying quantitative methods including specific ones such as Theil index decomposition and spatial autocorrelation. Contrary to the majority of thematically similar papers, this analysis is undertaken on a very detailed, municipal level which enables the authors to come to new, innovative, and more locally specific conclusions.

Keywords

EN

AUTOCORRELATION; CZECH REPUBLIC; QUANTITATIVE METHODS; REGIONAL CONCENTRATION; SPATIAL CONCENTRATION; THEIL INDEX DECOMPOSITION

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak and World Economics and Institute for Forecasting, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Ekonomický časopis (Journal of Economics)
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 58
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 344-359
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Nosek Vojtěch

• Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science, Albertov 6, 128 43 Praha 2, Czech Republic

author

Netrdová Pavlína

• Vojtech Nosek, Karlova Univerzita Praha, Fakulta spolecenskych ved, Albertov 6, 128 43 Praha 2, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11SKAAAA100914