Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/74469 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
cege Discussion Papers No. 154
Publisher: 
University of Göttingen, Center for European, Governance and Economic Development Research (cege), Göttingen
Abstract: 
The aim of this article is to investigate services sectors' concentration in the European Union based on employment data and to disentangle the sector-specific developments and influential factors over time. We find that only the financial intermediation, retail trade and water transport sectors are subject to an increasing level of concentration over time. Moreover, we can detect a strong specialization tendency in the sectors of tourism and public administration for the Greek economy. Implementing a two-way fixed effects model, we find that knowledge spillovers as well as externalities arising from technological similarities appear to be highly significant in explaining services' concentration patterns for the European Union. Technological differences as a reason for services' concentration only appear to have been important in the period prior to the Single European Market Enactment. Further evidence is found for the relevance of factor intensity in explaining concentration of non-market services.
Subjects: 
concentration
services
European Union
knowledge spillovers
technological similarities
JEL: 
F14
L80
R12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
685.14 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.