Spanish Unemployment: Normative Versus Analytical Regionalization Procedures

Serie

  • Working Papers in Economics

Resumen

  • In applied regional analysis, statistical information is usually published at different territorial levels with the aim of providing information of interest for different potential users. When using this information, there are two different choices: first, to use normative regions (towns, provinces, etc.), or, second, to design analytical regions directly related with the analyzed phenomena. In this paper, provincial time series of unemployment rates in Spain are used in order to compare the results obtained by applying two analytical regionalization models (a two stages procedure based on cluster analysis and a procedure based on mathematical programming) with the normative regions available at two different scales: NUTS II and NUTS I. The results have shown that more homogeneous regions were designed when applying both analytical regionalization tools. Two other obtained interesting results are related with the fact that analytical regions were also more stable along time and with the effects of scale in the regionalization process.

fecha de publicación

  • 2004

Líneas de investigación

  • Analytical Region
  • Normative Region
  • Regionalisation
  • Unemployment

Issue

  • 118