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[Publication] : Geographically uneven structural change in EU15 regions from 1980 to 2017: a cluster analysis

24 févr. 2022

Sanne Velthuis, Jeroen Royer, Mehdi Le Petit-Guerin, Nicolas Cauchi-Duval, Rachel Franklin, Tim Leibert, Danny MacKinnon, Andy Pike

This paper presents a cluster analysis of structural economic change within NUTS3 regions in the EU15. Based on regional changes in the employment shares of broad sectors since 1980, as well as the degree of initial and current specialisation in each sector, regions are allocated to one of eight clusters via a k-means clustering approach. These clusters are then interpreted in light of current debates about ‘left behind places’. We find that there are several clusters of regions that have experienced less favourable structural change over the past four decades, each with their own set of characteristics.

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