An analysis of urban size and territorial location effects on employment probabilities: the spanish case
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[1] Universidad de Oviedo
Universidad de Oviedo
Oviedo, España
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- Localización: Notas técnicas: [continuación de Documentos de Trabajo FUNCAS], ISSN-e 1988-8767, Nº. 492, 2009
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The chances of being employed vary depending on several factors. Many of these are related to personal characteristics such as educational level, age, gender or number and age of children.
Nevertheless, other factors may be relevant, in particular the geographical environment. While there is a large literature on the relationship between employability factors such as education, gender or other personal characteristics, very little has been done adopting a regional or local approach. The urban size of each territory and the distance to a large metropolis change the economic structure, the behaviour of employment growth and, accordingly, the personal profiles associated with employability. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relevance of urban size and the position of each territory (in terms of its distance from a large metropolis) on the probability of being employed in the Spanish economy. To do so, a set of economic areas are constructed using an urban economics perspective. In particular, the Spanish municipalities are classified into five basic types of economic areas: metropolitan, central urban, central rural, peripheral urban and peripheral rural. These economic areas explain the patterns of employment distribution better than the administrative regional division commonly used when studying this issue. Our results show some relevant differences between the economic areas as we have defined them. We find that municipalities with similar sizes and located at the same distance from a metropolis but belonging to different Autonomous Communities or provinces share similar employability patterns.
