An Empirical Analysis of Employment and Wage Clusters in Puerto Rico: 1979-1999
This paper proposes a method to identify employment and wage clusters for various sectors of a region's economy. The Location Quotient, the National Averages Index, and a local employment or wage index were estimated and used to identify industrial clusters and classify their development stage...
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Centro de Investigaciones Comerciales e Iniciativas Académicas
2010
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| Acceso en línea: | http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=63115123001 http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=pr/pr-004&d=63115123001oai |
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| Sumario: | This paper proposes a method to identify employment and wage clusters for various sectors of a region's economy. The Location Quotient, the National Averages Index, and a local employment or wage index were estimated and used to identify industrial clusters and classify their development stage according to three categories: emerging, maturing and declining. An application of this methodology considering the Puerto Rican economy during the period 1980-2000 has allowed for documentation of regional shifts as a transition from manufacturing to service (postindustrial) industries was observed. |
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