Abstract
This article examines the growth of the labour market and entrepreneurship in a metropolitan area. In particular, the study attempts to answer how the economy of the rural regions is developing in the hinterland of a large urban complex in Southern Poland, which is transforming from a post-industrial conurbation into a metropolitan area. The study applied Florence’s local specialization index, statistical measures, dynamics indexes, and Pearson’s correlation index. The research results show that the local economy, including the labour market, is systematically growing. Rural communes refer to multifunctional development based on services, and they represent diverse economic specializations. They are subject to economies of scale and benefit from the proximity and impact of a large urban complex. The economic growth of rural areas in the hinterland is related to entrepreneurship, convenient location in relation to cities, and migration from cities to villages.
Highlights
In the countries of Western Europe, functional and spatial transformations of the suburban area began many decades ago, but in the Central and Eastern part, these processes began much later and are related to the systemic transformation [1]
Conclusions of the geographical research presented in the study describes an example of the economic development of a rural area, which allows us to understand the processes of economic urbanization in the back of a large multicentre metropolitan area in Southern
The analysis provides evidence that the local economy is developing outside urban centres, where smaller municipalities operate in the shadow of the hierarchy of larger centres [119]
Summary
In the countries of Western Europe, functional and spatial transformations of the suburban area began many decades ago, but in the Central and Eastern part, these processes began much later and are related to the systemic transformation [1]. Meijers and Wouw [28] argued that rural areas create networks with surrounding metropolitan regions and take advantage of some of the benefits they offer, as well as “borrow” some of their “size”. These conditions make the areas at the junction of large cities an extremely interesting research field, and this require an in-depth local analysis in a wider urban context
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