Abstract
Hakanson L. and Danielsson L. (1985) Structural adjustment in a stagnating economy: regional manufacturing employment in Sweden, 1975–1980, Reg. Studies 19, 329–342. Shift/share analysis of Swedish manufacturing employment reveals a continuing geographical decentralization away from the traditional industrial centres towards the periphery, and from the cores of the three metropolitan areas towards their fringes. Regression analyses are used to analyse the influence of four sets of forces: (1) agglomeration diseconomies; (2) labour market characteristics; (3) large multi-plant firms; and (4) regional policy. The results suggest the observed deconcentration to be primarily a response to agglomeration diseconomies, and that labour characteristics have been a primary attraction in the periphery but that these tendencies are modified in municipalities constituting the headquarter corporate core of a dominating employer. Regional subsidies appear to have been an attraction particularly in the so called ‘Outer A...
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