Spatial dependence in self-employment in Spain
Abstract
According to the LFS, Spanish self-employment rate is around 15%. It is not homogeneously distributed across the country and differences are quite stable over time. Our purpose in this article is to analyse the spatial distribution of self-employment, studying the existence of clusters among provinces and taking into account differences between solo self-employed workers and employers. Using the Getis-Ord statistic, our results reveal the existence of two clear high self-employment clusters located in the North-West and the South-East. Regarding low self-employment clusters, they depend on the economic cycle and they are situated including the Basque Country, Navarra, La Rioja and, in several years, Madrid. For employers, clusters are small and their composition change over time. On the contrary, for solo self-employed workers, there are two high self-employment rate clusters that become one in 2013 when 15 provinces form this cluster.
The authors who publish in REL accept the following terms:
- The authors will keep their copyright and guarantee the journal the right of first publication of their work, which will be simultaneously subject to the Creative Commons Recognition License that allows third parties to share the article whenever its author and his/her first publication in this magazine are indicated.
- The authors may adopt other non-exclusive licensing agreements for the distribution of the published version of the article (e.g. deposit it in an institutional telematic file or publish it in a monographic volume) whenever the initial publication in this journal is indicated.
- Authors are allowed and advised to disseminate their article through the Internet (e.g. in institutional telematic files or on their website) before and during the submission process, which can produce interesting exchanges and increase citations of the published article. (See The effect of open access).
