The Similarities of Employment Structures in Industrial Sector in the Eu-27 Countries

Abstract

The industrial sector is the one of key engine of economic growth especially in the developingcountries. The positive dynamics of change in industrial sectors lead to effects in other areas of economy. Thepaper focuses on the clustering of employment in industrial sector in the EU-27 countries in order to formhomogeneous clusters. The period considered is the year 2013. The choice of such a research period comesfrom the availability and comparability of the statistical data within the European Countries. The clusteringprocedure of EU countries is based on intra and inter-group differences on selected diagnostic variables. Theagglomerative hierarchical clustering and k-means clustering methods were used in the paper. The maincriteria for deciding on UE-27 countries belonging to clusters are the share of employment in manufacturingand the share of employment in construction. The countries of the EU-15, particularly Germany, Great Britain,France, Spain, Italy and separately Poland as well are characterized by higher values of average for selecteddiagnostic variables i.e. the share of employment in manufacturing and the share of employment in constructionin relation to the average of variables for the remaining countries.