Similarities in Employment Structure of the European Union Countries in the Years 2008–2017 – Assessment of Dynamics

Authors

  • Małgorzata Markowska Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny we Wrocławiu Wydział Ekonomii i Finansów Katedra Gospodarki Regionalnej
  • Danuta Strahl Akademia WSB w Dąbrowie Górniczej Wydział Zarządzania Katedra Zarządzania
  • Elżbieta Sobczak Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny we Wrocławiu Wydział Ekonomii i Finansów Katedra Gospodarki Regionalnej
  • Petr Hlaváček Univerzita J.E. Purkyně v Ústí nad Labem Fakulta sociálně ekonomická

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24917/20801653.334.17

Keywords:

employment, EU countries, European Union, structures

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to identify groups of European Union countries similar in terms of employment structures, applying the furthest neighbour agglomerative clustering procedure with dynamic approach.
The employment data for UE countries is reported in 10 sections: agriculture, industry, construction, trade, information, finance and insurance, real estate, professional services, administration, culture. A research presented covers the period of 2008-2017. Distance matrices for the dissimilarity of employment structures in EU countries have been calculated separately for each year. Then, the furthest neighbour method has been applied (which is next to Ward method in group identification efficiency) with the critical agglomerative distance of 0.15. It means that two groups can be merged if the furthest distance between objects belonging to different groups is not bigger than 0.15. Cutting dendrograms in this way we found that the resulting groups of countries for consecutive years are rather similar. Luxemburg and Romania formed a single-object groups in every year. Three main groups have been identified within other EU countries. Dynamics of these groups content, and average structures is discussed.

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Author Biographies

Małgorzata Markowska, Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny we Wrocławiu Wydział Ekonomii i Finansów Katedra Gospodarki Regionalnej

Małgorzata Markowska is an associate professor at the Regional Economics Chair of Wroclaw University of Economics and Business. She is a member of Polish Classification Society and Regional Studies Association. Her research deals with econometric measurement, evaluation, variability and dynamics of development, competitiveness, knowledge­‑based economy, smart specialisations, convergence and innovativeness in European regional space. As an author or a co­‑author she has published more than 100 papers and 25 chapters in books, and recently her own dissertation “Dynamic Taxonomy of Regions’ Innovativeness”. She took part in 12 research projects financed by the Polish National Centre of Science and European Union, and in projects for governmental, local administration and business units.

Danuta Strahl, Akademia WSB w Dąbrowie Górniczej Wydział Zarządzania Katedra Zarządzania

Danuta Strahl is a full professor at WSB University in Dąbrowa Górnicza, Faculty of Management. For many years she was working as the Head of the Department of Regional Economy at Wrocław University of Economics. She is a member of the Statistics and Econometrics Committee of Polish Academy of Sciences and the Section of Classification and Data Analysis of Polish Statistical Association. Her research interests are focused on regional analysis using econometric methods. She is an author and a co­‑author of over 250 research studies, including several monographs. She supervised 15 grants financed by the Ministry and the National Science Centre funds and participated in several European Union projects. She is a reviewer of many academic papers, including postdoctoral and professorship dissertations.

Elżbieta Sobczak, Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny we Wrocławiu Wydział Ekonomii i Finansów Katedra Gospodarki Regionalnej

Elżbieta Sobczak is an associate professor at Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Department of the Regional Economics. Her research interests include quantitative methods in economics, classification and data analysis, multivariate statistical analysis in regional research. She is also interested in econometric regional analysis and segmentation methods of foreign markets, competitiveness, knowledge­‑based economy, smart specialisations, convergence and innovativeness in European regional space. As an author or a co‑author she has published more than 100 papers and 20 chapters in books, and her own dissertation “Seg­mentation of foreign markets”. She is a member of Polish Classification Society (SKAD), and Polish section of Regional Studies Association (RSA).

Petr Hlaváček, Univerzita J.E. Purkyně v Ústí nad Labem Fakulta sociálně ekonomická

Petr Hlaváček is a full professor at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Faculty of Social and Economic Studies, Department of Regional Development and Public Administration. He is a member of Regional Studies Association and Czech Geographical Society. His main research is focused on regional and urban development, regional economy and policy, foreign direct investments in Central Europe and regional innovation systems. He is an author or a co­‑author more than 50 papers and chapters in books and a few monographs. He was involved in the coordination or cooperation of 11 research projects or grants, financed by Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, European Union, university or regional and local administrative units. He also works as a expert for evaluation of project of Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports.

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2019-12-31

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Markowska, M. ., Strahl, D. ., Sobczak, E. ., & Hlaváček, P. . (2019). Similarities in Employment Structure of the European Union Countries in the Years 2008–2017 – Assessment of Dynamics. Studies of the Industrial Geography Commission of the Polish Geographical Society, 33(4), 283–294. https://doi.org/10.24917/20801653.334.17

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Vol. 33 No. 4 (2019): Changes in industry and its environment in spatial systems

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