Geography and economic performance: Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis for Great Britain.

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This paper uses the techniques of exploratory spatial data analysis to analyse patterns of spatial association for different indicators of economic performance, and in so doing identify and describe the spatial structure of economic performance for Great Britain. This approach enables us to identify a number of significant local regimes – clusters of areas in which income per worker differs significantly from the global average – and investigate whether these come about primarily through spat...

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Authors: Patacchini, E; Rice, P

• Publisher: University of Southampton
• Series: Discussion Paper Series In Economics And Econometrics
• Publication date: 2005-01-01
• Language: English