Employment Structures of the European Union Countries in 2008–2017 – New Approach to Dynamic Assessment

Authors

  • Małgorzata Markowska Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny we Wrocławiu Wydział Ekonomii, Zarządzania i Turystyki w Jeleniej Górze
  • Andrzej Sokołowski Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie Wydział Zarządzania

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24917/20801653.332.1

Keywords:

country, employment, European Union, structural changes

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to present a new idea in analysing changes in structures, assuming that structures change gradually through rather slow evolution. Employment structures of European Union countries, analysed in terms of 10 economic sections are definitely these types of structures. Single structure is a result of individual decisions undertakes by thousands of citizens. Cluster analysis is a method used in the paper, and what is new is a non-standard list of diagnostic variables. It consist of 10 coefficients of structure from the initial year of analysis (2008), 8 measures of structure changes from year to year and 9 measures of structure dissimilarity between each year and the initial one. Such a set of features describes structures at a starting point of analysis together with chain and fixed base dynamics. 28 EU countries are analysed, which creates a taxonomic problem [Y, TZ]. Using furthest neighbour agglomerative method we found 7 group of countries, and two of them are single-country groups. Differences between groups have been described by within-group averages.

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Author Biographies

Małgorzata Markowska, Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny we Wrocławiu Wydział Ekonomii, Zarządzania i Turystyki w Jeleniej Górze

Małgorzata Markowska, associate professor, Wrocław University of Economics, Faculty of Economics, Management and Tourism in Jelenia Góra. She is an associate professor at the Regional Economics Chair of Wrocław University of Economics. 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 co-author she has published more than 100 research papers and 25 chapters in books, and recently her own monograph “Dynamic Taxonomy of Regions’ Innovativeness”. She took part in 12 projects financed by the Polish National Centre of Science and by the European Union, and in projects for governmental, local administration and business units.

Andrzej Sokołowski, Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie Wydział Zarządzania

Andrzej Sokołowski, professor, Cracow University of Economics, Faculty of Management is a professor and the Head of the Department of Statistics at the Cracow University of Economics. His academic activity is concentrated around the application of statistical methods in such fields as economics and management, medicine, sports, politics and music. In theoretical statistics he is interested in mathematical statistics, multivariate analysis and medical statistics. He is an author of more than 60 chapters in books and monographs, 160 scientific papers and 150 contributions at conferences. For three terms he was the President of the Polish Classification Society and for more than seventeen years now he is a member of the International Federation of Classification Societies Council, and currently a member of IFCS Financial Committee and Chair of its Election Committee.

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2019-06-03

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Markowska, M., & Sokołowski, A. (2019). Employment Structures of the European Union Countries in 2008–2017 – New Approach to Dynamic Assessment. Studies of the Industrial Geography Commission of the Polish Geographical Society, 33(2), 7–17. https://doi.org/10.24917/20801653.332.1

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