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Investigating Factors Explaining Spatial Variation in Endogenous Regional Employment Performance Across Australia

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Development Studies in Regional Science

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The regional shift component of a shift-share analysis may be used as a proxy indicator of the endogenous regional employment performance of functional economic regions (FERs) in Australia. A model is used to investigate the potential factors that might explain spatial variations in that measure as a dependent variable, modelling that has been undertaken over three overlapping 10-year periods: 1996–2006, 2001–2011 and 2006–2016. The chapter summarises the results of that modelling focusing explicitly on the degree to which explanatory variables in the model remain consistent or not over time as factors that might explain variations in the endogenous regional employment performance of FERs across the nation.

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    SLAs were replaced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in their updated geographical classification system (Australian Statistical Geography Standard) and were last used to report census data in 2011. The equivalent unit of geography used in the 2016 Census of Population is the Statistical Area Level 2.

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Acknowledgement

This chapter draws on research that was funded by the Australian Research Council that was undertaken through its Linkage International Grants programme, project #LX0346785, and its Discovery Grants programme, projects #DP150103437 and #DP150103437.

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  2. The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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  3. The University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW, Australia

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Stimson, R.J., Robson, A. (2020). Investigating Factors Explaining Spatial Variation in Endogenous Regional Employment Performance Across Australia. In: Chen, Z., Bowen, W.M., Whittington, D. (eds) Development Studies in Regional Science. New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, vol 42. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1435-7_20

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