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Indicators of economic development: an exploratory study using Swedish municipal data contrasting economic development and growth
University West, School of Business, Economics and IT, Divison of Law, Economics, Statistics and Politics.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9781-2993
University West, School of Business, Economics and IT, Divison of Law, Economics, Statistics and Politics.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8189-7205
2018 (English)In: Geography, Open Innovation and Entrepreneurship: New Horizons in Regional Science series / [ed] Gråsjö, U., Karlsson, C. och Bernhard, I., Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018, p. 359-376Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This chapter explores possible measures of economic development and how they relate to measures commonly used for studying economic growth. Since potential factors for measuring economic development typically differ greatly over large geographical areas, we will study the indicators on a municipality level to avoid large geographical units of analysis. The data is from 2013 and 2014 and is found in official Swedish data repositories, and include variables such as gross pay per employee, citizen satisfaction with the municipality and Gini-coefficient for Swedish municipals. The results indicate that trying to find one overall measure for economic development is not feasible. Our main conclusions are that indicators for economic growth and economic development in some cases move in opposite directions. There is a need for more direct and harmonized, national and international data to further drive the research in the field of economic development.

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Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018. p. 359-376
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New Horizons in Regional Science series
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Business Administration Economics
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SOCIAL SCIENCE, Human and economic geography; SOCIAL SCIENCE, Economics; SOCIAL SCIENCE, Business administration; SOCIAL SCIENCE, Public administration
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-12616DOI: 10.4337/9781786439901.00018Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85075670938ISBN: 9781786439895 (print)ISBN: 978 1 78347 732 6 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hv-12616DiVA, id: diva2:1229791
Available from: 2018-07-02 Created: 2018-07-02 Last updated: 2020-02-23Bibliographically approved

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