Using gravity models for the effective determination of socioeconomic locality : local labour markets in central Macedonia.
Authors
Zacharias Sartzetakis
Grigoris Zarotiadis
Keywords:
Spatial socioeconomic policy, Local labour market, Gravity model, R12, R58, J68
Abstract
The discussion about the effectiveness of active policy measures that consider
spatial socioeconomic aspects has become especially important in light of recent
socio-economic developments. The paper presents an alternative methodology for
the determination of spatial boundaries for any socioeconomic locality, based on
the gravity models tradition. We apply the described methodology to the Region
of Central Macedonia and show that there are significant discontinuities between
administrative spatial segregation
on the one hand and socioeconomic on the
other. The latter provides evidence for the inappropriateness of simply following
the administrative boundaries and reveals the usefulness of our proposal.