The objective of this article is to present a new way to incorporate the sectoral dimension within the components of regional growth provided by the traditional shift-share analysis. The new methodology elaborates the way that the dynamics of a specific sector in a region are influenced by the...

The goal of this paper is twofold. The first goal is to incorporate spatial structure within shift-share analysis, to take into account interregional interaction in the decomposition analysis. Secondly, this paper develops a taxonomy of regional growth rate decompositions. A taxonomy of the...