Structural adjustment in a stagnating economy: Regional manufacturing employment in Sweden, 1975–1980

Håkanson L. and Danielsson L. (1985) Structural adjustment in a stagnating economy: regional manufacturing employment in Sweden, 1975–1980, Reg. Studies 19, 329–342. Shift/share analysis of Swedish manufacturing employment reveals a continuing geographical decentralization away from the traditional industrial centres towards the periphery, and from the cores of the three metropolitan areas towards their fringes. Regression analyses are used to...