Changes in the regional structure of the services sector in EU
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Zmiany regionalnych struktur sektora usług w krajach UE w latach 2010–2020
Changes in the regional structure of the services sector in EU countries in 2010–2020

Author(s): Joanna Dominiak, Tomasz Kossowski
Subject(s): National Economy, Social development, Rural and urban sociology, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: structure of the services sector; EU; shift-share analysis; comparison of distributions; structural changes;

Summary/Abstract: The development of the service sector, which is observed along with the increase in so-cio-economic development, is only one of the symptoms of changes in the economy. Much more im-portant are the changes in the structure of the service sector itself. Due to the high heterogeneity ofthis sector, only a detailed analysis of changes to individual types of services gives a complete pictureof the changes and the importance of the third sector in the economy.The article’s main objective is to identify changes taking place in the structure of the EU countries’services sector using the transfer method of share transfer. The analysis was carried out in the formatof NACE sections (PKD) in 2010–2020 for the number of economic entities and employees in theterritorial layout at the NUTS2 level.The analysis concludes that there is a decline in the importance of traditional services under SectionG, the development of professional, scientific and technical services (Section M) and an increase inthe importance of ICT-related services (Section J). Polish regions do not differ from the pan-Europe-an pattern of change; some belonged to units with the most dynamically developing sections of thesurveyed services in Europe.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 65
  • Page Range: 53-67
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish