The territorial dynamics of income in Spain 1955–2016: an initial approximation

Summary

This work marks the start of a series of projects that will analyse the evolution of GDP per capital in Spain's autonomous communities and its determining factors, using the related series of regional income and employment found in the RegData database described by De la Fuente (2017).

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• Key points:
• Actual per capita income increased at an average annual rate of 2.76% to 5.4 times its previous level, despite the employment levels per capita remaining virtually constant, with an average annual growth rate of just 0.04%.
• The last six decades have been a period of rapid income growth with moderate increases in population and employment levels.

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