Regional incomes in Portugal: industrialisation, integration and inequality, 1890-1980

Marc Badia-Miró; Jordi Guilera; Pedro Lains

doi:10.1017/S0212610912000080

Regional incomes in Portugal: industrialisation, integration and inequality, 1890-1980

Marc Badia-Miró^*, Jordi Guilera, Pedro Lains

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Abstract

The analysis of the evolution of the location of economic activity in Portugal between 1890 and 1980 depicts a strong concentration of productive activity in the coastal regions. We estimate data for regional GDP per capita, which show that the evolution of regional inequality followed an inverted U-curve, in line with that observed in other regions of Europe, but with a rather late peak, in 1970. The reasons for this behaviour may be found in the limits to industrialisation in the interior regions and the benefits generated by the agglomeration economies in the more developed coastal regions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	225-244
Number of pages	20
Journal	Revista de Historia Economica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History
Volume	30
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0212610912000080
Publication status	Published - Sept 2012

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Industrialisation
Market integration
Portugal
Regional convergence

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