Industrial Employment Growth in Spanish Regions - the Role Played by Size, Innovation, and Spatial Aspects



APPENDIX.

HIGH TECHNOLOGICAL MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES: Pharmacy; Office and
computing machinery; Electronic machinery; Radio, TV and communications equipment; Medical and precision
instruments, optics and clockmaking; Aeronautical and space equipment

MEDIUM-HIGH TECHNOLOGICAL MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES: Chemical
industry exception made of Pharmacy; Machinery and mechanical equipment; Electrical machinery; Motor
vehicles; Other transport equipment.

DEFINITION OF HECKMAN’S EQUATIONS VARIABLES:

AGE.- Age of the firm, measured as the difference between its creation year and 1990. It is expressed in
logarithms.

PROPDI.- number of firm’s owners on its directive board.

EP.- Product standardisation. Dummy variable, takes 1 if the product is standardise and 0 otherwise.

KEXT.- Share of foreign capital on firm. It takes values from 0 to 100.

INNPRO.- product innovation. it takes the value 1 if it is a product innovating firm and 0 otherwise. a firm is
defined as a product innovator if
“in any of the years along the period an innovation of product has been
introduced
.

INNPRC.- process innovation. it takes the value 1 if it is a process innovating firm and 0 otherwise. a firm is
defined as a process innovator if
“in any of the years along the period an innovation of process has been
introduced”
.

TECHIGH.- it takes the value 1 if the firm belongs to one of these industries: chemical products.; office and
computing machinery; Electrical and electronic machinery; Motor vehicles; Other transport equipment.

TECMED.- it takes the value 1 if the firm belongs to one of these industries: basic metals; non-metallic
mineral products; Metal products; Machinery and mechanical equipment; Rubber and plastics; Other
manufacturing industries.

TECLOW.- it takes the value 1 if the firm belongs to one of these industries: food, beverages and tobacco;
Textiles

Leather; Footwear, wearing apparel and other clothing; Wood and cork; Paper, graphic arts and publishing.

PIBPC.- gross domestic product per head of the spanish region the firm is located. year 2002. its expressed
in million euros.

EMPINDSH.- share of industrial employment on the spanish region the firm is located. year 2002. it takes
values from 8.1 to 31.2
.

PARPYME.- share of small firms on total employment on the spanish region the firm is located. year 2002.
It takes values from 58.4 to 81.3.

IDPIB.- Share of Research and Development expenditures in Gross Domestic Product in any of the seventeen
Spanish regions the firms is located. Year 2002. It takes values from 0.26 to 1.90.

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