Concentração espacial no setor de serviços: uma análise para os municípios brasileiros

Abstract

This dissertation aims to examine the spatial distribution of the service sector and evaluate the relative importance of each municipality in a specific tertiary activity with respect to Brazil. A spatial concentration analysis will be carried out using the location quotient and a panel with data from forty-five service activities extracted from the CNAE 2.0 division of RAIS Vínculos. The services were classified into four categories: services sensitive to institutional choices, services sensitive to geography, services requiring proximity to the consumer, and services sensitive to agglomeration economies. The results indicated that there is a pattern of knowledge-intensive services and services sensitive to agglomeration economies located in the South and Southeast regions, in capitals, and correlated with dynamic industries. Meanwhile, the North and Northeast regions concentrate on services related to public administration. Services sensitive to geography are more specialized in a few states in the Southeast, South, and Northeast. Finally, services requiring proximity to the consumer follow Central Place Theory, also concentrating in capitals and nearby areas.