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Socio-economic characteristics of resilient localities – experiences from Slovenia

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  • Lucija Lapuh

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The concept of resilience is used to refer to a territory’s capability to withstand recession and recover afterwards. This paper explores what types of localities were most resilient to the 2008 economic recession due to their socio-economic structure. Resilience was defined on the basis of a business cycle as the recovery to pre-recession value and is measured with the change in gross value added per employee by municipality in Slovenia (LAU 2), and the change in the registered unemployment rate. Descriptive statistics were used to determine the most resilient Slovenian municipalities’ socio-economic structure before the recession. It was found out that specialization, export and transport infrastructure had the greatest influence on local resilience, while economic development and social structure partly influenced it. This paper adds to the discussion of the vagueness of the concept of resilience by clarifying its definition and measurement. Findings about socio-economic structure’s influence on resilience are important for academics as well as practitioners who contribute to municipality’s ability to avoid or mitigate a future recession.

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  • Lucija Lapuh, 2018. "Socio-economic characteristics of resilient localities – experiences from Slovenia," Regional Studies, Regional Science, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 5(1), pages 149-156, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:149-156
    DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1459202
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    1. Hennebry Barraí, 2020. "The determinants of economic resilience in rural regions. An examination of the Portuguese case," Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development, Sciendo, vol. 24(1), pages 24-29, January.
    2. Kumar, Shantanu & Mehany, Mohammed S.Hashem M., 2022. "A standardized framework for quantitative assessment of cities’ socioeconomic resilience and its improvement measures," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 79(C).
    3. Shanshan Ye & Zhu Qian, 2021. "The Economic Network Resilience of the Guanzhong Plain City Cluster, China: A network analysis from the evolutionary perspective," Growth and Change, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 52(4), pages 2391-2411, December.
    4. Hennebry, B., 2020. "The economic resilience of Irish counties for subsequent recessions and the impact of population distribution on resilience," R-Economy, Ural Federal University, Graduate School of Economics and Management, vol. 6(3), pages 146-153.
    5. Rezaei Soufi, Hojat & Esfahanipour, Akbar & Akbarpour Shirazi, Mohsen, 2022. "A quantitative approach for analysis of macroeconomic resilience due to socio-economic shocks," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 79(C).

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