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Recibido, Junio de 2017; Versión final aceptada, Diciembre de 2017.

PALABRAS CLAVE: Sector del automóvil, Productividad, Fuentes del crecimiento, Castilla y León.

KEY WORDS: Automotive sector, Productivity, Sources of growth, Castile and Leon.

Clasificación JEL: O41, L62

RESUMEN:

El presente trabajo se centra en el estudio de la evolución experimentada por el sector del automóvil en Castilla y León en el periodo 1961-2011. Se examina el comportamiento del VAB y la productividad de este sector, así como sus determinantes mediante un análisis de contabilidad del crecimiento. Como resultado, destacan en tanto que factores explicativos, los servicios del capital, especialmente el no TIC, y las mejoras en la PTF experimentadas desde finales de los 90. Las estimaciones de tales servicios del capital realizadas, siguiendo las recomendaciones de la OCDE, suponen un aspecto novedoso en los estudios sobre esta rama manufacturera.

ABSTRACT:

The automobile industry is one of the manufacturing branches with a greater presence on a global scale and, therefore, one of the activities that has most intensely suffered from the inter?national crisis in Spain. Despite this fact, the great dynamism of the sector has made possible its rapid recovery.

Within the specialized bibliography, several authors highlight the considerable backwardness of Spain in the take-off and consolidation of this industry. However, over time, the country has been gaining positions until becoming, at present, the ninth producer of vehicles on a global scale and the second at European level, according to the data of the International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers (OICA). At the regional level, the development of this industry has been uneven, given that the car and components manufacturers didn't establish themselves in the national territory at the same time, resulting in a geographical distribution and a spatial influence quite heterogeneous.

With respect to the regional context, Castile and Leon has been characterized, during a considerable part of the contemporary period, as an eminently agricultural region. However, during the first half of the 20th century, as in Spain, there was a process of strong tertiarization of the region's economy, with the services sector reaching 60% of the Gross Value Added (GVA) at the beginning of the 1960s.

Regarding the industrial sector in the region, its weight on the total regional GVA was, in 1961,...

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