Some trends in the territorial distribution of employment in Bulgaria by sectors after the economic and financial crises of 1996-1997

Diljana Stefanova, PhD
Institute of geography - BAS

Summary

This paper reports the summed up results from an analysis of the territorial distribution of employment by economic sectors in Bulgaria for a ten-year period (1998-2005). Employment changes for each sector have been traced, based on the A17 „NACE.BG“ – 2003 nomenclature. Some trends and degrees of employment change within this 10-year period have been outlined. Each sector under consideration and the employment in it respectively, have been researched and represented from the point of view of both their territorial distribution and their trends of development. Based on the method of cluster analysis the main types and groups of sector employment have been outlined. As a result some important regularitis in the territorial distribution of employment by economic sectors for the 1996-2005 period have been established.