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Which Industries Create More Employment? A Cross-Country Analysis

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Valadkhani, Abbas () (University of Wollongong)
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The objective of this paper is to identify high employment industries in Australia, Japan and the U.S using input-output (IO) analysis. It is found that (1) the high and low employment generating industries in 1980 and/or 1990 are almost the same as those in 1997. Thus on a relative basis, there is no evidence that high employment generating industries have changed since 1980; and (2) the high and low employment generating industries are very similar across these three countries. Four of the consistently high employment generating industries in these countries are Food, Beverage and Tobacco; Chemicals, Petroleum, Coal, Rubber & Non-Metallic Minerals; Basic Metals/Fabricated Products; and Electricity, Gas and Water, with the first three industries being part of manufacturing.

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Paper provided by School of Economics, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia in its series Economics Working Papers with number wp05-07.

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Date of creation: 2005
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Keywords: input-output analysis; Employment; OECD;

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C67 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods and Programming - - - Input-Output Models
D57 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Input-Output Tables and Analysis
J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure

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