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Measuring local employment multipliers and informal employment: a stochastic frontier approach

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  • Joanna María Bashford-Fernández
  • Ana Rodríguez-Álvarez

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This paper offers policymakers a novel tool for calculating employment multipliers. A theoretical model incorporating a non-tradeable employment function is combined with a stochastic frontier methodology to estimate an accurate multiplier. The advantage of this model is that it allows a consideration of unobserved informal employment when estimating the multiplier. We find an employment multiplier effect of 1.2 jobs in the non-tradeable sector for one job in the tradeable sector. Also, the greater the number of skilled consumers, the higher the multiplier indices and the lower the level of informal employment. Moreover, specialised sectors requiring skilled workers also present less informal employment. We use provincial data for Spain over the period 1995–2013.

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  • Joanna María Bashford-Fernández & Ana Rodríguez-Álvarez, 2024. "Measuring local employment multipliers and informal employment: a stochastic frontier approach," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 58(1), pages 78-90, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:58:y:2024:i:1:p:78-90
    DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2023.2189014
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