The role of households in sustaining rural economies: A structural path analysis

European Review of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 393-420

  Roberts, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Household; Multiplier decomposition; Rural development; Social accounting matrix; Structural path analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 26644437477     PISSN: 01651587     EISSN: 14643618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurrag/jbi014     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (30)

1. Adelman, I. and Robinson, S. (1986). U.S. agriculture in a general equilibrium framework: analysis with a social accounting matrix. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 62: 1197-1206.
2. Basu, R. and Johnson, T. G. (1996). The development of a measure of intersectoral connectedness by using structural path analysis. Environment and Planning A 28: 709-730.
3. Begum, N. (2004). Employment by occupation and industry: an analysis of the distribution of employment and characteristics of people in the main industry and occupation groups. Labour Market Trends 22: 227-234.
4. Bernat, G. A. and Johnson, T. G. (1991). Distributional effects of household linkages. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 73: 326-333.
5. Civardi, M. B. and Lenti, R. T. (1988). The distribution of personal income of the sectoral level: A SAM model. Journal of Policy Modelling 10: 453-468.
6. Defourny, J. and Thorbecke, E. (1984). Structural path analysis and multiplier decomposition within a social accounting matrix framework. Economic Journal 94: 111-136.
7. Fawson, C., Thilmany, D. and Keith, J. (1998). Employment stability and the role of sectoral dominance in rural economies. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 80: 521-533.
8. Garcia-Milà, T. and McGuire, T. J. (1993). A note on the shift to a service-based economy and the consequences for regional growth. Journal of Regional Science 38: 353-363.
9. Garcia-Milà, T. and McGuire, T. J. (1998). Industrial mix as a factor in the growth and variability of states' economies. Regional Science and Urban Economics 23: 731-748.
10. Gazon, J. (1976). Transmission de l'influence économique. Une approche structurelle. Collection de l'I.M.E., No. 13. Paris: Sirey.
11. Glaeser, E. L., Kallal, H. D., Scheinkman, J. A. and Shleifer, A. (1992). Growth in cities. Journal of Political Economy 100: 1126-1152.
12. Keuning, S. and Ruijter, W. (1988). Guidelines to the construction of a social accounting matrix. Review of Income and Wealth 34: 71-101.
13. Lantner, R. (1972). Recherche sur l'interprétation du déterminant d'une matrice input-output. Revue d'économie politique 82: 435-442.
14. Malizia, E. E. and Ke, S. (1993). The influence of economic diversity on unemployment and stability. Journal of Regional Science 33: 222-235.
15. Martin, T. L. and Henry, M. S. (1982). Rural area consumer demand and regional input-output analysis. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 64: 752-755.
16. Midmore, P. and Whittaker, J. (2000). Economics for sustainable rural systems. Ecological Economics 35: 173-189.
17. Millar, R. E. and Blair, P. D. (1985). Input-Output Analysis: Foundations and Extensions. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
18. Nelson, P. B. and Beyers, W. B. (1998). Using economic base models to explain new trends in rural income. Growth and Change 29: 295-318.
19. Neumann, G. R. and Topel, R. H. (1991). Employment risk, diversification and unemployment. Quarterly Journal of Economics 106: 1341-1365.
20. Psaltopoulos, D., Thomson, K. J., Efstratoglou, S., Kola, J. and Daouli, A. (2004). Regional social accounting matrices for structural policy analysis in lagging EU regions. European Review of Agricultural Economics 31: 149-178.
21. Pyatt, G. and Roe, A. N. (1977). Social Accounting for Development Planning with Special Reference to Sri Lanka. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
22. Roberts, D. (2003). The economic base of rural areas: a SAM-based analysis of the Western Isles, 1997. Environment and Planning A 35: 95-111.
23. Saraceno, E. (1994). Recent trends in rural development and their conceptualisation. Journal of Rural Studies 10: 321-330.
24. Shields, M., Deller, S. and Stallman, J. (1998). Comparing the impacts of retiree versus working-age families on a small rural region: an application of the Wisconsin economic impact modeling system. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 30: 20-31.
25. Siegel, P. B., Alwang, J. and Johnson, T. G. (1995). A structural decomposition of regional economic instability: a conceptual framework. Journal of Regional Science 35: 457-470.
26. Sonis, M. and Hewings, G. J. D. (1988). Superposition and decomposition principles in hierarchical social accounting and input-output analysis, In F. Harrigan and P. G. McGregor (eds), Recent Advances in Regional Economic Modelling, 19, London Papers in Regional Science 19. Pion.
27. Sonis, M. and Hewings, G. J. D. (1998). Economic complexity as network complication: multiregional input-output structural path analysis. Annals of Regional Science 32: 407-436.
28. Stone, R. (1985). The disaggegation of the household sector in the national accounts. In G. Pyatt and J. I. Round (eds), Social Accounting Matrices: A Basis for Planning. Washington, DC: World Bank, 145-185.
29. Vias, A. C. (1999). Jobs follow people in the rural Rocky Mountain west. Rural Development Perspectives 14: 14-23.
30. Wagner, J. E. and Deller, S. (1998). Measuring the effects of economic diversity on growth and stability. Land Economics 74: 541-556.