Local job multipliers of mining

Resources Policy

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 9-15

  Fleming, David A ^a   Measham, Thomas G ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Job multipliers; Local economies; Mining boom; Sectoral employment; Spillovers

Indexed keywords

CENSUS DATA; ECONOMETRIC MODEL; INPUT-OUTPUT; LOCAL ECONOMY; LOCAL SERVICE; SPILLOVERS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

AGRICULTURE;

ECONOMETRICS; EMPLOYMENT; LOCAL ECONOMY; MINING INDUSTRY; SPILLOVER EFFECT;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84896749376     PISSN: 03014207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2014.02.005     Document Type: Article

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