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Interindustry Employment Requirements in Nonmetropolitan Communities
Author(s) -
MULLIGAN GORDON F.,
VIAS ALEXANDER C.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
growth and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.657
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1468-2257
pISSN - 0017-4815
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2257.1996.tb00977.x
Subject(s) - weighting , economic base analysis , economics , population , set (abstract data type) , econometrics , microeconomics , computer science , sociology , medicine , demography , programming language , radiology
Interindustry employment requirements are examined in nonmetropolitan communities ranging in population size between 1,000 and 15,000. A ten‐sector economic base model is first used to estimate the demand for nonbasic employment in five different functional types of communities. A new and improved method for community impact assessment is then outlined. Here a distance‐weighting procedure is applied to the various type‐specific estimates of nonbasic employment so that a composite employment requirements matrix can be calculated for any study community. Finally, postimpact interindustry requirements are decomposed into two effects: preimpact employment requirements plus nonbasic employment shifts reflecting structural change. All estimates and findings are based on the Arizona Community Data Set.