Cross-country analysis of high employment-generating industries

Abbas Valadkhani

Applied Economics Letters, 2005, vol. 12, issue 14, 865-869

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to identify high employment industries in Australia, Japan and the USA 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.

Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1080/13504850500358942

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