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This paper uses input-output analysis to measure the impact of oil supply bases and oil construction on the economy of Shetland. The output, income and employment created in each local industry by oil activities is measured. Oil industry multipliers are derived. Possible negative effects of oil...

The Doha Development Agenda is the first "round" of multilateral trade negotiations under the World Trade Organization and is also the first time that multilateral trade talks have explicitly sought to focus on the interests of developing countries. Developing Asia therefore has much at stake in...

Considers the treatment of openness and imperfect competition in the influential analysis of Layard, Nickell and Jackman's (LNJ's) Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market. Clarifies and completes LNJ's treatment of openness through the provision of explicit analytical...

This paper analyzes the impact of the introduction of a general, automatic labor subsidy in a regional economy, concentrating on employment effects. The authors adopt a computable general equilibrium approach, using a model parameterized on data from a U.K. region, Scotland. Two particular...