Creating Employment and Prosperity in Europe

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Manchester - The direct and indirect
impacts of the airport equate to a spending
power injection of in excess of 1 billion
Euros into the regional economy and a net
income to the North West region of the
United Kingdom of the order of 670 million
Euros. The development of a second
runway will lead to 100,000 jobs in
the region, with almost 25,000 on-site jobs
by 2005. This would equate to a spending
power injection of 2.5 billion Euros
to the regional economy, with the net
impact in the region in excess of 1.5 billion
Euros a year.
scale of the study area) to add to the some
335,000 jobs generated directly by the same 19
airports.
Across the airports for which data is available,
the total direct, indirect and induced
employment impact averages 2,681 jobs per
mppa, ranging from 921 jobs per mppa at
Barcelona to 5,128 jobs at Valencia. Whilst
there is a relatively strong relationship between
direct employment and passenger throughput,
as illustrated in Figure 5, the relationship
between direct employment and the total direct
and indirect employment generated by an airport
shows somewhat greater variability as
shown in Figure 8.
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Vienna - is developing a proposal to
become a multi-modal business centre
which will increase employment generated
over that of the airport alone by 12% by
2015
• If the airport does not expand 3,000-
3,500 jobs will be forfeited in the Austrian
economy by 2015.
Indirect and Induced Employment
The indirect impact of an airport can be
examined through the use of multipliers or
through input-output models to generate the
multipliers. Table 1 shows the multipliers across
a range of European airports. Off-site indirect
and induced employment can be more than
double that on the airport site itself.
The scale of the multiplier can also be a
function of the size of the study area. For
example, the relatively low multiplier for
Amsterdam is a reflection of the relatively
small size of the Dutch economy. Generally, the
larger the size of the study area, the greater the
multipliers will be.
The indirect employment impact of 19 out
of the 23 airports is shown in Table 1. Between
them, these airports alone generate around
400,000 jobs indirectly (dependent upon the
The relationship between Total Direct,
Indirect/induced Employment
and Direct Employment
6,000
5,000
4,000
3,000
2,000
1,000
Total Employment
0
0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500 3,000
Direct Employment
Figure 8
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