{"title":"Evaluating the impact of violence against women in the macroeconomic Input–Output framework","authors":"C. Ciaschini, F. Chelli","doi":"10.1080/09535314.2020.1790505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09535314.2020.1790505","url":null,"abstract":"Violence against women and girls (VAW&G) has progressively become an emergency issue in many European countries and a relevant topic of public discussion. In this paper, we attempt to insert this theme within a model for macroeconomic policy design and evaluation. Special attention is devoted to the assessment of distortions in the allocation of public expenditure generated by VAW&G, in terms of gains and losses in aggregate total output. We adopt a macroeconomic input–output approach by adding to the framework an industry that produces care services to victims of VAW&G. The resulting model is integrated with the public expenditure reallocations that emerge as a result of the progressive elimination of violence. It is, thus, a simulation tool for determining total output gains or losses that emerge from the reallocation of public expenditures as VAW&G fades.","PeriodicalId":47760,"journal":{"name":"Economic Systems Research","volume":"33 1","pages":"214 - 249"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2020-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09535314.2020.1790505","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41436787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How important is domestic and foreign demand for China’s income growth by business function?","authors":"Zhenguo Wang, Yabin Zhang, Meng Niu, Zijie Fan","doi":"10.1080/09535314.2020.1792417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09535314.2020.1792417","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the contribution of domestic and foreign demand to China’s income growth by business function. To this end, we extend a single country input–output approach to a global multi-country setting, and further redefine the measure via forward linkages. We also propose chaining structural decomposition analysis to identify the role of domestic and foreign demand in functional income changes over 1999–2011. Using the World Input–Output Database combined with Labor Occupations Database, we distinguish functional activities in production, management, marketing and R&D. This enables us to find that domestic and foreign final demands, especially the former, jointly lead to China’s income growth by business function. Dynamically, the generally upward trends in China’s income hold in the aggregate as well as by industry and business function. We also find that China’s income growth is quite heterogeneous across industries and business functions.","PeriodicalId":47760,"journal":{"name":"Economic Systems Research","volume":"33 1","pages":"316 - 335"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2020-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09535314.2020.1792417","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43691113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A supply-use approach to capital endogenization in input–output analysis","authors":"Carl-Johan Södersten, M. Lenzen","doi":"10.1080/09535314.2020.1784852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09535314.2020.1784852","url":null,"abstract":"Input–output analysis currently treats capital investment as exogenous to the inter-industry system despite capital goods being used further in production processes. Previous studies have applied the Leontief calculus to include impacts of capital in footprint calculations. Here, we adopt a supply-use approach to incorporating capital into footprint calculations, by constructing capital supply-use tables (KSUTs) that enable differentiating capital goods. As the new KSUT formalism is compliant with the Supply-Use formalism in the UN's System of National Accounts, we can keep full transparency throughout the process of calculating impact multipliers. We demonstrate the usefulness of the KSUT framework in a case study of the Australian economy, with environmental extensions from the EXIOBASE3 database. If consumption-based emissions were considered for the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change, the KSUT framework would provide a consistent and transparent foundation for working out countries’ responsibility for carbon emissions from both current use and capital investment.","PeriodicalId":47760,"journal":{"name":"Economic Systems Research","volume":"32 1","pages":"451 - 475"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2020-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09535314.2020.1784852","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49086849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. S. Carvalho, F. Santiago, Fernando Salgueiro Perobelli
{"title":"Demographic change in Brazil and its impacts on CO2 emissions","authors":"T. S. Carvalho, F. Santiago, Fernando Salgueiro Perobelli","doi":"10.1080/09535314.2020.1783210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09535314.2020.1783210","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, the debate about demographic changes and its impacts on the economy has increased. The growth in the relative share of elderly people in the age pyramid may occur in the coming decades in many parts of the world, and their effects on the composition of consumption, notably on energy demand and emissions, are not yet known. This article estimates the changes in the pattern of consumption in Brazil due to the changes projected in the age pyramid in 2050 and the consequences of these changes on CO2 emissions. For this, projections will be made using an input–output model for the Brazilian economy for the year 2010 considering 67 productive sectors and six age groups. The results suggest that emissions grow less than proportionally to population growth and that the participation of sectors such as fuels and transport shows a small decrease in the consumption vector for 2050.","PeriodicalId":47760,"journal":{"name":"Economic Systems Research","volume":"33 1","pages":"197 - 213"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2020-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09535314.2020.1783210","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43506275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Accounting for global migrant remittances flows","authors":"João-Pedro Ferreira, M. Lahr, P. Ramos, E. Castro","doi":"10.1080/09535314.2019.1659756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09535314.2019.1659756","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Migrant remittances are important to some countries. According to the World Bank, they comprise more than 30% of the GDP of Kyrgyzstan, Tonga, Tajikistan, Haiti and Nepal. Compared to official development aid or foreign direct investment, remittances have lately become a prime income stream for less-developed nations. In this paper, we analyze the net spillover and feedback effects from the consumer demand generated in migrants’ home countries. We use World Bank estimates of remittances and the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) for the investigation with so-called ‘hypothetical insertion’ as the tool of choice. We find that even some developed nations, like the US, likely benefit from remittances (the largest global path for remittances is that from the US to Mexico), but that not all do (e.g. Canada does not). We stop short of making strong policy recommendations. Instead, we suggest that more attention is paid to the veracity of remittance estimates.","PeriodicalId":47760,"journal":{"name":"Economic Systems Research","volume":"32 1","pages":"301 - 317"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09535314.2019.1659756","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47466040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Euro method","authors":"Umed Temursho","doi":"10.1080/09535314.2020.1772727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09535314.2020.1772727","url":null,"abstract":"This paper critically examines the Euro method usage for the purposes of updating supply and use tables (SUTs) and/or input–output tables. Its known restricted applicability to only unnecessarily aggregated and symmetric SUTs (and not their underlying rectangular versions) is already an issue of concern. However, by studying analytically the nature of Euro's adjustments of the SUT elements and empirically assessing some of its underlying assumptions, including newly revealed ones, it is concluded that the Euro method is a largely ad hoc updating procedure. Its recently claimed superiority over the generalized RAS approach (GRAS, or SUT-RAS) in the absence of industry output is challenged. It is shown that applying the standard GRAS with exogenously given estimates of industry outputs under such restricted data-availability environment still outperforms the Euro method.","PeriodicalId":47760,"journal":{"name":"Economic Systems Research","volume":"33 1","pages":"250 - 275"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2020-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09535314.2020.1772727","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44315624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Moya-Martínez, Fernando Bermejo, Raúl del Pozo-Rubio
{"title":"Hard times for long-term care systems? Spillover effects on the Spanish economy","authors":"P. Moya-Martínez, Fernando Bermejo, Raúl del Pozo-Rubio","doi":"10.1080/09535314.2020.1752627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09535314.2020.1752627","url":null,"abstract":"Since the end of the last century, demographic aging has led to an increased demand for new social protection services. Universalizing these to meet the needs of the most vulnerable requires the design of policies that ensure the sustainability of the system. Consequently, the economic structure of a country and its productive fabric are affected. Assessing the impact of this growing demand is not an easy task, although extended input-output models can help. With this aim, we determine the spillover effects of the demand shocks arising from the increase in public spending allocated for the implementation of the Spanish long-term care system. The results reveal that such spending proves efficient in sustaining 116,000 jobs, most of which are in social work activities, entailing a large amount of direct but low-skilled employment. In addition, 5,000 million euros are generated in value added, including a fiscal return of 1,400 million euros.","PeriodicalId":47760,"journal":{"name":"Economic Systems Research","volume":"33 1","pages":"1 - 19"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2020-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09535314.2020.1752627","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48519667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing an electricity satellite account (ELSA): an application to Scotland, UK","authors":"G. Allan, K. Connolly, Stuart G McIntyre","doi":"10.1080/09535314.2020.1754166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09535314.2020.1754166","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Within the system of national accounts the electricity sector is typically reported as a single entry representing generation, transmission, distribution and trade. The ways in which these components interact with the economy differ greatly, a feature lost within the standard accounting framework. In this paper we propose an Electricity Satellite Account (ELSA) approach to better understand the linkages between the electricity sector and economy, with a particular focus on generation technologies. In developing this framework, we draw parallels with Tourism Satellite Accounts (TSAs). To illustrate the practical steps in constructing ELSAs, we develop an ELSA for Scotland for 2012, and show how the ELSA framework gives an improved understanding of the economic contribution of the electricity sector, which is critical in improving the usefulness of such accounts for climate, energy, and economic policy.","PeriodicalId":47760,"journal":{"name":"Economic Systems Research","volume":"33 1","pages":"47 - 66"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2020-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09535314.2020.1754166","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46165671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Japan’s participation in global value chains: splitting the IO table into production for export and domestic sale","authors":"Koji Ito, Ivan Deseatnicov, K. Fukao","doi":"10.1080/09535314.2019.1657802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09535314.2019.1657802","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines Japan’s participation in global value chains (GVCs). To this end, we use plant-level data for Japan to split output in each industry in Japan’s manufacturing sector into output for export or domestic sale and create an extended multi-country input–output table (MIOT). We then compute trade in value added (TiVA) indicators to examine the participation of Japanese manufacturing plants in GVCs. Our estimates suggest that Japan’s forward participation in GVCs is lower than suggested by estimates computed from a traditional MIOT. We infer that this result is due to high cross-border production fragmentation as well as the large presence of Japanese multinational companies in global manufacturing and the high volume of intra-firm trade in Japan’s manufacturing sector. We conclude that considering firm heterogeneity in production for export and domestic sale in MIOTs provides a more accurate understanding of global production fragmentation.","PeriodicalId":47760,"journal":{"name":"Economic Systems Research","volume":"32 1","pages":"173 - 191"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2020-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09535314.2019.1657802","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43536151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hire fast, fire slow: the employment benefits of energy transitions","authors":"Yann Füllemann, V. Moreau, M. Vielle, F. Vuille","doi":"10.1080/09535314.2019.1695584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09535314.2019.1695584","url":null,"abstract":"The transition towards decarbonized and efficient energy systems has broad socio-economic implications. We estimate the potential impacts on employment from efforts in energy efficiency in industry, transport and buildings as well as substituting local renewable energy sources for fossil fuels. Both energy supply and demand are accounted for. We use a hybrid approach that combines national energy transition scenarios with input–output tables, adjusted for new energy and non-energy activities. We conclude that the transition has a net positive impact on employment as illustrated by the case of Switzerland. The local and decentralized nature of energy efficiency and renewables retains a greater share of value-added domestically than does a supply chain of fossil fuels. Moreover, we find that more jobs are created in demand-side activities, such as building renovation, than in renewable energy generation. Positive impacts on jobs from spillover effects in all non-energy activities are also found.","PeriodicalId":47760,"journal":{"name":"Economic Systems Research","volume":"32 1","pages":"202 - 220"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2020-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09535314.2019.1695584","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45559193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}