Employment coefficients for forestry planning and management

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Employment coefficients are estimated for firms engaged in forestry and wood manufacturing in Victoria, and logging in Australia. The coefficients indicate the changes in such firms' employment likely to follow changes in their flows of inputs or outputs, particularly sawlogs or recreation visits. The results indicate that a change of 10 000 cubic metres per year in the net volume of sawlogs will result in a long run change of 4.1 jobs in logging, 11.2 jobs in sawmilling and 1.2 jobs in forest management. It is estimated also that a change of 100 000 recreational visitor days per year will result in a long run change of 4.4 jobs in recreation management, and a smaller change in jobs in the recreation service industry. This information will be useful for predicting some of the direct employment consequences of changes in land use that affect these flows of outputs. The need is stressed for revision of these estimates as better and more up-to-date information becomes available. No attempt is made to estimate indirect changes in employment that may be caused in related industries.

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