Re: pizzaville

[Lou Sternberg <loustern@primenet.com>]

At 09:01 AM 4/14/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Dear Visionaries,
> A couple of weeks ago I did back of the envelope calculations of the 
>income and employment multipliers for the export base (Ag, Manuf, State 
>Gov't, i.e., UI) for Latah County. It turns out that the income multiplier 
>is about 1.5 and the employment multiplier is about 3.0.
>
> This means that for every dollar of income generated in ag, manuf., or 
>state gov't, fifty cent in generated elsewhere in Latah county (services, 
>wholesale, retail).
>Also for every job (full time and part-time) created in the export sector, 
>two jobs are created in the support sectors, i.e, services, wholesale and 
>retail.


Steve,

Can you provide some comparative data for the multipliers of 1.5 and 3.0?
For example, are there norms for multipliers of thriving vs. challenged
cities such as Moscow?  Should Moscow be striving to increase their ratios?
  If so, how have other cities approached the issue of increasing the
initial dollars generated vs. increasing income and employment multiplied
dollars.

Peace,

Lou 




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