OECD/NEA Workshop on

Modelling Employment in the Nuclear Power Sector

General documents

• Agenda
• List of participants
• Background

Presentations

Introduction Session

1. NEA and NDD Activities in the 2013-2014 Programme of Work – Ron Cameron, Head of the NEA Nuclear Development Division, NDD
2. Overview of the Workshop: Modelling Employment in the Nuclear Power Sector – Geoffrey Rothwell, Principal Economist, NDD
3. IAEA, Nuclear Power and Macroeconomic Analysis – Victoria Alexeeva-Talebi, Planning and Economic Studies Section, International Atomic Energy Agency

Session I: Input-Output Modelling of the Nuclear Power Sector (Chair: Ron Cameron)

4. Input-Output Analysis in Perspective – Jan Horst Keppler, Senior Economics Advisor, NDD
5. Primer on Input-Output (I-O) Modelling – Geoffrey Rothwell, Principal Economist, NDD
6. Modelling Employment and Nuclear Power in the CGE Models – Robert Beestermöller, University of Stuttgart, Germany
7. SMR Cost Assessment for Input-Output Modelling – Geoffrey Black, Center for Advanced Energy Studies and Boise State University, and Steven Peterson, Clinical Professor, University of Idaho, United States

Session II: Modelling Employment in the Nuclear Power Sector (Chair: Victoria Alexeeva-Talebi)

8. Modelling Employment in the American Nuclear Power Sector with Input-Output Analysis – Geoffrey Black, Center for Advanced Energy Studies and Boise State University, and Steven Peterson, Clinical Professor, University of Idaho, United States
9. Modelling Employment in the American Nuclear Power Sector – David Bradish, Manager, Energy and Economic Analysis, Nuclear Energy Institute
10. Jobs in the Nuclear industry in France in 2009 – Jeanne Lubek, Management Consultant

Session III: Guidelines for Modelling the Nuclear Power Sector (Chair: G. Rothwell)

Discussion with of the issue of the appropriate Input-Output modelling of the nuclear power sector

• What constitutes the nuclear power sector?
• What model(s) are best able to represent the nuclear power sector?
• If I-O, how are production coefficients to be determined? (standard errors?)
• If CGE, how would substitution elasticities be determined? (standard errors?)
• How should changes over time be addressed?

Discussion of the issue of direct, indirect, and induced employment in the nuclear power

1. How should direct, indirect, and induced employment in the sector be calculated?
2. How can gross effects be distinguished from net effects? (What baseline?)
3. How can generic multipliers be used to determine employment effects?
4. How would multipliers change with technological change?
5. What modifications are required for application to other generating sectors?

Session IV: Guidelines for Modelling the Nuclear Power Employment (Chair: V. Alexeeva-Talebi)

Discussion of future activities

Contacts

Last reviewed: 13 January 2015