Vurdering af beskæftigelseseffekt i forbindelse med jord- og grundvandsforureninger

English summary

Background

Annual total investments in projects to survey and remedy soil and groundwater pollutions, amount to far more than 500 million Danish kroner (mill. DKK). According to Statistics Denmark in 1996, investments amounted to 473 mill. DKK. This statement of expenses does not include the private sectors expenses or investments in surveys or counter measures. Private investments are assumed to equal the public sectors, i.e. approximately 250 - 300 mill. DKK a year. Total public investment amounts to 270 mill. DKK.

These investments will create employment in several trades within Danish business life, particularly in the trades: consulting engineers, contractors, laboratories, and soil clean-up firms.

Purpose

The purpose of this report is to set up a model relating the investments of the Danish Counties (= administrative districts) to employment in the four trades listed above. Based on this model an automatic calculation and conversion of the economical and technical data into employment will be performed every year. This information is reported by the Counties/local authorities to the Danish Environmental Protection Agency each year.

Collection of data

Based on available data from Statistics Denmark a factor figure for each of the four trades has been determined. A factor figure for a trade indicates effect on employment when investing one mill. DKK in the trade in question..

Once a year the Counties report economical and technical information concerning their work in the soil and groundwater pollution area to the data base ROKA at the Danish Environmental Protection Agency. Using data from ROKA, calculations are made as to how expenses are distributed among the individual stages of a project.

As the data base ROKA contains no information as to how the expenses are divided among the four trades, this distribution is estimated from data, retrieved from additional information from the Counties.

Model

The calculated factor figures and distribution of expenses have been collected into a model, relating the investment in the soil and groundwater pollution area to employment in the four trades.

Effect on employment

In 1996 the Counties invested 112 mill DKK in surveys and remedial treatment of soil and groundwater pollution. Based on the model it has been calculated that this investment has created 257 full-time jobs. The majority with contractors, a total of 126 jobs, consulting engineers have employed 70, soil clean-up firms have created 42 jobs, and laboratories analysing soil and groundwater samples have obtained 19 jobs.