The Economic Impact of Job Losses in the Civil Aviation and Aerospace Engineering Sectors

Adam McGeoch, Mairi Spowage

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Abstract

The coronavirus outbreak represents the greatest public health crisis in a generation. Whilst the health risk for the families impacted is the most important concern, the pandemic will have a significant economic impact. One part of the economy particularly affected by Covid-19 is tourism-facing sectors. With borders shut down and aircrafts parked in airports from March of this year, there has been a significant knock-on effect to the civil aviation and aerospace engineering sectors. The government’s Job Retention Scheme (JRS) has kept unemployment artificially low while the country is in lockdown however, as they begin scaling back the JRS, the number of job losses across the country will climb. Only now are we beginning to feel the real economic hit caused by the ongoing pandemic. The purpose of this report is to estimate the economic impact that job losses in these sectors could have on the Scottish economy in terms of output, Gross Value Added (GVA) and employment.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationGlasgow
PublisherUniversity of Strathclyde
Commissioning bodyFraser of Allander Institute
Number of pages6
Publication statusPublished - 1 Aug 2020

Keywords

  • public health crisis
  • economic impact
  • tourism
  • civil aviation

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