Demographic and economic impact of mining on remote communities in Australia

Title
Demographic and economic impact of mining on remote communities in Australia
Publication Date
2014
Author(s)
Kotey, Bernice A
Rolfe, John
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Pergamon Press
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1016/j.resourpol.2014.10.005
UNE publication id
une:18100
Abstract
The paper analyses the impact of mining on remote statistical local areas (SLAs) in Australia by comparing mining to non-mining SLAs and investigating changes emerging in the two types of SLAs from the resources boom. Specifically, differences are investigated for demographics, industry structure, human capital, income and wealth. Multivariate analyses of variance with main effects for the size of mining industry and interaction effects for census periods are carried out with 197 SLAs. The findings reveal that mining SLAs tend to have larger populations and workforce, fewer Indigenous people and lower unemployment. Mining SLAs have relatively smaller primary and social services sectors but a bigger construction sector. Human capital is greater with more residents having tertiary qualifications and technical occupations in mining SLAs. Incomes are higher and more equitably distributed in mining than non-mining SLAs. These differences widened between 2006 and 2011 during the resource boom.
Link
Citation
Resources Policy, v.42, p. 65-72
ISSN
1873-7641
0301-4207
Start page
65
End page
72

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