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The completion of the so-called 'third package' in the liberalization of European aviation has changed the environment in which airports operate considerably. The continued growth of air traffic has led to a public debate in many Western countries about the expansion of airport capacity in the light of the externalities emanating from these traffic nodes. In this paper we try to measure the economic impact of Amsterdam Schiphol Airport on the Greater Amsterdam region, by means of a social accounting matrix of this region. The paper tries to avoid some of the pitfalls of earlier studies by using a counterfactual approach in measuring the economic impact. We are able to distinguish employment created in sub-regions of the Greater Amsterdam region, and the education and qualification levels associated with this employment. Our results indicate that the total multiplier of direct employment on Amsterdam Schiphol Airport is approximately 2: one job on the airport leads to approximately one job in indirect and induced employment. L'achevement du troisieme ensemble de mesures en faveur de la liberalisation de l'aviation europeenne a modifie sensiblement le milieu des aeroports. La croissance continue du trafic aerien a incite a un debat publique dans plusieurs pays occidentaux quant au developpement de la capacite d'accueil a la lumiere des effets externes engendres par ces noeuds de trafic. A partir d'une matrice des comptes publics, cet article cherche a estimer l'impact economique de l'aeroport de Schiphol a Amsterdam sur l'agglomeration d'Amsterdam. Pour cette estimation de l'impact economique, on se sert d'une approche spontanee afin d'eviter quelques-uns des ecueils des etudes anterieures. Cela permet de distinguer la creation d'emploi dans les sous-regions de l'agglomeration d'Amsterdam, et les niveaux d'education et de qualification y associes. Les resultats laissent supposer que le multiplicateur global de l'emploi direct sur l'aeroport de Schiphol a Amsterdam se chiffre 2 environ: a savoir, la creation d'un emploi a l'aeroport entraine la creation d'un emploi environ dans l'emploi indirect et induit. Die Fertigstellung des sog. 'dritten Pakets' der Liberalisierung der Europaischen Luftfahrt hat das Milieu, in dem Flughafen betrieben werden, betrachtlich verandert. Die anhaltende Zunahme des Flugverkehrs hat in vielen westlichen Landern zu einer offentlichen Diskussion des Ausbaus der Flughafenkapazitaten im Lichte der externalen Effekte gefuhrt, die von diesen Verkehrsknotenpunkten ausgehen. In diesem Aufsatz wird versucht, die wirtschaftliche Auswirkung von Schiphol, dem Flughafen von Amsterdam, auf die Region Gross-Amsterdam mit Hilfe einer Sozialberichterstattung dieser Region zu messen. Der Aufsatz versucht, Fallen zu vermeiden, in die fruhere Studien gegangen waren, indem er einen den Tatsachen nicht entsprechenden Ansatz bei der Messung der wirtschaftlichen Auswirkung benutzt. Es gelang, sowohl Erwerbsstellen auszumachen, die in Teilregionen Grossamsterdams geschaffen worden waren, als auch das Niveau de...

The deregulation of US aviation since 1978 has resulted in the reconfiguration of airlines' route networks, and in the concentration of traffic on a small number of central airports or 'hubs'. This paper investigates whether a similar trend can be observed in the European aviation network after deregulation. Data is used for all airports in the European Union receiving scheduled services for the period 1990-98, and both intra-European and intercontinental services are considered. The findings on the airport level suggest that intercontinental traffic is increasingly concentrated on Europe's primary hubs, and that intra-European traffic is increasingly concentrated on smaller airports in the European aviation network. On the route level, the results support the claim that the structure of the European aviation network has moved in the direction of a huband-spoke network over the sample period with the secondary hubs playing a more important role in the hub-spoke traffic.