Tourism, Jobs, Capital Accumulation and the Economy: A Dynamic Analysis
35 Pages Posted: 28 Nov 2005
Date Written: November 2005
Abstract
This paper examines the effects of tourism in a dynamic model of trade on unemployment, capital accumulation and resident welfare. A tourism boom improves the terms of trade, increases labor employment, but lowers capital accumulation. The reduction in the capital stock depends on the degree of factor intensity. When the traded sector is weakly capital intensive, the expansion of tourism improves welfare. However, when the traded sector is strongly capital intensive, the fall in capital can be a dominant factor in lowering national welfare. This dynamic immiserizing result of tourism on resident welfare is confirmed by simulations on German data.
Keywords: Tourism, employment, capital accumulation, welfare
JEL Classification: O10, F11
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