The Nexus between Tourism Industry and Unemployment Rate: The Case of South Asian Countries

Fazal Amin and Ping Guo
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Fazal Amin: Hunan University, China
Ping Guo: Hunan University, China

Journal of Economic Sciences, 2025, vol. 4, issue 1, 37-52

Abstract: The study's main aim is to investigate the effects of the tourism industry and the unemployment rate in South Asian Countries. This study utilized the data from 2000-2022 of South Asian Countries namely; Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, based on the availability of data and employed the PMG, and D-H Granger Causality techniques for estimation. This study found that tourism receipts have no effect on the unemployment rate in the long run, while, an increase in tourism receipts will reduce the unemployment rate in the short run. Moreover, the causality analysis shows that no casualty exists between tourism receipt and the unemployment rate, therefore, this study concluded that the tourism industry is more bifacial to influence the employment rate in the short run. This study recommended that the government focus on tourism to overcome the problem of unemployment.

Keywords: Tourism; Unemployment; Remittances; South Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 J64 L83 O53 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.55603/jes.v4i1.a3

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