Shift-Share Analysis in Tourism: Examination of Tourism Employment Change in a Region

Ercan Sirakaya, Hwan-Suk Choi and Turgut Var

Tourism Economics, 2002, vol. 8, issue 3, 303-324

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to present and demonstrate the usefulness of the dynamic shift-share method in examining the performance of the tourism industry using time-series employment data for the State of Texas and the USA, and to compare its results with those of the traditional accounting based shift-share analysis. The findings show that, compared to the US average, the change in employment in Texas was mainly due to the strong national economy and not to the region's competitiveness or sectoral make-up. According to the findings, the use of a dynamic shift-share model eliminated one theoretical problem inherent in the classical static method.

Keywords: tourism employment; shift-share method; tourism development; dynamic method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.5367/000000002101298142

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