Effects of tourism and other macroeconomic variables on women's employment in agricultural, industry and service sectors: evidence from African countries

Md. Hasanur Rahman, Liton Chandra Voumik, Shohel Md. Nafi and Grzegorz Zimon

Current Issues in Tourism, 2024, vol. 27, issue 14, 2287-2307

Abstract: This study aims to fill the existing literature gap by exploring tourism's effect on women's employment in 42 African countries while considering advanced econometric modelling. This study applies the panel GLS model, the two-step system GMM, and quantile regression (QR) to evaluate the data from 1996 to 2020. There is evidence to suggest that tourism has a substantial impact on women's employment. Some models are also run to examine how tourism affects women's work in agriculture, industry, and the service sector. Although tourism increases overall female labour force participation, it has a negative coefficient for explaining female labour force participation in agriculture. In fact, tourism has a substantial positive effect on the number of working women in both the service and manufacturing sectors. This research adds to the literature by highlighting the role that tourism plays in facilitating the transition of women from the agricultural workforce to those in the industrial and service sectors. The findings of this study have valuable contributions for future research since they show the importance of women's employment opportunities in agriculture, industry, and service sectors and inform policy discussions on the impact of the tourism industry on women's employment.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2023.2227767

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