Tourism and Growth in the Local Labor Market

Laura Conti, Marco Francesconi, Giulio Papini, Michel Serafinelli and Gabriella Conti

No 11914, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: This paper examines how the local labor market (LLM) responds to shifts in touristic attractiveness. We assemble and combine several largely underutilized data sources, and construct a shift-share research design that exploits a classification of Italian localities by their dominant touristic assets and aggregate trends in foreign tourists' choices. Across all LLMs, we find a positive relationship between changes in attractiveness and changes in the local tourism-related economic activity, with a positive impact on tourism expenditure and tourism employment, but no effect on total employment. However, in LLMs with high baseline unemployment, we document sizable positive effects on total employment, driven both by expansions in industries related to tourism and by spillovers to firms in the nontradable and manufacturing sector. A simple spatial equilibrium model with heterogeneous LLMs helps interpret these responses and clarifies the mechanisms behind the observed patters.

Keywords: tourism; job growth; unemployment; local spillovers; heterogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J21 R11 R12 R23 Z30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-geo, nep-lma, nep-tur and nep-ure
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