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This paper examines the electoral impact of increased foreign tourism, using data from Croatia. Exploiting exogenous … variation in travel times to coastal municipalities from improved road infrastructure, I show that foreign tourism reduces …
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Olympic Games may have impacts on income and employment in the host city, but no ex post study has been carried out for European Olympic host cities to date. The present study closes this gap using the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. The data period examined in this study allows for analysis of...
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Using firm-level data for up to 707 Swiss hotels and restaurants we evaluate the economic impact of the EURO 2008 soccer championship. Although aggregated macro data reveal no economic impact, we report an overall negative effect based on the surveyed companies. Notably the reported effects of...
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Tourism influences local economies through direct, indirect, and induced effects. Using novel firm-tofirm transaction … data, we shed light on tourism's indirect effects. We find that tourism firms primarily source inputs locally or from the … capital, with limited purchases from distant, poorer regions. While direct imports by tourism firms are relatively small …
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While existing research supports that participation in high-school athletics is associated with better education and labour-market outcomes, the mechanisms through which these benefits accrue are not well established. We use data from a large public-school district to retrieve an estimate of the...
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Italy’s domestic tourism flows during the recent years of economic recession. Indeed, the occurrence of closer tourism … dataset is made of inter-regional tourism flows among Italian regions over the 2000 - -12 period; across this period, 2008 to …
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tourism industry as part of their regional development policies. The main objective of these programs is to increase local … investment and employment, as tourism activities are labor intensive. Little evidence is available, however, to assess the effect … introduced in 2002 to develop the tourism industry in the undeveloped region of Northeast Brazil. It provides evidence that …
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of these demonstrations and attacks on one important industry, namely tourism. Combining a novel, district-level data set … on tourism with data on xenophobic activities, we find that xenophobic demonstrations have negative effects on tourist …
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This study contributes to the rapidly growing literature on women in tourism. It focuses on a group of 13 Caribbean …
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This study contributes to the rapidly growing literature on women in tourism. It focuses on a group of 13 Caribbean …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252703