The Interplay between Tourism, FDI, Remittance, and Women’s Employment: Evidence from Low-Income Countries
The Interplay between Tourism, FDI, Remittance, and Women’s Employment: Evidence from Low-Income Countries

Summary/Abstract: This study used data collected from these nations to examine the impact of tourism on women’s employment in 32 low-income countries (LICs) from 1996 to 2020. This research uses panel generalized least squares (GLS), system generalized methods of moments (S-GMM), and quantile regression (QR) to evaluate the data. Total tourist arrivals, exports, foreign direct investment (FDI), remittances, urbanization, and the mortality rate of female children are considered in this study. Additionally, this study examines the impact of the tourism sector on employment with other control variables. The findings show that tourism considerably affects women’s employment in general. FDI, exports, and urbanization positively impact women’s economic employment. On the other hand, the mortality of female children and remittances are negatively associated with women’s employment. The S-GMM, QR, and GLS regressions have the same sign and direction. The robustness of our findings is demonstrated in this way. Considering the findings, tourism policy in low-income nations should be rethought so that more tourists and women are employed in tourist-related industries.

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