The economic impact of tourism industry on unemployment in Algeria : the ARDL bounds testing approach (1995-2018)‎

Abstract EN

This research paper aims to know the extent of the contribution of the tourism industry to alleviating unemployment in Algeria, by an econometric study in which we have used an autoregressive distributed lag approach applied to the annual time series for tourism employment that represent the percentage of the contribution of the tourism sector In employment to the total employment employed nationally, and the unemployment rate during the period from 1995 to 2018.

The study concluded that there is a long-term equilibrium relationship between tourism employment and unemployment rates, which means that unemployment rates responds to changes in tourism employment in the long term, and since this relationship is inverse and significant, it is possible to rely on tourism as a strategic option in addressing unemployment at the long term