Distribution of income from tourism-sensitive employment

Tourism Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 545-565

  Marcouiller, David W ^a   Xia, Xianli ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Income distribution; Tourism related employment; Wage and salary employment

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; LABOR MARKET; REGIONAL ECONOMY; TOURISM ECONOMICS; WAGE;

MIDWEST; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 53749092778     PISSN: 13548166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/000000008785633622     Document Type: Article

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