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Title: Evaluation Research and Strategy Development for the Tourism Enterprise Development Activities of the Progress Fund

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Publication Year: 2006

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Abstract: Many argue that tourism development is beneficial for local economies partly because of spillover effects. Others hold that tourism jobs are lower-paying, often seasonal and can generate a host of social ills with earned income concentrated in low income households. A As a major component of this report, a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) of 31 Pennsylvania counties is used to test the impacts of tourism businesses supported by the Progress Fund, a regional Community Development Financial Institution, on household income distribution by incorporating secondary and primary employment based income. IPUMS-USA and IPUMS-CPS data was used in linking primary and secondary employment to household activity by income level and industrial sector. Analysis indicates that tourism-oriented activity has relatively large contributions to lower and upper as opposed to middle income households.

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Authors: Hughes, David W.; Shields, Martin

Publisher: Report Submitted to the Progress Fund

Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Education, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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