The Immediate Impact of Covid19 on Tourism Employment in Spain: Debunking the Myth of Job Precariousness?

Perles‐Ribes, José Francisco; Rodríguez, Ana Belén Ramón; Jesús-Such-Devesa, María; Aranda-Cuéllar, Patricia

doi:10.1080/21568316.2021.1886163

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“…The only case in which a recession does not penalize training is related to labour hoarding practices (Mason and Bishop, 2015), but these practices are unlikely to occur if the recession is particularly deep and severe (Brunello, 2009). In this regard, the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the tourism industry has been particularly harsh (Sigala, 2020; Perles-Ribes et al ., 2023), with many workers in the undeclared economy unable to access the financial supports provided by the governments to tourism (Williams, 2021). The consequent massive outflow of workers from the tourism sector during the COVID-19 standstill period (Han et al ., 2022), along with the “Great Resignation” phenomenon, a longer-term trend that particularly affected restaurants, bars and hotels (Ravenelle and Kowalski, 2023), did not only produce bottlenecks and unmatched vacancies, but it also caused a sudden loss of human capital, whose disruptive effects has subsequently emerged at the time of the recovery (Colmekcioglu et al ., 2022).…”

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The search for training and skill improvement of seasonal workers in tourism

Fasone,

Pedrini,

Scuderi

2024

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PurposeThe paper aims at assessing the role of the different stages of the employment process in gauging workers' willingness to upskill themselves at the end of a seasonal employment contract by investing in further training.Design/methodology/approachThe paper analyses data from a dedicated survey administered to a sample of seasonal employees. Through a regression analysis it explores the different stages of the employment process (job search, selection on the job activities), making a distinction between monetary and nonmonetary components of the investment in training.FindingsResults show that all stages matter, but they do not have the same importance. Ex-ante motivations and work experience, notably the level of perceived workload and organizational commitment, are the main factors affecting workers' willingness to acquire industry-specific skills through training.Originality/valueSo far, the literature has extensively dealt with the poor levels of training in seasonal employers, but it did not analyse worker’s willingness to invest in training over the different stages of the worker experience. This paper fills this gap by separately testing the relative importance of such stages and identifying the most important phases of the employment process.

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The search for training and skill improvement of seasonal workers in tourism

Fasone,

Pedrini,

Scuderi

2024

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“…José Francisco Perles-Ribes et al used the classical Box-Jenkins (ARIMA) method and the more recent Bayesian structural time series models to discuss the direct impact of the COVID 19 crisis on the employment of Spanish tourists and non-tourists. According to the study, tourism is the most resilient sector of the Spanish economy and the implementation of public policies can prevent the possible collapse of employment [11] .…”

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Research on the Current Situation and Countermeasures of Tourism Employment in Lishui City under the All-region Tourism

WANG

2023

PIJ

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With the release of optimized epidemic prevention and control policies in China, the tourism industry is experiencing a strong return. However, the post-epidemic tourism era has led to rapidly changing tourist demands, which have greatly increased the professional ability and quality requirements of tourism workers. Therefore, the post-epidemic tourism employment problem has become a concern for both the government and the industry. This paper analyzes the talent demand in the tourism industry in Lishui City under the background of all-regional tourism and makes suggestions. While the rapid development of tourism in Lishui City has brought about increased employment opportunities, the tourism labor market in Lishui still faces various challenges, such as a shortage of tourism management talents, low cultural quality of tourism workers, and lack of tourism professionals. In addition, employment quality has declined due to high worker mobility and personnel loss caused by COVID-19. To address these issues, this study proposes several measures: establishing the concept of all-round tourism, promoting high-quality development of tourism to create more jobs, improving the quality of tourism workers and services, adjusting the tourism employment system, and optimizing the employment structure of the tourism industry by adjusting its layout. This paper offers useful suggestions to address the challenges faced by the tourism industry in Lishui City in the post-epidemic era.

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“…Perles-Ribes et al (2021) studied the immediate impact on tourism employment in Spain through a Bayesian structural analysis of time series, like Pinilla et al (2021) and sometimes using the univariate methods of Box et al (2015). The impact of COVID is obtained by subtracting the response obtained from a semi-parametric Bayesian estimate and the response observed during the pandemic.…”

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A counterfactual analysis of the impact of the 2008 and 2020 crises on Spanish employment

Jerez

Montealegre-Luna

García‐Hiernaux

2023

AEA

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to estimate the impact of the 2008 and 2020 economic crises on employment in Spain. Design/methodology/approach The authors perform a counterfactual analysis, combining intervention (interrupted time series) analysis and conditional forecasting to estimate a “crisis-free” scenario. These counterfactual estimates are used as a synthetic control, to be compared with the observed values of the main variables of the Spanish Labor Force Survey (EPA). Findings The authors measure the effect on Spanish employment of the 2008 recession and the ongoing COVID/Ukraine crisis and the speed of recovery, which yields a rigorous dating for the beginning and end of the crises studied. Finally, the authors provide estimates about which part of the employed and unemployed people was in furlough (ERTE) based on microdata provided by the Spanish Institute of Statistics. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, there are no counterfactual studies covering all the basic variables in EPA and no estimates for the effect of ERTEs on the basic employment variables. Finally, the authors combine well-known intervention and forecasting techniques into an integrated framework to assess the effects of both, past and ongoing crises.

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The Immediate Impact of Covid19 on Tourism Employment in Spain: Debunking the Myth of Job Precariousness?

Cited by 12 publications

References 15 publications

The search for training and skill improvement of seasonal workers in tourism

The search for training and skill improvement of seasonal workers in tourism

Research on the Current Situation and Countermeasures of Tourism Employment in Lishui City under the All-region Tourism

A counterfactual analysis of the impact of the 2008 and 2020 crises on Spanish employment

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