•Intention to host in the P2PA sector is disjoint from one’s expected profit level.•A city-regional divide exists in the factors influencing the intention to host.•Common factors affect profit ...expectations for city and regional dwellers.
This paper explores the interdependency between the intention to host and one’s expected profit level in the peer-to-peer accommodation sector, and examines whether factors affecting these decisions differ for those residing in cities and regional areas. Using survey data on 488 respondents, the intention to host was found to be disjoint from profit level and trust issues hindering hosting differed in cities and regional areas. While embracing sharing philosophy was a significant motive for would-be hosts, economic/opportunity cost and potential regulation in the form of threshold rental-free days have no impact on intention to host or expected profit level. These findings not only have implications for both traditional and online accommodation platforms in their quest to affect the supply of hosts but also informs regulators about who might host and why or what regulations might not deter would-be hosts.
Using a panel of 13 tourism-intensive economies for the period 1995-2012, this paper shows that rising growth in tourism which is proxied by tourism receipts to GDP ratio has an impact on poverty ...conditional on the poverty measure used. Using a panel Vector Autoregression method, there is little evidence to suggest that growth in tourism reduces headcount poverty. However, the poverty gap measure shows that the amount of money needed to help the poor out of poverty is significantly reduced. Based on different types of Gini coefficient, the results fail to find an improvement in income inequality resulting from tourism growth. Alternative measures such as relative poverty and poverty gap may be considered to better assess the impact of tourism on the poor.
This paper reinvestigates the energy consumption–GDP growth nexus in a panel error correction model using data on 20 net energy importers and exporters from 1971 to 2002. Among the energy exporters, ...there was bidirectional causality between economic growth and energy consumption in the developed countries in both the short and long run, while in the developing countries energy consumption stimulates growth only in the short run. The former result is also found for energy importers and the latter result exists only for the developed countries within this category. In addition, compared to the developing countries, the developed countries’ elasticity response in terms of economic growth from an increase in energy consumption is larger although its income elasticity is lower and less than unitary. Lastly, the implications for energy policy calling for a more holistic approach are discussed.
This paper analyses the trend and changes in Sri Lanka’s multidimensional poverty before the ethnic war in 2007, the transition through 2009 and after the war in 2012/13. Using multiple ...correspondence and stochastic dominance analyses, the change in multidimensional poverty for various groups over time is considered using provincial and sectoral decompositions. Evidence shows that multidimensional poverty has declined since 2007. This is seen for war-affected and non-affected provinces as well as all ethnic groups. In particular, the after-war decline was caused by considerable improvements in the rural sector and some improvement in the urban sector but little change in the estate sector. Quantile regression analysis revealed that the war-affected Northern and Eastern provinces, and the ethnic minority of Tamils are still worse off than their counterparts after the war. To reduce multidimensional poverty, a targeted policy of priming up the peace dividend efforts comprising infrastructural development and improving employment opportunities within a coherent policy framework in the war-affected provinces should be undertaken. To address regional imbalance, improving living conditions and incomes in the estate sector in particular cannot be neglected and a public–private partnership could be effective in addressing multidimensional poverty.
Despite evidence of sub-standard working conditions and low rates of pay, drivers working on the Uber platform report varying levels of job-satisfaction. In order to better understand driver ...experience most research conducted to date differentiates driver experience by driver investment (time) on the platform. While this approach offers insight into driver motivations, it obfuscates key socio-political aspects of the globalised labour market; namely the precarity of many migrant workers. We present findings from a mixed methods study into migrant and non-migrant drivers on the Uber platform in Queensland, Australia. Specifically, our data illustrates key differences between migrants and non-migrants’ motivations to drive, their dependency on the platform, and their sense of autonomy and agency. Our findings suggest that migrant drivers experience greater levels of job insecurity, specifically around factors of job tenure, agency, and personal safety.
This paper examines the effects of China's foreign direct investment (FDI) on the carbon emissions of its domestic economy and the Belt and Road countries (BRCs). Total inward FDI into China as a ...host country shows a pollution reducing effect in the western and eastern regions while that in the central region remains unchanged. But China's outward FDI particularly from its eastern region reduces pollution in China. This suggests that China could be exporting carbon emissions via its FDI in the BRCs. The effects on BRCs' pollution from China's FDI is however different depending on the country's level of development. China's FDI was found to have no effect on high and upper middle income BRCs; a decreasing effect on low income BRCs; and an increasing effect on lower middle income BRCs. Evidence shows that China needs to consider a mix of policies to manage its inward and outward FDI to ensure its move to a low carbon economy benefits its own regional development and the BRCs by not contributing to increased carbon emissions.
•FDI into China does not reduce pollution in all its regions.•China's FDI to its BRCs has mixed effects on their pollution.•China's low carbon commitments for its FDI strategies needs a rethink.
This paper compares the causal effect of parents’ education on three outcomes of their adolescent offspring aged 10–15 years in China. Empirical results from propensity score matching show that only ...mothers with a college degree have an effect on the emotional well-being of adolescents. Mothers’ educational influence on health and emotional well-being of adolescents is also greater than fathers but in rural areas, only father’s education has an impact on health and education of the adolescents. Sons however benefit more than daughters in the domains of health and educational well-being from parents’ education. Evidence indicates that promoting women’s education is a key urban policy although in rural areas, empowering women and providing an enabling environment through communities and schools is critical to improving various well-being outcomes of the next generation.
This paper uses a segmented analysis based on age, gender, repeat and first time peer-to-peer accommodation users to examine their motives and concerns influencing their satisfaction. This not only ...provides an important marketing tool for online accommodation platforms but also informs the traditional accommodation sector on areas for focus to gain back market share. Results show that lack of trust is a significant barrier and more so for the Baby boomers relative to Generation X while the latter age cohort value economic benefits similar to first time users. The sharing economy philosophy on the other hand is important to Generation Y, repeat users, and females. By and large, for the full sample, home benefits, local experience, and social experience also influence satisfaction while locational benefits have no impact. Future research could consider different ethnic groups or international tourists' preferences as opposed to the sample of domestic travelers in this study.
This research note sheds light on the regional dimension underlying peer-to-peer accommodation (P2PA) in urban and rural areas. Using a survey on Australian residents' use of P2PA, empirical results ...show that economic benefits and local experience are not strong motives in urban areas unlike the rural areas. Unlike previous studies, locational benefits were a deterrent in urban areas and more so in rural areas, while social experience, home benefits, or the sharing economy philosophy have no effect on P2PA demand. These findings are not only useful for P2PA hosts to market their services in urban and rural areas but they inform traditional accommodation providers in different locations to devise strategies to lure customers away from P2PA.
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