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Generating Jobs For Youth GCC Nationals? – Tourism Development, Demographic Change, and Labour Market Situation in GCC Countries

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  • Scharfenort Nadine

    (Trier University54296TrierGermany)

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The GCC states have built their economies on the hydrocarbon industry that allowed rapid economic and urban development and financed large, inefficient public sectors. The over-dependence of nationals on public sector employment now exerts massive pressure on the governments: All GCC countries are still undergoing a period of rapid increase in their youth populations, resulting in a significant number of new labour-market entrants each year with an undersupply of adequate jobs, accompanied by a rise of un- and underemployment mostly among national youths. National development strategies to diversify the economy currently focus on the development of service sectors, including the labour-intensive tourism sector.

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  • Scharfenort Nadine, 2020. "Generating Jobs For Youth GCC Nationals? – Tourism Development, Demographic Change, and Labour Market Situation in GCC Countries," Zeitschrift für Tourismuswissenschaft, De Gruyter, vol. 12(2), pages 274-298, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:touwis:v:12:y:2020:i:2:p:274-298:n:2
    DOI: 10.1515/tw-2020-0017
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