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Tourism service trade as a traditional service trade in china, has been dominated an important position, it is a combination of tradition and modern, productive and living, compares with other service trade, it was labor-intensive, its employment effect cannot be ignored. This paper studies the effect of tourism service trade on employment and gets the conclusion: the import of tourism service trade has promoted the growth of employment’s scale, while the export has negative effects on employment’s scale.
Tourism service trade, Employment effects, Labor-intensive
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