Employment, Pay and Discrimination in the Tourism Industry

Santos, Luís Delfim; Varejão, José

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“…The lower wages women receive may be strongly affected by the greater segregation they experience, as women are mainly found in the worst-paid industries, establishments, jobs, functional areas and responsibility levels. The works of [22], [23], [24] or [25] reveal the importance of different types of segregation on the gender wage gap in the hospitality sector.…”

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A Comparative Analysis on Human Capital and Wage Structure in the Spanish Hospitality Sector

Campos-Soria¹,

García-Pozo²,

Ollero³

et al. 2011

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A Comparative Analysis on Human Capital and Wage Structure in the Spanish Hospitality Sector

Campos-Soria¹,

García-Pozo²,

Ollero³

et al. 2011

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“…The discrimination component for tourism industries in Spain found here is lower than that found for other countries. For instance, Delfim & Varejao (2007) find that 55% of the gender wage gap in the Portuguese tourism industry is due to discrimination.…”

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The gap between male and female pay in the Spanish tourism industry

Muñoz‐Bullón

2009

Tourism Management

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This paper analyzes wage differentials between male and female workers in the Spanish tourism industry, using a large, administratively matched employer-employee data set obtained from a representative sample of companies. This allows us to control for unobserved firm-specific factors likely to affect the magnitude of the gender wage gap. Our findings indicate that male workers earn on average 6.7% higher monthly wages than their socially comparable female counterparts. In particular, the type of contract held, the qualifications required for the job and the specific sub-sector of employment are very important variables in explaining this gender wage difference. We also find that only around 12% of the mean wage difference in the tourism industry cannot be explained by differences in observable characteristics, which is well below the average for the rest of the industries in Spain (87%). Our interpretation is that minimum wage legislation provides a particularly effective protection to women in the tourism industry, which is characterized by a large number of low-wage earners.

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“…In terms of wage differentials in the tourism and hospitality sectors, making use of different sources, both at a country or region level, studies have focused on various aspects, among others: gender discrimination (Ferreira Freire Guimarães & Silva, 2016;Muñoz-Bullón, 2009;Santos & Varejão, 2007); the comparison between wages in hospitality and other private services (Campos-Soria, García-Pozo, Sánchez-Ollero, & Benavides-Chicón, 2011), and; the effects of education on wages (García-Pozo, Campos-Soria, & Sánchez-Ollero, 2012;Lillo-Bañuls & Casado-Díaz, 2011). Most of these studies, in applying the Oaxaca-Blinder methodology, comply with the previously presented theoretical premises.…”

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Wage differentials in Brazil: Tourism vs. other service sectors

Silva

Guimarães

2017

Cogent Economics & Finance

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This study aims to analyse the wage differentials between the Brazilian tourism and non-tourism service sectors. The statistics originate from micro-data for the year of 2012, published by the National Household Sample Survey, and released by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. Using an econometric model, based on an updated version of the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, it was possible to measure wage differentials between workers in both sectors. We report that returns in the non-tourism sector were higher than that of the tourism sector, and also conclude that in the Brazilian service sector, the wage gap is derived from differences in worker characteristics, to the detriment of the tourism industry. Moreover, variables such as schooling and age proved to have weight for the explanation of the wage differential, the latter being taken as a proxy of experience in the labour market.

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Employment, Pay and Discrimination in the Tourism Industry

Cited by 76 publications

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A Comparative Analysis on Human Capital and Wage Structure in the Spanish Hospitality Sector

A Comparative Analysis on Human Capital and Wage Structure in the Spanish Hospitality Sector

The gap between male and female pay in the Spanish tourism industry

Wage differentials in Brazil: Tourism vs. other service sectors

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