Employment, pay and discrimination in the tourism industry

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2007

Authors

Santos, LD (Author) FEP; Varejao, J (Author) FEP

Journal

Title: Tourism Economics

Vol. 13 No. 2

Pages: 225-240

ISSN: 1354-8166

Publisher: SAGE

Indexing

Scopus - 66 Citations

Current Contents

Scientific classification

CORDIS: Social sciences > Economics > Tourism studies > Tourism economy ; Social sciences > Economics > Labour economics

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-007-HQW

DOI: 10.5367/000000007780823186

Abstract (EN): Using a large administratively matched employer-employee data set, we analyse the gender wage gap in the Portuguese tourism labour market. As background, employment and pay in the tourism industry are thoroughly characterized. Using the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of the gender wage gap, we find that 45% of the gap is due to differences in attributes of male and female workers in tourism. Our estimate of the coefficient of discrimination in the tourism industry (8.4%) puts it well below the non-tourism average (15.8%). We argue that this is due to the fact that minimum wage legislation provides an effective protection to low-wage earners, which is especially important in low-wage industries such as tourism.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific