Employment, pay and discrimination in the tourism industry

• Tipo: Artigo em Revista Científica Internacional
• Data: 2007

Autores

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

Revista

Título: Tourism Economics

Vol. 13 Nº 2

Páginas: 225-240

ISSN: 1354-8166

Editora: SAGE

Indexação

Scopus - 66 Citações

Current Contents

Classificação Científica

CORDIS: Ciências Sociais > Economia > Estudos sobre o turismo > Economia do turismo ; Ciências Sociais > Economia > Economia do trabalho

Outras Informações

ID Authenticus: 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.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica