Employment, Pay and Discrimination in the Tourism Industry

Luís Delfim Santos and José Varejão
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Luís Delfim Santos: Faculdade de Economia and CEMPRE, Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr Roberto Frias, 4200–464 Porto, Portugal
José Varejão: Faculdade de Economia do Porto and CETE, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
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Tourism Economics, 2007, vol. 13, issue 2, 225-240

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: labour market; gender discrimination; gender wage gap; Portugal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.5367/000000007780823186

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