Employment, Pay and Discrimination in the Tourism Industry

Luís Delfim Santos () and Jose Varejao ()
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Luís Delfim Santos: CEMPRE, Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto

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Abstract: Using a large administrative matched employer-employee dataset we analyse the gender wage gap in the Portuguese tourism labour market. As background, employment and pay in the tourism industry is thoroughly characterized. Using the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of the gender wage gap, we find that 45 percent 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 percent) puts it well below the non-tourism average (15.8).

Keywords: tourism; labour market; gender discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J71 L83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2006-02
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