Publication: The gap between male and female pay in the Spanish tourism industry
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2008-11
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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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Spanish tourism industry, Wage discrimination, Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition, Censored models