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The gap between male and female pay in the Spanish tourism industry

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Economía de la Empresaes
dc.contributor.authorMuñoz-Bullón, Fernando
dc.contributor.editorUniversidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía de la Empresa
dc.date.accessioned2008-11-20T10:29:26Z
dc.date.available2008-11-20T10:29:26Z
dc.date.issued2008-11
dc.description.abstractThis 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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dc.identifier.repecwb085713
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/3149
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofseriesUC3M Working papers. Business Economics
dc.relation.ispartofseries08-13
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.subject.ecienciaEmpresa
dc.subject.jelC34
dc.subject.jelJ16
dc.subject.jelJ31
dc.subject.jelJ71
dc.subject.otherSpanish tourism industry
dc.subject.otherWage discrimination
dc.subject.otherBlinder-Oaxaca decomposition
dc.subject.otherCensored models
dc.titleThe gap between male and female pay in the Spanish tourism industry
dc.typeworking paper*
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