Abstract

This study aims to analyse the wage differentials between the Brazilian tourism and non-tourism service sectors. The statistics originate from micro-data for the year of 2012, published by the National Household Sample Survey, and released by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. Using an econometric model, based on an updated version of the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, it was possible to measure wage differentials between workers in both sectors. We report that returns in the non-tourism sector were higher than that of the tourism sector, and also conclude that in the Brazilian service sector, the wage gap is derived from differences in worker characteristics, to the detriment of the tourism industry. Moreover, variables such as schooling and age proved to have weight for the explanation of the wage differential, the latter being taken as a proxy of experience in the labour market.

Details

Title
Wage differentials in Brazil: Tourism vs. other service sectors
Author
Joaquim Ramos Silva 1 ; Carla Regina Ferreira Freire Guimarães 2 

1  CSG/SOCIUS, Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Universidade de Lisboa, Rua Miguel Lúpi, 20, Lisboa 1249-078, Portugal 
2  Department of Economics, State University of Santa Cruz, Ilheus, Bahia, Brazil 
Publication year
2017
Publication date
Dec 2017
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd.
e-ISSN
23322039
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/23322039.2017.1319606
ProQuest document ID
2008015484
Copyright
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