Keep It Simple: A Methodological Discussion of Wage Inequalities in the Spanish Hospitality Industry
Human capital in hospitality has been widely addressed by applying sophisticated econometric methods. However, for the Spanish case, there was a gap in the analyses as the crucial importance of collective agreements was undervalued. This paper redesigns the conceptualisation of the variables and app...
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| author | Francisco Sánchez-Cubo José Mondéjar-Jiménez Alejandro García-Pozo Mauro Maltagliati |
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| description | Human capital in hospitality has been widely addressed by applying sophisticated econometric methods. However, for the Spanish case, there was a gap in the analyses as the crucial importance of collective agreements was undervalued. This paper redesigns the conceptualisation of the variables and applies a subsequent new classification to job positions, as it deals with the outliers at different levels of rigorousness. Then, linearised and quantile regressions were run for each case, obtaining an outcome of thirty values for each variable. The analyses and comparisons show the high importance of collective agreements on salaries, the noticeable low values of human capital variables, and provides additional information for the nationality and gender gaps, the latter strikingly high in upper professional categories. Overall, this paper demonstrates the importance of a proper study design to prevent advanced econometric models from falling into bias and it minimises the differences between methods. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-85625b972ee340f085dc6f3b1070b0822023-11-17T08:09:05ZengMDPI AGMathematics2227-73902023-02-01115116310.3390/math11051163Keep It Simple: A Methodological Discussion of Wage Inequalities in the Spanish Hospitality IndustryFrancisco Sánchez-Cubo0José Mondéjar-Jiménez1Alejandro García-Pozo2Mauro Maltagliati3Department of Applied Economics I, University of Castilla-La Mancha, 16071 Cuenca, SpainDepartment of Applied Economics I, University of Castilla-La Mancha, 16071 Cuenca, SpainDepartment of Applied Economics, University of Málaga, 29071 Malaga, SpainDepartment of Statistics, Informatics, Applications ‘G. Parenti’ (DiSIA), University of Florence, 50121 Florence, ItalyHuman capital in hospitality has been widely addressed by applying sophisticated econometric methods. However, for the Spanish case, there was a gap in the analyses as the crucial importance of collective agreements was undervalued. This paper redesigns the conceptualisation of the variables and applies a subsequent new classification to job positions, as it deals with the outliers at different levels of rigorousness. Then, linearised and quantile regressions were run for each case, obtaining an outcome of thirty values for each variable. The analyses and comparisons show the high importance of collective agreements on salaries, the noticeable low values of human capital variables, and provides additional information for the nationality and gender gaps, the latter strikingly high in upper professional categories. Overall, this paper demonstrates the importance of a proper study design to prevent advanced econometric models from falling into bias and it minimises the differences between methods.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/11/5/1163linearised regressionshospitalityhuman capitalquantile regressionsSpain |
| spellingShingle | Francisco Sánchez-Cubo José Mondéjar-Jiménez Alejandro García-Pozo Mauro Maltagliati Keep It Simple: A Methodological Discussion of Wage Inequalities in the Spanish Hospitality Industry Mathematics linearised regressions hospitality human capital quantile regressions Spain |
| title | Keep It Simple: A Methodological Discussion of Wage Inequalities in the Spanish Hospitality Industry |
| title_full | Keep It Simple: A Methodological Discussion of Wage Inequalities in the Spanish Hospitality Industry |
| title_fullStr | Keep It Simple: A Methodological Discussion of Wage Inequalities in the Spanish Hospitality Industry |
| title_full_unstemmed | Keep It Simple: A Methodological Discussion of Wage Inequalities in the Spanish Hospitality Industry |
| title_short | Keep It Simple: A Methodological Discussion of Wage Inequalities in the Spanish Hospitality Industry |
| title_sort | keep it simple a methodological discussion of wage inequalities in the spanish hospitality industry |
| topic | linearised regressions hospitality human capital quantile regressions Spain |
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