TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Pastore, Francesco
AU  - Webster, Allan
AU  - Hope, Kevin
        TI  - Assessing the Role of Women in Tourism Related Sectors in the Caribbean
        PY  - 2020/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 13486
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp13486
        AB  - This study contributes to the rapidly growing literature on women in tourism. It focuses on a group of 13 Caribbean countries. The study analyses the impact of women in apical positions within firms (top manager or owner) on firm performance – productivity, profitability and female employment. For this both a decomposition model and the Inverse Probability Weighted Regression Adjustment (IPWRA) estimator are used. The analysis finds that opportunities for women in these positions in the Caribbean are constrained to less productive and profitable firms, as elsewhere. However, those firms with females at the top employ more women, particularly in management roles.
        KW  - gender differences
KW  - tourism
KW  - propensity score matching
KW  - IPWRA
KW  - Caribbean
        ER  -