Institutional environment and labour welfare in the governance of the tourism sector: a European study
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https://doi.org/10.25145/j.pasos.2015.13.096Keywords:
Well-Being at work, Governance, Institutional theory, Tourism industry, European CountriesAbstract
We propose that the way to which the wealth and well-being generated by the tourism industry in a territory are distributed among their employees and entrepreneurs, as part of the local community, should be considered one out of the facets of the social tourism sustainability. Literature highlights that tourism firms’ practices have an impact on labor well-being, but it also warns that national institutions may condition the adoption of these practices, and institutions might become a challenge for well-being. This study analyzes the effect of institutions on well-being, and particularly it differentiates between employees and entrepreneurs as human resources in the tourism industry. The empirical analysis carried out on a sample of 1,654 individual located in 27 European countries, being 1,352 employees and 302 entrepreneurs, confirms the direct effect of national institutions on well-being at work, being this effect greater in the sub-sample of the employees than in the entrepreneurs.
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