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Vulnerability to COVID-19 unemployment in the Portuguese tourism and hospitality industry

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dc.contributor.authorLopes, Ana Sofia
dc.contributor.authorSargento, Ana
dc.contributor.authorCarreira, Pedro
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-29T10:10:26Z
dc.date.available2021-06-29T10:10:26Z
dc.date.issued2021-04-10
dc.description.abstractThis paper seeks to address the immediate effects of the COVID-19 crisis in the Portuguese tourism and hospitality industry by examining whether some specific characteristics make people more vulnerable or more immune to unemployment. Using an extensive micro-level dataset of personal and job-related attributes containing all unemployed individuals in the Portuguese tourism and hospitality industry, a logit model with 56,142 observations is estimated to assess how each characteristic contributed to the unemployment odds during the COVID-19 crisis (until end-July 2020), relatively to the pre-COVID period. The most vulnerable workers to COVID-19 unemployment seem to be older, less educated, less qualified, women and residents in regions with a higher concentration of people and tourism activity. Moreover, the COVID-19 crisis is generating a new type of unemployment by also affecting those who were never unemployed before, with more stable jobs and more motivated at work, while reducing voluntary disruptions. Public effort should be made not only to increase workforce education but especially to reinforce job-specific skills. The COVID-19 crisis has broken traditional protective measures against unemployment and separated workers from their desired occupations, which justifies new and exceptional job preservation measures. Policy recommendations are given aiming at strengthening worker resilience and industry competitiveness in the most affected sub-sectors and regions. This study extends the current understanding of worker vulnerability to economic downturns. Herein, we used a three-level approach (combining socio-demographic, work-related and regional factors), capturing the immediate effects of the COVID-19 crisis and focusing on the tourism and hospitality industry (the hardest-hit sector worldwide).pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citationLopes, A.S., Sargento, A. and Carreira, P. (2021), "Vulnerability to COVID-19 unemployment in the Portuguese tourism and hospitality industry", International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCHM-11-2020-1345pt_PT
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1108/IJCHM-11-2020-1345pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn0959-6119
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/5857
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherEmerald Publishing Limitedpt_PT
dc.relationCentre of Applied Research in Management and Economics
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IJCHM-11-2020-1345/full/htmlpt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectHospitalitypt_PT
dc.subjectTourismpt_PT
dc.subjectCOVID-19pt_PT
dc.subjectJob lossespt_PT
dc.subjectVulnerabilitypt_PT
dc.subjectPortugalpt_PT
dc.subjectDownturn effectspt_PT
dc.titleVulnerability to COVID-19 unemployment in the Portuguese tourism and hospitality industrypt_PT
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oaire.citation.titleInternational Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Managementpt_PT
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