Resumo: The aim of this paper is to analyse possible gender differences in the relative impact of humancapital, personal and labour variables on wages in the Spanish hospitality sector. An expandedversion of Mincer’s wage equation and data from the 2014 Wage Structure Survey are used.The results show significant gender differences in the estimates of all the variables considered in the hospitality sector. Nevertheless, no differences were found in the returns on educationbetween men and women in the rest of private services sector. With regards women inthe hospitality sector, human capital factors do not contribute significantly to increasing theirwages. In addition, the evidence suggests that these women are subject to job insecurity andtime-related underemployment situations, and also suffer from discrimination at work.
