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 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.

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评估妇女在加勒比旅游相关部门中的作用

这项研究有助于迅速发展有关旅游业中妇女的文献。它侧重于13个加勒比国家。这项研究分析了妇女在公司（最高管理者或所有者）的最高职位上对公司绩效，生产力，利润率和女性就业的影响。为此，使用分解模型和逆概率加权回归调整估计量。分析发现，在加勒比地区担任这些职位的妇女的机会与其他地方一样，局限于生产效率较低和利润较高的公司。但是，那些拥有女性最高职位的公司雇用更多女性，特别是在管理职位上。