This chapter explores the role of tourism as an employment opportunity by looking at the size and key figures of the Danish tourism sector. Attention is drawn to Denmark's unique labour market conditions, which impacts employment in the tourism and services sector and discusses the challenges of...

Tips allow restaurants to pay servers lower wages. As more servers are hired, each serves fewer meals and earns less in tips. As a result, restaurants must pay a higher wage. This gives them monopsony power over wages. Over some range, a higher minimum wage should increase employment....

Employment in tourism data refer to people or jobs. In the case of people, the data refer to employees only or to employees and self-employed people (employed people). Full-time equivalent employment is the number of full-time equivalent jobs, defined as total hours worked divided by average...