澳門荷官的群體特徵及需求與退出機制

With the rapid expansion of the gaming industry, dealers became one of the largest professional groups in Macau. They became well-known due to the good salary, low entry threshold and policy protection. However, Gambling’s enterprises released signals to the market that they would cut down the demand for dealers since the gambling industry started to deepen the adjustment in the development pace. After analyzing the number of employees, sex, age and education of the dealers, it was found that the overall demand for dealers decreased significantly, the proportion of females dealers increased and dealers with junior high school and high school education level were still dominant in the professional group. We also observed that there was a significant reduction in young dealers while the proportion of dealers aged more than 45 years old rose greatly. Considering both the changes in dealers and the gambling industry, we propose that both the SAR Government and enterprises should adjust the employment policy for dealers in response to the potential crisis.