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Gender gaps of the unemployed - What drives diverging labor market outcomes?

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  • Dauth, Christine

    (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany)

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"Analyzing gender gaps of unemployed job-seekers, this study uniquely complements the broad literature focussing predominantly on gender gaps of employed workers. I consider a broad range of labor market outcomes, and disentangle the factors driving the labor market gaps of unemployed men and women. I show that unemployed women perform worse on the labor market due to earlier choices in occupations, their labor force attachment, and working time. By contrast, regional labor market disparities including differences of local employment offices, which are assigned to place unemployed job-seekers, are of minor importance. Married women and those with young children perform particularly bad compared to men. High unexplainable gender gaps for these groups suggest that family-related preferences, employer discrimination, and institutional settings matter for unemployment duration and the quality of reemployment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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  • Dauth, Christine, 2016. "Gender gaps of the unemployed - What drives diverging labor market outcomes?," IAB-Discussion Paper 201627, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany].
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    Keywords

    Bundesrepublik Deutschland ; Benachteiligung ; Berufswahl ; Diskriminierung ; Ehefrauen ; Geschlechterverteilung ; geschlechtsspezifische Faktoren ; institutionelle Faktoren ; Integrierte Erwerbsbiografien ; Mütter ; Personaleinstellung ; regionale Disparität ; Teilzeitarbeit ; Arbeitslose ; arbeitslose Frauen ; arbeitslose Männer ; Arbeitslosigkeit ; Arbeitsmarktchancen ; Arbeitsuchende ; 2000-2011;
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    JEL classification:

    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
    • J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
    • J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing

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