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What Drives Gender Differences in Unemployment?

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  • Jana Stefanová Lauerová

    (ACNielsen Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic)

  • Katherine Terrell

    (Ross School of Business and Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.)

Abstract

Post-communist labour markets provide a remarkable laboratory for analysing gender differences in labour dynamics and unemployment in particular, since unemployment rates rose from zero to double digit levels in a very short time. While there is much evidence explaining the wage gap between men and women, we provide the first systematic analysis of the gender unemployment gap. Using primary data from the Czech Republic and secondary data from a few other transition economies, we apply a method that allows us to pinpoint which transition probabilities between labour market states are driving the difference. The remarkable finding is that the lion's share of the gender gap in the unemployment rates in the Czech Republic, East Germany, Poland and Russia during early transition is explained by one and the same flow: women's lower probability of finding a job from unemployment. This result holds for the Czech Republic even after controlling for demographic, regional and cyclical factors that may affect gender differences in unemployment. Comparative Economic Studies (2007) 49, 128–155. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ces.8100192

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  • Jana Stefanová Lauerová & Katherine Terrell, 2007. "What Drives Gender Differences in Unemployment?," Comparative Economic Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Association for Comparative Economic Studies, vol. 49(1), pages 128-155, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:compes:v:49:y:2007:i:1:p:128-155
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    1. Rakowska, Joanna, 2014. "Female unemployment trends in rural areas of Poland in 2008-2012," Studies in Agricultural Economics, Research Institute for Agricultural Economics, vol. 116(1), pages 1-8, April.
    2. Norberto Pignatti, 2020. "Encouraging women’s labor force participation in transition countries," IZA World of Labor, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), pages 264-264, November.
    3. Pastore, Francesco & Verashchagina, Alina, 2007. "When Does Transition Increase the Gender Wage Gap? An Application to Belarus," IZA Discussion Papers 2796, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    4. Pastore Francesco & Verashchagina Alina, 2007. "The gender wage gap in the Republic of Belarus," EERC Working Paper Series 04-133e, EERC Research Network, Russia and CIS.
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    6. Francesco Pastore, 2009. "School-to-Work Transitions in Mongolia," European Journal of Comparative Economics, Cattaneo University (LIUC), vol. 6(2), pages 245-264, December.
    7. Kenneth Smith, 2011. "Labor force participation in the Soviet and post-Soviet Baltic States," Economic Change and Restructuring, Springer, vol. 44(4), pages 335-355, November.
    8. Keyon Vafa & Emil Palikot & Tianyu Du & Ayush Kanodia & Susan Athey & David M. Blei, 2022. "CAREER: A Foundation Model for Labor Sequence Data," Papers 2202.08370, arXiv.org, revised Feb 2024.

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