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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 … disparities including differences of local employment offices, which are assigned to place unemployed job-seekers, are of minor …
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unemployment rates. But scant, if any, evidence exists on gender gaps in economic outcomes such as income, expenditure, savings …, and job loss in a multi-country setting. We investigate the impacts of COVID-19 on gender inequality in these outcomes … industries for men and women may take an important part in explaining these gender gaps. Our estimates also point to country …
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There are considerable differences in gender unemployment gaps across the EU. We use labor force survey data on 21 … countries to perform a series of data decompositions and show that the cross-country variation in gender unemployment gaps is … permanently withdraw from the labor force after childbirth, the size of gender differences in unemployment strongly correlates …
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Job loss leads to persistent adverse labor market outcomes, but assessments of gender differences in labor market … recovery are lacking. We utilize plant closures in Denmark to estimate gender gaps in labor market outcomes and document that … women face an increased risk of unemployment and lose a larger share of their earnings in the two years following job …
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After shrinking dramatically during World War Two the gender wage gap (GWG) narrowed again in the early 1970s due to …-random selection into employment but selection plays no role later in life. Policy options for closing the remaining gap are considered. …
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addition, even if it is approaching a gender-equal split, the withincouple division of housework barely passes the point at … aligns broadly with traditional theories of the household, yet the role of the 'doing-gender' hypothesis is non-negligible. …
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The rapid ascent of digital platforms and the gig economy has prompted concerns about the gender pay gap. The results … show that in the gig economy, gender continues to be a crucial determinant of workers' earnings, with women earning 85% of … what men earn on a monthly basis. Nevertheless, in comparison to the traditional waged employment during the same period …
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