' origin, the literature has traditionally treated male and female immigrants as a homogenous group when examining the impact …

features, possibly related to women's lower labour mobility due to housework, fit better with our results than other theories …

countries and led to gender convergence in aggregate unemployment rates. In this paper we seek the sources of this recent … convergence by using Social Security records on individuals to study the determinants of unemployment ins and outs over the course … of a whole business cycle, i.e. 2000‐2013. We focus on Spain – a country hit hard by unemployment increases in downturns …

most of the related literature, our model fully relies on statistical discrimination. If firms believe that women will quit …