This paper accounts for the observed increase in unemployment duration relative to the unemployment rate in the U ….S. over the past thirty years, typified by the record low level of short-term unemployment. We show that part of the increase … remaining increase in unemployment duration relative to the unemployment rate is concentrated among women, whose unemployment …

The more education, the less unemployment of women; this relationship is as strong as it is in the male labor force … unemployment. However, the relation between education and turnover is mediated largely by educational differences in on … duration of unemployment are negligible among women, though they are observable, if small, among men. Recent growth in women …

. We also find differences in the effects of occupation by gender, race, and age …

evidence on trends in self-employment for the US by race, ethnicity and gender. Evidence is also presented for construction … which has self-employment rates roughly double the national rates and where there are strikingly high racial and gender …

decline of high school graduation rates by gender helps to explain the recent increase in male-female college attendance gaps …