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The current economic and financial crisis: a gender perspective
Antonopoulos, Rania - 2009
Widespread economic recessions and protracted financial crises have been documented as setting back gender equality and other development goals in the past. In the midst of the current global crisisoften referred to as the Great Recession"there is grave concern that progress made in poverty...
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Asymmetric labor force participation decisions over the business cycle: Evidence from US microdata
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Robertson, John C. - 2006
unemployment rates. Using U.S. data, we find that individual labor force participation responds asymmetrically to changes in local … labor market conditions, consistent with the pattern of movements in the aggregate unemployment rate. Differences in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292322
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Man-cessions, Fiscal Policy, and the Gender Composition of Employment
Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko; Winkler, Roland - 2015
In recessions, predominantly men lose their jobs, which has given rise to the term "man-cessions". We analyze whether fiscal expansions bring men back into jobs. To do so, we estimate vector-autoregressive models and identify the effects of fiscal shocks and non-fiscal shocks on the gender...
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International labour force participation rates by gender: Unit root or structural breaks?
Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - 2011
This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...
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Gender gaps of the unemployed: What drives diverging labor market outcomes?
Dauth, Christine Martina - 2016
unemployment duration and the quality of reemployment. …
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Part-time work in EU countries: labour market mobility, entry and exit
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Mourre, Gilles; Ward-Warmedinger, … - 2005
significantly higher proportion of female workers in Europe prefer inactivity and a significantly lower percentage prefer full …
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Part-Time Work in EU Countries: Labour Market Mobility, Entry and Exit
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Mourre, Gilles; Ward, Melanie E. - 2005
significantly higher proportion of female workers in Europe prefer inactivity and a significantly lower percentage prefer full …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277073
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Determinants of youth unemployment in Uganda: The role of gender, education, residence, and age
Egessa, Abel; Nnyanzi, John Bosco; Muwanga, James - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 11 (2021) 1, pp. 1-29
Youth unemployment in Uganda increased from 12.7% in 2012/13 to 13.3 in 2016/17, despite a decline in the overall … national unemployment rate from 11.1% to 9.2%. This poses serious development challenges, particularly to the ongoing efforts …, residence, and age determine youth unemployment in Uganda. Using recent data from the Uganda National Household Survey 2016 …
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Lucky women in unlucky cohorts: Gender differences in the effects of initial labor market conditions in Latin America
Berniell, Inés; Gasparini, Leonardo; Marchionni, Mariana; … - 2022
find that men who faced higher unemployment rates at ages 18-20 suffer a negative effect on employment at ages 27-30. In …
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Gender and education gaps in employment: New evidence for the EU
Gökten, Meryem; Heimberger, Philipp; Arsenev, Aleksandr; … - 2024
This paper analyses (age-adjusted) employment rates by gender and education. We find that malefemale gender gaps and high-low education gaps in employment vary markedly across European Union (EU) countries and regions, with larger gaps existing in Eastern and Southern Europe than in Nordic and...
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