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Non-standard employment in Sweden
Skedinger, Per - 2018
In Sweden, as in many other countries, marginal groups tend to be overrepresented in non-standard employment. A … considerably smaller in Sweden, both for natives and foreign born, than those that have been found for other countries. This may be … due to a highly compressed wage structure and extensive coverage of collective bargaining in Sweden. On the whole, the …
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This Time it's Different : The Role of Women's Employment in a Pandemic Recession
Alon, Titan - 2020
In recent US recessions, employment losses have been much larger for men than for women. Yet, in the current recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the opposite is true: unemployment is higher among women. In this paper, we analyze the causes and consequences of this phenomenon. We argue...
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Gender gaps of the unemployed : what drives diverging labor market outcomes?
Dauth, Christine - 2016
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 driving the labor market gaps of unemployed men and...
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Gender inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic: income, expenditure, savings, and job loss
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2020
The COVID-19 outbreak has brought unprecedented disruptions to the global economies and has led to income loss and high 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...
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Gender unemployment gaps in the EU : blame the family
Bičáková, Alena - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 22, pp. 1-26
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 primarily driven by the differences in female labor...
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Non-standard employment in Sweden
Skedinger, Per - In: De economist : Netherlands economic review ; quarterly … 166 (2018) 4, pp. 433-454
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Preventing NEETs during the Great Recession : the effects of a mandatory activation program for young welfare recipients
Cammeraat, Emile; Jongen, Egbert L. W.; Koning, Pierre - 2017
We study the impact of a mandatory activation program for young welfare recipients in the Netherlands. Introduced at the end of 2009, the goal of the program was to prevent so-called NEETs (individuals not in employment, education or training). We use a large administrative data set for the...
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Unequal pay or unequal employment? : a cross-country analysis of gender gaps
Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - In: Journal of labor economics 26 (2008) 4, pp. 621-654
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Unequal pay or unequal employment? : A cross-country analysis of gender gaps
Olivetti, Claudia (contributor);  … - 2006
Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the observed variation in wage gaps. The idea is that, if women who are employed tend to have relatively...
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Three essays on labor economics
Sasaki, Masaru - 1998
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